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Intelligent personal assistants (IPA) enable voice applications that facilitate people's daily tasks. However, due to the complexity and ambiguity of voice requests, some requests may not be handled properly by the standard natural language understanding
Wei Xiao +6 more
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Lexical knowledge boosts statistically-driven speech segmentation.
© 2018 The Author(s). The hypothesis that known words can serve as anchors for discovering new words in connected speech has computational and empirical support. However, evidence for how the bootstrapping effect of known words interacts with other mechanisms of lexical acquisition, such as statistical learning, is incomplete.
Palmer, Shekeila Daisy +3 more
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Input is considered one of the most important factors in the acquisition of lexical and grammatical skills. Input has been found to interact with other factors, such as learner cognitive skills and the circumstances where language is heard.
Kristin Kersten +3 more
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Informed decision making in translating assessment scales in Physical Therapy
This article focuses on medical translation as a timely and accurate transfer of scientific knowledge and practical information alike and as a way of transforming knowledge into action. More specifically, it delves into the mechanisms underlying informed
Rusu Mihai Robert
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Evidence Against Combined Effects of Stress and Brain Stimulation on Working Memory
The effect of stress on working memory has been traced back to a modulation of the prefrontal cortex (PFC). We investigated the effects of neuromodulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (lDLPFC) after exposure to psychosocial stress through ...
Friehs Maximilian A., Frings Christian
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The use of linguistic devices in advertisement slogans on social media
With the rise of modern technologies and the implementation of new businesses and brands, the urge for publicity has generated a demand for advertisements.
Gabija Konopacka, Dinalda Simuntienė
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Syntactic priming in American Sign Language. [PDF]
Psycholinguistic studies of sign language processing provide valuable opportunities to assess whether language phenomena, which are primarily studied in spoken language, are fundamentally shaped by peripheral biology. For example, we know that when given
Matthew L Hall +2 more
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Linguistic Features of Persuasive Communication: The Case of DRTV Short Form Spots
Direct response television commercials (DRTV) exhibit a very specific style of speech and delivery whose main function is to boost the product’s value and sales.
Smiljana Komar
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Aging and syntactic representations: Evidence of preserved syntactic priming and lexical boost. [PDF]
Young adults can be primed to reuse a syntactic structure across otherwise unrelated utterances but it is not known whether this phenomenon exists in older adults. In a dialogue task, young and older adults described transitive verb target pictures after hearing active or passive sentences.
Sophie M. Hardy +2 more
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Linguistic feature analysis for protein interaction extraction
Background The rapid growth of the amount of publicly available reports on biomedical experimental results has recently caused a boost of text mining approaches for protein interaction extraction.
Cornelis Chris +3 more
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