This paper introduces a simple Sum-over-Paths (SoP) formulation of string edit distances accounting for all possible alignments between two sequences, and extends related previous...
This paper presents an improved acoustic keyword spotting (KWS) algorithm using a novel confusion garbage model in Mandarin conversational speech. Observing the KWS corpus, we foun...
This paper presents a spoken document summarization scheme using acoustic, prosodic and semantic information. First, speech recognition confidence is estimated to choose reliable ...
In this paper, we propose a hierarchical phrase alignment method that aims to acquire translation knowledge. Previous methods utilize the correspondence of sub-trees between bilin...
Phrase level translation models are effective in improving translation quality by addressing the problem of local re-ordering across language boundaries. Methods that attempt to f...