In large-vocabulary, multi-pass speech recognition systems, it is desirable to generate word lattices incorporating a large number of hypotheses while keeping the lattice sizes small. We describe two new techniques for reducing word lattice sizes without eliminating hypotheses. The first technique is an algorithm to reduce the size of non-deterministic bigram word lattices. The algorithm iterat...

conclusions accidents resulting in death, total disability, and partial disability impose a huge cost burden on society, whereas the employer will bear a relatively low cost. this is because of society’s health, treatment, and welfare systems available for treatment and rehabilitation of injured employees and their families. background occupational accidents represent one of the major problems ...

Progress over the past decade is surveyed concerning explicit existence and construction theorems on irreducible, primitive and normal polynomials. © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

geomagnetic observatories are constructed to continuously record the earth’s geomagnetic field. the importance of such buildings has resulted in an increasing construction of geomagnetic observatories all over the world. although geomagnetic observatories are sometimes unknown to most people and even some scientists, these very important data centers have been measuring the geomagnetic field fo...

A new scientific and engineering discipline, Construction Biotechnology, is developing exponentially during the last decade. The major directions of this discipline are selection of microorganisms and development of the microbially-mediated construction processes and biotechnologies for the production of construction biomaterials. The products of construction biotechnologies are low cost, susta...