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GIS
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
An ACS cooperative learning approach for route finding in natural environment
This paper introduces an ant-based colony system for the representation of a verbal route description. It is grounded on a natural metaphor that mimics the behavior of ant colonie...
David Brosset, Christophe Claramunt, Eric Saux
CSL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A stopping criterion for active learning
Active learning (AL) is a framework that attempts to reduce the cost of annotating training material for statistical learning methods. While a lot of papers have been presented on...
Andreas Vlachos
CSL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Tone-enhanced generalized character posterior probability (GCPP) for Cantonese LVCSR
Tone-enhanced, generalized character posterior probability (GCPP), a generalized form of posterior probability at subword (Chinese character) level, is proposed as a rescoring met...
Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Tan Lee
CSL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
User simulation in a stochastic dialog system
We present a new methodology of user simulation applied to the evaluation and refinement of stochastic dialog systems. Common weaknesses of these systems are the scarceness of the...
Francisco Torres, Emilio Sanchis, Encarna Segarra
CSL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Design and evaluation of prosodically-sensitive concatenative units for a Korean TTS system
This paper describes the design and evaluation of prosodically-sensitive concatenative units for a Korean text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system. The diphones used are prosodically...
Kyuchul Yoon
CSL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Applying an analysis of acted vocal emotions to improve the simulation of synthetic speech
: All speech produced by humans includes information about the speaker, including conveying the emotional state of the speaker. It is thus desirable to include vocal affect in any ...
Iain R. Murray, John L. Arnott
CSL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On maximum mutual information speaker-adapted training
John W. McDonough, Matthias Wölfel, Emilian S...
CSL
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Speech separation using speaker-adapted eigenvoice speech models
We present a system for model-based source separation for use on single channel speech mixtures where the precise source characteristics are not known a priori. The sources are mo...
Ron J. Weiss, Daniel P. W. Ellis
CSL
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluation of a hierarchical reinforcement learning spoken dialogue system
We describe an evaluation of spoken dialogue strategies designed using hierarchical reinforcement learning agents. The dialogue strategies were learnt in a simulated environment a...
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Steve Renals, Oliver ...