The present study examined the long-term effects of a computer intervention for the development of phonological awareness in Dutch kindergartners. Native Dutch and immigrant children worked with the software 15 min/week during one school year. Following a pretest – interim test – post-test – retention test design, the effects on rhyming, phonemic segmentation, auditory blending, and grapheme kn...

This paper presents an automatic grapheme to phoneme conversion system that uses statistical machine translation techniques provided by the Moses Toolkit. The generated word pronunciations are employed in the dictionary of an automatic speech recognition system and evaluated using the ESTER 2 French broadcast news corpus. Grapheme to phoneme conversion based on Moses is compared to two other me...

The first part of this paper describes the BBN system that participated in the 2004 broadcast news (BN) evaluation for Arabic. The complete system description is given together with experimental results on the 2004 development, and evaluation sets. Previous Arabic speech recognition at BBN used grapheme models due to the lack of short vowel information in the acoustic transcriptions. In the sec...

Being an essential part of a Korean speech recognition system and a Text-To-Speech (TTS) system, a Korean Grapheme-toPhoneme conversion system is generally composed of a set of regular rules and an exceptions dictionary [1, 2, 3]. The exceptions have been recorded in the dictionary in a simple and random manner, whereas the researches on the regular rules have been actively progressed. This pap...

Hangul is clustered into six different types in general. Type clustering has an effect of coarse classification in syllable matching and becomes the pre-processing stage for the segmentation in the grapheme matching process. In this paper, we define a set of grapheme region of a preconsonants, vowel and post-consonant, that can absorb the change of the character’s shape and the noise. A method ...

This paper presents Brazilian Portuguese phoneme patterns of distribution, according to an automatic grammar rulesbased grapheme to phoneme converter. The software Nhenhém (Vasilévski, 2008) was used for treating data: written texts which were decoded into phonologic symbols, forming a corpus, and subjected to a statistical analysis. Results support the high level of predictability of Brazilian...

In this communication we propose an approach for the writer verification task. The difficulty of this task lies first, in the decision making between the two assumptions which model the problem: "Do the two writings come from the same writer ?" or "Do the two writings come from different writers?" and second, in the evaluation of the error risk associated to this decision. We have called upon a...

Received Mar 10, 2017 Revised May 5, 2017 Accepted May 26, 2017 Graphene is a promising new material for the construction of graphene devices because of its surface modification can be tuned the band gap. In this paper, the electronic and transport characteristics of defected graphene device are investigated. Both the electronic and transport characteristics are simulated using density function...

In this research, data mining techniques will helpful to handle the predictive model. Research will show the most effective parameter of the heart disease prediction which gets the scenario for least predictive value and most predictive value from the dataset. Initially need to identify the exact state of the user entering parameter which can be frequent item although random value of dataset in...

YONG-CHAE JEONG Chonbuk National University Chonju, Korea SI-GYUN JEONG Samsung Electronics Gyeonggi-Do, Korea JONG-SIK LIM Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) Daejeon, Korea CHUL-DONG KIM Sewon Teletech Inc. Kyeonggi-Do, Korea Recently, extensive research efforts on photonic band gap (PBG) structures where periodic patterns are etched on the ground plane of microstrip lines have been co...