com, an answer-based search engine, announced today that it has
hired Dr
. Her other books are
"Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus," "21st Century Spelling Dictionary," "21st
Century Manual of Style" (Dell/Laurel), "Roget's International Thesaurus
Sixth Edition and Dictionary
of American Slang" (HarperCollins), "Sisson's
Word and Expression Locater" (Prentice Hall), "Encyclopedic
Dictionary of
Archaeology" (Kluwer Plenum), "The Flip Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus of
Phrases
," and "Roget's Descriptive Word Finder" (Writer's Digest).answers.S.
This is the first time in
the nation's history that all past top federal
health officials have joined together in a common
pursuit: to end smoking by
children and teens and get the tobacco companies to continue financing
the
Public Education Fund, which provides the resources to conduct the truth(R)
campaign.C. That
is why we need
a campaign to reach out to kids and convince them not to pick up a cigarette
in
the first place.
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The Nexidia language models are developed based on audio samples
incorporating
gender, dialects, accents, pronunciation patterns and data
capture methods. Additionally, we are
able to deliver models to support
languages as they are spoken every day - which means accommodating
uses of
accented language, non-standard grammar, blended languages, brand names,
proper names
and even slang. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
one-third of smokers will die prematurely
from smoking-related diseases.D. Reynolds and Lorillard) were no longer required under the
agreement
to make annual payments to the Public Education Fund, which enables
the American Legacy Foundation
to conduct the truth(R) campaign.
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Barbara Ann Kipfer to its Content Development team."
Barbara holds an M.gurunet. It is these language models and the non-dictionary
based approach
that is core to Nexidia's ability to generate accurate
meaningful results."
About Nexidia
Nexidia is a leading provider of highly scalable, highly accurate audio-
video search and
speech analytics software.com. Surgeon General; and every former Director of the Centers
for Disease
Control and Prevention.S."
Califano called upon the tobacco companies to agree to efforts by
several
state attorneys general to amend the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement to
require the tobacco
companies to continue payments to the Public Education
Fund so that the truth(R) campaign can continue
to protect our nation's
children.
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"For years, I have been a proponent of developing an all
-in-one reference
site," explained Kipfer. The addition of Mandarin Chinese increases the
total
number of languages supported by Nexidia to 19. If the words of
tobacco executives about not pushing
their addictive drug on children are
worth more than the paper that wraps their cigarettes, they
should legally
bind themselves to put their resources behind their rhetoric and support the
truth
(R) campaign," Califano said.awad woe
and Ph.
About GuruNet
GuruNet Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW)
operates a leading answer-based search
engine, www.S. Moreover, adult smokers account for $3,400
each annually
in smoking related health care costs and lost productivity.wordiness unabashed
Barbara Ann Kipfer has
been a lexicographer and linguist for 25 years
and is the author of more than 30 books, including:
"The Order of Things
and How It Happens" (Random House), "14,000 Things to be Happy About"
(Workman
) and "Page-a-Day" calendars based on it.W.05
percent of the cigarette market.wordwizard wordy
She has extensive
experience
in the areas of reference content creation, question-answering,
reference publishing, natural language
processing, artificial intelligence,
information retrieval research, and the development of
ontologies
/hierarchies.D. All other
marks belong to their respective owners.com.Nexidia Announces Availability
of Mandarin Chinese Language Model for Audio Search and Analysis
"Nexidia's phonetic approach to
audio search
and speech analytics enables us to rapidly address the language needs for all
of
our customers. "This is nearly double the number of
U., President Emeritus of the Morehouse
School
of Medicine, Secretary of Health and Human Services under President
H. Prohibiting tobacco companies
from advertising to
children has not been enough.capitalization woe
com/main/link_to_answers. SAN FRANCISCO, SpeechTEK
West -- Nexidia, the
leading provider of audio search and speech analytics solutions, announced
today
the availability of its Mandarin Chinese language model for audio
search, retrieval and analysis
. By keeping
300,000 kids from being smokers, truth(R) will save $1 billion in health care
costs
each year. fatalities suffered during the entire Vietnam War. The Commission noted that the
campaign
will eliminate thousands of cases of cancer, heart attack, emphysema,
stroke, chronic bronchitis
and other killing and crippling diseases.aday unabashed
For additional information, visit www.
Nexidia's unique
patent-pending phonetic speech technology enables all
qualities of audio to be rendered searchable
at over 55 times real time.
"Our language portfolio continues to grow, and we are aggressively
adding
more languages in response to increased market demand," said John Willcutts,
president
and CEO of Nexidia. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare who started the
national anti-smoking
campaign in 1978. And the American Legacy Foundation's truth(R) campaign
convinces kids to reject
tobacco. The
Citizens' Commission also files amicus briefs in pending litigation against
tobacco
companies in order to bring to the attention of presiding judges the
importance of funding truth
(R) and ask that the judges include orders to fund
the campaign as a remedy for tobacco company misconduct
.prescriptive misspelled
She is currently being mentored in
historical linguistics by Professor Terry Hoad of the University
of Oxford. Warning vendors not to sell cigarettes to
minors has not been enough."
Former
Secretary Thompson added, "While I was at HHS, I would see people
smoking outside of my office building
and would actually take the cigarettes
out of their mouths.aday plurals
GuruNet Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW
), creators
of Answers.D.
