Recent work has begun exploring neural acoustic word embeddings—fixeddimensional vector representations of arbitrary-length speech segments corresponding to words. Such embeddings are applicable to speech retrieval and recognition tasks, where reasoning about whole words may make it possible to avoid ambiguous sub-word representations. The main idea is to map acoustic sequences to fixed-dimensi...

Three experiments were conducted to assess the effects of certain stimulus variables on children's discrimination learning. In general, it was found that word frequency was negatively related to discrimination learning as long as the words were meaningful to Ss. Moreover, the relationship between word frequency and performance reversed in free-recall learning, as was expected. Equivalent relati...

INTRODUCTION Recently, the Sepsis Severity Score (SSS) was constructed to predict mortality in sepsis patients. The aim of this study was to compare performance of the SSS with the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II-IV, Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II, and SAPS 3 scores in predicting hospital outcome in sepsis patients. METHODS A retroprospective analysis w...

Results: 15 subjects improved their Jebsen-Taylor test score while 3 reduced their score and 2 were unchanged. The 16 subjects who were unable to complete the full test at the start of the trial, were able to complete an average of an additional 3.4 tasks, an increase of 24.7% (p<0.001) There was a significant increase in key grip of 38 % (p < 0.01). The mean two point discrimination score incr...

PURPOSE Severity scores including the Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II and the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score are used in intensive care units (ICUs) to assess disease severity, predict mortality and in research. We aimed to assess the predictive performance of SAPS II and the initial SOFA score for in-hospital and 90-day mortality in a contemporary international co...

Abstract Objective: Many individual embedded performance validity tests (PVTs) have been independently cross-validated as indices among various clinical populations; however, research examining the additional predictive value from combining multiple PVTs is more limited. The study's purpose was to examine accuracy of eight for predicting pass/failure on a well-validated freestanding PVT, Advanc...

Word sense disambiguation is a basic problem in natural language processing. This paper proposed an unsupervised word sense disambiguation method based PageRank and HowNet. In the method, a free text is firstly represented as a sememe graph with sememes as vertices and relatedness of sememes as weighted edges based on HowNet. Then UW-PageRank is applied on the sememe graph to score the importan...

OBJECTIVE Compare if localization of sounds and words discrimination in reverberant environment is different between children with dyslexia and controls. METHOD We studied 30 children with dyslexia and 30 controls. Sound and word localization and discrimination was studied in five angles from left to right auditory fields (-90o, -45o, 0o, +45o, +90o), under reverberant and no-reverberant cond...

Word sense ambiguity has been identified as a cause of poor precision in information retrieval (IR) systems. Word sense disambiguation and discrimination methods have been defined to help systems choose which documents should be retrieved in relation to an ambiguous query. However, the only approaches that show a genuine benefit for word sense discrimination or disambiguation in IR are generall...