AIMC Topic: Phonetics

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Combining string and phonetic similarity matching to identify misspelt names of drugs in medical records written in Portuguese.

Journal of biomedical semantics
BACKGROUND: There is an increasing amount of unstructured medical data that can be analysed for different purposes. However, information extraction from free text data may be particularly inefficient in the presence of spelling errors. Existing appro...

Cimind: A phonetic-based tool for multilingual named entity recognition in biomedical texts.

Journal of biomedical informatics
BACKGROUND: Extracting concepts from biomedical texts is a key to support many advanced applications such as biomedical information retrieval. However, in clinical notes Named Entity Recognition (NER) has to deal with various types of errors such as ...

Learning mechanisms in cue reweighting.

Cognition
Feedback has been shown to be effective in shifting attention across perceptual cues to a phonological contrast in speech perception (Francis, Baldwin & Nusbaum, 2000). However, the learning mechanisms behind this process remain obscure. We compare t...

Encoding of Articulatory Kinematic Trajectories in Human Speech Sensorimotor Cortex.

Neuron
When speaking, we dynamically coordinate movements of our jaw, tongue, lips, and larynx. To investigate the neural mechanisms underlying articulation, we used direct cortical recordings from human sensorimotor cortex while participants spoke natural ...

An analysis of the influence of deep neural network (DNN) topology in bottleneck feature based language recognition.

PloS one
Language recognition systems based on bottleneck features have recently become the state-of-the-art in this research field, showing its success in the last Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE 2015) organized by NIST (U.S. National Institute of Stand...

Perspectives on Speech Timing: Coupled Oscillator Modeling of Polish and Finnish.

Phonetica
This stud y was ai med at analyzing empirical duration data for Polish spoken at different tempos using an updated version of the Coupled Oscillator Model of speech timing and rhythm variability (O'Dell and Nieminen, 1999, 2009). We use Bayesian infe...

Real-Time Control of an Articulatory-Based Speech Synthesizer for Brain Computer Interfaces.

PLoS computational biology
Restoring natural speech in paralyzed and aphasic people could be achieved using a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) controlling a speech synthesizer in real-time. To reach this goal, a prerequisite is to develop a speech synthesizer producing intelligi...

What can Neighbourhood Density effects tell us about word learning? Insights from a connectionist model of vocabulary development.

Journal of child language
In this paper, we investigate the effect of neighbourhood density (ND) on vocabulary size in a computational model of vocabulary development. A word has a high ND if there are many words phonologically similar to it. High ND words are more easily lea...

Learning to Produce Syllabic Speech Sounds via Reward-Modulated Neural Plasticity.

PloS one
At around 7 months of age, human infants begin to reliably produce well-formed syllables containing both consonants and vowels, a behavior called canonical babbling. Over subsequent months, the frequency of canonical babbling continues to increase. H...

Using articulatory feature detectors in progressive networks for multilingual low-resource phone recognitiona).

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Systems inspired by progressive neural networks, transferring information from end-to-end articulatory feature detectors to similarly structured phone recognizers, are described. These networks, connecting the corresponding recurrent layers of pre-tr...