Text mining of massive Social Media postings presents interesting challenges for NLP applications due to sparse interpretation contexts, grammatical and orthographical variability as well as its very fragmentary nature. No single methodological approach can be expected to work across such diverse typologies as twitter micro-blogging, customer reviews, carefully edited blogs, etc. In this paper ...

This paper describes the collection and processing of a pilot speech corpus annotated in dialogue acts. The Mandarin Topic-oriented Conversational Corpus (MTCC) consists of annotated transcripts and sound files of conversations between two familiar persons. Particular features of spoken Mandarin, such as discourse particles and paralinguistic sounds, are taken into account in the orthographical...

The orthographical complexities of Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK) and Arabic pose a special challenge to developers of NLP applications. These difficulties are exacerbated by the lack of a standardized orthography in these languages, especially the highly irregular Japanese orthography and the ambiguities of the Arabic script. This paper focuses on CJK and Arabic orthographic variation and pro...

The Deseret Alphabet was an orthographical reform for English, promoted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) between about 1854 and 1875. An offshoot of the Pitman phonotypy reforms, the Deseret Alphabet is remembered mainly for its use of non-Roman glyphs. Though ultimately rejected, the Deseret Alphabet was used in four printed books, numerous newspaper articles, s...

To improve the multi-resolution segmentation (MRS) quality of plastic greenhouses (PGs) in GaoFen-2 (GF-2) images, effects atmospheric correction and image enhancement on effective PG segments (EPGSs) were evaluated. A new semi-automatic method was also proposed to extract EPGSs an accurate efficient way. Firstly, GF-2 images preprocessed via correction, orthographical registration, fusion, lin...

Матеріялы до руского словаря – the Ukrainian-Polish manuscript dictionary by Josyf Skomorovski consists of 5 volumes and 1732 pages. It was probably completed in 1849. The register Ukrainian has 27000 entries. In part, there is a lot phonetic lexical polonisms as well dialectical items. Some entries were not translated especially 4th volume. words presented two orthographical variants Skomorows...

As Chinese is written without orthographical word boundaries (i.e., spaces), it is unclear whether saccade targets are selected on the basis of characters or words and whether saccades are aimed at the beginning or the centre of words. Here, we report an experiment where 30 Chinese readers read 150 sentences while their eye movements were monitored. They exhibited a strong tendency to fixate at...

We propose a novel algorithm for uncalibrated photometric stereo. While most of previous methods rely on various assumptions on scene properties, we exploit constraints in lighting configurations. We first derive an ambiguous reconstruction by requiring lights to lie on a view centered cone. This reconstruction is upgraded to Euclidean by constraints derived from lights of equal intensity and m...

This study aimed to explore the temporal dynamics of the consistency e¡ect in reading Chinese phonograms. Highconsistency and low-consistency characters were used in the homophone judgment task, and the event-related potentials were recorded. The data showed that low-consistency characters elicited greater N170 amplitude in the temporal^ occipital region and greater P200 amplitude in the fronta...