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Peer Refereeing . . . Will it be Missed ? Alfred

1. Publish essentially as is; the only changes necessary are very simple typographical matters which can be changed by the editor. 2. Publish after author’s minor revision; the referee suggests points which must be changed before the paper meets the standards for publication. 3. Publish only if the author makes major revisions. (Perhaps the paper is much too long or is badly written. The revise...

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This paper presents a framework of using Chinese speech to access images via English captions. The formulation and the structure mapping rules of Chinese and English named entities are extracted from an NICT foreign location name corpus. For a named location, name part and keyword part are usually transliterated and translated, respectively. Keyword spotting identifies the keyword from speech q...

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A technique for high-accuracy tracking of formants or vocal tract resonances is presented in this paper using a novel nonlinear predictor and using a target-directed temporal constraint. The nonlinear predictor is constructed from a parameter-free, discrete mapping function from the formant (frequencies and bandwidths) space to the LPC-cepstral space, with trainable residuals. We examine in thi...