This paper describes recent research carried out in the context of the FP6 Integrated Project CHIL in developing a system to automatically transcribe lectures and seminars. We made use of widely available corpora to train both the acoustic and language models, since only a small amount of CHIL data were available for system development. For acoustic model training made use of the transcribed po...

Eukaryotic cells package their genomes into a nucleoprotein form called chromatin. The basic unit of chromatin is the nucleosome, formed by the wrapping of ∼147bp of DNA around an octameric complex of core histones. Advances in genomic technologies have enabled the locations of nucleosomes to be mapped across genomes. This has revealed a striking organisation with respect to transcribed genes i...

Two recent developments in the field of formal languages are Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) and packrat parsing. The PEG formalism is similar to BNF, but defines syntax in terms of recognizing strings, rather than constructing them. It is, in fact, precise specification of a backtracking recursivedescent parser. Packrat parsing is a general method to handle backtracking in recursive-descent p...

This paper deals with spontaneous speech, considering first its specificities, and then its transcription – both diachronically and synchronically. The paper continues by listing the main problems spontaneous speech causes to automatic speech recognition systems, which were identified through several experiments. It ends by suggesting some optimizations to help solve these problems. MOTS-CLÉS :...

The enzymes which transcribe DNA synthesizing RNA (DNA-dependent RNA polymerases) have structural differences in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, as indicated by the fact, among others, that there are substances which inhibit their function selectively in prokaryotic cells (streptolydigin and the ansa antibiotics, such as rifamycins and streptovaricin) and in eukaryotic cells (-amanitin). Ansa...

Transcribing interview data is a time-consuming task that most qualitative researchers dislike. Transcribing is even more difficult for people with physical limitations because traditional transcribing requires manual dexterity and the ability to sit at a computer for long stretches of time. Researchers have begun to explore using an automated transcription process using digital recordings and ...