The next big step in embedded, mobile speech recognition will be to allow completely free input as it is needed for messaging like SMS or email. However, unconstrained dictation r...
Michael Feld, Saeedeh Momtazi, Farina Freigang, Di...
In statistical machine translation, single-word based models have an important deficiency; they do not take contextual information into account for the translation decision. A poss...
We have implemented an incremental lexical acquisition mechanism that learns the meanings of previously unknown words from the context in which they appear, as a part of the proce...
We present a probabilistic model of diachronic phonology in which individual word forms undergo stochastic edits along the branches of a phylogenetic tree. Our approach allows us ...
We present a general framework for the analysis of quantitative and qualitative properties of reactive systems, based on a notion of weighted transition systems. We introduce and ...