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Synthesis of New Words for Improved Dysarthric Speech Recognition on an Expanded Vocabulary
No full textDysarthria is a condition where people experience a reduction in speech intelligibility due to a neuromotor disorder. Previous works in dysarthric speech recognition have focused on accurate recognition of words encountered in training data. Due to the rarity of dysarthria in the general population, a relatively small amount of publicly-available training data exists for dysarthric speech. The number of unique words in these datasets is small, so ASR systems trained with existing dysarthric speech data are limited to recognition of those words. In this paper, we propose a data augmentation method using voice conversion that allows dysarthric ASR systems to accurately recognize words outside of the training set vocabulary. We demonstrate that a small amount of dysarthric speech data can be used to capture the relevant vocal characteristics of a speaker with dysarthria through a parallel voice conversion system. We show that it's possible to synthesize utterances of new words that were never recorded by speakers with dysarthria, and that these synthesized utterances can be used to train a dysarthric ASR system
Caribbean Report 24-05-1993
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:30)2. Tourism development has been stifled by regional governments’ failure to act on the free movement of skills and capital. That was the message delivered by John Issa, Chairman of Super Clubs, a hotel chain in Jamaica, at the annual meeting of the Caribbean Private Sector Conference in Barbados. Comments from John Issa, Chairman of Super Club, Jamaica. Sandra Baptiste interviews Yesu Persaud, President of the Guyana Manufacturers Association and Wayne Kirton, President of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (00:31-02:54)3. The Caribbean Hotel Association has continued its criticism of the cruise ship industry for a level playing field at the annual Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce meeting in Barbados. Comments from Royston Hopkin, Vice President of the Caribbean Hotel Association (02:55-04:53)4. Russia and Cuba are working to rebuild their trade relationship on a commercial rather than a political basis. The two countries signed a memorandum which will open the Russian market to Cuban goods. Brian Jarmon reports (04:54-06:44)5. The Puerto Rico Banking Association supports last week's decision by the US to suspend most 963 lending to the Caribbean. The bankers warn that a scaled down 963 Programme as planned by the Clinton’s administration could lead to the Caribbean being phased out. Interview with the President of the Puerto Rico Banking Association (06:45-10:00)6. UN Special Envoy to Haiti, Dante Caputo returned to Port-au-Prince hoping to seek approval for the deployment of an international police force. He was accompanied by President Clinton’s Special Advisor, Lawrence Pezzullo. William Spindler reports (10:01-11:49)7. A carrier, the Pacific Pintail bearing around ninety tons of spent nuclear fuel and travelling under a British flag was today crossing the Caribbean waters. It was trailed by the MV Gondwana, a ship belonging to the international environment group, Greenpeace. Interview with Tom Clement, Environmentalist of Greenpeace (11:50-14:46
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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