Analyzing Spatial Dependency Structure on Adjacent Municipalities Evaluated by Cross-border Facility Use Estimation

Non-adjacent dependency learning

Forest Driven Dependency Analysis Enhanced by Japanese Clause Structure Estimation

For applications of the natural language processing, such as spoken translation, it is the most important characteristic to accept various inputs. We analyze a speech input as a sequence of speech fragment and achieve high acceptability. But it is difficult to determine whether each fragment/unit should be interpreted separately or not. This sort of problem is shared by several applications. We...

Analyzing features for automatic age estimation on cross-sectional data

We develop an acoustic feature set for the estimation of a person’s age from a recorded speech signal. The baseline features are Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) which are extended by various prosodic features, pitch and formant frequencies. From experiments on the University of Florida Vocal Aging Database we can draw different conclusions. On the one hand, adding prosodic, pitch an...

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care

Spatial Competition and Cross-border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries

This paper investigates competition between jurisdictions in the context of cross-border shopping for state lottery tickets. We rst develop a simple theoretical model in which consumers choose between state lotteries and face a trade-o between travel costs and the price of a fair gamble, which is declining in the size of the jackpot and the odds of winning. Given this trade-o , the model predic...