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Polish and Italian get advanced language recognition system

Jan 23, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed the most advanced spontaneous language understanding (SLU) system for both Polish and Italian. In fact, it is the first one.

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It's like software understands, um, language

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jan 21, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- EU researchers have taken speech recognition to a whole new level by creating software that can understand spontaneous language. It will, like, make human-machine interaction, um, work a lot ...

New model for autism suggests women carry the disorder and explains age as a risk factor

Medicine & Health / Diseases

Jul 24, 2007 | 4.5 / 5 (13) | 0

A new model for understanding how autism is acquired has been developed by a team of researchers led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Autism is a developmental disorder, characterized ...

Use it or lose it? Study suggests the brain can remember a 'forgotten' language

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Sep 24, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (9) | 1

Many of us learn a foreign language when we are young, but in some cases, exposure to that language is brief and we never get to hear or practice it subsequently. Our subjective impression is often that the neglected language ...

Scans show learning 'sculpts' the brain's connections

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Oct 09, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 1

Spontaneous brain activity formerly thought to be "white noise" measurably changes after a person learns a new task, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Chieti, Italy, ...

Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service

Google adds translation to main search engine

Technology / Internet

Dec 04, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 0

Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service.

Babble Of Baby Reveals Language Skills

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 03, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (7) | 1

Children have a remarkable ability to learn new languages. As little as five hours of exposure to a second language is enough to help infants incorporate characteristics of that language into their babbling ...

What is unique in the brain of an Arabic speaker?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Nov 04, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (11) | 1

Literary Arabic is expressed in the brain of an Arabic speaker as a second language and not as a native language. This has been shown in a new study by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim of the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the ...

Forgetting facts

Medicine & Health / Research

Sep 24, 2008 | 3.4 / 5 (10) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at two British Universities have been investigating the way in which we forget information.

Spontaneous and medically induced preterm births contribute equally to the rising rate of preterm births

Medicine & Health / Other

Sep 22, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Research published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine shows that the rising rate of preterm birth in Scotland is as much a result of an increase in spontaneous preterm birth as it is of preterm birth that i ...