We are annotating the complete 20 million Dutch PAROLE corpus with PoS and lemma. The morphosyntactic tagging of 250,000 words during the PAROLE project was the first confrontation of the fine-grained Dutch PAROLE tagset and its ’functional’ mode of application, with real corpus data. The correction of the manual tagging and the compilation of a 100,000 words training corpus for the automatic t...

With a cochlear implant, deaf people are able to understand speech under good listening conditions . Problems occur in adverse conditions, e .g . in reverberant and/or noisy environments . Experiments were carried out to improve the intelligibility of noisy speech using two different single-channel noise suppression techniques . This was realized by preprocessing, i .e . by applying the resynth...

Fabriqué à partir de perles en coquillages mer, le wampum fut un objet médiation utilisé par les Amérindiens du Nord-Est, particulièrement Iroquois et Hurons, dans leurs relations avec colons la Nouvelle-France aux xvii e xviii siècles. Lors des conférences franco-amérindiennes, Autochtones, mais aussi représentants roi France, exhibaient ainsi « colliers porcelaine » pour faciliter échanges, l...

RÉSUMÉ. Dans cet article, une nouvelle approche relative à l’indexation de la bande sonore de documents audiovisuels est proposée, son but est de détecter les composantes parole et musique. Trois nouveaux paramètres sont extraits : la modulation de l’entropie, la durée des segments (issue d’une segmentation automatique) et le nombre de ces segments par seconde. Les informations issues de ces tr...

This article describes the rationale, study design, and implementation for the Step'n Out study of the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies. Step'n Out tests the relative effectiveness of collaborative behavioral management of drug-involved parolees. Collaborative behavioral management integrates the roles of parole officers and treatment counselors to provide role induction counseling...

Linguistic field research relies on gathering data on how people express themselves. Traditionally, this is done by sending scientists to interview speakers and to report on these interviews by filling forms. This is a very slow and excessively expensive process which, furthermore, is often biased. Indeed, researchers’ questions and reports are influenced by their –conscious as well as unconsci...

English. The inclusion of semantic features in the stylometric analysis of literary texts appears to be poorly investigated. In this work, we experiment with the application of Distributional Semantics to a corpus of Italian literature to test if words distribution can convey stylistic cues. To verify our hypothesis, we have set up an Authorship Attribution experiment. Indeed, the results we ha...

Correctional and forensic mental health systems throughout the country are routinely called on to manage and provide treatment for mentally ill prison inmates. This study identifies criminal justice and mental health predictors of general re-arrest and re-arrest for violence in seriously mentally ill (SMI) persons leaving prison in New York State. Both length and diversity of criminal history p...