Transliterating words and names from one language to another is a frequent and highly productive phenomenon. Transliteration is information loosing since important distinctions ar...
Abstract. Transliterating words and names from one language to another is a frequent and highly productive phenomenon. For example, English word cache is transliterated in Japanese...
A Named Entity Recognizer (NER) generally has worse performance on machine translated text, because of the poor syntax of the MT output and other errors in the translation. As som...
The goal of my dissertation research is to investigate the combination of new evidence sources for improving information retrieval on speech collections. The utility of these evid...
Acoustic events produced in meeting-room-like environments may carry information useful for perceptually aware interfaces. In this paper, we focus on the problem of combining diffe...