Participants in electronic meetings are often fairly informal with their typing and make spelling and grammatical mistakes, perhaps realizing that such errors are not viewed as important in such free-flow, rapid-paced discussions. Although most researchers, group members, and meeting facilitators have noted these errors, no study has been conducted on the types of errors made or their correlati...

Despite all the methodological problems in defining the proper variables and methods to estimate it, an association between economic perceptions and vote choice or vote outcomes in the expected direction seems to be a regular feature of voting behavior. Nonetheless, there is important instability among elections and countries that tends to be attributed to methodological flaws or to contextual ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Previous research found that individual talkers have consistent differences in the production of segments impacting the perception of their speech by others. Speakers also produce multiple acoustic-phonetic cues to phonological contrasts. Less is known about how multiple cues covary within a phonetic category and across talkers. We examined differences in individual talkers acro...

This paper presents a discussion of tonal categories relating to pitch perception discrimination thresholds and the differences between pitch perception and the perception of tonal timing. Based on the results of a perception experiment using Swedish listeners and tonal timing results from the literature, this paper proposes perceptual mechanisms which may help explain the development of contou...

We compared the relationship between gender role beliefs and antigay prejudice in Chile and the United States. Participants were Chilean and American university students. In Study 1, Chileans were more prejudiced than Americans, and men were more prejudiced than women. In Study 2, gender role beliefs mediated cultural and sex differences in prejudice. Chileans held more traditional gender role ...

Chinese spelling check (CSC) is still an open problem today. To the best of our knowledge, language modeling is widely used in CSC because of its simplicity and fair predictive power, but most systems only use the conventional n-gram models. Our work in this paper continues this general line of research by further exploring different ways to glean extra semantic clues and Web resources to enhan...

Many authors, including Cavusoglu and Raghunathan (2004) in this journal, have argued that proper modeling of the strategic interaction between players requires a game theoretic approach as opposed to a decision theoretic approach. We argue in this paper, however, that there are many environments in which decision analysis can deal with strategic interactions just as well and we present equival...

Computers that can listen and talk? Helpers that read your books and answer complex questions? Natural language processing has always made big promises, and has left many people with a healthy dose of skepticism. The truth is that language technology has had a bigger impact than you may think, by working behind the scenes. In this talk, I will discuss the changing role of NLP in applications, a...

This article presents supervised computational methods for the identification of Spanish varieties. The features used for this task were the classical character and word n-gram language models as well as POS and morphological information. The use of these features is to our knowledge new and we aim to explore the extent to which it is possible to identify language varieties solely based on gram...

The formant space of three major English accents namely British, American and Australian are modelled and used for accent conversion. Accent synthesis, through modification of the acoustic parameters of speech, provides a means for assessing the perceptual contribution of each parameter on conveying an accent. An improved method based on a linear prediction (LP) model feature analysis and a 2-D...