This article describes the systems jointly submitted by Institute for Infocomm (IR), the Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Universit du Maine (LIUM), Nanyang Technology University (NTU) and the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) for 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE). The submitted system is a fusion of nine sub-systems based on i-vectors [1] extracted from different types of featur...

This article is a sequel to the note by Richard A. McCormick, S.J., and Robert Veatch on the Eichner case. They commented on the decision of Justice Robert Meade on December 6,1979. That decision was appealed, and on March 27, 1980, the Supreme Court, Nassau County, handed down its opinion. McCormick/Veatch agree with the ruling of the trial court but not with its reasoning. Judge Meade refused...

Scalar modifiers, such as the English at least, have been argued to four different readings: a neutral, an epistemic, concessive, and qualifying reading. This paper investigates expression of these readings in German Sign Language against background Bodily Mapping Hypothesis. hypothesis states that there is systematic mapping between position operator syntactic structure height articulator expr...

ABSTRACT This article investigates the presence of heterodiscourse in narratives oral tradition. Therefore, theoretical foundation is based on Bakhtinian perspective, which understands discourse, literary narratives, as marked by heterodiscursivity, evidencing a diversity social voices that signal ways understanding and points view about world. The analysis corpus, composed two from tradition, ...