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Single-fraction radiosurgery outcomes for large vestibular schwannomas in the upfront or post-surgical setting: a systematic review and International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society (ISRS) Practice Guidelines

PurposeTo perform a systematic review of literature specific to single-fraction stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for large vestibular schwannomas (VS), maximum diameter >= 2.5 cm and/or classified as Koos Grade IV, and to present consensus recommendations o ...

New York2023

Stop Pre-Training: Adapt Visual-Language Models to Unseen Languages

Karl Aberer, Rémi Philippe Lebret, Negar Foroutan Eghlidi

Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) has advanced the performance of many visionlanguage tasks, such as image-text retrieval, visual entailment, and visual reasoning. The pre-training mostly utilizes lexical databases and image queries in English. Previous w ...

Assoc Computational Linguistics-Acl2023

Conveying the Perception of Humor Arising from Ambiguous Grammatical Constructs in Human-Chatbot Interaction

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Vandit Sharma

Chatbots have long been advocated for computer-assisted language learning systems to support learners with conversational practice. A particular challenge in such systems is explaining mistakes stemming from ambiguous grammatical constructs. Misplaced modi ...

2021

Developing teacher agency through dialogue

Roland John Tormey

Based on the experiences of a group of mainstream primary teachers of English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) learners in Ireland, a dialogic inquiry has the potential to influence perceptions regarding teacher agency. The participants examined their pract ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Stereotactic radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia: a systematic review

Constantin Tuleasca

OBJECTIVES The aims of this systematic review are to provide an objective summary of the published literature specific to the treatment of classical trigeminal neuralgia with stereotactic radiosurgery (RS) and to develop consensus guideline recommendations ...

AMER ASSOC NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS2019

Cross-lingual Adaptation of a CTC-based multilingual Acoustic Model

Hervé Bourlard, Philip Neil Garner, Sibo Tong

Multilingual models for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) are attractive as they have been shown to benefit from more training data, and better lend themselves to adaptation to under-resourced languages. However, initialisation from monolingual context-de ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

On the Generalization of Fused Systems in Voice Presentation Attack Detection

Sébastien Marcel

This paper describes presentation attack detection systems developed for the Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures Challenge (ASVspoof 2017). The submitted systems, using calibration and score fusion techniques, combine different sub- ...

2017

Web page language identification based on URLs

Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber, Eda Baykan

Given only the URL of a web page, can we identify its language? This is the question that we examine in this paper. Such a language classifier is, for example, useful for crawlers of web search engines, which frequently try to satisfy certain language quot ...

2008

Perception Studies on the Attributes of Synthetic Clear Speech for the Hard of Hearing

Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

We make a case for ‘synthetic clear speech’ in the context of the persons with hearing impairment. We study the acoustic attributes of ‘clear speech’ that enable us to understand their importance in speech perception. Our perception experiments are motivat ...

IEEE2007

Joint Decoding for Phoneme-Grapheme Continuous Speech Recognition

Hervé Bourlard, Samy Bengio

Standard ASR systems typically use phoneme as the subword units. Preliminary studies have shown that the performance of the ASR system could be improved by using grapheme as additional subword units. In this paper, we investigate such a system where the wo ...

2004

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