Two aspects of visual speech processing in speechreading (word decoding and word discrimination) were tested in a group of 24 normal hearing and a group of 20 hearing-impaired subjects. Word decoding and word discrimination performance were independent of factors related to the impairment, both in a quantitative and a qualitative sense. Decoding skill, but not discrimination skill, was associat...

In this paper we are reporting the results obtained participating in the “Evaluating Word Sense Induction and Discrimination Systems” task of Semeval 2007. Our totally unsupervised system performed an automatic self-term expansion process by mean of co-ocurrence terms and, thereafter, it executed the unsupervised KStar clustering method. Two ranking tables with different evaluation measures wer...

Data routinely collected in audiological evaluations were used to predict speech discrimination scores in patients with varying degrees of sensorineural hearing loss. Puretone threshold at 2000 Hz and age squared (age') gave the best prediction in the stepwise multiple regression analysis. Slope of the hearing loss did not aid in the prediction. Expected speech discrimination scores for patient...

In line with previous work by Treisman, many studies have demonstrated effects of perceptual discrimination between visual targets and distractors. Few studies however have investigated semantic discrimination effects. We report the findings of two experiments that were carried out in order to demonstrate the influence of semantic relatedness between a target word and distractor words in intera...

fourteen patients with bilateral low frequency sensorineural hearing loss were found with disproportionate speech discrimination scores. these patients were submmitted to a comprehensive audiological, electrophysiological, neurological, and radiological battery of investigation. the results pointed to a lesion probably in the central auditory pathway.

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Determining cochlear implant candidacy requires a specific sentence-level testing paradigm in best-aided conditions. Our objective was to determine if findings on routine audiometry could predict the results of a formal cochlear implant candidacy evaluation. We hypothesize that findings on routine audiometry will accurately predict cochlear implant evaluation results in th...

The aims of this study were to investigate experienced stigma and discrimination and their associated factors in people with schizophrenia who live in the community in Guangzhou, China. A total of 384 people with schizophrenia were randomly recruited from four districts of Guangzhou and completed the scales and questionnaires: Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness scale (ISMI), Self-Esteem Scal...

Research on binocular rivalry and motion direction discrimination suggests that stochastic activity early in visual processing influences the perception of ambiguous stimuli. Here, we extend this to higher level tasks of word and face processing. In Experiment 1, we used blocked gender and word discrimination tasks, and in Experiment 2, we used a face versus word discrimination task. Stimuli we...

We propose a novel word embedding pretraining approach that exploits writing errors in learners’ scripts. We compare our method to previous models that tune the embeddings based on script scores and the discrimination between correct and corrupt word contexts in addition to the generic commonly-used embeddings pre-trained on large corpora. The comparison is achieved by using the aforementioned ...