Progress Twining Program at Shibaura Institute of Technology

Experiments for NTCIR-9 RITE Task at Shibaura Institute of Technology

Experiments for NTCIR-11 RITE-VAL Task at Shibaura Institute of Technology

This paper reports the evaluation results of our textual entailment system at NTCIR-11 RITE-VAL task. We participated in the Japanese System Validation (SV) and Fact Validation (FV) subtasks. In our system, the meaning of a text is represented as a set of dependency triples consisting of two words and their relation. Comparing two sets of dependency triples with respect to conceptual similarity...

Steps toward Flexible Speech Recognition – Recent Progress at Tokyo Institute of Technology –

This paper describes recent progress at Tokyo Institute of Technology and the author’s perspectives for making speech recognition systems more flexible at both the acoustic and linguistic processing levels. Specifically, it describes a broadcast news transcription system, a multimodal dialogue system for information retrieval, neural-network-based HMM adaptation for noisy speech, online increme...

New Program and Directions at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

The Trade Act of 1988 created the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) from the National Bureau of Standards (NBS). In addition to explicitly defining and reconfirming the traditional measurement services, the law assigned new responsibilities to NIST to assist U.S. industry in capitalizing on new technologies developed in the U.S. scientific and technical community at a faster...

Progress in the Use of the Modern Research Equipment at the Institute of Metals and Technology in Ljubljana

M. Godec, Institute of Metals and Technology, Ljubljana, Slovenia The installations of the modern research equipment at the Institute of Metals and Technology are presented chronologically, with an emphasis on electron microscopes with analytical techniques and spectroscopic methods. In parallel with the analytical techniques,there is a focus on the signifi cance of the results for industry as ...