This work, divided into Part I and II, describes the development of GorUP a Semantic Speech Recognition System in the Basque
context. Part I analyses cross-lingual approaches oriented to under-resourced languages and Part II the development of the
Language Identification system. During the development, data optimization methods and Soft Computing methodologies oriented
to complex environment are used in order to overcome the lack of resources. Moreover, in this context three languages coexist:
French, Spanish and Basque. Indeed our main goal is the development of robust Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems for
Basque, but all language variability has to be analyzed. In this regard, Basque speakers mix during the speech not only sounds
but also words of the three languages which results in a strong presence of cross-lingual elements. Besides, Basque is an
agglutinative language with a special morpho-syntactic structure inside the words that may lead to intractable vocabularies.
Nowadays, our work is oriented to Information Retrieval and mainly to small internet mass-media. In these cases the available
resources for Basque in general, and for this task in particular, are very few and complex to process because of the noisy
environment. Thus, the methods employed in this development (ontology-based approach or cross-lingual methodologies oriented
to profit from more powerful languages) could suit the requirements of many under-resourced languages. 相似文献
The long term goal of our project is the development of robust ASR systems in the Basque context where coexist French, Spanish
and Basque (a minority language). The development of ASR systems involves dealing with issues such as Acoustic Phonetic Decoding
(APD), Language Modelling (LM) or the development of appropriate Language Resources (LR). Thus, these applications are generally
very language-dependent and require very large resources. This work is focused on the selection of appropriate sub-word units
with under-resourced and noisy conditions. Nowadays, in particular, the work is oriented to Basque Broadcast News (BN) due
to the interest of digital mass-media as the trilingual Infozazpi radio (situated in French Basque Country). Thus, in order to decrease the negative impact that the lack of resources has
in this issue we apply several data optimization methodologies based on Matrix Covariance Estimation and Ontology-based approaches. 相似文献
A family of iron perovskites with the general formula AFeO3−δ (A = Ln1−xMx; Ln = La, Nd and/or Pr; M = Sr or/and Ca) has been prepared keeping fixed the A cation radius 〈rA〉 and cation size mismatch to isolate the effect of divalent dopant concentration from the A-cation steric effects. The electrochemical behaviour of these compounds for their application as SOFC cathodes was evaluated by using I-V curve measurements and ac impedance spectroscopy over three electrodes electrolyte supported cells processed under identical conditions. In contrast with the bulk behaviour, trends are more difficult to observe due to microstructural effects, but results seem to indicate that the doping level, x, does not influence in a significant way the electrochemical performance of iron perovskites with identical 〈rA〉 and σ2(rA). 相似文献
This paper describes the development of a Language Identification (LID) system oriented to robust Multilingual Speech Recognition
in the Basque context where coexist three languages: Basque, Spanish and French. The LID system is integrated in GorUP, a
Semantic Speech Recognition system for industrial complex environments described in Part I. The work presents hybrid strategies
for LID, based on the selection of system elements by several classifiers (Support Vector Machines and Multilayer Perceptron)
and Discriminant Analysis improved with robust regularized covariance matrix estimation methods oriented to under-resourced
languages and stochastic methods for speech recognition tasks (Hidden Markov Models and n-grams). The LID tool manages the
main elements of the Automatic Speech Recognition system (Acoustic Phonetic Decoder, Language Model and Lexicons). 相似文献
The aim of this research is to quantify the influence of a louvered blind in a double-glazed unit during night-time conditions. First, an analytical study of free convection was conducted to obtain a set of correlations for the Nusselt numbers of the cavity. Second, a parametric study was performed to calculate the total heat transfer (convective and long-wave radiative) during night-time conditions. The analysis accounted for aspect ratio, blind thermal conductivity, surface emissivity and slat angle. Using these data, a biquadratic equation was developed to calculate the U-factor of a double-glazed unit with an internal louvered blind in terms of the U-factor of the unit without the blind, slat surface emissivity and slat angle. 相似文献
This paper proposes a multilingual audio information management system based on semantic knowledge in complex environments. The complex environment is defined by the limited resources (financial, material, human, and audio resources); the poor quality of the audio signal taken from an internet radio channel; the multilingual context (Spanish, French, and Basque that is in under-resourced situation in some areas); and the regular appearance of cross-lingual elements between the three languages. In addition to this, the system is also constrained by the requirements of the local multilingual industrial sector. We present the first evolutionary system based on a scalable architecture that is able to fulfill these specifications with automatic adaptation based on automatic semantic speech recognition, folksonomies, automatic configuration selection, machine learning, neural computing methodologies, and collaborative networks. As a result, it can be said that the initial goals have been accomplished and the usability of the final application has been tested successfully, even with non-experienced users.
A family of cuspidine-type rare-earth (RE) aluminates with the general formula Ln4Al2O9 (Ln= Y, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb) was prepared for potential use as thermal-barrier coating (TBC) materials with appropriate properties. Various trivalent lanthanides were applied to tailor the properties of the oxides for use as ceramic top coat (TC) materials intended for high-temperature applications. Following various heat treatments, the X-ray diffraction (XRD) results obtained demonstrated that Eu4Al2O9 (EuAM) possessed the greatest structural stability of all the samples at 1200 and 1300?°C. Moreover, Y4Al2O9 (YAM) had a long lifetime at 1000?°C, and was stable at 1100?°C. At 1200?°C, Sm4Al2O9 (SmAM) and Gd4Al2O9 (GdAM) were more stable than Tb4Al2O9 (TbAM). However, at 300–1000?°C, the TbAM exhibited the highest thermal expansion coefficient (TEC) of all the samples. At 600?°C, the thermal diffusivity values of the five compositions were favourable, and were lower than that of yttria-stabilised zirconia (YSZ) oxides. 相似文献