Redescribing Final Vocabularies

Redescribing intonational categories with functional data analysis

Intonational research is often dependent upon hand-labeling by trained listeners, which can be prone to bias or error. We apply tools from Functional Data Analysis (FDA) to a set of fundamental frequency (F0) data to demonstrate how these tools can provide a less theory-dependent way of investigating F0 contours by allowing statistical analyses of whole contours rather than depending on theoret...

Name dialing using final user defined vocabularies in mobile (GSM and TACS) and fixed telephone networks

This paper presents the results obtained on the evaluation of a new approach for generation of phonetic transcriptions for name dialing applications in different telephone networks and with temporal variations. In this kind of applications on-line construction of user vocabularies is mandatory. The proposed method allows adaptive selection of new transcriptions requiring much less speech uttera...

Descriptions of Scientific Revolutions: Rorty’s Failure at Redescribing Scientific Progress

The twentieth century saw extended development in the philosophy of science to incorporate contemporary expansions of scientific theory and investigation. Richard Rorty was a prominent and rather controversial thinker who maintained that all progress, from social change to scientific inquiry, was achieved through the redescription of existing vocabularies. However, this theory fails to describe...

Changing Controlled Vocabularies

For the foreseeable future, controlled medical vocabularies will be in a constant state of development, expansion and refinement. Changes in controlled vocabularies must be reconciled with historical patient information which is coded using those vocabularies and stored in clinical databases. This paper explores the kinds of changes that can occur in controlled vocabularies, including adding te...

Self-organising Vocabularies