Pediatric traumatic brain injury often results in significant long-term deficits in mastery of reading ability. This study aimed to identify white matter pathways that, when damaged, predicted reading deficits in children. Based on the dual-route model of word reading, we predicted that integrity of the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus would be related to performance in sight word identific...

In this paper we address the issue of recognizing Farsi handwritten words. Two types of gradient features are extracted from a sliding vertical stripe which sweeps across a word image. These are directional and intensity gradient features. The feature vector extracted from each stripe is then coded using the Self Organizing Map (SOM). In this method each word is modeled using the discrete Hidde...

Accordingly he appeared October 12th and, with two exceptions, every Wednesday evening thereafter until May 16, 1917. He was given two hours of instruction and practice in reading each Wednesday evening, amounting in all to sixty hours. It is not to be understood that he read for two hours in any one evening. The work was varied in character, consisting of word-study, drill on sight and phoneti...

So far, named entity recognition (NER) has been involved with three major types, including flat, overlapped (aka. nested), and discontinuous NER, which have mostly studied individually. Recently, a growing interest built for unified tackling the above jobs concurrently one single model. Current best-performing methods mainly include span-based sequence-to-sequence models, where unfortunately fo...

background and aim: speech understanding almost never occurs in silence. verbal communication often occurs in environments where multiple speakers are talking. in such environments, babbling noise masks speech comprehension. consonants, in comparison to vowels, are more sensitive to noise masking. consonants provide most acoustic information needed for comprehending the meaning of the word. sin...