In our recent work on concatenative speech synthesis, we have devised an efficient, graph-based search to perform unit selection given symbolic information. By encapsulating concatenation and substitution costs defined at the class level, the graph expands only linearly with respect to corpus size. To date, these costs were manually tuned over pre-specified classes, which was a knowledgeintensi...

SUBSET, written in the matrix language Gauss, is a program that identifies optimal subsets of means or proportions based on independent groups. All possible configurations of ordered subsets of groups are identified and the best model is selected using either the AIC or BIC information criterion. For means, both homogeneous and heterogeneous variance cases are considered. SUBSET offers an alter...

38 A Fuzzy TOPSIS+Worst-Case Model for Personnel Evaluation Using Information Culture Criteria; Rasim M. Alguliyev, Institute of Information Technology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan Ramiz M. Aliguliyev, Institute of Information Technology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan Rasmiyya S. Mahmudova, Institute of Information Technology, Azerbaijan...

This explorative study contributes to research on relevance assessment by specifying criteria that are used in the judgment of information quality and credibility in internet discussion forums. To this end, 4739 messages posted to 160 Finnish discussion threads were analyzed. Of the messages, 20.5% contained explicit judgments of the quality of information and credibility in other messages. In ...