During preschool years, major developments occur in both executive function and theory of mind (ToM), and several studies have demonstrated a correlation between these processes. Research on the development of inhibitory control (IC) has distinguished between more cognitive, "cool" aspects of self-control, measured by conflict tasks, that require inhibiting an habitual response to generate an a...

We present our joint contribution to the 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge. Our system combines speech enhancement by supervised sparse non-negative matrix factorisation (NMF) with a multi-stream speech recognition system. In addition to a conventional MFCC HMM recogniser, predictions by a bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory recurrent neural network (BLSTM-RNN) and from non...

Serial-order short-term memory (STM), as opposed to item STM, has been shown to be very consistently associated with lexical learning abilities in cross-sectional study designs. This study investigated longitudinal predictions between serial-order STM and vocabulary development. Tasks maximizing the temporary retention of either serial-order or item information were administered to kindergarten...

In almost all applications of automatic speech recognition, especially in spontaneous speech tasks, the recognizer vocabulary cannot cover all occurring words. There is always a signiicant amount of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words even when the vocabulary size is very large. In this paper we present a new approach for the integration of OOV words into statistical language models. It is based on t...

A large number of loanwords and orthographic variants in Japanese pose a challenge for machine translation. In this article, we present a hybrid model for handling out-of-vocabulary words in Japanese-to-English statistical machine translation output by exploiting parallel corpus. As the Japanese writing system makes use of four different script sets (kanji, hiragana, katakana, and romaji), we t...

Managing change in controlled medical vocabularies is labor intensive and costly, but change is inevitable if vocabularies are to be kept up to date. The changes that are appropriate for a controlled medical vocabulary depend on the data stored for that vocabulary, and those data in turn depend on the needs of users. The set of change operations is the change model; the data stored about concep...