Introduction to Special Issue on ‘Group Speech Acts’

Introduction to the Special Issue on Intrinsic Speech Variations

When asked about the progress of speech recognition, experts have to confess that in spite of available useful applications being carefully designed in order to avoid major problems, a long way is still to be walked to produce a system able to compare with human recognition and also another step is needed to reach understanding. In the last years, huge efforts have been devoted to solve the pro...

Introduction to Special Issue

Although recent frameworks for test validation have emphasized utilization as a key component (e.g. Bachman & Palmer, 2010; Chapelle, 2012; Kane, 1992), what happens in the sometimes messy contexts where assessments are carried out is often not documented. This is perhaps because test developers are more focused on defining and operationalizing test constructs than on issues of implementation. ...

Language and Speech Audiovisual Prosodyy Introduction to the Special Issue

Introduction to special issue on RNA.

In this introduction to the special issue on RNA, we provide a brief overview of some of the novel and exciting biological discoveries concerning diverse roles played by RNA, and subsequently we give a rapid summary of some algorithmic aspects of RNA structure and alignment. Each of the contributions to this special issue is briefly described.

Introduction to the Special Issue on Summarization

As the amount of online information increases, systems that can automatically summarize one or more documents become increasingly desirable. Recent research has investigated types of summaries, methods to create them, and methods to evaluate them. Several evaluation competitions (in the style of NIST’s TREC1) have helped determine baseline performance levels and provide a limited set of trainin...