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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Broadcast News"”.
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Speech metadata in broadcast news
Thesis (M.Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.
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Broadcast news and abortion : the effects of conservative narratives on the reproductive health debate
… and popular opinion? Using analysis of broadcast transcripts from CNN and FOX News, I examine the arguments articulated by politicians, activists, and members of the media on issues concerning reproductive health. I argue that, beginning in 1996, conservatives used the venue provided by …
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Assessing the Disruptive Vulnerability of Broadcast News: An Ex-Post Analysis Generating Ex-Ante Prescriptions
… to assess the disruptive vulnerabilities of the broadcast news (BN) industry via a retrospective *ex-post* analysis with the objective of developing forward-looking *ex-ante* prescriptive and performative remedies for BN and the broader journalism industry. Through the lens of Clay Christensen’s …
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Media Framing of the Movement for Black Lives
… By employing a content analysis of three broadcast news networks with differing political ideologies and the New York Times, the present study examined news stories to determine how the Movement for Black Lives was framed during its initial four years. The study measured for …
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Win the lead! Television news philosophy and the life cycle of a social movement
… of a social movement has on the depth of broadcast news coverage. By focusing on the American Indian take-over of Alcatraz Island 1969-71, this study examines whether a television news story has a life cycle of its own which contributes and/or detracts from the life cycle of a social …
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Local Television News, Political Participation and Political Knowledge
… research is limited by its focus on national broadcast news programs and national newspapers in the United States with comparatively less attention directed toward local television news. This drawback becomes more significant given that national surveys routinely find larger audiences for …
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Making Local News: An organisational ethnography investigating news values within Local Digital Television Programme Services (L-DTPS)
This study of the production of British broadcast journalism, rather than its finished products, reveals the ways in which the organising and financing of journalism have traceable consequences on the ways in which news is selected and constructed, supporting the critical political economy …
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Word posterior probabilities for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
… probabilities are used to train an American Broadcast News recogniser with automatically generated, i.e., recognised transcriptions. Only those parts of the acoustic training corpus are used where the confidence of the transcription is sufficiently high. In order to bootstrap an initial …
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Diskriminative Modellkombination in Spracherkennungssystemen mit großem Wortschatz
… on the Wallstreet-Journal Task and on the Broadcast-News Task. It is shown experimentally, that the log-linear functional form of the model combination outperforms a linear form and a simple voting scheme. In addition, the smoothed empirical word error rate criterion is reformulated in a …
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The Perfect Typhoon: Viewing Taiwan's Typhoon Morakot Through Journalistic Lenses
… covered Typhoon Morakot and textual analysis of broadcast, newspaper, and online news coverage of Typhoon Morakot, this project investigates the process of disaster news-making, the visual construction of public emotions in broadcast news, the narrative attribution of political responsibility in …
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Grassy Knoll-Edges: Conspiracy Theories and Political Rationality in the 1990s
… and institutions. Mainstream journalism (major newspapers, weekly magazines, and television broadcast news programs), alternative press organs (especially Left and liberal news magazines), and popular cultural media (television dramas and talk shows, Hollywood films, and best-selling books) are …
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Lexical and Language Modeling of Diacritics and Morphemes in Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition
… On a Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) corpus of broadcast news, this provides a 1.9% absolute improvement in Word Error Rate (WER) (p < 0.001). We also extend this graphemic lexicon with pronunciation rules, yielding a significant improvement over a lexicon that does not explicitly nodel …
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Trust, Credibility And Authenticity: Race And Its Effect On Audience Perceptions Of News Information From Traditional And Alternative Sources
… of trust, credibility and authenticity in news information coming from traditional and social media sources, especially focused on how securitization amplifies the effects of news frames regarding race and culture. Research in race and media suggests that citizens of nations who look like …
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Broken News: Market Segmentation and Selective Exposure in Online News
… the World Wide Web as their primary source for news and information instead of legacy media outlets such as printed newspapers and magazines and broadcast news. As more and more people rely on the Internet as a primary source for news, it is important to analyze the characteristics and content …
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A Trojan dragon? CCTV news in English and the battle for global influence: 2014-16
… to challenge the dominance of Anglo-American news organisations and their framing of world events. This research tackles the questions of whether Chinese media abroad deserve to be dismissed as channels for Communist Party propaganda, whether their output has journalistic merit, and whether …
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Modeling audio and visual cues for real-world event detection
… task on ten LSCOM-defined events in the Trecvid broadcast news data, such as exiting car, running and people marching. Following an efficient branch-and-bound search scheme, we further propose an object localization approach for the Gaussianized vector representation. We jointly model audio and …
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An investigation into the use of digital media to promote indigeneous African Languages: the case of digital terrestrial television on SABC
… marginalised languages, particularly in the broadcasting sector, where they play second fiddle to English language. The unequal status in South Africa has resulted in increased social isolation and discrimination of indigenous African languages, the erosion of heritage and local cultural …
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Discriminative training and acoustic modeling for automatic speech recognition
… (Wall Street Journal and North American Business news texts) up to broadcast news transcription tasks (Hub-4). Questions pursued in this context address the effect that different variance tying schemes have on the recognition performance and to what extent increasing the model complexity affects …
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Phrase based statistical machine translation : models, search, training
… in 2005, 2006 and 2007 for the Chinese-English broadcast news speech translation task.
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A conversation analytic study of practices of affiliation and disaffiliation in Arabic in Aljazeera’s “The Opposite Direction”
… and stance in “The Opposite Direction,” a weekly news interview program that broadcasts live in Arabic on Aljazeera. The show has been on the air since Aljazeera’s inception, in the late 1990s. The show hosts two guests with opposing political views, who are pitted against each other in a heated …
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