News tagged with language systems

The communicative brain

The ability to communicate using language is fundamental to the distinctive and remarkable success of the modern human. It is this capacity that separates us most decisively from our primate cousins, despite ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Apple's tongue-tied Siri faces 'Singlish' rival

Singapore's SingTel has developed an application to rival the voice-activated Siri on the iPhone 4S that is sure to go down well in the island state -- because it can understand "Singlish".

Technology / Software

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Oracle uses Sun to put heat on IBM, HP

Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison boasted that the acquisition of business computer equipment firm Sun Microsystems had helped turn up the heat on rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

Technology / Business

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Non-verbal clues guide doctor-patient relationships, clinical judgments, study finds

Subtle and unspoken clues exchanged by patients and doctors exert an influence on medical care, according to a new study by the University of Michigan Health System. Researchers analyzed video recordings of routine checkups ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The changing roles of 2 hemispheres in stroke recovery

Most people who survive a stroke recover some degree of their motor, sensory and cognitive functions over the following months and years. This recovery is commonly believed to reflect a reorganisation of the central nervous ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Our brains are wired so we can better hear ourselves speak, study shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like the mute button on the TV remote control, our brains filter out unwanted noise so we can focus on what we're listening to. But when following our own speech, a new brain study from UC ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Multicore may not be so scary: Linux will keep up with addition of more processing units

Computer chips have stopped getting faster. To keep improving chips’ performance, manufacturers have turned to adding more "cores," or processing units, to each chip. In principle, a chip with two cores can ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Computer automatically deciphers ancient language

In his 2002 book Lost Languages, Andrew Robinson, then the literary editor of the London Times' higher-education supplement, declared that "successful archaeological decipherment has turned out to require ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Entropy study suggests Pictish symbols likely were part of a written language

(PhysOrg.com) -- How can you tell the difference between random pictures and an ancient, symbol-based language? A new study has shown that concepts in entropy can be used to measure the degree of repetitiveness ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

Visual system interprets sign languages

Spanish sign language is used by over 100,000 people with hearing impairments and is made up of hundreds of signs. CVC-UAB researchers Sergio Escalera, Petia Radeva and Jordi Vitria selected over twenty of these signs to ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers produce first Iraqi-to-English speech-to-speech translation app

Researchers at Jibbigo LLC and Carnegie Mellon University's International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (interACT) have developed a new application for Apple's iPhone 3GS that performs speech-to-speech and ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

After 5 years, free systems biology markup language has proven popular

A scientific paper that describes a file format used by scientists to represent models of biological processes has exceeded 500 citations in the ISI Web of Knowledge, an online academic database that documents the impact ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Children with cochlear implants have quality of life equal to normal hearing peers

Children who have cochlear implants (CI) rank their quality of life (QOL) equal to their normally hearing (NH) peers, indicates new research in the February 2010 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

No catastrophes please, it's software modelling

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a development platform that will enable applications to tackle the enormous and increasing complexity of modern computer science. It promises better quality at a lower price.

Technology / Software

created Jan 29, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Supercomputer offers MATLAB capability

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Cornell Center for Advanced computing has deployed A 512-core parallel cluster running the scientific language MATLAB as an experimental resource on the TeraGrid.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0