This paper reports effects of increasing modalities in understanding three simultaneous speeches with two microphones. This problem is difficult because the beamforming technique adopted for a microphone array needs at least four microphones, and because independent component analysis adopted for blind source separation needs at least three microphones. We investigate four cases; monaural (one ...

Legislative speech records from the 101st to 108th Congresses of the US Senate are analysed to study political ideologies. A widely-used text classification algorithm – Support Vector Machines (SVM) – allows the extraction of terms that are most indicative of conservative and liberal positions in legislative speeches and the prediction of senators’ ideological positions, with a 92 per cent leve...

Speaker segmentation is an important task in multi-party conversations. Overlapping speech poses a serious problem in segmenting audio into speaker turns. We propose an audio-visual speech separation system consisting of an array microphone with eight sensors and an omnidirectional color camera. Multiple concurrent speeches are segmented by fusing the two heterogeneous sensors. Each segmented s...

Statistical word alignment often suffers from data sparseness. Part-of-speeches are often incorporated in NLP tasks to reduce data sparseness. In this paper, we attempt to mitigate such problem by reflecting alignment tendency between part-of-speeches to statistical word alignment. Because our approach does not rely on any language-dependent knowledge, it is very simple and purely statistic to ...

One of the precious achievements of the Islamic Revolution of Iran was the establishment of the revolutionary foundation of Jihad of Construction following which Jihadi management burgeoned. Many lectures and studies have been done in the arena of Jihadi management, each of which mentioning some factors related to the features and indexes of Jihadi management. This has caused inconsistencies an...

In post-soviet Russia, sobornost’ has been a historic ideal and cultural resource that diverse actors have used in order to construct anew the nation’s dignity status. This study analyses promotion of (imperial) culture by Patriarch Kirill Alexy based on 36 speeches they delivered from 1993 2022 at World Russian People’s Council, forum purposefully established enhance sobornost’/solidarity soci...