Article history: Received 12 October 2007 Received in revised form 6 April 2009 Accepted 2 May 2009

The CSR Development and Evaluation Spokes data collection task yielded 4435 development test utterances fr~n 30 speakers and 4878 evaluation test utterances from a different set of 30 speakers. The development test data covered eight different spoke conditions, each of which had its own distinct combination of subject, prompt text, microphone and recording environment requirements. Similarly, t...

This session focussed on two inter-related issues: (I) performance assessment for spoken language systems and (2) experience to date in speech corpora collection for these systems. The session included formal presentations from representatives of SRI International, MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation, and Carnegie Mellon University's School of Compute...

The optimal strategy for collecting X-ray diffraction data from macromolecular crystals is discussed. Two kinds of factors influencing the completeness of data are considered. The first are geometric, arising from the symmetry of the reciprocal lattice and from the experimental setup; they affect quantitatively the completeness of the measured set of reflections. The second concern the quality,...

BACKGROUND Electronic disease surveillance systems can be extremely valuable tools; however, a critical step in system implementation is collecting data. Without accurate and complete data, statistical anomalies that are detected hold little meaning. Many people who have established successful surveillance systems acknowledge the initial data collection process to be one of the most challenging...

Detailed data collection of individuals is a fundamental requirement for profound statistical analysis of a complex system as the health care system of Switzerland. The aim of this report is to model a privacy-preserving data collection system, to analyze an already proposed implementation and to develop a new proposal giving highest security.