Detecting and Correcting for Separation in Strategic Choice Models

11688 Models of Strategic Choice in Politics

Detecting and Correcting Speech Repairs

Interactive spoken dialog provides many new challenges for spoken language systems. One of the most critical is the prevalence of speech repairs. This paper presents an algorithm that detects and corrects speech repairs based on finding the repair pattern. The repair pattern is built by finding word matches and word replacements, and identifying fragments and editing terms. Rather than using a ...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Detecting and Correcting Speech Repairs in Japanese

One of the characteristics of spontaneous speech is the abundance of speech repairs, in which speakers go back and repeat or change something they have just said. In other work [7], we proposed a language model for speech recognition that can detect and correct speech repairs in English. In this paper, we show that this model works equally as well on a Japanese corpus of spontaneous speech. The...

Correcting for guessing on multiple-choice exams.

simulation method (bootstrapping) was used by the authors to estimate the parameters for the statistical test of this hypothesis. Parameters (unspecified) of the bootstrap model are critical because of lack of independence among the four examinations (across the same students) and lack of independence among the corrected and uncorrected multiple-choice tests (across the same criterion variable)...