This paper presents a semantic confidence measure that aims to predict the relevance of automatic transcripts for a task of Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR). The proposed predicti...
Speech has a property that the speech unit preceding a speech pause tends to lengthen. This work presents the use of a dynamic Bayesian network to model the prepausal lengthening ...
Ning Ma, Chris Bartels, Jeff A. Bilmes, Phil Green
An accurate identification dialog acts (DAs), which represent the illocutionary aspect of communication, is essential to support the understanding of human conversations. This re...
Silvia Quarteroni, Alexei V. Ivanov, Giuseppe Ricc...
Abstract--This paper explores packet loss recovery for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in spoken dialog systems, assuming an architecture in which a lightweight client communica...
Constantinos Boulis, Mari Ostendorf, Eve A. Riskin...
This paper describes the THISL system that participated in the TREC-7 evaluation, Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track, and presents the results obtained, together with some anal...
Dave Abberley, Steve Renals, Gary Cook, Anthony J....