We propose an informative dialect recognition system that learns phonetic transformation rules, and uses them to identify dialects. A hidden Markov model is used to align referenc...
Nancy F. Chen, Wade Shen, Joseph P. Campbell, Pedr...
This paper deals with the task of large vocabulary proper name recognition. In order to accomodate a wide diversity of possible name pronunciations (due to non-native name origins...
In supervised machine learning, variable ranking aims at sorting the input variables according to their relevance w.r.t. an output variable. In this paper, we propose a new relevan...
French is known to be a language with major pronunciation irregularities at word endings with consonants. Particularly, the well-known phonetic phenomenon called Liaison is one of...
Density modeling is notoriously difficult for high dimensional data. One approach to the problem is to search for a lower dimensional manifold which captures the main characteristi...