In this paper, we adopt a direct modeling approach to utilize conversational gesture cues in detecting sentence boundaries, called SUs, in video taped conversations. We treat the ...
We compare and contrast two different models for detecting sentence-like units in continuous speech. The first approach uses hidden Markov sequence models based on N-grams and max...
Yang Liu, Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg, Mar...
It has always been difficult for language understanding systems to handle spontaneous speech with satisfactory robustness, primarily due to such problems as the fragments, disflue...
Bor-shen Lin, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Lin-Shan...
Opinion finding is a challenging retrieval task, where it has been shown that it is especially difficult to improve over a strongly performing topic-relevance baseline. In this pa...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iad...
A crucial step in processing speech audio data for information extraction, topic detection, or browsing/playback is to segment the input into sentence and topic units. Speech segm...
Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Dilek Z. Hakk...