Verb suffixes and verb complexes of morphologically rich languages carry a lot of information. We show that this information if harnessed for the task of shallow parsing can lead to dramatic improvements in accuracy for a morphologically rich languageMarathi1. The crux of the approach is to use a powerful morphological analyzer backed by a high coverage lexicon to generate rich features for a C...

In this work we present the first results of statistical approach to the machine translation of Serbian language into English and vice versa. The experiments are performed on the Assimil language course, bilingual parallel corpus which consists of about 3k sentences and 20k running words from unrestricted domain. The error rates for the translation of Serbian into English are about 35-45% and f...

This paper is concerned with language modeling (LM) for large vocabulary speech recognition in Mandarin Chinese. As the language characteristics of Chinese are quite unique, we investigate some novel techniques in language modeling. We also borrow some of techniques that have been applied to other languages. Experiments have been conducted on the Call Home Mandarin, HUB4, and HUB5 corpora obtai...

Intrinsic c-axis tunnelling in the superconducting state has been measured in zero and finite fields in small mesa structures fabricated on the surface of 2212-BSCCO single crystals. The temperature dependence of the zero-field critical current and quasi-particle conductance is related to microscopic d-wave models in the presence of impurity scattering. The strong field dependence of the c-axis...

Transformation based speaker adaptation techniques, such as Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression (MLLR) require a large amount of adaptation data to robustly estimate the transform matrices. In this paper, we present a new adaptation scheme to make use of adaptation data more effectively, which adjusts the adaptation data according to the decoding results on the same adaptation set. The adjustm...

Drug delivery to ischemic myocardium is an enormous challenge. This work aimed to characterize cardiac delivery behaviors of mono-polyethylene glycosylated (PEGylated) conjugates and long-circulating liposomes (L-Lps) with Radix Ophiopogonis polysaccharide (ROP) as drug. The results showed that compared to native ROP, 32-, 52-, and 45-fold increases in blood half-life were achieved by 20-kDa PE...

To quantify the solute permeability of rat cerebral microvessels, we measured the apparent permeability (P) of pial microvessels to various sized solutes. The pial microcirculation was observed by a high numerical aperture objective lens through a section of the frontoparietal bone thinned with a micro-grinder (a revised method from Easton and Fraser, 1994, J Physiol. 475:147-157, 1994). Sodium...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study is to evaluate the correlations between clinical and biochemical parameters with radiological severity of CT diagnosed acute pyelonephritis (APN) and renal abscesses, thereafter defining clinical predictors to identify patients with severe APN or renal abscesses. MATERIALS AND METHODS The inpatient medical records of all patients diagnosed with APN or renal ...