This paper describes the system submitted by Politecnico di Torino for the 2007 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation. The system, which was among the best participants in this evaluation, is a combination of classifiers based on three acoustic models and on two sets of Parallel Phone tokenizers. It exploits several state-of-the-art techniques that have been successfully applied in recent years ...

this study was an attempt to investigate the effect of vowel-recognition training on beginner and advanced iranian esl learners. a total of 36 adult iranian esl learners (18 advanced and 18 beginners) who were students of various majors at memorial university (mun) were recruited for the study. advanced participants had the experience of living in canada for at least three years while beginners...

abstract background: the disk diffusion method for identification of yeasts species was performed based on different but distinct susceptibilities of yeasts spp. to chemicals: janus green, ethidium bromide, 2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride, brilliant green, cycloheximide and rhodamine 6g. methods: atotal of 568 iranian soldiers went under study for isolation and identification of yeast speci...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated the utility of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test Alcohol Consumption Questions (AUDIT-C) in screening at-risk drinking and alcohol use disorders among Korean college students. METHODS For the 387 students who visited Chungnam National University student health center, drinking state and alcohol use disorders were assessed through diagnostic intervie...

In the use of peer group data to assess individual, typical or best practice performance, the effective detection of outliers is critical for achieving useful results. In these ‘‘deterministic’’ frontier models, statistical theory is now mostly available. This paper deals with the statistical pared sample method and its capability of detecting outliers in data envelopment analysis. In the prese...

This paper describes the main features of KALAKA-3, a speech database specifically designed for the development and evaluation of language recognition systems. The database provides TV broadcast speech for training, and audio data extracted from YouTube videos for tuning and testing. The database was created to support the Albayzin 2012 Language Recognition Evaluation, which featured two langua...

This study compared the reading subtests of the Wechsler Individual Achievement TestThird Edition and the Peabody Individual Achievement Test-Revised/Normative Update. Scores were compared on these two tests in a group of 28 students ages 7 through 12 who were referred or reevaluated for suspected learning problems. The data were collected through a deidentified data set provided by a school bu...

This paper presents an integrated framework for system identification. This framework provides a useful tool for obtaining and validating system models. Once the model is synthesized, a validation process is applied to a real-time implementation within the Real-Time Virtual Test Bed (RTVTB). As a demonstration, a 3 rd -order filter is taken as the system under test (SUT). The system identificat...

In 2015, NIST conducted the most recent in an ongoing series of Language Recognition Evaluations (LRE) meant to foster research in language recognition. The 2015 Language Recognition Evaluation featured 20 target languages grouped into 6 language clusters. The evaluation was focused on distinguishing languages within each cluster, without disclosing which cluster a test language belongs to. The...