the current study is an attempt to investigate the particular role learners' vocabulary knowledge plays in their reading comprehension performance. it intends to determine whether breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge are related to efl learners' reading comprehension, and to investigate which one of these variables, that is, depth or breadth of vocabulary knowledge, makes a more important ...

We present a multi-pass approach to real-time, largevocabulary speech recognition in which we dynamically manipulate the vocabulary between passes. For recognition tasks where subsets of the vocabulary can be triggered by the occurences of other words or phrases, a combination of unknown word modelling and vocabulary refinement can be utilized to attack large-vocabulary tasks with relatively sm...

Online health communities provide popular platforms for individuals to exchange psychosocial support and form ties. Although regular active participation (i.e., posting to interact with other members) in online health communities can provide important benefits, sustained active participation remains challenging for these communities. Leveraging previous literature on homophily (i.e., "love of t...

of Patent 4783803) A system is disclosed for recognizing a pattern in a collection of data given a context of one or more other patterns previously identified. Preferably the system is a speech recognition system, the patterns are words and the collection of data is a sequence of acoustic frames. During the processing of each of a plurality of frames, for each word in an active vocabulary, the ...

A systematic control structure design method is applied on the concentric heatintegrated distillation column (HIDiC) separating benzene and toluene. A degrees of freedom analysis is provided for identifying potential manipulated and controlled variables. Optimal operation is mapped and active constraints are identified for constructing the supervisory control layer. The fundamental problem of o...