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2017-01-01

Matthew C. Kelley

The overlap of vowel categories is a fairly common linguistic phenomenon. But, it can be difficult to judge whether two supposedly distinct vowel categories have merged or not. One tool that a researcher may use is a quantification of the overlap based on acoustic properties of recorded vowel...

2017-01-01

Shengjun Huang, Venkata Dinavahi

2018-01-01

Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker

The present paper investigates the effect of different inputs on the accuracy of a forced alignment tool built using deep neural networks. Both raw audio samples and Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients were compared as network inputs. A set of experiments were performed using the TIMIT speech...

2013

Alipour, A., Hindle, Abram, Stroulia, E

Bug-tracking and issue-tracking systems tend to be populated with bugs, issues, or tickets written by a wide variety of bug reporters, with different levels of training and knowledge about the system being discussed. Many bug reporters lack the skills, vocabulary, knowledge, or time to...

2016-01-01

Vahidoddin Fattahpour, Mahdi Mahmoudi, Alireza Nouri, Saman Azadbakht, Michael Leitch, Brent Fermaniuk, Colby Sutton

Several sand control techniques have been used in SAGD wells in Western Canada. For most projects, slotted liners have been the sand control of choice for its economics, ease of use, and acceptable performance. Careful design of the slot geometry is crucial to maintaining...

2004

Redford, J., McNaughton, M., Cutumisu, M., Schaeffer, J., Szafron, D., Parker, D.

The state-of-the-art in game scripting is to manually script individual game objects that interact in the game. Thousands of non-player characters (NPCs) and props need to be scripted before they play a part in a game adventure. This situation introduces serious concerns about programming effort...

2019-11-20

Fu, Q., Kim, A.

Airport leakage is a phenomenon that occurs when air passengers choose to travel longer surface distances to take advantage of better air services at an out-of-region airport (which we term the “substitute” airport), instead of using their local airport as would be expected (Suzuki & Audino,...

2018-01-01

Tiruneh, Getaneh Gezahegne, Fayek, Aminah Robinson

The variables that characterize construction organizational competencies are both quantitative and qualitative in nature, and thus require measurement methods and modeling techniques that can handle both variable types. Models that are capable of relating organizational competencies to...

2014-01-01

Chenlei, Z., Hindle, Abram

With the advent of mobile computing, the responsibility of software developers to update and ship energy efficient applications has never been more pronounced. Green mining attempts to address this responsibility by examining the impact of software change on energy consumption. One problem with...

2003

Ballantyne, David, Wiersma, Jonathan, Kouritzin, Michael, Hailes, Jarett, Long, Hongwei

A hybrid weighted interacting particle filter, the selectively resampling particle filter (SERP), is used to detect and track multiple ships maneuvering in a region of water. The ship trajectories exhibit nonlinear dynamics and interact in a nonlinear manner such that the ships do not collide....