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Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for Communications with Seniors and Non-Hearing Users at Public Spaces: Speech-To-Text Technology for Live Subtitling and Accessibility
No full textConsidered the increasing ageing and multilingualism of population in public space across Italy and Europe, the application of AI Technologies in multilingual communications and for the purposes of accessibility has become an important challenge in the production of translation and interpreting services. In particular, the widespread usage of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Automatic Speech Translation (AST) technology represents a significant, recent development in the attempt of satisfying the increasing demand for interinstitutional, multilingual communications at inter- governmental level. The application of ASR technology, combined with Neural Machine Translation (NMT), may allow for the breaking down of communication barriers between single speakers or among more individuals at European public conferences or public spaces. ASR technology can also facilitate the communication with older people and non- hearing users. Thanks to Speech to Text technology, it is possible to guarantee content accessibility for non- hearing audience via subtitles. Hence the need for analyzing and evaluating ASR output emerges: a quantitative approach will be adopted with the objective of assessing its accuracy. A small corpus of F.A.O.’s English- language speeches and conferences on the impact of Climate Change on the Agricultural Production is taken into consideration, which is then analyzed by applying a statistical approach based on NER model. Only three typologies of SR errors will be identified and evaluated and all errors will be statistically quantified by using an adapted version of the NER model on the basis of two different variables: Native and Non- Native Speakers. Subtitles have been compared to a gold standard corpus. The study is intended to demonstrate that ASR technology can be a valuable instrument to cope with the issues of communications with seniors and non- hearing persons in public European institutions and spaces where aging and multilingualism are posing new challenges
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
The Contemporary Italian Novel in Translation: Paolo Cognetti’s The Eight Mountains
No full textThesis (B.A. in English Literature, Minor in Classical Studies)--John Cabot University, Spring 2019.This dissertation examines the novel The Eight Mountains by Italian author PaoloCognetti. It offers an analysis of how Cognetti, a self-taught student of American literature, hasreproduced and adapted American tropes into the Italian setting of his novel. This research aimsto demonstrate that Cognetti has performed an act of cultural translation and that, by introducingthemes of American literature into his own national context, he has Italianized them and giventhem a new meaning which differs from their original one. This analysis compares Cognetti’snovel with the literary works of American authors including Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain, andJack Kerouac and shows the way in which The Eight Mountains has reinterpreted themes theypresent. The dissertation also examines how the English translation of the text has reintroducedCognetti’s novel to the culture that helped produce it. It further argues that, despite theinternational success of the novel, its mild reception in the English speaking world is attributableto the impossibility of the English language to translate key words of the novel and the lack ofinterest that English speaking people have for literatures written in foreign languages
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Impoverished and Threatened: The Erosion of the Middle Class and the Novel of the 21st Century
No full textThesis (B.A. in English Literature, Minors in Creative Writing and Communications)--John Cabot University, Spring 2020.This thesis focuses on contemporary novelistic representations of the growing anxiety of the Western middle class in relation to the economic and social crises experienced by this social group in the first two decades of the 21st century. Through a post-Marxist approach, and with the help of tools drawn from economic theory, the first part of the thesis unveils the various ways in which the so-called ‘erosion’ of the middle class is represented in four contemporary novels—The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, NW by Zadie Smith, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers, and Normal People by Sally Rooney. The final part, instead, is entirely dedicated to issues of form. First, a direct relationship between the middle class and the literary form of the novel is established. Then, the author discusses the various formal choices made by the authors of the novels with the aim to discern which stylistic approach is most suited to the expression of the collective consciousness of the middle class in the 21st century. Eventually, Normal People is recognized as the more innovative and qualified work of the group, and it is suggested that Rooney’s book may provide a model for the development of the genre in the remainder of the century
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