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A Tutorial Introduction to STAPLE

Introduction STAPLE is an expectation-maximization algorithm for Simultaneous Truth And Performance Level Estimation. The algorithm considers a collection of segmentations and computes a probabilistic estimate of the hidden, implicit, true segmentation and a measure of the performance level achieved by each segmentation. The source of each segmentation in the collection may be an appropriately ...

non-corrective approach to pronunciation

the aim of this study has been to find answers for the following questions: 1. what is the effect of immediate correction on students pronunciation errors? 2. what would be the effect of teaching the more rgular patterns of english pronunciation? 3. is there any significant difference between the two methods of dealing with pronuciation errore, i. e., correction and the teaching of the regular ...

Folic Acid Supplementation: to Advise or not to Advise?

Education Vouchers: The Right to Choose or to Own?

Education Vouchers: The Right to Choose or to Own? M. H. Hassani Shalmaani, Ph.D. Using education vouchers is one way of increasing parental access to schools and hence, creating rightful choices for them in regard to schools. Since such rights require governmental cooperation, it is necessary to delineate the boundaries of parental rights in order to clarify if the parents have s...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...