Domain shift is a challenging issue in dialogue management. This paper shows how to extract domain knowledge for dialogue model adaptation. The basic semantic concepts are derived ...
The expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is widely used in the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) as the state-of-art statistical modeling technique. Like the classical EM method, th...
Sheeraz Memon, Margaret Lech, Namunu Chinthaka Mad...
We propose a new type of audio feature (HFCC-ENS) as well as an unsupervised method for detecting short sequences of spoken words (key-phrases) within long speech recordings. Our ...
We present a general framework for the task of extracting specific information “on demand” from a large corpus such as the Web under resource-constraints. Given a database wit...
We formulate and study search algorithms that consider a user’s prior interactions with a wide variety of content to personalize that user’s current Web search. Rather than re...