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Louis ten Bosch, Annika Hmlinen, Bert Cranen, Lou Boves
No full textggested exploring radically new approaches to address the sound-to-symbol representation. A common factor in all these new approaches is the use of sophisticated models to better impose knowledge-based structure on raw speech data. The issue of using phonological and linguistic structure is central in several lines of current research: on the role of fine phonetic details in lexical decoding ([3]), on the relation between (symbolic) context and pronunciation variation ([4]), and on the design of computational models for human speech processing ([5]). In all these research directions, the combination of statistical data-driven techniques with phonetic-phonological structure is crucial for further improvements. In the final paper, we describe research in this new area, based on computational models for articulatory feature representation of speech. By using these features, we obtain a rich redundant representation that is particularly useful to describe possibly asynchronously events,
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
Processing an Unfamiliar Regional Accent of English by Dutch Second Language Learners of English
No full textIn this study it was investigated to what extent Dutch second language learners of English experience difficulties when they have to process an unfamiliar regional accent of their second language English. The Dutch second language learners of English had to transcribe British standard accented sentences and Scottish regional accented sentences. The British standard accent functioned as the familiar accent and the Scottish regional accent functioned as the unfamiliar accent. During this task accuracy scores and processing times were measured for both accents in a pre- and post-test (for both accents). In addition, the effect of more exposure was investigated, i.e. whether more exposure of the (previous) unfamiliar accent results in better performances on accuracy scores and reaction times in the post-test. More exposure was created with a 4-minute story in between the pre- and post-test. Another point of interest was the order in which the British and Scottish accent were presented to the Dutch second language learners of English, i.e. can a beneficial effect be gained on the processing of the unfamiliar (Scottish) accent, in terms of higher accuracy scores and faster reaction times, when the familiar British standard accent is heard before the Scottish unfamiliar regional accent (order: British-Scottish, or vice versa)? Results of this study showed that participants scored in general significantly higher accuracy scores and significantly faster reaction times on the British standard accent than on the Scottish regional accent. More exposure of the Scottish regional accent only had a positive outcome on the accuracy scores in the post-test when participants were exposed to the Scottish-British order. Additionally, Scottish regional accented sentences were processed significantly faster when participants were exposed to the Scottish-British order
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