Encoding the Past, Decoding the Future

Encoding the Past, Decoding the Future

Author: Isabel Moskowich

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2011-12-08

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1443835889

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In the first decade of the twenty first century, Corpus Linguistics as a methodology had already proved to be an impeccable one, and is probably the most elaborate way to approach empirical studies on languages. At present this seems to be essential to formulate general theories about most aspects of languages in different stages of their evolution. Corpora and Corpus Linguistics have been present in research for a reasonably long time now. The evolution of the discipline has been assessed by conferences, new publications and all sorts of events related to the field. Therefore, it seems most convenient to offer an outline of the advances made in the past decade as well as to try and make a guess as for what is yet to come. The editors have used their experience to collect a volume that certainly will have something to offer to the scientific community. Their work as compilers of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing has made them familiar with corpus-compilation and the time-consuming tasks it entails. As users of this and other corpora, they can also appreciate the tools modern technology offers researchers and what the possibilities of exploitation are. In this way, the selection of papers contained in this volume address a wide range of scholars interested in the discipline, both corpus compilers and users.


Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2018

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2018

Author: Alejandro F. Frangi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-09-13

Total Pages: 785

ISBN-13: 3030009378

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The four-volume set LNCS 11070, 11071, 11072, and 11073 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018, held in Granada, Spain, in September 2018. The 373 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1068 submissions in a double-blind review process. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Image Quality and Artefacts; Image Reconstruction Methods; Machine Learning in Medical Imaging; Statistical Analysis for Medical Imaging; Image Registration Methods. Part II: Optical and Histology Applications: Optical Imaging Applications; Histology Applications; Microscopy Applications; Optical Coherence Tomography and Other Optical Imaging Applications. Cardiac, Chest and Abdominal Applications: Cardiac Imaging Applications: Colorectal, Kidney and Liver Imaging Applications; Lung Imaging Applications; Breast Imaging Applications; Other Abdominal Applications. Part III: Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Functional MRI: Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Diffusion Weighted Imaging; Functional MRI; Human Connectome. Neuroimaging and Brain Segmentation Methods: Neuroimaging; Brain Segmentation Methods. Part IV: Computer Assisted Intervention: Image Guided Interventions and Surgery; Surgical Planning, Simulation and Work Flow Analysis; Visualization and Augmented Reality. Image Segmentation Methods: General Image Segmentation Methods, Measures and Applications; Multi-Organ Segmentation; Abdominal Segmentation Methods; Cardiac Segmentation Methods; Chest, Lung and Spine Segmentation; Other Segmentation Applications.


Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages

Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages

Author: Juan Luis Navarro Mesa

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-05

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 3319136232

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IberSPEECH 2014 Conference, held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in November 19-21, 2014. The 29 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on speech production, analysis, coding and synthesis; speaker and language characterization; automatic speech recognition; speech of language technologies in different application fields.


Decoding the World

Decoding the World

Author: Po Bronson

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 153873432X

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Find out where our world is headed with this dazzling first-hand account of inventing the future from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Should I Do With My Life? and the founder of science accelerator IndieBio. Decoding the World is a buddy adventure about the quest to live meaningfully in a world with such uncertainty. It starts with Po Bronson coming to IndieBio. Arvind Gupta created IndieBio as a laboratory for early biotech startups trying to solve major world problems. Glaciers melting. Dying bees. Infertility. Cancer. Ocean plastic. Pandemics. Arvind is the fearless one, a radical experimentalist. Po is the studious detective, patiently synthesizing clues others have missed. Their styles mix and create a quadratic speedup of creativity. Yin and Yang crystallized. As they travel around the world, finding scientists to join their cause, the authors bring their firsthand experience to the great mysteries that haunt our future. Natural resource depletion. Job-taking robots. China's global influence. Arvind feels he needs to leave IndieBio to help startups do more than just get started. But as his departure draws near, he struggles to leave the sanctum he created. While Po has to prove he can keep the "indie" in IndieBio after Arvind is gone. After looking through their lens, you'll never see the world the same.


