We present an open-vocabulary Turkish news transcription system built with almost no language-specific resources. Our acoustic models are bootstrapped from those of a well trained source language (Italian), without using any Turkish transcribed data. For language modeling, we apply unsupervised word segmentation induced with a state-of-the-art technique (Creutz and Lagus, 2005) and we introduce...

this paper presents new sensitivity-based methods for detection of structural damage using incomplete noisy modal data. these methods are based on the first-order derivative of modal parameters. changes of natural frequency do not usually provide spatial information on the structural damage. they are also not sensitive to the local damage. in this paper, a new sensitivity function is proposed u...

We discuss the use of model building for temporal representations. We chose Polish to illustrate our discussion because it has an interesting aspectual system, but the points we wish to make are not language specific. Rather, our goal is to develop theoretical and computational tools for temporal model building tasks in computational semantics. To this end, we present a first-order theory of ti...

nowadays, many antibiotics are being used to control infectious diseases. inappropriate use of antibiotics leads to emergence of resistant bacteria and problems such as a prolonged course of treatment. medicinal plants and their derivatives, as a good source of treatment, are effective against drug resistance. in this study we have evaluated the antimicrobial activity of herbal essential oils o...

Building on previous works, this paper establishes that the minimal depth of a Bitonic sorter of n keys is 2 dlog(n)e − blog(n)c.