We have participated in three open tracks of Chinese word segmentation and named entity recognition tasks of SIGHAN Bakeoff3. We take a probabilistic feature based Maximum Entropy (ME) model as our basic frame to combine multiple sources of knowledge. Our named entity recognizer achieved the highest F measure for MSRA, and word segmenter achieved the medium F measure for MSRA. We find effective...

External noise paradigms are widely used to characterize sensitivity by comparing the effect of a variable on contrast threshold when it is limited by internal versus external noise. A basic assumption of external noise paradigms is that the processing properties are the same in low and high noise. However, recent studies (e.g., Allard & Cavanagh, 2011; Allard & Faubert, 2014b) suggest that thi...

This study was conducted to identify self-directed and external professional development obstacles facing primary school EFL teachers in Southern Zone of Tigray Region in Ethiopia. The participants of the study were 63 primary school EFL teachers, 10 school principals and 2 clusters of supervisors. School teachers were selected using random sampling technique whereas school principals and clust...

This work is focused on the experimental research of image processing for fast, accurate and efficient pattern recognition and motion tracking. To deal with the images and videos in real time as human beings is paramount about robot research if the robot wants to interact with the external environment in a humanoid way. In this research, object recognition and motion tracking are investigated s...

We describe a general framework for the recognition of distorted images of lineal shapes, which relies on three items: a model to represent lineal shapes and their deformations, a model for the generation of distorted binary images and the combination of both models in a common probabilistic framework, where the generation of deformations is related to an internal energy, and the generation of ...

Automatic speech recognition accuracies of call-canter conversations are still below intended levels due to harsh conditions such as channel distortions, external noises, coarticulated speech, etc. Agglutinative and free word order nature of Turkish degrades the recognition performances further; therefore the usage of confidence measures (CMs) is inevitable to retrieve correct information from ...

The purpose of the present research was to compare memory for an item with memory for the item's source. Experiment 1 investigated discrimination between two external sources: each item in a list of words was spoken in either a male or a female voice. Subjects received a test of item recognition and a test of source monitoring at each of four delay intervals (immediate, 30 min, 48 h, 1 week). I...

For familiar faces, the internal features (eyes, nose, and mouth) are known to be differentially salient for recognition compared to external features such as hairstyle. Two experiments are reported that investigate how this internal feature advantage accrues as a face becomes familiar. In Experiment 1, we tested the contribution of internal and external features to the ability to generalize fr...

BackgroundProfessional standards for nurse practice protect the public and define scope of nursing broadly in specialty areas. Nurses encounter patients with cardiovascular disease a variety clinical contexts, have potential to articulate role expectations nurses caring this population. Practice Australia were developed through electronic Delphi (eDelphi) technique.AimTo present development Aus...