This document presents a streamlined approach to modeling filled pause distribution in spontaneous speech and populating a large clean corpus, making use of only the SRILM toolkit and a small training set. Although used for filled pause modeling, it can be fairly general and may be used to model other types of disfluencies, punctuation or sentence boundaries, with a minimal set of changes.

Omnidirectional pause neurons (OPNs) pause for the duration of a saccade in all directions because they are part of the neural mechanism that controls saccade duration. In the natural situation, however, large saccades are accompanied by head movements to produce rapid gaze shifts. To determine whether OPNs are part of the mechanism that controls the whole gaze shift rather than the eye saccade...

Most eukaryotic protein-coding transcripts contain introns, which vary in number and position along the transcript body. Intron removal through pre-mRNA splicing is tightly linked to transcription by RNA polymerase II as it translocates along each gene. Here, we review recent evidence that transcription and splicing are functionally coupled. We focus on how RNA polymerase II elongation rates im...

BACKGROUND: Minimizing the chest compression pause associated with application of a mechanical CPR device is a key component of optimal integration into the overall resuscitation process. As part of a multi-agency implementation project, Anchorage Fire Department deployed LUCAS CPR devices on BLS and ALS fire apparatus for initiation early in resuscitation efforts. A 2012 report identified the ...

In the current study, intra-turn pause variation has been investigated within and between speakers in dialogues. Results show that there is a tendency for different speakers to prefer different pause locations within turns. There was further a significant correlation in the majority of the dialogues between how the median lengths of pauses varied for the speakers over the course of the dialogue...

This study focused on durational cues (i.e., syllable duration, pause duration, and syllable onset intervals (SOIs)) at discourse boundaries in two dialects of Mandarin,Taiwan and Mainland varieties. Speech was elicited by having 18 participants describe events in The Pear Story film. Recorded data were transcribed, labeled, and segmented into clauses. Discourse boundary indices were used to la...