There are several well established measurement devices for rating interpersonal relations in dream content analysis, (see 1 for an overview), e.g. Hall and Van De Castle (2), Gottschalk and Gleser (3). As in other cases of dream content analysis, these methods are specific applications of communication contents. Scale Rationales must explicitly describe the context of dream collecting, transcri...

Tracheoesophageal (TE) speech is a possibility to restore the ability to speak after laryngectomy, i.e. after the removal of the larynx. TE speech often shows low audibility and intelligibility which makes it a challenge for the patients to communicate. In speech rehabilitation the patient’s voice quality has to be evaluated. As no objective classification means exists until now and an automati...

The paper dwells on a judgement model for R&D project evaluation using multifactor criteria based on hierarchic considerations. The idea is to employ formal tools in quantification of subjective evaluations where expert judgement is involved. Comparative evaluations on a priority scale are converted to quantities using the eigen vector concept. This is also the essence of the Analytic Hierarchi...

Adoption studies were intended to separate genetic from environmental "causal" factors. In earlier adoption studies, psychiatric diagnostic labels for the adoptive parents were used as a proxy for the multiple dimensions of the family rearing environment. In the Finnish Adoption Study, research design provided the opportunity to study directly the adoptive family rearing environment. For this p...

Seven patients with nonunion of the scaphoid were treated by a limited approach combining a palmar wedge graft with insertion of a dorsal (retrograde) Herbert screw through small incisions. All patients had palmar bone deficiency and a 'difficult' proximal fragment. They were followed up for a minimum of 12 months (12 to 38). Radiological union was achieved in all. In five patients correction o...

This paper describes our research on automatically scoring students’ summaries for comprehension using not only text specific quantitative and qualitative features, but also more complex features based on the computational indices of cohesion available via Coh-Metrix and on Information Content (IC, a measure of text informativeness). We assessed whether human rated summary scores could be predi...

We examine and refine the Fagerström Tolerance Questionnaire (FTQ: Fagerström, 1978). The relation between each FTQ item and biochemical measures of heaviness of smoking was examined in 254 smokers. We found that the nicotine rating item and the inhalation item were unrelated to any of our biochemical measures and these two items were primary contributors to psychometric deficiencies in the FTQ...

Designing measures that capture various aspects of language ability is a central task in the design of systems for automatic scoring of spontaneous speech. In this study, we address a key aspect of language proficiency assessment – syntactic complexity. We propose a novel measure of syntactic complexity for spontaneous speech that shows optimum empirical performance on real world data in multip...

This paper describes the design and implementation of the practical language learning system, and the result of the automatic pronunciation scoring for non-native English speakers. Implementing the speech recognizer, featured as two refined acoustic model sets, noise-robust data compensation, phonetic alignment, reliable rejection, etc., and by using knowledge-based acoustic-phonetic parameter ...

Significant breakthroughs in machine translation only seem possible if human translators are taken into the loop. While automatic evaluation and scoring mechanisms such as BLEU have enabled the fast development of systems, it is not clear how systems can meet real-world (quality) requirements in industrial translation scenarios today. The TARAXŰ project paves the way for wide usage of hybrid ma...