In this paper we describe a real-time speech recognition system developed for colloquial Iraqi Arabic. This system is currently used in our speech-to-speech translation system configured for bi-directional communication in English and Iraqi on a laptop. We present experimental results on Iraqi utterances from different speech-to-speech translation domains, and analyze the usefulness of acoustic...

We evaluate the security of the recently proposed authenticated encryption scheme POET with regard to weak keys when its universal hash functions are instantiated with finite field multiplications. We give explicit constructions for weak key classes not covered by POET’s weak key testing strategy, and demonstrate how to leverage them to obtain universal forgeries.

The Solitary Reaper is one of William Wordsworth’s representatives which portrays an Irish girl working and singing solitarily in a field. This poem fully reflects the loneliness of the poet. He uses varying wording and phrasing, the lonely image of the reaper, the expanding of the lonely music, and the way of expressing his loneliness to set the lonely atmosphere. Therefore, it is necessary to...

Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831), Dutch writer and poet, son of an Amsterdam physician. When he was 6 years old he was struck by an accident to a foot, causing inflammation of the periosteum. Medical errors caused him to stay inside, shut off from the outside world and his peers. He devoted his childhood and youth to study, drawing and writing. He became a historian, linguist, poet and lawyer. Sou...

We present a general-purpose code transformation system, the POET system, for the purpose of automatic code generation from high-level behavior specifications of object-oriented abstractions to low-level efficient implementations in C++ and Java. In particular, we have developed an extended finite-state-machine-based language, iFSM, which models the behavior logic together with implementation d...

Because of the complexity of distributed applications, understanding their behaviour is a challenging task. Frequently, tools that provide graphical visualizations based on process-time diagrams are provided to facilitate this understanding task. While a wide variety of such tools exist, few address the complexity problem directly. In contrast, our research has focused on the problem of visuali...

that she gave to him would never wither, '' sheltered and shut in a nook of rhyme from the reaper man and his reaper Time." Keats also, despite his humility, had this prescience of immortality: "I think," he said, "I shall be among the English poets after my death." He knew that Time's fell hand would touch him only lightly. He is, above others, the Poet of Beauty?of Beauty in Nature, in the he...

Heine’s poem ‘Still ist die Nacht, es ruhen die Gassen’ (‘The night is still, the streets are dumb’), written in the early 1820s, describes a nocturnal encounter between the poet and his double. The poet returns to stand under the window of the house where his beloved once lived, only to find his double on duty in his place. To the poet, the double’s sighs and hand-wringing seem to be a mocking...