The main theme of our presentation is the parameterization of the human voice source. The LF-model provides an eflective representation of the inverse Jiltered speech wave form, but the four parameters are not easily handled in analysis and synthesis of connected speech. A data reduction scheme has recently been proposed (Fant et al., 1994) as a supplement to complete specifications. This syste...

Initial results have been achieved for automatic synthesis of MEMS system-level lumped parameter models using genetic programming and bond graphs. This paper first discusses the necessity of narrowing the problem of MEMS synthesis into a certain specific application domain, e.g., RF MEM devices. Then the paper briefly introduces the flow of a structured MEMS design process and points out that s...

This paper describes the development of an Advanced Speech Communication System for Deaf People and its field evaluation in a real application domain: the renewal of Driver’s License. The system is composed of two modules. The first one is a Spanish into Spanish Sign Language (LSE: Lengua de Signos Española) translation module made up of a speech recognizer, a natural language translator (for c...

In this paper we present the design and the implement of the language understanding component of a Chinese spoken language dialogue system EasyNav . In pursuing the coherence with the goal of understanding, we design the structure of system with speech decoding and language understanding integrated closely. Thus the language understanding component need to be restrictive besides portable. Actua...

A necessary step in the generation of expressive speech synthesis is the automatic detection and classification of emotions most likely to be present in textual input. Though increasingly data-driven, emotion analysis still relies on critical expert knowledge to isolate the emotional keywords or keysets necessary to the construction of affective categories. This makes it vulnerable to any discr...

DNA-damage tolerance (DDT) in yeast is composed of two parallel pathways and mediated by sequential ubiquitinations of PCNA. While monoubiquitination of PCNA promotes translesion synthesis (TLS) that is dependent on polymerase ζ consisted of a catalytic subunit Rev3 and a regulatory subunit Rev7, polyubiquitination of PCNA by Mms2-Ubc13-Rad5 promotes error-free lesion bypass. Inactivation of th...

In his 1795 essay ‘Toward Perpetual Peace’ the East-Prussian university metaphysician Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) named ‘Hugo Grotius, Pufendorf, Vattel’ as the ‘miserable comforters’ of the law of nations. This was a bon mot that became celebrated retrospectively, with the late-twentieth-century reception of Kant’s cosmopolitanism in political philosophy and international relations theory. In fo...

We describe our approach in developing a speech synthesis technique for response generation in domain-specific spoken language applications. Our approach handles two Chinese dialects – Cantonese and Putonghua. We chose the foreign exchange domain, and worked with its constrained vocabulary and response expressions. The syllable is selected to be our basic unit for concatenation. Each unit label...

Current software engineering practice concentrates on improving the process by which a programmer develops a solution from the description of a problem; we describe a new paradigm for software synthesis based on Domain-Speciic Software Architectures (DSSAs) that eliminates this process entirely. A DSSA provides an overall software design that solves a whole class of problems in a broad area. It...

Over recent decades, substantial efforts have been made to understand the interactions between host genomes and transposable elements (TEs). The impact of TEs on the regulation of host genes is well known, with TEs acting as platforms of regulatory sequences. Nevertheless, due to their repetitive nature it is considerably hard to integrate TE analysis into genome-wide studies. Here, we develope...