How much can we infer about the pronunciation of a language – past or present – by observing which words its speakers rhyme? This paper explores the connection between pronunc...
In this paper we address the problem of translating between languages with word order disparity. The idea of augmenting statistical machine translation (SMT) by using a syntax-bas...
We describe a new approach to speech recognition, in which all Hidden Markov Model (HMM) states share the same Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) structure with the same number of Gauss...
Daniel Povey, Lukas Burget, Mohit Agarwal, Pinar A...
This paper proposes a novel user intention simulation method which is data-driven but can integrate diverse user discourse knowledge to simulate various types of user behaviors. A...
Sangkeun Jung, Cheongjae Lee, Kyungduk Kim, Donghy...
We describe the design and evaluation of two different dynamic student uncertainty adaptations in wizarded versions of a spoken dialogue tutoring system. The two adaptive systems...
The automatic recognition of user’s communicative style within a spoken dialog system framework, including the affective aspects, has received increased attention in the past f...
Serdar Yildirim, Shrikanth Narayanan, Alexandros P...