In his first speech on February 17 to a joint session of Congress, US President Bill Clinton outlined his wision of smaller deficits through higher income taxes on the wealthy, increased energy taxes and selected spen...In his first speech on February 17 to a joint session of Congress, US President Bill Clinton outlined his wision of smaller deficits through higher income taxes on the wealthy, increased energy taxes and selected spending cuts including a one-year freeze on federal pay. US Secretary of State Warren Christopher arrived in Cairo on February 18 to start his six nation Middle East tour which will also take him to Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arahia, Kuwait, Israel and Lebanon.展开更多
China announced on April 16 its decision to send military observers and engineers to join UN transitional authorities in Cambodia. The contingent left Beijing on the same day. On April 21, Peruvian President Alberto F...China announced on April 16 its decision to send military observers and engineers to join UN transitional authorities in Cambodia. The contingent left Beijing on the same day. On April 21, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori announced a 12-month plan to return Peru to democracy. He said he never intended to create a dictatorship when he launched his militarybacked crackdown on April 5 aimed at fighting corruption,展开更多
The previously proposed syllable-synchronous network search (SSNS) algorithm plays a very important role in the word decoding of the continuous Chinese speech recognition and achieves satisfying performance. Several r...The previously proposed syllable-synchronous network search (SSNS) algorithm plays a very important role in the word decoding of the continuous Chinese speech recognition and achieves satisfying performance. Several related key factors that may affect the overall word decoding effect are carefully studied in this paper, including the perfecting of the vocabulary, the big-discount Turing re-estimating of the N-Gram probabilities, and the managing of the searching path buffers. Based on these discussions, corresponding approaches to improving the SSNS algorithm are proposed. Compared with the previous version of SSNS algorithm, the new version decreases the Chinese character error rate (CCER) in the word decoding by 42.1% across a database consisting of a large number of testing sentences (syllable strings).展开更多
A fundamental difference among modern languages in the world are made by word-syllable structures(WSS), not by distinctive phonemes. Language diversity is supposed to be an evolutionary result of the WSSs, which is de...A fundamental difference among modern languages in the world are made by word-syllable structures(WSS), not by distinctive phonemes. Language diversity is supposed to be an evolutionary result of the WSSs, which is decided by types of syllable constitution and the length of word by syllables. Here we use Swadesh lists of 179 modern languages to analyze their geographic distribution of WSS diversity index and try to discover their developing positions and depths in the evolutionary processes. We also set an ideal WSS offset model for languages, calculate the offset distance and offset direction of each language, and then divide languages into three groups according to the data result, each of which represents an evolutionary type. Our conclusion is that the WSS diversity and the WSS offset model represent the evolutionary trend of diversity and the evolutionary process of human languages in the world. In addition, every language nowadays keeps the most primary WSS features to some extent. Therefore, the WSS may be regarded as genetic factors of human languages.展开更多
文摘In his first speech on February 17 to a joint session of Congress, US President Bill Clinton outlined his wision of smaller deficits through higher income taxes on the wealthy, increased energy taxes and selected spending cuts including a one-year freeze on federal pay. US Secretary of State Warren Christopher arrived in Cairo on February 18 to start his six nation Middle East tour which will also take him to Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arahia, Kuwait, Israel and Lebanon.
文摘China announced on April 16 its decision to send military observers and engineers to join UN transitional authorities in Cambodia. The contingent left Beijing on the same day. On April 21, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori announced a 12-month plan to return Peru to democracy. He said he never intended to create a dictatorship when he launched his militarybacked crackdown on April 5 aimed at fighting corruption,
文摘The previously proposed syllable-synchronous network search (SSNS) algorithm plays a very important role in the word decoding of the continuous Chinese speech recognition and achieves satisfying performance. Several related key factors that may affect the overall word decoding effect are carefully studied in this paper, including the perfecting of the vocabulary, the big-discount Turing re-estimating of the N-Gram probabilities, and the managing of the searching path buffers. Based on these discussions, corresponding approaches to improving the SSNS algorithm are proposed. Compared with the previous version of SSNS algorithm, the new version decreases the Chinese character error rate (CCER) in the word decoding by 42.1% across a database consisting of a large number of testing sentences (syllable strings).
基金supported by the National Natural Science Fundation of China (31271337)the National Social Science Foundation of China (12&ZD174)
文摘A fundamental difference among modern languages in the world are made by word-syllable structures(WSS), not by distinctive phonemes. Language diversity is supposed to be an evolutionary result of the WSSs, which is decided by types of syllable constitution and the length of word by syllables. Here we use Swadesh lists of 179 modern languages to analyze their geographic distribution of WSS diversity index and try to discover their developing positions and depths in the evolutionary processes. We also set an ideal WSS offset model for languages, calculate the offset distance and offset direction of each language, and then divide languages into three groups according to the data result, each of which represents an evolutionary type. Our conclusion is that the WSS diversity and the WSS offset model represent the evolutionary trend of diversity and the evolutionary process of human languages in the world. In addition, every language nowadays keeps the most primary WSS features to some extent. Therefore, the WSS may be regarded as genetic factors of human languages.
