Recognition of foreign accented speech remains among the most difficult tasks in automatic speech recognition. It was observed that using models trained on foreign data together with native models improves the recognition for speakers with foreign accent. However such an approach degrades the recognition performances on native speakers. In order to avoid such performance degradation the degree ...

In this paper, we investigate a new style for presenting information. We introduce the notion of presentation teams which – rather than addressing the user directly – convey information in the style of performances to be observed by the user. The paper presents an approach to the automated generation of such performances which has been tested in two different application scenarios, car sales di...

This paper summarizes the design and performances of recent breeding blanket concepts and identifies the key material issues associated with them. An assessment of different classes of concepts is carried out by balancing out the potential performance of the concepts with the risk associated with the required material development. Finally, an example strategy for blanket development is discusse...

As part of a larger project to examine variables perceived to influence performance in Olympic competition, this manuscript was designed to (a) report coaches’ perceptions of variables influencing Olympic athlete performance, (b) triangulate findings from surveys and interviews with Olympic athletes, and (c) examine coaches’ perceptions of variables influencing Olympic coaching effectiveness. S...

Smart environment is widely applied and it is the most important application of wireless sensor networks. Reduction of the energy consumption problem is the key to developing WSN. In the cluster based of energy-efficient method, the fixed cluster head number, the energy of node and the transmission distance are the keys to extending the network lifetime. We propose an improved grouping protocol...

In a three-year longitudinal study 471 children were classified, based on their performances on arithmetic tests in first and second grade, as having persistent arithmetic disabilities (AD), persistent low achieving (LA), persistent typical achieving, inconsistent arithmetic disabilities (DF1) or inconsistent low achieving in arithmetic. Significant differences in the performances on the magnit...

Control charts are used to identify the presence of assignable cause of variation in the process. Non-parametric control chart is an emerging area of recent development in the theory of SPC. Its main advantage is that it does not require any knowledge about the underlying distribution of the variable. In this paper a non-parametric control chart for controlling variability has been developed. I...

An important part of dialogue management in a dialogue system is topic management: The system has to keep track of topic aspects (current topic, context, obligations, : : : ) in order to be able to resolve ambiguities and to respond in a cooperative and sensible way. In the schisma project, we are developing a system that takes part in a conversation about theater performances and is able to ma...

Global clustering has rarely been investigated in the area of spatial dambase systems although dramatic performance improvements can be achieved by using suitable techniques. In this paper, we propose a simple approach to global clustering called cluster organization. We will demonstrate that this cluster organization leads to considerable performance improvements without any algorithmic ovedxa...

In this paper, we focus on the synthetic understanding of documents, specifically reading comprehension (RC). A current problem with RC is the need for a method of analyzing the RC system performance to realize further development. We propose a methodology for examining RC systems from multiple viewpoints. Our methodology consists of three steps: define a set of basic skills used for RC, manual...