Surname capture via automatic speech recognition over the telephone has many commercial applications, including automated directory assistance and travel reservation services. This paper presents a usability evaluation of three different dialogue designs for automated surname capture, within the context of a flight reservation service. The three designs explored were: a Speak Only strategy, in ...

Spell-checking is the process of detecting and sometimes providing suggestions for incorrectly spelled words in a text. Basically, the larger the dictionary of a spell-checker is, the higher is the error detection rate; otherwise, misspellings would pass undetected. Unfortunately, traditional dictionaries suffer from out-of-vocabulary and data sparseness problems as they do not encompass large ...

Abstraet--A new discrimination function is presented for segmenting touching characters based on both pixel and profile projections. A dynamic recursive segmentation algorithm is developed for effectively segmenting touching characters. Contextual information and spell checking are used to correct errors caused by incorrect recognition and segmentation. Based on 12 real documents, a maximum 99....

This paper discusses the ongoing development of a new Maltese spell checker, highlighting the methodologies which would best suit such a language. We thus discuss several previous attempts, highlighting what we believe to be their weakest point: a lack of attention to context. Two developments are of particular interest, both of which concern the availability of language resources relevant to s...

The aim of this paper is to present the R&D activities carried out at Neurosoft S.A. regarding the development of proofing tools for Modern Greek. Firstly, we focus on infrastructure issues that we faced during our initial steps. Subsequently, we describe the most important insights of three proofing tools developed by Neurosoft, i.e. the spelling checker, the hyphenator and the thesaurus, outl...

INTRODUCTION This paper offers an alternative to the agonistic debate presented by Gonzalo Frasca in “Ludologists Love Stories Too,” in Level Up, DiGRA 2003 Conference Proceedings [1]. While Frasca’s position is that the ludology/narratology debate is spurious and fraught with misunderstandings, in labeling scholars as “ludologists” or “narratologists,” his paper only deepens the gap by further...

We have spelling and grammar checking tools available on today’s word processors. But what they are missing is a tool that can recommend several possibilities of a given written sentence to assist a user to write better sentences. Therefore, we aim to develop a linguistic tool to beautify text by applying our developed lexical resources regarding textual affect sensing. The developed tool will ...

how to cite this article: movahedian ah, heidarzadeh arani m, motaharizad m, mousavi gha, mosayebi z. evaluation of qt dispersion in children with breath holding spells. iran j child neurol. winter 2016; 10(1):25-30. abstract objective breath holding spells (bhs) are common involuntary reflexes in infancy and early childhood. differential diagnosis should embrace long qt syndrome (lqts) and par...

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the different properties of the operation Move before and after Spell-Out can be grounded in independently motivated properties of the minimalist program. To this end I will address two potential problems for the requirement that derivations must be uniform: (i) the obligatory nature of pied-piping prior to Spell-Out and (ii) the obligatory elim...

With a growing world population and a trend towards more resource-intensive diets, pressure on land and water resources for food production will continue to increase in the coming decades. Large parts of the world rely on rainfed agriculture for their food security. In Africa, 90 % of the food production is from rainfed agriculture, generally with low yields and a high risk of crop failure. One...