This study examined the long- and short-term spectral characteristics of speech simultaneously recorded at the ear and at a reference microphone position (30 cm at 0 degrees azimuth). Twenty adults and 26 children (2-4 years of age) with normal hearing were asked to produce 9 short sentences in a quiet environment. Long-term average speech spectra (LTASS) were calculated for the concatenated se...

We explored two approaches based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks on the Quora duplicate question dataset. The first model uses a Siamese architecture with the learned representations from a single LSTM running on both sentences. The second method uses two LSTMs with the two sentences in sequence, and the second attending on the first (word-by-word attention). Our best model achieved 7...

We have developed a summarization method that creates a snmmary suitable for tim p,'ocess o f sifting information retrieval results. Unlike conventional methods that extract ilnportant sentences, this method constructs short phrases to reduce the burden of reading long sentences. We have developed a prototype summarization system tbr Japanese. Through a rather large-scale task~ based experiment...

This paper is concerned with analyzing the stocks in Standard & Poors 500 Index that potentially yield high returns. To achieve this goal, historical stock prices and their corresponding simple moving averages are used together to capture trend directions. When time series of crosses over its average line from below (or above), it indicates an up down) signal a buy sell) initiated. A trading st...

Let L be a countable first order language. Let A be a Σ1 admissible set such that L ∈ A and the cardinality of A is ω1. Let T ⊆ LA,ω be a set of sentences such that < A, T > is Σ1 admissible. T is consistent iff no contradiction can be derived from T via a deduction in A. T is complete iff for each sentence F ∈ LA,ω, either F ∈ T or (¬F) ∈ T . An n-type p of T is a consistent, complete set of f...

Abstract Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for obesity. Though both short- and long-term outcomes have been reported, most of the published literature to date has focused on short-term outcomes. Identification post-operative weight regain, re-emergence comorbidities require follow-up. We aimed identify distribution changes in follow-up times within bariatric literature. screened throu...

This study examined the perception of short and long vowels in Arabic and Japanese by native Japanese (NJ) and nonnative learners of Japanese (NNJ). Ten Japanese vowels (5 short, 5 long) were given as response categories. As expected, the NJ listeners categorized the Japanese vowels more accurately than did the NNJ listeners (91 vs. 83%). Further, the NJ listeners tended to identify Japanese lo...