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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
Continuous F0 in the source-excitation generation for HMM-based TTS: Do we need voiced/unvoiced classification?
Most HMM-based TTS systems use a hard voiced/unvoiced classification to produce a discontinuous F0 signal which is used for the generation of the source-excitation. When a mixed ...
Javier Latorre, Mark J. F. Gales, Sabine Buchholz,...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
Sentence simplification for spoken language understanding
In this paper, we present a sentence simplification method and demonstrate its use to improve intent determination and slot filling tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU) ...
Gökhan Tür, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larr...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
A learning-based approach to explosives detection using Multi-Energy X-Ray Computed Tomography
In this paper we consider the task of classifying materials into explosives and non-explosives according to features obtainable from Multi-Energy X-ray Computed Tomography (MECT) ...
Limor Eger, Synho Do, Prakash Ishwar, W. Clem Karl...
ACL
2011
13 years 1 months ago
An Algorithm for Unsupervised Transliteration Mining with an Application to Word Alignment
We propose a language-independent method for the automatic extraction of transliteration pairs from parallel corpora. In contrast to previous work, our method uses no form of supe...
Hassan Sajjad, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 1 months ago
Modern software product support processes and the usage of multimedia formats
Despite being an important channel for end-user assistance, few studies have directly investigated the interactions that occur in modern-day practice of software product support. ...
Parmit K. Chilana, Tovi Grossman, George W. Fitzma...