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Speech
documents
Queries
Speech
recognition
DVL
Phonetic
translation
reference
transcription
phonetic
translation
primary
database
Search
engine
Documents
Index
Answers
User
F
IGURE
7.
The
QUIRK
system for matching written queries to speech.Each
inputdocumentistranslated into a string of phonemes andthen stored. Queries
are also translated into phonemes, which can be matched to thedocuments.
Answers are returned to the user.
Fig. 11.11
Disorganization. This figure is poorly designed. The elements are inconsistent; data is
in both ovals and boxes, and some lines represent data flow while one represents a transformation.
The arrowheads touch other lines, creating messy intersections. There is unnecessary material such
as the auxiliary databases (write-only, apparently) and the user
Ta b l e s
Tables are used for presentation of information that is unsuitable for graphs or figures,
such as the properties of each of a series of datasets or data where the exact values
are important. A table may also be used instead of a graph when only a few values
are to be shown. The tables in Figs.
11.13
,
11.14
,
11.15
, and
11.16
have appropriate
