Association and Congress Meetings

Automatic transcription system for meetings of the Japanese national congress

This paper presents an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system for assisting meeting record creation of the National Congress of Japan. The system is designed to cope with spontaneous characteristics of meeting speech, as well as a variety of topics and speakers. For acoustic model, minimum phone error (MPE) training is applied with several normalization techniques. For language model, we hav...

American Diabetes Association Postgraduate Meetings—2011

A t the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Postgraduate Meetings held 25–26 February 2011 in New York, a discussion of health-care reform and diabetes was opened by Herbert Pardes, chief executive officer of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, who stated that “the focus on health care by the entire country . . . and the world has never been so great.” His medical center is one of the largest hospi...

Iranian Association of Oral Medicine 2014 Meeting and First National Congress on Orofacial Pain, Kerman, Iran

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Annual International Geographic Medicine Congress Meetings in Shiraz, Iran: Publication Rates during 1999-2006

The present study aimed to examine which portion of abstracts presented between 1999 to 2006 at Annual International Geographic Medicine Congress meetings in Shiraz, Iran, were published during 1999-2006, and to identify factors affecting publication rate of those abstracts. Two hundred fifty abstracts were reviewed and categorized according to the type of presentation, study design, sample siz...

Proceedings of the Pre-Congress of the 17th Congress of the Italian Association of Equine Veterinarians