The absence of real-time and targeted feedback is often critical in spoken foreign language learning. Computer-assisted language assessment systems are playing an ever more important role in this domain. This work considers the idiosyncratic pronunciation patterns of Chinese English speakers and uses both acoustic and prosody features to capture pronunciation, word stress, and rhythm informatio...

Acute stress is associated with a sensitized amygdala. Corticosteroids, released in response to stress, are suggested to restore homeostasis by normalizing/desensitizing brain processing in the aftermath of stress. Here, we investigated the effects of corticosteroids on amygdala processing using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Since corticosteroids exert rapid nongenomic and slow genomic...

Social media texts, such as tweets from Twitter, contain many types of nonstandard tokens, and the number of normalization approaches for handling such noisy text has been increasing. We present a method for automatically extracting pairs of a variant word and its normal form from unsegmented text on the basis of a pair-wise similarity approach. We incorporated the acquired variant-normalizatio...

Tweets often contain a large proportion of abbreviations, alternative spellings, novel words and other non-canonical language. These features are problematic for standard language analysis tools and it can be desirable to convert them to canonical form. We propose a novel text normalization model based on learning edit operations from labeled data while incorporating features induced from unlab...

Background: This study was conducted to examine the stress levels of individuals who admitted for dental treatment during normalization process COVID-19 pandemic, level knowledge about and reasons admission treatment. Methods: 990 people aged between 18-60+, Dentistry Faculty, participated in study. The questionnaire directed consisted questions measuring their democratic knowledge, applying le...