Information Theory and Language

Information Theory and Language

Author: Łukasz Dębowski

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2020-12-15

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 3039360264

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“Information Theory and Language” is a collection of 12 articles that appeared recently in Entropy as part of a Special Issue of the same title. These contributions represent state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research at the interface of information theory and language studies. They concern in particular: • Applications of information theoretic concepts such as Shannon and Rényi entropies, mutual information, and rate–distortion curves to the research of natural languages; • Mathematical work in information theory inspired by natural language phenomena, such as deriving moments of subword complexity or proving continuity of mutual information; • Empirical and theoretical investigation of quantitative laws of natural language such as Zipf’s law, Herdan’s law, and Menzerath–Altmann’s law; • Empirical and theoretical investigations of statistical language models, including recently developed neural language models, their entropies, and other parameters; • Standardizing language resources for statistical investigation of natural language; • Other topics concerning semantics, syntax, and critical phenomena. Whereas the traditional divide between probabilistic and formal approaches to human language, cultivated in the disjoint scholarships of natural sciences and humanities, has been blurred in recent years, this book can contribute to pointing out potential areas of future research cross-fertilization.


Multimedia and Communications Technology

Multimedia and Communications Technology

Author: Steve Heath

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1999-07-13

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1136025707

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Multimedia and Communications Technology is a practical explanation of the technologies that bring together existing products such as the PC, telephone and television. It is precisely this revolution that the book addresses - offering an up to date technical overview of developments in PC technology, video and audio compression, telecommunications and many other disciplines. Written as a series of tutorials, the book starts with the fundamental techniques of digital audio and video, moving on to compression techniques such as JPEG and MPEG. The delivery systems for multimedia are then covered, starting with the CD and on to telephones, local and wide area networks and ATM and ASDL. The final chapters describe how these technologies are brought together in some key applications: · video conferencing · digital video broadcasting · video on demand · interactive television Steve Heath is responsible for European Strategy and Technology Development at Motorola. He has had many years experience in computer design and has presented papers on multimedia technology at international conferences. He is a well known technical writer and has written fourteen other books for Focal Press, Newnes and Butterworth-Heinemann.


ICT Innovations 2022. Reshaping the Future Towards a New Normal

ICT Innovations 2022. Reshaping the Future Towards a New Normal

Author: Katerina Zdravkova

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-01-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 3031227921

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on ICT Innovations 2022. Reshaping the Future Towards a New Normal, ICT Innovations 2022, held in Skopje, Macedonia, during September 29–October 1, 2022. The 14 full papers and 1 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: theoretical foundations and distributed computing; artificial intelligence and deep learning; applied artificial intelligence; education; and medical informatics.


Future Network Systems and Security

Future Network Systems and Security

Author: Robin Doss

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-10-13

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 3319480219

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Future Network Systems and Security, FNSS 2016, held in Paris, France, in November 2016. The 12 full papers and one short paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers focus on the technology, communications, systems and security aspects of relevance to the network of the future.


Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2020, Volume 2

Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2020, Volume 2

Author: Kohei Arai

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-10-31

Total Pages: 1015

ISBN-13: 3030630897

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This book provides the state-of-the-art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real-world problems along with a vision of the future research. The fifth 2020 Future Technologies Conference was organized virtually and received a total of 590 submissions from academic pioneering researchers, scientists, industrial engineers, and students from all over the world. The submitted papers covered a wide range of important topics including but not limited to computing, electronics, artificial intelligence, robotics, security and communications and their applications to the real world. After a double-blind peer review process, 210 submissions (including 6 poster papers) have been selected to be included in these proceedings. One of the meaningful and valuable dimensions of this conference is the way it brings together a large group of technology geniuses in one venue to not only present breakthrough research in future technologies, but also to promote discussions and debate of relevant issues, challenges, opportunities and research findings. The authors hope that readers find the book interesting, exciting and inspiring.