This paper describes the most relevant features of a collaborative multi-site submission to the NIST 2011 Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE), consisting of one primary and three contrastive systems, each fusing different combinations of 13 state-of-the-art (acoustic and phonotactic) language recognition subsystems. The collaboration focused on collecting and sharing training data for those t...

The Dutch Folktale Database contains fairy tales, traditional legends, urban legends, and jokes written in a large variety and combination of languages including (Middle and 17th century) Dutch, Frisian and a number of Dutch dialects. In this work we compare a number of approaches to automatic language identification for this collection. We show that in comparison to typical language identifica...

AIMS To examine the link between hazardous drinking and level of sport participation in New Zealand. METHODS Sports science and general university students (n = 427) completed a sporting profile questionnaire that included the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). RESULTS Elite sportspeople (both provincial and international/country level) reported higher rates of hazardous dri...

This Paper presents an analysis of test data recorded during flight trials of a gyroplane. This class of rotarywing aircraft has found limited application in areas other than sport or recreational flying. However, the accident rate is such that a study of the configuration's stability and control characteristics is timely, and in addition substantive data is required for a new airworthiness and...

One of the major challenges of the language identification (LID) system comes from the sparse training data. Manually collecting the linguistic data through the controlled studio is usually expensive and impractical. But multilingual broadcast programs (Voice of America, for instance) can be collected as a reasonable alternative to the linguistic data acquisition issue. However, unlike studio c...

objective(s) rapidly growing mycobacteria (rgm) are capable of producing diseases in humans. since mycobacteria vary in their susceptibility, precise identification is critical for adoption of correct drug therapy. the main aim of this study was molecular identification and evaluation of antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of iranian clinically isolated myocbacterium fortuitum. materials and m...