The EU-LRE project TEMAA has extended an existing ISO standard to produce a methodology for the evaluation of language engineering products. The resulting framework has been implemented as a prototype evalu-ator's workbench where product descriptions, user prooles, and test libraries can be parameter-ized to reeect user requirements. As a case study, the test bed has been instantiated for the e...

A new tripodal ligand that features three selenium donors, namely the tris(2-seleno-1-mesitylimidazolyl)hydroborato ligand, [Tse(Mes)], has been constructed via the reaction of KBH(4) with 1-mesitylimidazole-2-selone; comparison of the IR spectroscopic data of [Tse(Mes)]Re(CO)(3) with those of a variety of related LRe(CO)(3) complexes demonstrates that the [Tse(Mes)] ligand is more strongly ele...

Das BusinessActivities Framework stellt einen integrierten, modellgetriebenen Ansatz zur Modellierung von Sicherheitseigenschaften für prozessbasierte Informationssysteme zur Verfügung. Ein wichtiger Teil des BusinessActivity Frameworks ermöglicht die Modellierung von rollenbasierten Zugriffskontrollmodellen. In diesem Kontext ist auch die Möglichkeit zur Delegation von Rollen und Rechten vorge...

Phone Log-Likelihood Ratios (PLLR) have been recently proposed as alternative features to MFCC-SDC for iVector Spoken Language Recognition (SLR). In this paper, PLLR features are first described, and then further evidence of their usefulness for SLR tasks is provided, with a new set of experiments on the Albayzin 2010 LRE dataset, which features wide-band multi speaker TV broadcast speech on si...

This document presents a description of INESC-ID’s Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (LF) Language Recognition systems submitted to the 2011 NIST Language Recognition evaluation. The LF primary system consists of the fusion of six individual sub-systems: four phonotactic sub-systems and two acoustic based sub-systems. The major differences of the submitted LR system with respect to previous LF...

This paper describes the systems developed by the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University for the NIST Language Recognition Evaluation 2015. We submitted one primary and three alternative systems for the fixed training data evaluation and didn't take part in the open training data evaluation for our limited data resources and computation capability. Both the primary system a...

The Speech and Hearing Research Group of the University of Sheffield submitted a fusion language recognition system to NIST LRE 2015. It combines three language classifiers. Two are acoustic-based, which use i–vectors and a tandem DNN language recogniser respectively. The third classifier is a phonotactic language recogniser. Two sets of training data with duration of approximately 170 and 300 ...

Serial crystallography, in which single-shot diffraction images are collected, has great potential for protein microcrystallography. Although serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) has been successfully demonstrated, limited beam time prevents its routine use. Inspired by SFX, serial synchrotron crystallography (SSX) has been investigated at synchrotron macromolecular crystallography beamline...

Sex ratio theory provides a powerful source of testable predictions about sex allocation strategies. Although studies of invertebrates generally support predictions derived from the sex ratio theory, evidence for adaptive sex ratio biasing in vertebrates remains contentious. This may be due to the fact that most studies of vertebrates have focused on facultative adjustment in relation to matern...

Automatic language recognition on spontaneous speech has experienced a rapid development in the last few years. This development has been in part due to the competitive technological Language Recognition Evaluations (LRE) organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Until now, the need to have clearly defined and consistent evaluations has kept some real-life applicat...