A central question for any model of visual word identification is the representation of the position at which letters are encoded (e.g., calm vs. clam). In this article, we examine whether the orthographic-specific characteristics of a writing system-namely, Thai-shape the process of letter position coding. Thai is an alphabetic script that lacks interword spaces and has an orthographic order t...

While the proper analysis of de has been a topic of intense debate (Simpson 2003, Huang 2006, Li 2008, Saito, Lin & Murasugi 2008, Cheng & Sybesma 2009, a.o.), there is much less work on the Thai markers, except for relative clauses (Hoonchamlong 1991, Ruangjaroon 2005, Jenks to appear). In this paper we adopt the analysis of de as a type-shifter (i.e., <,e>, proposed by Huang (2006) to ac...

BACKGROUND Exercise has been shown to be effective in cardiovascular endurance in the elderly. We studied the effect of Thai dancing on physical performance of Thai elderly. METHODS This was an open-labeled, randomized intervention study. The Thai dancing group exercised for 40 minutes three times a week for 6 weeks. Physical performance ability was the primary outcome, including a 6-minute w...

Several characteristics of the Thai writing system make Thai grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion very challenging. In this paper, we propose an Example-Based Grapheme-toPhoneme conversion approach. It generates the pronunciation of a word by selecting, modifying and combining pronunciations from syllables from training corpus. The best system achieves 80.99% word accuracy and 94.19% phone accu...

This paper reviews the current state of technology and research progress in the Thai language processing. It resumes the characteristics of the Thai language and the approaches to overcome the difficulties in each processing task. 1 Some Problematic Issues in the Thai Processing It is obvious that the most fundamental semantic unit in a language is the word. Words are explicitly identified in t...

Niels Mulder's new book comprises a collection of studies gathered under the rubric of the Thai " Public World ". Readers of his best-selling works — Inside Thai Society and Inside Southeast Asian Society — will recognize the continuities in this work, particularly his non-ethno-graphic brand of " culture-as-world-view " anthropology, through which he defines " culture " as the way people think...

This paper presents a bilingual, English and Thai, unknown word alignment tools by using techniques, which are based on global and local characteristics of each word in parallel texts. Distribution and location of words in texts are analyzed generating candidate Thai unknown words with respect to each of English unknown word. Overall accuracy of the unknown word alignment is 90.32% on 6,000 bil...

This paper presents a quantitative representation of Thai tones in the form of pitch targets. The optimal pitch targets of Thai tones were estimated by using a combination of the quantitative Target Approximation (qTA) model and a stochastic learning algorithm. With the advent of this technique, the representation of communicative functions can be systematically and quantitatively studied. The ...

This paper proposes a guideline to determine Thai elementary discourse units (EDUs) based on rhetorical structure theory. Carson and Marcu’s (2001) guideline for segmenting English EDUs is modified to propose a suitable guideline for segmenting EDUs in Thai. The proposed principles are used in tagging EDUs for constructing a corpus of discourse tree structures. It can also be used as the basis ...

Thai part of speech (POS) tagging is a challenged problem in natural language processing. Many techniques including artificial neural network techniques are suggested for POS tagging. Research works in Thai POS tagging so far only focused on assigning word types, but not word features. This paper proposed a technique using multilayer perception for tagging word features in Thai sentences. The f...