Letter-to-phoneme conversion plays an important role in several applications. It can be a difficult task because the mapping from letters to phonemes can be many-to-many. We present a language independent letter-to-phoneme conversion approach which is based on the popular phrase based Statistical Machine Translation techniques. The results of our experiments clearly demonstrate that such techni...

This paper generalizes a speciication technique based on input/output relations on streams to describe mobile systems. We consider networks of components communicating asynchronously via unbounded directed channels. Mobility is achieved by allowing the components to communicate channel ports. We distinguish between many-to-many and two v ariants of point-to-point communication. The communicatio...

My impression is that successful projects belong to the same people, the kind of people who recognize problems and deploy countermeasures more effectively than others. In order to be successful at what they develop, these people apply far more than a single model not only to detect problems and identify countermeasures, but to plan. One of these models—a model that we all employ, consciously or...

This paper discusses the problem of how to implement many-to-many, or multi-associative, mappings within connectionist models. Traditional symbolic approaches wield explicit representation of all alternatives via stored links, or implicitly through enumerative algorithms. Classical pattern association models ignore the issue of generating multiple outputs for a single input pattern, and while r...

a subgroup $x$ of a group $g$ is almost normal if the index $|g:n_g(x)|$ is finite, while $x$ is nearly normal if it has finite index in the normal closure $x^g$. this paper investigates the structure of groups in which every (infinite) subgroup is either almost normal or nearly normal.

In this paper, we propose many-to-many voice conversion (VC) techniques to convert an arbitrary source speaker’s voice into an arbitrary target speaker’s voice. We have proposed one-tomany eigenvoice conversion (EVC) and many-to-one EVC. In the EVC, an eigenvoice Gaussian mixture model (EV-GMM) is trained in advance using multiple parallel data sets of a reference speaker and many pre-stored sp...

In two-sided matching markets, the concept of stability proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) is one of the most important solution concepts. In this paper, we consider a problem related to the stability of a matching in a two-sided matching market with indifferences (i.e., ties). The introduction of ties into preference lists dramatically changes the properties of stable matchings. For example, ...

We develop a model of many-to-many matching with contracts which subsumes as special cases many-to-many matching markets and buyer-seller markets with heterogeneous and indivisible goods. In our setting, in contrast to results for the setting of many-to-one matching with contracts, preference substitutability is sufficient and necessary to guarantee the existence of a nonempty lattice of stable...

Wedevelop a theory of stability inmany-to-manymatchingmarkets. We give conditions under which the setwise-stable set, a core-like concept, is nonempty and can be approached through an algorithm. The usual core may be empty. The setwise-stable set coincides with the pairwise-stable set and with the predictions of a non-cooperative bargainingmodel. The setwise-stable set possesses the conflict/co...

Although researchers have devoted considerable attention to helping database users formulate queries, many users still find it challenging to specify queries that involve joining tables. To help users construct join queries for exploring relational databases, we propose ETable, a novel presentation data model that provides users with a presentation-level interactive view. This view compactly pr...