The endeavor of this work is to support the special education community in their quest to be with the mainstream. The initial segment of the paper gives an exhaustive study of the different mechanisms of diagnosing learning disability. After diagnosis of learning disability the further classification of learning disability that is dyslexia, dysgraphia or dyscalculia are fuzzy. Hence the paper p...

In this paper are presented two distinct Bayesian networks to analyse human beings’ facial expressions. Both classifiers are completely defined: structure of the networks, belief variables and respective events, likelihoods, initial priors and procedure to change dynamically priors. The performance (relatively to the convergence) of the two approaches is compared. For both networks, the classif...

An artificial neural network was trained to classify musical chords into four categories—major, dominant seventh, minor, or diminished seventh—independent of musical key. After training, the internal structure of the network was analyzed in order to determine the representations that the network was using to classify chords. It was found that the first layer of connection weights in the network...

Bourdieu’s Distinction, which was first published in 1979, is one of the most cited and read works of sociology written in French—which does not, however, mean that it is always read correctly. Since its appearance, the book, which was as original in its substance as in its methodology, has met with a mixed reception, eliciting dithyrambic praise as well as acerbic attacks from scholars and jou...

Current document retrieval tools succeed in locating large numbers of documents relevant to a given query. While search results may be relevant according to the topic of the documents, it is more difficult to identify which of the relevant documents are most suitable for a particular user. Automatic genre analysis that is, the ability to distinguish documents according to style would be a usefu...

Developmental dyslexia is normally characterised by unexpected problems in learning to read for children of average or above average intelligence. Interestingly, however, slower speed of information processing appears to be a recurring symptom of dyslexia. There is a substantial literature on deficits in speed of access to the spoken word, initially discovered using the 'rapid automatised namin...

This work aims to explore the correlation between the discourse structure of a spoken monologue and its prosody by predicting discourse relations from different prosodic attributes. For this purpose, a corpus of semi-spontaneous monologues in English has been automatically annotated according to the Rhetorical Structure Theory, which models coherence in text via rhetorical relations. From corre...

Two methods for learning text classifiers are compared on classification problems that might arise in filtering and filing personM e-mail messages: a "traxiitionM IR" method based on TF-IDF weighting, and a new method for learning sets of "keyword-spotting rules" based on the RIPPER rule learning algorithm. It is demonstrated that both methods obtain significant generalizations from a small num...

1 School of Physics & Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel (dovip, avishay, dani)@wise.tau.ac.il 2 Department of Astronomy, 601 Campbell Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3411 [email protected] 3 Five College Astronomy Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9305 [email protected] 4 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophy...