English. What is the role of consciousness in language processing? Unconscious priming experiments show that words can prime other words with related meanings (cat – dog), and these priming effects are assumed to reflect the activation of conceptual knowledge in semantic memory. Alternatively, however, unconscious priming effects could reflect predictive relationships between the words’ forms, ...

Behavioral forecasts have informed parole decisions in the United States since the 1920’s (Borden, 1928; Burgess, 1928). Over the decades, these forecasts have increasingly relied on quantitative methods that some would call actuarial (Messinger and Berk, 1987; Feely and Simon, 1994). Despite jurisprudential concerns and forecasting accuracy that has been di cult to evaluate (Farrington, 2003; ...

41 This paper describes the properties of speech and a system which recognizes speech by means of a microcomputer system. It is implemented on an 8-bit microcomputer which uses a 280 central processing unit and an analog to digital interface for the acquisition and preprocessing of the speech signal obtained from a microphone. The system is designed to adapt itself to recognize words from diffe...

Many approaches to sentiment analysis rely on lexica where words are tagged with their prior polarity i.e. if a word out of context evokes something positive or something negative. In particular, broad-coverage resources like SentiWordNet provide polarities for (almost) every word. Since words can have multiple senses, we address the problem of how to compute the prior polarity of a word starti...

Parole officers are central actors in the penal system as their decisions can affect timing of a person’s release from prison and also restrict or enable freedoms community upon release. Existing research on parole examines how think about govern ex-prisoners via techniques surveillance, regulation, support. Few studies, however, provide qualitative insight into experience occupational authorit...

Résumé Dans cet article nous décrivons une approche pour la reconnaissance automatique de la parole (RAP) non native. Nous proposons deux méthodes pour l’adaptation d’un système de reconnaissance automatique de la parole (SRAP) existant. La première se base sur la modification des modèles acoustiques par l’intègration des modèles de la langue maternelle (LM). Les phonèmes de la langue parlée (L...

Faculté de génie Génie électrique et informatique Extension spectrale d'un signal de parole de la bande téléphonique à la bande AM Mémoire de maîtrise Specialité : génie électrique Table des matières

Stochastic modeling is a exible method for handling the large variability in speech for recognition applications. In contrast to dynamic time warping where heuris-tic training methods for estimating word templates are used, stochastic modeling allows a probabilistic and automatic training for estimating models. This paper deals with the improvement of stochastic techniques, especially for a bet...