For years speech translation has focused on the recognition and translation of discourses in limited domains, such as hotel reservations or scheduling tasks. Only recently research projects have been started to tackle the problem of open domain speech recognition and translation of complex tasks such as lectures and speeches. In this paper we present the on-going work at our laboratory in open ...

the presented study shows a simple way for optimization of extrusion process, which was used for deterioration of cyanogenic glycosides – antinutritive components of linseed, with minimum damage of essential alpha-linolenic acid (ala) at the same time. extrusion of the material was done on a laboratory single screw extruder. content of hydrogen cyanide (hcn) as a measurement of cyanogenic glyco...

The article examines the genre of a government statement in Germany terms political content and linguopragmatic specificities. It should be noted that this can described as orientational-ritual, which is characterized by informing integration strategies, well self-praise tactics promises. texts speeches follow virtually set structure. authors’ aim i s to analyze specificities statements made Ge...

The Diachronic Corpus of Political Speeches (DCPS) is a collection 1,500 full-length political speeches in English. It includes delivered countries where English an official language (the US, Britain, Canada, Ireland) by English-speaking politicians various settings from 1800 up to the present time. Enriched with semi-automatic morphosyntactic annotations and discourse-pragmatic manual annotati...

Are beautiful people better negotiators? In this article, I present evidence from a simple bargaining game in which players listened to prerecorded speeches and viewed the pictures of other players. I found that physically attractive players received a greater share of the surplus when their partners could both listen to their speeches and view their pictures.This effect was strongest when the ...