OBJECTIVES This study aimed to assess the radicular wall thickness in mandibular incisors with two canals and find the maximum and minimum thickness to prevent root canal treatment (RCT) procedural errors. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 160 extracted mandibular incisors were selected and radiographed; out of which, 55 had two canals. Three parallel transverse sections were made in each toot...

Although great progress has been made for Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) in English, scaling out to a large number of languages remains huge challenge due the lack amounts annotated training data non-English languages. To address this challenge, some recent efforts cross-lingual MRC employ machine translation transfer knowledge from English other languages, through either explicit alignmen...

We detect errors in Korean post-positional particle usage, focusing on optimizing omission detection, as omissions are the single-biggest factor in particle errors for learners of Korean. We also develop a system for predicting the correct choice of a particle. For omission detection, we model the task largely on English grammatical error detection, but employ Korean-specific features and filte...

1 In this demonstration, we will showcase BBN’s Speech-to-Speech (S2S) translation system that employs novel interaction strategies to resolve errors through user-friendly dialog with the speaker. The system performs a series of analysis on input utterances to detect out-ofvocabulary (OOV) named-entities and terms, sense ambiguities, homophones, idioms and ill-formed inputs. This analysis is us...

We describe Stanford’s entries in the TAC KBP 2016 Cold Start Slot Filling and Knowledge Base Population challenge. Our biggest contribution is an entirely new Chinese entity detection and relation extraction system for the new Chinese and cross-lingual relation extraction tracks. This new system consists of several ruled-based relation extractors and a distantly supervised extractor. We also a...

Research using electropalatography (EPG) has shown that a distinctive articulatory characteristic of lingual consonants in the speech of school age children with articulation/phonological disorders (APD) is a high amount of tongue-palate contact. Consonants produced in this way have been referred to as involving undifferentiated lingual gestures (UGs). UGs are characterised by contact that lack...

Previous work has shown that pseudo relevance feedback (PRF) can be effective for cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR). This research was primarily based on corpora such as news articles that are written using relatively formal language. In this paper, we revisit the problem of CLIR with a focus on the problems that arise with informal text, such as blogs and forums. To address the proble...