The aim of this research is to investigate the general features of lexical tones that might contribute to their categorisation. Thai tones were presented for (a) discrimination and (b) identification by native Thai and non-native Mandarin tone language participants in auditory-only (AO), visual-only (VO) and auditory-visual (AV) conditions. Discrimination tests revealed: (i) good auditory and a...

OBJECTIVE To assess the validity and test-retest reliability of a Thai translation of the Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS) Questionnaire in Thai patients with migraine. MATERIAL AND METHOD Migraineurs from the Headache Clinic in Siriraj Hospital were recruited and asked to complete a 13-weeks diary and answered the Thai-MIDAS at once. Some participants were asked to provide the 2nd Thai...

In this paper, Ant-Miner software is used to develop classification rules for Thai monosyllabic words. The hypothetical words used in this paper are composed of 65 command monosyllabic Thai words. The binary desired outputs were used during training 520 Thai words consist of 10 numerals and single-syllable, 65 words in each group were used for system evaluation. In order to improve recognition ...

Trees with larvicidal activity may be found in Thailand. We conducted this study to evaluate the efficacy and length of efficacy of Thai neem (Azadirachta siamensis) oil emulsion and an alginate bead of Thai neem oil formulation against early fourth stage Aedes aegypti larvae using a dipping test. The Thai neem oil emulsion had significantly greater larvicidal activity than the alginate bead fo...

This paper proposes a method for expanding Thai Lexie from monolingual dictionary to bilingual dictionary by utilizing multiple resources. The existing 100,000 Thai words were used as a query to search web pages for extracting words pair from the Internet. Moreover, a Thai Romanization model was developed for creating Thai word pronunciation by using Roman alphabets and a Forward Transliteratio...

This article tackles the problem of transcribing English words using Thai phonological system. The problem exists in Thai, where modern writing often composes of English orthography, and transcribing using English phonology results unnatural. The proposed model is totally data-driven, starting by automatic grapheme-phoneme alignment, modeling transduction rules and predicting Thai syllabictones...

Names are important in many societies, even in technologically oriented ones which use ID systems or other ways to identify individual people. Names such as personal surnames are the most important as they are used in many processes, such as identifying of people, record linkage and for genealogical research as well. For Thai names this situation is a bit different in that in Thai the first nam...

Artificial intelligence (AI) was first taught in Thailand at government universities more than 30 years ago. Thai-language lecture notes on artificial intelligence (AI) were used in 1975 for teaching an AI course at a university. In 1992 the first AI laboratory was established at the Department of Computer Engineering, Kasetsart University. Research on Thai language processing and expert system...

Cervical cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy in Thai women and more than 50 percent of cases have died from cervical cancer; an average of nearly 3000 cases per year, or about 7 cases per day. There were more than 270,000 people worldwide die with this disease each year or 650 people per day by estimation. From the report of the Thai National Cancer Institute (Thai National Cancer ...

The use of e-business in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been recently received an enormous attention in information systems research by both academic and practitioners. With the adoption of new and efficient technologies to enhance businesses, Thai SMEs should be able to compete worldwide. Unfortunately, most of the owners are not used to new technologies. It is clear that most T...