The dictionary look-up of unknown words is particularly difficult in Japanese due to the complicated writing system. We propose a system which allows learners of Japanese to look ...
Modeling consistency of style in isogenous fields of patterns (such as character patterns in a word from the same font or writer) can improve classification accuracy. Since such p...
Emotion recognition from speech plays an important role in developing affective and intelligent systems. This study investigates sentence-level emotion recognition. We propose to ...
Tree Adjoining Grammars have well-known advantages, but are typically considered too difficult for practical systems. We demonstrate that, when done right, adjoining improves tran...
In this paper, we describe a statistical approach to both an articulatory-to-acoustic mapping and an acoustic-to-articulatory inversion mapping without using phonetic information....