This paper describes Artex, another algorithm for Automatic Text Summarization. In order to rank sentences, a simple inner product is calculated between each sentence, a document vector (text topic) and a lexical vector (vocabulary used by a sentence). Summaries are then generated by assembling the highest ranked sentences. No ruled-based linguistic post-processing is necessary in order to obta...

This paper expounds a Chinese word segmentation system built for the Fourth SIGHAN Bakeoff. The system participates in six tracks, namely the CityU Closed, CKIP Closed, CTB Closed, CTB Open, SXU Closed and SXU Open tracks. The model of Conditional Random Field is used as a basic approach in the system, with attention focused on the construction of feature templates and Chinese character categor...

We investigate an automatic dialogue segmentation method using both verbal and non-verbal modalities. Dialogue contents are used for the initial segmentation of dialogue; then, gesture occurrences are used to remove the incorrect segment boundaries. A unique characteristic of our method is to use verbal and non-verbal information separately. We use a three-party dialogue that is rich in gesture...

We present a new corpus designed for noise-robust speech processing research, CHiME. Our goal was to produce material which is both natural (derived from reverberant domestic environments with many simultaneous and unpredictable sound sources) and controlled (providing an enumerated range of SNRs spanning 20 dB). The corpus includes around 40 hours of background recordings from a head and torso...

We investigate a highly effective and extremely simple noiserobust front end based on novel post-processing of standard MFCC features on the Aurora databases. It performs remarkably well on both the Aurora 2.0 and Aurora 3.0 databases without requiring any increase in model complexity. Our experiments on Aurora 2.0 have been reported in [1]. In this paper, we evaluate this technique on the Auro...

BACKGROUND Patients requiring surgery for locally advanced rectal cancer often additionally undergo neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NACRT), of which the effects on physical fitness are unknown. The aim of this feasibility and pilot study was to investigate the effects of NACRT and a 6 week structured responsive exercise training programme (SRETP) on oxygen uptake [Formula: see text] at lactate t...

Text/graphics separation aims at segmenting the document into two layers: a layer assumed to contain text and a layer containing graphical objects. In this paper, we present a consolidation of a method proposed by Fletcher and Kasturi, with a number of improvements to make it more suitable for graphics-rich documents. We discuss the right choice of thresholds for this method, and their stabilit...

This paper describes the comparison of selected distance measures in their applicability for supporting retrieval of historical spelling variants (hsv). The interdisciplinary project Rule-based search in text databases with nonstandard orthography develops a fuzzy fulltext search engine for historical text documents. This engine should provide easier text access for experts as well as intereste...