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This paper presents the CSLU Broadcast News transcription system used in the DARPA 1997 evaluation. The system was built using the softwares developed for the CSLU LVCSR project started in January 1997. This 25K-word vocabulary system used continuous HMMs for acoustic modeling and the standard backo trigram as the language model. The search used a single pass decoder with MLLR based adaptation ...

Little is known of wood properties in trees that were initially suppressed and subsequently released from suppression. The purpose of this study was to assess differences in growth ring width, specific conductivity (Ks), tracheid dimensions, moisture content, and wood density in suppressed Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.) t...