Mobile devices present the opportunity to enhance our fast-growing and globally connected society, improving user-experience through novel approaches for information dissemination through mobile communication. The research community is developing new technologies, services, and applications to enable ubiquitous environments based on mobile technology. This paper tackles several important challe...

This paper presents a method for improving acoustic model precision by incorporating wide phonetic context units in speech recognition. The wide phonetic context model is constructed from several narrower context-dependent models based on the Bayesian framework. Such a composition is performed in order to avoid the crucial problem of a limited availability of training data and to reduce the mod...

A scattered context grammar, G, erases nonterminals in a k-limited way, where k≥ 1, if in every sentential form of any derivation, between every two symbols from which G derives non-empty strings, there occur no more than k nonterminals from which G derives empty words. This paper demonstrates that any scattered context grammar that erases nonterminals in this way can be converted to an equival...

This article is part of a series on Article II, questioning the unitary theory’s three pillars: Executive Vesting Clause, Take Care Clause (or “Faithful Execution” clauses), and Decision 1789 more accurately, Indecisions 1789). “Removal Context” focuses “executive power” Clause: Did imply supervision removal in eighteenth century? What do theorists cite to support their claim that includes remo...

A Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) system can provide greater benefit to language learners if it provides not only scoring but also corrective feedback. However, the process of deriving pronunciation error patterns usually requires linguistic knowledge, or large quantities of expensive, annotated, corpora from nonnative speakers. In this paper we explore the possibility of derivi...