This study profiled 2,913 adults aged 50 and older sentenced to a statewide correctional system and their parole eligibility status with implications for community reintegration, resettlement, and recovery needs. The research team developed the Correctional Tracking Data Extraction Tool to gather official data and personal and legal characteristics from a state department of corrections website...

New and emerging collaborative responses to sex offender management are challenging traditional notions about how treatment providers and probation and parole officers (POs) deliver services to this difficult population. Typically, sex offender treatment professionals provide community-based services to offenders who are supervised by POs. Yet, no comprehensive survey has investigated how treat...

En cet article, nous donnons une vue d’ensemble du système du Texte-à-Parole Arabe que nous avons développé au laboratoire de technologies de langue humaine d’IBM Egypte. Ce système est basé sur le dernier cri d’IBM synthétiseur de parole trainable. Un bref revue des composants principaux du système est présenté avec une certaine emphase sur les dispositifs qui sont appropriés à la langue arabe...

The PAROLE project (Contract LE2-4017) was launched in May 1996 by the Commission of the European Communities, at the initiative of the DG XIII (Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research). PAROLE is not just a project for gathering and creating a corpus. We are creating a true architectural model whose riches and quality will constitute strategic assets for European li...

Algorithms for predicting recidivism are commonly used to assess a criminal defendant's likelihood of committing a crime. These predictions are used in pretrial, parole, and sentencing decisions. Proponents of these systems argue that big data and advanced machine learning make these analyses more accurate and less biased than humans. We show, however, that the widely used commercial risk asses...

A lot has been written about what works in interventions with offenders (eg Andrews & Bonta 2008; McIvor & Raynor 2008; McNeill et al. 2005). In recent years, there have also been a small number of studies focusing on what works in the routine supervision of offenders on probation, parole or other community-based orders. These studies have found that certain supervision skills offered by superv...

One of the central tenets of structuralism is that the sign relation, i.e. the connection between words (linguistic form) and concepts is arbitrary. Firstly, the way that linguistic material is divided into words is arbitrary, Secondly, the way that the world is divided into concepts is arbitrary. Saussure focused on the study of language as a structure (langue), as he considered the concrete u...

RÉSUMÉ — SUR LES NOTIONS DE SEGMENT ET DE SYLLABE DANS LA FORME SONORE DU LANGAGE : LES COURBES EN PHONOLOGIE ET LA REPRÉSENTATION AUDITIVE DE LA PAROLE. Les approches récentes de la syllabe réintroduisent une description continue et descriptible mathématiquement des objets sonores : les « courbes ». Les recherches psycholinguistiques sur la perception du langage parlé ont plutôt recours à des ...