Voice input is often required in many new application environments such as telephone-based information retrieval, car navigation systems, and user-friendly interfaces, but the low success rate of speech recognition makes it difficult to extend its application to new fields. Popular approaches to increase the accuracy of the recognition rate have been researched by post-processing of the recogni...

The present study was conducted to examine hemispheric division of labor in the initial processing and error monitoring in tasks for which hemispheric specialization exists. We used lexical decision as a left hemisphere task and bargraph judgment as a right hemisphere task, and manipulated cognitive load. Participants had to respond to one of two stimuli presented to both visual fields and were...

We describe a theory of decision system adaptation in which yoked criteria shifts serve as a simple but powerful mechanism for rapidly minimizing errors without sacrificing speed. To support our theory, we implemented a connectionist model of lexical decision, wherein the state of a word perception network was “read” by a pair of decision units. The response criteria for these decision units we...

The article concerns the dilemmas of an editor publishing, after almost 100 years, Stanisław Przybyszewski’s novel Homo sapiens, which was originally published in German. subject analysis are peculiar translations distorting sense message and grammatical, lexical syntactical errors. Examples literal idioms from German encourage reader to suggest new editorial solutions.

Mental preparation for production is supposed to be more automatic for phrasal lexical items (PLIs) than for novel phrases (NPs). Automatic processes are thought to be less error prone and less closely monitored than novel processes. From this it is predicted that speech errors are less often detected and repaired by speakers when made in PLIs than when made in NPs. This prediction has been tes...

An interactive 2-step theory of lexical retrieval was applied to the picture-naming error patterns of aphasic and nonaphasic speakers. The theory uses spreading activation in a lexical network to accomplish the mapping between the conceptual representation of an object and the phonological form of the word naming the object. A model developed from the theory was parameterized to fit normal erro...

This study is conducted under the domain of Vygotskian Socio-cultural Theory (SCT) of mind and the notion of dynamic assessment to elevate the linguistic accuracy of EFL learners’ writing skill. 40 homogenous intermediate EFL learners from four intact classes were divided into two dynamic assessment (DA) and non-dynamic assessment (NDA) groups. As a pre-test, the participants were given writing...

Purpose: To assess the impact of glaucoma-related vision loss on measures of out-loud reading, including time to say individual words, interval time between consecutive words, lexical errors, skipped words, and repetitions. Methods: Glaucoma subjects (n=63) with bilateral visual field loss and glaucoma suspect controls (n=57) were recorded while reading a standardized passage out loud. A masked...

This paper focuses on selection techniques for best correction of misspelt words at the lexical level. Spelling errors are introduced by either cognitive or typographical mistakes. A robust spelling correction algorithm is needed to cover both cognitive and typographical errors. For the most effective spelling correction system, various strategies are considered in this paper: ranking heuristic...