This paper examines how ordinary listeners, naïve with respect to the phonetics and phonology of prosody, perceive the location of prosodic boundaries that demarcate speech “chunks” and prominences that serve a “highlighting” function, in spontaneous speech (Buckeye corpus). Over 70 naïve listeners marked the locations of prominences and boundaries in a real-time transcription task. Fleiss’ mul...

Most of the recent developments in the field of music indexing and music information retrieval are focused on western music. In this paper, we present an automatic music transcription system dedicated to Tabla a North Indian percussion instrument. Our approach is based on three main steps: firstly, the audio signal is segmented in adjacent segments where each segment represents a single stroke....

BACKGROUND Enterocytozoon bieneusi are the most common microsporidia associated with different clinical manifestations such as diarrhoea, respiratory tract inflammation and acalculous cholecystitis, especially in immunocompromised patients. Infection usually occurs by ingestion of food and water contaminated with spores, but can also result from direct contact with spores through broken skin, e...

Collections of parasitoids attacking the soybean aphid, Aphis glycines Matsumura (Hemiptera: Aphididae), in South Korea yielded specimens that were originally identiÞed as Binodoxys communis (Gahan) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). We report here on laboratory studies indicating that this population is actually a previously unknown species of Binodoxys. Four classes of comparisons weremade between th...

This paper presents the preliminary works to put online a French oral corpus and its transcription. This corpus is the Socio-Linguistic Survey in Orleans, realized in 1968. First, we numerized the corpus, then we handwritten transcribed it with the Transcriber software adding different tags about speakers, time, noise, etc. Each document (audio file and XML file of the transcription) was descri...

The annotation of linguistic resources has long-standing traditions (see Cole et al., 2010). The other chapters of this book make clear that the production of annotated resources is a laborious, time-consuming, andexpensive task. In theory, we want to make these resources available in such a way that they can be re-used by as many scholars as possible (see Ide&Romary, 2002). However, a largevar...

This paper contributes a novel psychological dataset consisting of counselors’ behaviors during Motivational Interviewing encounters. Annotations were conducted using the Motivational Interviewing Integrity Treatment (MITI). We describe relevant aspects associated with the construction of a dataset that relies on behavioral coding such as data acquisition, transcription, expert data annotations...

This paper argues for the usefulness of multimodal spoken language corpora and specifies components of a platform for the creation, maintenance and exploitation of such corpora. Two of the components, which have already been implemented as prototypes, are described in more detail: TransTool and SyncTool. TransTool is a transcription editor meant to facilitate and partially automate the task of ...

Dinoflagellates belonging to the Perkinsus genus are OIE (World Organization for animal Health)-listed pathogens extremely virulent clams and oysters in many marine ecosystems throughout world. During monitoring activities of Mediterranean mussel ( Mytilus galloprovincialis ) Campania region (Italy), presence typical trophozoites sp. was observed mussels from farms natural banks. Simultaneously...

The maintenance of strict host specificity by parasites when several closely related host species live in sympatry is poorly understood. Species of intertidal trochid snails in the genera Diloma, Melagraphia and Austrocochlea often occur together and are parasitised by a single digenean morphotype (Platyhelminthes, Trematoda), tentatively placed in Opecoelidae. Of the 10 trochid species (6 from...