Abstract--We adapt methods originally developed in information and coding theory to solve some testing problems. The efficiency of two-stage pool testing of items is characterized ...
Originally, the hierarchical coding structure was proposed to achieve temporal scalability. Soon after, it was realized that with a proper quantization parameter cascading (QPC) s...
The Sensor Web as an open complex adaptive system exhibits many characteristic that are common to selforganising systems. One of the characteristics of the Sensor Web is that of s...
In speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis, there are a few speakers whose synthetic speech sounds worse than that of other speakers, despite having the same amount of adaptat...
Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Bela ...
We describe a discourse annotation scheme for Chinese and report on the preliminary results. Our scheme, inspired by the Penn Discourse TreeBank (PDTB), adopts the lexically groun...