Empirical studies on corpora involve making measurements of several quantities for the purpose of comparing corpora, creating language models or to make generalizations about spec...
We consider the Bayesian ranking and selection problem, in which one wishes to allocate an information collection budget as efficiently as possible to choose the best among severa...
The ever-growing use of modeling languages today is largely due to a maturation of model-based development technologies. However, there is enough room for improving language specif...
Traditionally, the use of untranscribed speech has been restricted to unsupervised or semi-supervised training of acoustic models. Comparison of recognizers has required labeled d...
Chord is a protocol to distribute and retrieve information at large scale. It builds a large but rigid overlay network without taking into account the social nature and the underl...