A system to automatically transcribe lectures and presentations has been developed in the context of the FP6 Integrated Project CHIL. In addition to the seminar data recorded by th...
Lori Lamel, Eric Bilinski, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Gille...
Finding relevant experts in a specific field is often crucial for consulting, both in industry and in academia. The aim of this paper is to address the expert-finding task in a...
In this work we show how interactivity in a voice-enabled question answering application may improve speech recognition. We allow the user to provide a target named entity before ...
In this paper, an efficient method for language model lookahead probability generation is presented. Traditional methods generate language model look-ahead (LMLA) probabilities fo...
For effective training of acoustic and language models for spontaneous speech such as meetings, it is significant to exploit the texts available in a large scale, which may not b...
We measure the effects of a weak language model, estimated from as little as 100k words of text, on unsupervised acoustic model training and then explore the best method of using ...
In this paper, we describe CALM, a method for building statistical language models for the Web. CALM addresses several unique challenges dealing with the Web contents. First, CALM...
SLAng is an XML language for defining service level agreements, the part of a contract between the client and provider of an Internet service that describes the quality attributes...