Automatic computation of speech rate is a necessary task in wide range applications that require this prosodic feature, which manual transcription and time alignments are not available. Several tools have been developed to end, but enough research has conducted yet see what extent they scalable other languages.
 In the present work, we take two off-the- shelf designed for automatic already...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Public grant(s) – National budget only. Main source(s): Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - FCT. Pericardial fat has been associated with the development many cardiovascular diseases. Non-invasive pericardial assessment may be performed through cardiac computed tomography (CCT), first step being segmentation layers, followed by appli...

In the last couple of decades, tremendous progress has been achieved in developing robotic telescopes and, as a result, sky surveys (both terrestrial and space) have become source substantial amount new observational data. These data contain lot information about binary stars, hidden their light curves. With huge astronomical gathered, it is not reasonable to expect all be manually processed an...

We introduce a formal model of explanatory dialogue called EDS. We extend this model by including argumentation capacities to facilitate knowledge acquisition in inconsistent knowledge bases. To prove the relevance of such model we provide the dalek (DiALectical Explanation in Knowledge-bases) framework that implements this model. We show the usefulness of the framework on a real-world applicat...

The meaning and interpretational effects of the the... the... construction (the comparative correlative) in English have often been ill-described. This paper examines some plausible-sounding but unwarranted semantico-pragmatic aspects that have explicitly or implicitly been suggested in the literature: (i) the construction only involves two scales, (ii) the truth of the more... the more... inva...

Multi-document summarization has been an important problem in information retrieval. It aims to distill the most important information from a set of documents to generate a compressed summary. Given a sentence graph generated from a set of documents where vertices represent sentences and edges indicate that the corresponding vertices are similar, the extracted summary can be described using the...

Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) is a control error mechanism based on the retransmissions of lost packet. This mechanism is adequate for an important number of communication protocols where reliability is of prime importance. Formal methods are indispensable for the development of these protocols in order to ensure their correctness. In this paper, we study the practical aspects of applying Even...

Summarizing documents catering the needs of an user is tricky and challenging. Though there are varieties of approaches, graphical methods have been quite popularly investigated for summarizing document contents. This paper focus its attention on two graphical methods namely-LexRank (threshold) and LexRank (Continuous) proposed by Erkan and Radev. This paper proposes two enhancements to the abo...