In discriminative training, such as Maximum Mutual Information Estimation (MMIE) training, a word lattice is usually used as a compact representation of many different sentence hy...
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) results contain not only ASR errors, but also disfluencies and colloquial expressions that must be corrected to create readable transcripts. We...
Graham Neubig, Yuya Akita, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsuya ...
The success of spoken dialog applications depends strongly on the quality of the semantic confidence measure that determines the selection of the dialog strategy. However, the sem...
This paper describes a set of techniques for improving the performance of automated voice search services intended for mobile users accessing these services over a range of portab...
Abstract In this paper, we present a human-robot teaching framework that uses "virtual" games as a means for adapting a robot to its user through natural interaction in a...