In this paper we present the first results towards finding the better TC-STAR 2006 verbatim transcription system configuration by means of improving the quality of language model performance. There is a present lack of research devoted to special techniques of verbatim translation, therefore we have made an attempt to improve translation accuracy by combining the Final Text Edition (FTE) system...

A major concern regarding the study of narratives regards how they are indexed and retrieved. This is a question which touches on the structure of human memory in general. Indeed, if narratives capture the substance of human thought, then data that we have already collected regarding human memory is of central importance to the computational study of narrative. Fuzzy Trace Theory assumes that m...

This empirical study deals with language contact phenomena in Sistan. Code-copying is viewed as a strategy of linguistic behavior when a dominated language acquires new elements in lexicon, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatic organization, etc., which can be interpreted as copies of a dominating language. In this framework Persian is regarded as the model code which provides elements for b...

This document is an almost-verbatim conversion to LTEX and PDF of plain-text remarks distributed via e-mail to the ICERM report authors. However, to improve readability, I have dressed it up with color, live hyperlinks, and multiple fonts, and fixed my fumble-fingered typos. It is available at http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/icerm/ICERM-2014-NOTES.pdf. I have also given it a version number, sta...

The Problem: Copyright infringement is a serious problem which threatened authors of creative works even in the non-electronic world. In the electronic world, easy access to electronic documents and the ease of reproducing and distributing these documents have made copyright infringement an even bigger problem. In general, the ease of reproducing and distributing online documents threatens not ...

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), like many other regions in world, are areas that prone to hydrometeorological disasters, which threaten livelihoods cause economic losses. To derive LAC’s status field of flood risk-related research, we conducted a bibliometric analysis region’s publication record using Web Science journal database (WoS). After analysing total 1887 references according inc...