Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of Internet and e-commerce technologies in the tourism industry. The tourism industry is one of the most important that contribute to Thailand’s economic growth. The Thai government has promoted e-strategies in the tourism industry for economic reform. Although the government has encouraged the use of Internet technology for effective communicat...

This paper examines the depiction of Muslim militants in Thai newspapers in 2004. Stuart Hall’s “representation” and “public idioms” are used as theoretical frameworks. Critical Discourse Analysis is employed as a methodology to examine 240 news articles from two leading Thai language newspapers. The results show that the militants are usually labeled as “southern bandits.” This suggests that t...

Many difficulties in the Thai language such as the absence of boundary word, linking syllables in pronunciation, and homographs are challenging us in developing a Thai Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) converter. Presently there are a couple Thai G2P systems which are proposed in ruled-based and decision-tree approach. The rule-based approach has a drawback in the limitation of employing the context. T...

The Thai written language is one of the languages that does not have word boundaries. In order to discover the meaning of the document, all texts must be separated into syllables, words, sentences, and paragraphs. This paper develops a novel method to segment the Thai text by combining a nondictionary based technique with a dictionary-based technique. This method first applies the Thai language...

Spelling recognition is an approach to enhance a speech recognizer’s ability to cope with incorrectly recognized words and out-of-vocabulary words. This paper presents a general framework for Thai speech recognition enhanced with spelling recognition. In order to implement Thai spelling recognition, Thai alphabets and their spelling methods are analyzed. Based on hidden Markov models, we propos...

This paper proposes the novel technique for separation of Thai consonant naming or consonant spelling using its tones. Consonant spelling is used for many applications such as a voice-actuated typewriter that helping to correct the confusable word in sound. Because fundamental frequency (F0) can be suitably used in tone classification for Thai speech recognition, which is tonal language of five...

The role of Named entity (NE) extraction is very important in many NLP tasks, such as information extraction, etc. In Thai, the problems of NE extraction are much more difficult due to the characteristics of Thai language, that are lack of orthographical information to signal NEs, and no boundary indicator between words. In this paper, we present Thai NE extraction system by using Maximum Entro...

Principle C (Chomsky, 1981) states that referring expressions cannot be bound in any domain. Previous research has held up Thai as an example of a Principle Cless language because R-expression can receive bound readings. However, I argue that full DPs in Thai cannot be bound just as they cannot be bound in English. Apparent violations of Principle C arise when expressions with phonological form...

background: rice is one of the crops, which are prone to be contaminated with toxigenic fungi and their mycotoxins. this study aimed to investigate the natural occurrence of t-2 toxin in domestic and imported rice in iran. methods: in a cross-sectional descriptive study in winter 2007, 140 samples of imported rice (125 samples of thai and 25 sam­ples of pakistani rice) and 60 samples of iranian...

Pairs of Thai tones were presented for perceptual discrimination in three linguistic contexts (normal speech, low-pass filtered speech, and as musical (violin) sounds) to tonal language speakers, Thai and Cantonese, and non-tonal (English) language speakers. English speakers discriminated the tonal contrasts significantly better in the musical context than in filtered speech, and in filtered sp...