Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
Scott Rose, Kevin Bowers, Stephen Quirolgico, Kevi...
In this paper, we propose a robust compensation strategy to deal effectively with extraneous acoustic variations for spontaneous speech recognition. This strategy extends speaker a...
A key challenge in recommender system research is how to effectively profile new users, a problem generally known as cold-start recommendation. Recently the idea of progressivel...
— As people move through their environments, they do not move randomly. Instead, they are often engaged in typical motion patterns, related to specific locations they might be i...
Abstract. Systems for keyword and non-linguistic vocalization detection in conversational agent applications need to be robust with respect to background noise and different speak...