Proper names, whether English or non-English, have several different spellings when transliterated from a non-English source language into English. Knowing the different variations can significantly improve the results of name-searches on various source texts, especially when recall is important. In this paper we propose two novel phonetic models to generate numerous candidate variant spellings...

Hand gestures are examples of fast and complex motions. Computers fail to track these in fast video, but sleight of hand fools humans as well: what happens too quickly we just cannot see. We show a 3D tracker for these types of motions that relies on the recognition of familiar configurations in 2D images (classification), and fills the gaps in-between (interpolation). We illustrate this idea w...

This paper incorporates a detailed analysis of existing work on Hindi to Urdu transliteration systems and finds the enhancements they required. It lists the issues that are beyond the scope of character by character mapping. The issues include multiple same sound Urdu characters against one Hindi character. Moreover, it deals with the issues when the same word or words are written in two differ...

Acknowledgements I'd like to thank Jochen Triesch for his supervision over the last year, during which he introduced me to the field of computational neuroscience. I thoroughly enjoyed his lectures (for instance on Reinforcement Learning) and his insights and advice whenever we discussed my work. Many thanks to Max Murakami. Having (in his master thesis) developed the original speech acquisitio...

In this paper, methods for reconciling pronunciation differences between a rule-based front-end and the pronunciations observed in a database of recorded speech are presented. The methods are applied to the IBM Expressive Speech Synthesis System [1] for both unrestricted and limited-domain text-to-speech synthesis. One method is based on constructing a multiple pronunciation lattice for the giv...

The types and extent of regional phonetic and phonological variation in African American Vernacular English (AAVE), have, until quite recently, remained largely unknown and understudied, despite sociolinguists’ detailed knowledge of AAVE morphosyntax (Bailey & Thomas 1998). However, with the publication of the papers collected in Thomas & Yeager-Dror (in press), and a series of other recent pub...

objectives: the aims of this study were to test whether lightening of the overexposed radiographs improve determination of endodontic files length and whether lightened radiographs are comparable with ideally exposed radiographs. material and methods: four dried human skull coated with soft tissue-equivalent wax used for exposing radiographs of the upper molars. first, the endodontic file was p...

Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN)s are today common for access to Internet; well-known and used is IEEE 802.11 standardized technology. Some drawbacks of the standardized distributed medium access scheme, Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) has resulted in considerations made to extend the DCF from single-hop communications to multi-hop. Multihopping has the potential to reduce energy con...

language and culture are now deemed to be co-constitutive; hence english language teaching (elt) textbooks should incorporate cultural aspects and promote intercultural competence. however, careful decisions should be made as regards to the cultural content of materials and the ways in which culture is represented. this study was an attempt to deconstruct the patterns of cultural representation...