IV.-SPOKEN PORTUGUEZE.

Spoken Language Dialogue Systems Part Iv: the Dialogue Manager

Core Units of Spoken Grammar in Global ELT Textbooks

Materials evaluation studies have constantly demonstrated that there is no one fixed procedure for conducting textbook evaluation studies. Instead, the criteria must be selected according to the needs and objectives of the context in which evaluation takes place. The speaking skill as part of the communicative competence has been emphasized as an important objective in language teaching. The pr...

Spoken to Spoken vs. Spoken to Written: Corpus Approach to Exploring Interpreting and Subtitling

issue of Polibits includes a selection of papers related to the topic of processing of semantic information. Processing of semantic information involves usage of methods and technologies that help machines to understand the meaning of information. These methods automatically perform analysis, extraction, generation, interpretation, and annotation of information contained on the Web, corpus, nat...

Sectional Anatomy Quiz IV

In this series we present a quiz about identification of salient and important anatomical landmarks present at a given level on the computed tomography (CT) image. The representative image is followed by further images showing examples of various commonly encountered pathologies that can be seen at this level in clinical practice. Readers are expected to identify highlighted structures in all t...

Comparing Isolately Spoken Keywords Queries for Japanese Spoken D

This paper describes a Japanese spoken document retrieval system that uses voice input queries. We prepare two types of spoken queries: isolately spoken keywords and spontaneously spoken queries. To solve a mis-recognition problem of spoken queries, N-best hypotheses of transcripts of queries are used, and keyword candidates are selected from them by mutual information between recognized words....