A journal paper with title „N-gram Based Croatian Lanugage Network: Application in a Smart Environment” has been published in Journal of Communications Software and Systems. Journal of Communications Software and Systems is an international journal with focus on topics that advance the state-of-art and applications in communications software engineering and communications systems particularly including new technologies, methods and algorithms, as well as reports on experiments with analysis of performances, and prototypes. The published paper provides a model for spoken notifications in a smart environment using Croatian language, with focus on the process of creating notifications from structured data available in a smart IoT environment. The described process relies on the n-gram language network which enables correction of morphological features in generated notifications.
Here is the abstract of the paper:
In the field of natural language processing, language networks represent a method for observing linguistic units and their interactions in different linguistic contexts. This paper uses the previously presented Croatian language network for building a solution capable of generating spoken notifications in Croatian language. The novelty of this paper is that it proposes an approach for generating spoken notifications in smart environments by combining specialized services that enable interaction with the environment and human users. The process employed for generating spoken notifications is described in detail. Also, a novel contribution of this paper is the case-study evaluation of the proposed approach in a smart home environment.