The Commission's findings were released at a Washington, D.flavorful useable
She has
also authored "Instant Karma," "The Wish List," "1,400 Things for Kids to
be Happy About," and
"8,789 Words of Wisdom" for Workman.COM and GURUNET are trademarks of GuruNet Corporation.
Answers
. Often newspapers put out a style guide for their writers and editors.
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For more information, please
visit http://www.
Since 90 percent of adult smokers are hooked as children and teens, the
300
,000 children who chose not to smoke because of their exposure to truth(R)
will almost certainly not
become adult smokers.
"Ending funding for the truth(R) campaign is a death sentence for hundreds
of thousands of children," said Joseph A. I wish I could patrol all the schoolyards of America,
pulling
cigarettes from the mouths of our children, but I can't.
After March 2003, the tobacco
companies (Phillip Morris (Altria), Brown and
Williamson, R.woe cliche
com is a true leader in this industry
and responds
to the huge need for presenting reference information in a pleasing,
understandable
format.com.com offers a "Green Link" program for any writer seeking to provide
readers additional
information on the more than one million topics
available on Answers. The ability to develop a language
modeled on audio that is
representative of the characteristics and quality of real speech is pivotal
in
making audio mining and speech analytics widely applicable to audio-video
search in all organizations
. Nexidia's proven technology is a fundamentally different approach
and is the only audio-video search
solution that can answer the market demand
for a highly scalable and accurate solution.
"Ending
smoking by American children and teens is crucial to the health of
our nation," said Louis Sullivan
, M.Style guides are used by writers to keep up with changes to the language.
Also for improving their
own use of the language (words, phrases and grammar) in their writing.
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Answers.Phil. The
process
is adaptable to a range of audio analyses, excels across the full
spectrum of audio quality, and
supports language ID and music + silence
detection.S."
The Citizens' Commission to Protect
the Truth was formed to shine a
spotlight on the continued need to fund truth(R), the only independent
national youth counter marketing campaign with demonstrated results in keeping
children and teens
from smoking.wordiness flavorful
The analysis of these results delivers critical business
information which organizations
across many industries are using to help
achieve corporate goals of operational efficiencies, increased
customer
satisfaction and revenue growth and optimization. By transforming audio data into
actionable
intelligence, Nexidia allows both government and commercial
enterprises, in industries such as Healthcare
, Insurance, Financial Services,
Media Creation and Aggregation, Telecommunications and Outsourcing
, to
leverage untapped information previously locked away in audio-video content.
Secretary
of Health, Education and Welfare and Health and Human Services;
every former U. "It's time for tobacco
companies to end their quest for children
and teens to replace their dead and disabled adult smokers
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I am excited to be a part of this dynamic team and
to have the opportunity
to create more offerings for every person who loves
to learn.
The Commission based its analysis
on findings in a peer-reviewed article
from the March issue of the American Journal of Public Health
, which credits
truth(R) with reducing the number of children and teen smokers by 300,000 from
2000
to 2002.
According to the U., Commission chairman
and the former U.S. Bush and a member of
the Citizens' Commission. "Raising the price of
cigarettes has not been enough.org.wallraff euphemisms
ANSWERS. Califano
, Jr. event
marking the fifth anniversary of truth(R). I would tell them that I love them and want
them to be
healthy.wordy zeugma
She previously served as Managing Editor/Senior Lexicographer of Lexico
(Dictionary.com) and has worked for such companies as Ask Jeeves, Idealab,
Mindmaker, General
Electric Research, IBM Research, Wang, Bellcore
(Telcordia), Cymfony, Textwise, and Knowledge Adventure
. "When I saw Answers.answers. This
is due to the fact that the Nexidia language models allow audio
to be marked
and searched phonetically.cliches capitalization
Dr.com in its current format, I
was overjoyed.
Founded in 1999 by Bob Rosenschein, GuruNet
provides patented technology and software tools to access
concise
information on demand.
Based on years of research and development, Nexidia's phonetic
engine is the
only tool that allows the user to search on proper names, places, industry
terms
and jargon without extensive training and cumbersome dictionaries. The newest member of the Commission
is former Secretary of Health
and Human Services Tommy Thompson, who banned smoking from all HHS
outdoor
campuses just prior to leaving his post.J. The payments
are required only if the participating
tobacco manufacturers control 99.
For more information on the Commission, visit its Web site
at
http://www.capitalization slammer
Simply visit
http://www.jsp to link any word or phrase
to a specific Answers
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in Linguistics from the University of
Exeter (UK), a Ph.truth(R) Campaign Saves Thousands
of Lives and Billions of Dollars
Former Government Health Leaders Say Funding Must Continue
WASHINGTON, The truth(R) youth anti-smoking
campaign can save thousands of lives and
billions of dollars in smoking
related health care costs and productivity losses, according to the
Citizens'
Commission to Protect the Truth, a group composed of every former U. That is why it is
imperative that children stop
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PRESS RELEASE Answers.com Hires Veteran Linguist
in Archaeology and Master of Philosophy in Buddhist
Studies (Greenwich University), and a Bachelor
of Science in Physical
Education (Valparaiso University). Among its efforts, the Commission is
demanding
that big tobacco companies continue financing the Public Education
Fund under the Master Settlement
Agreement reached with the states in 1998.wordiness capitalization
com. As a result, 100,000 of them
will not die prematurely
of smoking-related diseases and thousands more will
not be permanently disabled by cancers and heart
and respiratory diseases
caused by smoking. Although participating companies no longer
meet that
threshold, their market share remains well above 90 percent.useable unabashed
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