Many language learning materials have been published in Japan. However, they are limited in their scope and content. In addition, we doubt whether the speech sounds found there are natural in various situations. These days, some TV news programs (by NHK, CNN, ABC[1], etc.) have closed/open captions corresponding to the speech of the announcer. We have developed a system that automatically makes...

Dose-response curves for inactivation of synchronized cells from the human cell line NHK 3025 in the presence of hematoporphyrin and light are shown. Sensitivity toward photodynamic inactivation is increasing as the cells move in the cell cycle from G1 to mid-S. The increase is mostly due to a change in the extent of the shoulder of the dose-response curve at low doses. The quasithreshold dose ...

Japan’s public broadcasting corporation, NHK, launched “News Web Easy” in April 2012 1. It provides users with five simplified news scripts (easy Japanese news) on a daily basis. This web service provides users with five daily simplified news scripts of “easy” Japanese news. Since its inception, this service has been favorably received both in Japan and overseas. Users particularly appreciate i...

Laboratories participated in two tasks at TRECVID 2011: a surveillance event detection task and a semantic indexing task. Surveillance event detection is the act of detecting specific human actions from surveillance videos of crowded areas such as airports. This year, we targeted " Pointing, " " CellToEar, " " ObjectPut, " and " Embrace " actions, which our proposed system identified by using t...