Vocal activity detection is an important technology for both automatic speech recognition and automatic speech understanding. In meetings, standard vocal activity detection algori...
Collecting supervised training data for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is both time consuming and expensive. In this paper we use the notion of virtual evidence in a g...
This paper explores what kind of user simulation model is suitable for developing a training corpus for using Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) to automatically learn dialog strate...
This study investigates whether some speech recognition (SR) errors are easier to detect and what patterns can be identified from those errors. Specifically, SR errors were exam...
We describe a new pruning approach to remove phrase pairs from translation models of statistical machine translation systems. The approach applies the original translation system ...
We present a joint morphological-lexical language model (JMLLM) for use in statistical machine translation (SMT) of language pairs where one or both of the languages are morpholog...
Situated models of meaning ground words in the non-linguistic context, or situation, to which they refer. Applying such models to sports video retrieval requires learning appropri...
We compare the effect of joint modeling of phonological features to independent feature detectors in a Conditional Random Fields framework. Joint modeling of features is achieved ...
Ilana Bromberg, Jeremy Morris, Eric Fosler-Lussier