... factors that in uence pitch
accent placement in natural, conversational speech
in a sequence labeling setting. We introduce Con-
ditional Random Fields (CRFs) to pitch accent pre-
diction task in ... Using Conditional Random Fields to Predict Pitch Accents in
Conversational Speech
Michelle L. Gregory
Linguistics Department
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY...
... Dialogs to Learn User Models in a Spoken
Dialog System
Umar Syed
Department of Computer Science
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
usyed@cs.princeton.edu
Jason D. Williams
Shannon Laboratory
AT&T ... A
t
and
˜
A
t
are all assumed to belong
to finite sets, and so all the conditional distributions
in our model are multinomials. Hence θ is a vec-
tor that parameterizes...
... extraction (including training and testing processes)
In the training process, for every entity type in
the ACE training corpus, a clustering technique
(CLUTO toolkit)
3
is used to divide it into ...
well using cross-entity inference. In contrast to
previous inference methods, we regard entity-
type consistency as key feature to predict event
mentions. We adopt this infere...
... Chinese in-
put system is phonetic and pinyin based ap-
proach, because Chinese people are taught to
write phonetic and pinyin syllables of each Chi-
nese character in primary school.
In Chinese, ... corresponding pinyin sylla-
ble-words. The pinyin syllable-words were
translated by phoneme -to- pinyin mappings, such
as “ㄩˊ” -to- “
ju2.”
2.1 Auto-Generation of WP Database
Follow...
... reticulum into mito-
chondria [13]. In fact, HXA
3
has been shown to inhibit
subsequent Ca
2+
signaling events in cells where Ca
2+
signaling is normally induced by fMet-Leu-Phe, plate-
let-activating ... during this
recruitment process. In a scenario similar to the intes-
tine, during bacterial infection of the lung, such as
P. aeruginosa infection, IL-8 probably plays a major
role...
... aA-
crystallin requires this domain [66]. Attachment of
R116C aA-crystallin to Hsp27 and aB-crystallin
increases in comparison to wild type, while binding to
cC-crystallin and bB2-crystallin decreases. ... formation of huntingtin-containing inclusion
bodies in Huntington’s disease encourages cell survival,
whereas monomers and small inclusion bodies of hunt-
ingtin, a protein posses...
... glycoprotein in serum was esti-
mated by IGOT using Ricinus communis agglutinin 120
(RCA120), which binds to a ubiquitous N-glycan epi-
tope. Each candidate was immunoprecipitated from
serum using ... applied to a lectin microarray to select
lectin(s) that showed differential binding to glycopro-
teins secreted from each cancer cell line (stage II).
After selection of a specific lect...
... chain
corresponding to the catalytic domain (C domain);
and the B chain corresponding to the translocation
domain (T domain) and the receptor-binding domain.
The C and T domains remain covalently linked ... Following binding to its cell-surface
receptor, diphtheria toxin is internalized through the
clathrin-coated pathway. The acidic pH in the endo-
some triggers a conformational chan...
... hydrophobins providing this single match.
A rapid means of identifying peaks corresponding to
hydrophobins in MALDI-TOF mass spectra was elab-
orated, making use of the fact that hydrophobins con-
tain ... FEBS
in the knockout mutant hfbI
–
, only the respective mass
peak was missing (Fig. 3B).
Deviating post-translational processing
of hydrophobins in H. jecorina strains
To investi...