Citation Idiosyncrasies

Food idiosyncrasies: beetroot and asparagus.

Anecdotal observations scattered throughout the literature have often provided clues to underlying variations in humans' ability to handle dietary chemicals. Beetroot, the red root of the garden beet used extensively as a food source, is known to produce red urine in some people following its ingestion, whereas others appear to be able to eat the vegetable with impunity. Asparagus, a vegetable ...

Exploiting Stylistic Idiosyncrasies for Authorship Attribution

Introduction Early researchers in authorship attribution used a variety of statistical methods to identify stylistic discriminators – characteristics which remain approximately invariant within the works of a given author but which tend to vary from author to author (Holmes 1998, McEnery & Oakes 2000). In recent years machine learning methods have been applied to authorship attribution. A few e...

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Cultural Communication Idiosyncrasies in Human-Computer Interaction

In this work, we investigate whether the cultural idiosyncrasies found in humanhuman interaction may be transferred to human-computer interaction. With the aim of designing a culture-sensitive dialogue system, we designed a user study creating a dialogue in a domain that has the potential capacity to reveal cultural differences. The dialogue contains different options for the system output acco...

Prelexical adjustments to speaker idiosyncrasies: are they position-specific?

Listeners use lexical knowledge to adjust their prelexical representations of speech sounds in response to the idiosyncratic pronunciations of particular speakers. We used an exposure-test paradigm to investigate whether this type of perceptual learning transfers across syllabic positions. No significant learning effect was found in Experiment 1, where exposure sounds were onsets and test sound...