Intraand inter-speaker information, which include acoustical, speaker style, speech rate and temporal variation, despite their critical importance for the verification of claims, still have not been captured effectively. As a result of such modeling deficiency, existing speaker verification systems generally test claimed utterances with interfacing procedures that are common to all speakers. In...

Functional neuroimaging research has identified multiple brain regions supporting reading-related activity in typical and atypical readers across different alphabetic languages. Previous meta-analyses performed on these functional magnetic resonance imaging findings typically report significant between-group contrasts comparing typical readers and readers with reading difficulty or a clinical d...

We consider the efficient simplification of regular expressions and suggest a quantitative comparison of heuristics for simplifying regular expressions. To this end, we propose a new normal form for regular expressions, which outperforms previous heuristics while still being computable in linear time. This allows us to determine an exact bound for the relation between the two prevalent measures...

The research consists of one chapter, represented in several topics and axes, taking from distractions such as "voice, voice character" Kurdish language writing a material for this study. After the introduction we talked about existence more than alphabet writing, historical indications that indicate presence BC.
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This paper proposes a method of automatic back transliteration of proper nouns, in which a Japanese transliterated-word is restored to the original English word. The English words are created from a sequence of letters; thus our method can create new English words that are not registered in dictionaries or English word lists. When a katakana character is converted into English letters, there ar...

Abstract Extensive research has shown that phonological awareness including phoneme skills are vital when children acquire literacy in alphabetic languages especially English. Furthermore, on developmental dyslexia (DD) English been conducted with research-informed/well-established definitions of DD. This is because compared to other languages, the prevalence DD high, and thus form a large mino...

In this paper we explore the Vs-optimality criterion that was proposed in Ginsburg and Ben-Gal (IIE Trans. 2006; 38:445– 461) as a new design-of-experiment (DOE) alphabetic optimality criterion. The Vs-optimality criterion seeks to minimize the variance of the optimal solution of an empirically fitted model. We show that the Vs-optimality citerion is well related to known alphabetic DOE criteri...

Faces and written words are two of the most familiar types of visual patterns with the brain's selective response of N170 component in early perception. Using ERP adaptation paradigms, studies have found the N170 response is reduced when there is repeated presentation of upright faces relative to a control condition. In contrast to these well-established features of the face-related N170 adapta...