Abstract The idea of which species are native, based on their biogeographic origin, is central to many policies and programmes. Yet definitions contested the meanings ‘nativeness’ often complex confusing for people. For example, a plant that would be considered 'native' in Australia might have native bioregion thousands kilometres from given garden planting. nativeness culturally constructed co...

The INTERSPEECH 2015 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge addresses three different problems for the first time in research competition under well-defined conditions: the estimation of the degree of nativeness, the neurological state of patients with Parkinson’s condition, and the eating conditions of speakers, i. e., whether and which food type they are eating in a seven-class problem. In t...

0022-2836/$ see front matter © 2006 E Φ values are experimental measures of the effects of mutations on the folding kinetics of a protein. A central question is what structural information Φ values give about the transition-state of folding. Traditionally, a Φ value is interpreted as representing the ‘nativeness’ of a mutated residue in the transition-state. However, this interpretation is ofte...

This paper describes a corpus of conversations recorded using an extension of the DiapixUK task: the Diapix Foreign Language corpus (DIAPIX-FL) . English and Spanish native talkers were recorded speaking both English and Spanish. The bidirectionality of the corpus makes it possible to separate language (English or Spanish) from speaking in a first language (L1) or second language (L2). An acous...

Automatic speaker nativeness assessment has multiple applications, such as second language learning and IVR systems. In this paper we view this as a regression problem, since the available labels are on a continuous scale. Multiple approaches were applied, such as phonotactic models, i-vectors, and goodness of pronunciation, covering both segmental and suprasegmental features. Different phonota...

Phi values are experimental measures of the effects of mutations on the folding kinetics of a protein. A central question is what structural information Phi values give about the transition-state of folding. Traditionally, a Phi value is interpreted as representing the "nativeness" of a mutated residue in the transition-state. However, this interpretation is often problematic. We present here a...