The speckle noise is one severe obstacle for automatic mapping from radar images. For geological mapping, the connectivity of structures has to be restored. New filters for speckle reduction are presented here and compared to already known ones according to an index of connectivity.

We list the major properties of some important classes of subrational relations, mostly to make them easily accessible to computational linguists. We then argue that there are good linguistic reasons for using no class smaller than the class of synchronous regular relations for morphological analysis, and good mathematical reasons for using no class which is larger. 1 Below the Rational Relatio...

Since written Chinese does not use blank spaces to indicate word boundaries, segmenting Chinese texts becomes an essential task for Chinese language processing. Besides word segmentation, we also need to identify the part-of-speech (POS) tags of the words. The segmentation and POS tagging process are denoted as morphological analysis. During the process of word segmentation, two main problems o...

General Morphological Analysis (GMA), pioneered by Fritz Zwicky at the California Institute of Technology in the 1930s and 40s, was developed as a method for structuring and investigating the total set of relationships contained in multi-dimensional, non-quantifiable, problem complexes. During the past 15 years, GMA has been extended, computerized and applied in developing futures scenarios, st...

Research in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has seen a tremendous growth of candidate biomarkers in the last decade. The role of such established or putative biomarkers is to allow an accurate diagnosis of AD, to infer about its prognosis, to monitor disease progression and evaluate changes induced by disease-modifying drugs. An ideal biomarker should detect a specific pathophysiological feature of AD...

Combilex is a high quality lexicon that has been developed specifically for speech technology purposes and recently released by CSTR. Combilex benefits from many advanced features. This paper explores one of these: the ability to generate fully-specified transcriptions for morphologically derived words automatically. This functionality was originally implemented to encode the pronunciations of ...

The paper describes problems in disambiguating the morphological analysis of Bantu languages by using Swahili as a test language. The main factors of ambiguity in this language group can be traced to the noun class structure on one hand and to the bi-directional word-formation on the other. In analyzing word-forms, the system applied utilizes SWATWOL, a morphological parsing program based on tw...

In this paper, we propose a corpus-based method for the annotation of Arabic texts with morphological information. The proposed method proceeds in two stages: the segmentation stage and the morphological analysis stage. The morphological analysis stage is based on a statistical method using an annotated corpus. In order to evaluate our method, we conducted a comparative analysis between the res...

ABSTRACT- Bromus danthoniae Trin. is an annual grass species which grows mainly on dry grassy rocky mountain slopes and grassy steppe, and is grazed by many herbivores and recognized as a useful pasture plant. The chromosome number, morphological and anatomical traits of 82 genotypes of B. danthoniae belonging to three sub-taxa were investigated. Twenty-seven quantitative and 20 qualitative mor...