This paper studies two ways for helping non-specialist users develop speech systems from limited data for new languages. Focused web re-crawling finds additional examples of text matching the domain as specified by the user. This improves the language model and cuts word error rate nearly in half. Iterative voice building with interleaved lexicon construction uses the voice from a previous iter...

This study examines the effect and task performance) on supervisory reward recommendations. In a laboratory setting, n=216 research participants engaged in a managerial that was created to simulate the types of decisions that managers are faced with on a daily basis. While performing this task, participants were simulated subordinates engaging in high or low levels of voice, helping and task pe...

In this paper, passive optical network and its techniques have been reviewed. Due to the property of high bandwidth and energy saving, Passive optical network can be a better solution for the networks accessed in future. Traffic pattern has evolved to video and image based services from voice and text oriented services in the access networks. For the support of symmetric, high-speed and perfect...

We present a method for automatically acquiring knowledge for case alternation between the passive and active voices in Japanese. By leveraging several linguistic constraints on alternation patterns and lexical case frames obtained from a large Web corpus, our method aligns a case frame in the passive voice to a corresponding case frame in the active voice and finds an alignment between their c...

The syntax-first model and the parallel/interactive models make different predictions regarding whether syntactic category processing has a temporal and functional primacy over semantic processing. To further resolve this issue, an event-related potential experiment was conducted on 24 Chinese speakers reading Chinese passive sentences with the passive marker BEI (NP1 + BEI + NP2 + Verb). This ...

‘Languages are differently equipped to express different realworld relations, and they certainly do not express all aspects of meaning with equal ease” (Ivir, 1981:56). This paper is a case study that seeks to examine this statement through exploring the equivalence of passive voice in translation of English into Greek. The source text is ‘9/11’ by Chomsky, (2001) and its Greek translation by M...