This paper explores the decisions involved in a digital stemmatology project. Traditionally, transcription, collation, and creation of stemma have been processes linked to edition texts. However, on its own can provide valuable insight further understanding literary works since it sheds light their production process. The research textual tradition Troilus Criseyde offers possibility reconsider...

In the transcription system for Intonational Variation (IVTS, derived from IViE), prosodic features are transcribed on (1) the rhythmic tier, (2) the local phonetic tier, (3) the global phonetic tier, and (4) the phonological tier. Each tier offers a range of labels which share a general architecture, but language-specific parameters determine which subset of labels a transcriber can choose fro...

The nucleolus, the site of ribosomal RNA synthesis, provides us with one of the best opportunities for unravelling the relationships between transcription and the spatial organization of chromatin. Some of the. best visualizations of the transcription process have come from nucleolar spread preparations (Miller, 1981) but this procedure introduces major structural reorganizations that deny us a...

Chromatin, a complex of DNA and proteins in the eukaryotic cell nucleus governs various cellular processes including DNA replication, DNA repair and transcription. Chromatin architecture and dynamics dictates the timing of cellular events by regulating proteins' accessibility to DNA as well as by acting as a scaffold for protein-protein interactions. Nucleosome, the basic unit of chromatin cons...

Sociolinguists are regularly faced with the task of measuring phonetic features from speech, which involves manually transcribing audio recordings – a major bottleneck to analyzing large collections of data. We harness automatic speech recognition to build an online end-to-end web application where users upload untranscribed speech collections and receive formant measurements of the vowels in t...

This paper describes the outline of collecting and transcribing spontaneous spoken dialogues for VERBMOBIL, the German research project on mult ilingual processing of spontaneous speech. The method and conditions of data collection performed using the same scenario and the transliteration convention of spontaneous speech were described. The characteristics of VERBMOBIL corpus were presented in ...

Over the last few years, the DARPA-sponsored Hub4 continuous speech recognition evaluations have pushed speech recognition technology for the very interesting and difficult task of automatically transcribing broadcast news. In this paper, we report on our research and progress on this problem. We focus on individual techniques we developed, rather than on descriptions of our evaluation systems....

MTRANS, a freely available tool for annotating multi-channel speech is presented. This software tool is designed to provide visual and aural display flexibility required for transcribing multi-party conversations; in particular, it eases the analysis of speech overlaps by overlaying waveforms and spectrograms (with controllable transparency), and the mapping from media channels to annotation ti...

The activity of transposable elements is epigenetically suppressed by both transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms. We recently identified a direct connection between the small RNA-mediated post-transcriptional mRNA degradation of actively transcribing transposable elements and the de novo methylation of transposable element DNA, providing a mechanistic link between these two establ...