In this paper we report on our activities in multilingual, speaker-independent,large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. The multilingual aspect of this work is of particular importance in Eu-rope, where each country has its own national language. Our existing recognizer for American English and French, has been ported to British English and German. It has been assessed in the context of ...

the present study is an attempt to find common structural characteristics ofhonorific expressions in japanese and persian. to achieve this purpose, first wewill focus on two parameters: “honorific as vocabulary” and “honorific assentence” in recent researches on honorific expressions in japanese. then, wewill compare the structure and characteristic of honorific expressions inexamples from both...

We have investigated the use of a pitch adaptive spectral representation on large vocabulary speech recognition, in conjunction with speaker normalisation techniques. We have compared the effect of a smoothed spectrogram to the pitch adaptive spectral analysis by decoupling these two components of STRAIGHT. Experiments performed on a large vocabulary meeting speech recognition task highlight th...

This paper sets out to examine the current vocabulary teaching and learning strategies based on research studies. It first reviews the historical development of vocabulary status in the ELT pedagogy. It then analyses the current vocabulary teaching and learning strategies by considering the strengths and weaknesses of the contextual and de-contextual perspectives of getting access to and retain...

This paper reports a study which investigated if there was a match between students’ English vocabulary size and the vocabulary load of a locally produced textbook. The analysis of the passages of the pre-university English textbook currently in use in Iran’s education system using RANGE program indicated that in order to comprehend the texts, students need to know not only words from 2000 high...

Burgeoning research in applied linguistics has underscored the interplay among individual, cognitive, and social variables that can delineate the ultimate attainment in various areas including vocabulary learning and the need to explore how innovative conflation of these dimensions may promote learning outcomes. The present quasi-experimental study examined the impact of Thematic Vocabulary Ins...

The present study investigates the potential impact of inspirational quotes on improving English abstract vocabulary recall. To achieve this, a multiple-choice Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) of 60 items including vocabulary and grammar component was administered as the proficiency test to a sample of 63 second-semester male and female students aged 18 to 22, studying English Translation in ...

The goal of this paper is to examine the vocabulary learning strategies used by Turkish learners at an advanced level. Current research suggests that vocabulary is an important component of language proficiency. Nevertheless, for a long period of time it was a neglected aspect during foreign language teaching and learning. Vocabulary learning strategies play a crucial role in vocabulary acquisi...

In this work, a system for solving handwritten Arabic word recognition is proposed. The aim is focused on holistic word recognition, which is devoted to recognize averaged size lexicons by using a single classifier. Presently, we investigate the applicability of the Artificial Immune Recognition System (AIRS) to achieve the recognition task. For the feature generation step, ridgelet transform a...