Voices from corners …

Collecting Voices from the Cloud

The collection and transcription of speech data is typically an expensive and time-consuming task. Voice over IP and cloud computing are poised to greatly reduce this impediment to research on spoken language interfaces in many domains. This paper documents our efforts to deploy speech-enabled web interfaces to large audiences over the Internet via Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online marketplace ...

Finding Corners

Many important image cues such as 'T'-,'X'and 'L'junctions have a local two-dimensional structure. Conventional edge detectors are designed for one-dimensional 'events'. Even the best edge operators can not reliably detect these two-dimensional features. This contribution proposes a solution to the two-dimensional problem. In this paper, I address the following: • 'L'-junction detection. Previo...

Cutting Corners

1 Whose Reform ? – Teachers ’ Voices from

This paper explores school reforms as a moral voice, which speaks in a different language in each context. We used the comprehensive school reform in Finland as an example and asked how teachers talk about it. Five discourses were identified: the silence, the irony, the submission, the active resistance and the opportunities. The sixth discourse, ‘the commitment’, was used when teachers talked ...

Parallelogram Polyominoes and Corners

(Received) We give an equation satissed by the generating function for parallelogram polyominoes according to the area, the width and the number of left path corners. Next, we give an explicit formula for the generating function of these polyominoes according to the area, the width and the number of right and left paths corners.