The prosthetic episodes, i.e. actual processes of provision, identifying number of prostheses, their maintenance, repairs and replacements were analysed for 104 trans-tibial amputees aged 16 and over, over a 10 year period. The purpose of this investigation was to identify how frequently a new prosthesis is actually required for this group of amputees and what are their maintenance requirements...

Interactive spoken dialog provides many new challenges for spoken language systems. One of the most critical is the prevalence of speech repairs. This paper presents an algorithm that detects and corrects speech repairs based on finding the repair pattern. The repair pattern is built by finding word matches and word replacements, and identifying fragments and editing terms. Rather than using a ...

Interactive spoken dialog provides many new challenges for spoken language systems. One of the most critical is the prevalence of speech repairs. This paper presents an algorithm that detects and corrects speech repairs based on finding the repair pattern. The repair pattern is built by finding word matches and word replacements, and identifying fragments and editing terms. Rather than using a ...

Research on inconsistency-tolerant query answering usually assumes that the terminological knowledge is correct, and only the facts (ABox) need to be repaired. In this paper we study the problem of answering instance queries over inconsistent ontologies, by repairing the whole knowledge base (KB). Contrary to ABox repairs, when KB repairs are considered, instance checking in DL-LiteHorn w.r.t. ...

We report on a phonetic analysis of instances of spontaneous phonological error repair sampled from Dutch spontaneous speech. We investigate whether phonological error repairs can be ‘prosodically marked’ and what factors constrain repair prosody. Previous studies of ‘prosodic marking’ in self-repair have suggested that while lexical error repairs are regularly realized with marked prosody, pho...