Humans are able to recognise a word before its acoustic realisation is complete. This in contrast to conventional automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, which compute the lik...
We propose a new approach for combining acoustic and visual measurements to aid in recognizing lip shapes of a person speaking. Our method relies on computing the maximum likeliho...
This two-day workshop examines the ways that on-line communities create and refine their shared resources, including both the formal and observable artifacts (documents, chats, th...
The study of ant navigation is a rich source of empirical data and speculative theories that has been well-documented in the scientific literature. We describe and illustrate how ...
We describe an on-going project whose primary aim is to establish the technology of producing closed captions for TV news programs efficiently using natural language processing an...