This study investigates the association between regulatory reporting change and Chief Information Officer (CIO) pay. Mandatory reporting standards change such as International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) calls for the increased information systems demand in order to provide satisfactory reporting quality. Anecdote evidence suggests that CIOs, who are responsible for managing informatio...

This work investigates into recently proposed Bottle-Neck features for ASR. The bottle-neck ANN structure is imported into Split Context architecture gaining significant WER reduction. Further, Universal Context architecture was developed which simplifies the system by using only one universal ANN for all temporal splits. Significant WER reduction can be obtained by applying fMPE on top of our ...

In this work, we present and evaluate the usage of an interactive web interface for browsing and correcting lecture transcripts. An experiment performed with potential users without transcription experience provides us with a set of example corrections. On German lecture data, user corrections greatly improve the comprehensibility of the transcripts, yet only reduce the WER to 22%. The precisio...

Gender-dependent (male/female) acoustic models are more acoustically homogeneous and therefore give better recognition performance than single gender-independent model. This paper deals with a problem how to use these gender-based acoustic models in a real-time LVCSR (Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition) system that is for more than one year used by the Czech TV for automatic subtitl...

Not all the questions related to the semi-supervised training of hybrid ASR system with DNN acoustic model were already deeply investigated. In this paper, we focus on the question of the granularity of confidences (per-sentence, per-word, perframe), the question of how the data should be used (dataselection by masks, or in mini-batch SGD with confidences as weights). Then, we propose to re-tun...

In this paper we propose a method to improve SMT based patent translatioin. This method first employs International Patent Classification to build class based models. Then, multiple models are interpolated by weighting method employing source side language models. We carried out experiments using data from the patent translation task of NTCIR-7 workshop. According to the experimental results, t...

In order to better model pronunciation variations, we present in this paper a method to build a lexicon whose content changes dynamically with the input speech. To achieve this goal, we proceeded in two steps. In the first step, a static augmented lexicon is created by adding new phone transcriptions to a basic lexicon. These new variants are derived from phonetic features that are automaticall...

space subcode of a Reed-Solomon (SSRS) code Over GF(2"') is the set of RS codewords, whose components all lie in a particular GF(2)subspace of GF(2"). SSRS codes include both generalized B C H codes and "trace-shortened" Rs codes [2][3] as special casea. In this paper we present an explicit formula for t h e dimension of an arbitrary RS subspace subcode. Using this formula, we And that in many ...

BACKGROUND In the past 10 years, medication errors have come to be recognised as an important cause of iatrogenic disease in hospital patients. AIMS To determine the incidence and type of medication errors in a large UK paediatric hospital over a five year period, and to ascertain whether any error prevention programmes had influenced error occurrence. METHODS Retrospective review of medica...

medical ethics is a realm where four important subjects of philosophy, medicine, theology and law are covered. physicians and philosophers cooperation in this area will have great efficiency in the respective ethical rules formation. in addition to respect the autonomy of the patient, physician's obligation is to ensure that the medical intervention has benefit for the patient and the harm is m...