Serials Spoken Here

Spoken Language Processing: Where Do We Go from Here?

Recent years have seen steady improvements in the quality and performance of speech-based human-machine interaction driven by a significant convergence in the methods and techniques employed. However, the quantity of training data required to improve state-of-the-art systems seems to be growing exponentially, yet performance appears to be reaching an asymptote that is not only well short of hum...

Transfer from print to electronic serials

Structuring Serials Bibliographic Relationships through ID Linking

Law Serials Pricing and Mergers: A Portfolio Approach

Using data from more than 400 legal serials, I estimate the impact of six publisher mergers on law serial prices during the period, 1990-2000. The results suggest that merger-related price increases were substantial during this period, even after accounting for secular price trends. Furthermore, these merger effects occurred across a broadly-defined portfolio of serial titles consisting of lega...

North American perception of the prestige of biomechanics serials.

Biomechanics is a discipline with many applications and sub-areas so scholars often publish their work in journals in different subject categories used in the ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR). It is not known whether the quality/prestige of journals in the discipline of biomechanics matches the ISI Impact Factor (IF) ratings reported in JCR. A survey of the membership of the American Society ...