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ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Corpus-based Interpretation of Instructions in Virtual Environments
Previous approaches to instruction interpretation have required either extensive domain adaptation or manually annotated corpora. This paper presents a novel approach to instructi...
Luciana Benotti, Martin Villalba, Tessa A. Lau, Ju...
IEAAIE
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Multiple Source Phoneme Recognition Aided by Articulatory Features
This paper presents an experiment in speech recognition whereby multiple phoneme recognisers are applied to the same utterance. When these recognisers agree on an hypothesis for th...
Mark Kane, Julie Carson-Berndsen
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Acoustic vector resampling for GMMSVM-based speaker verification
Using GMM-supervectors as the input to SVM classifiers (namely, GMM-SVM) is one of the promising approaches to text-independent speaker verification. However, one unaddressed issu...
Man-Wai Mak, Wei Rao
EJASMP
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Optimizing Automatic Speech Recognition for Low-Proficient Non-Native Speakers
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) applications for improving the oral skills of low-proficient learners have to cope with nonnative speech that is particularly challengin...
Joost van Doremalen, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Str...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Detecting Speech Repairs Incrementally Using a Noisy Channel Approach
Unrehearsed spoken language often contains disfluencies. In order to correctly interpret a spoken utterance, any such disfluencies must be identified and removed or otherwise deal...
Simon Zwarts, Mark Johnson, Robert Dale
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Online Error Detection of Barge-In Utterances by Using Individual Users' Utterance Histories in Spoken Dialogue System
We develop a method to detect erroneous interpretation results of user utterances by exploiting utterance histories of individual users in spoken dialogue systems that were deploy...
Kazunori Komatani, Hiroshi G. Okuno
TASLP
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
A Cascaded Broadcast News Highlighter
Abstract-- This paper presents a fully automatic news skimming system which takes a broadcast news audio stream and provides the user with the segmented, structured and highlighted...
Heidi Christensen, Yoshihiko Gotoh, Steve Renals
CSL
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Monaural speech separation based on MAXVQ and CASA for robust speech recognition
Robustness is one of the most important topics for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in practical applications. Monaural speech separation based on computational auditory scene a...
Peng Li, Yong Guan, Shijin Wang, Bo Xu, Wenju Liu
COGSCI
2010
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13 years 11 months ago
The Evolution of Relevance
With human language, the same utterance can have different meanings in different contexts. Nevertheless, listeners almost invariably converge upon the correct intended meaning. Th...
Thomas C. Scott-Phillips
COLING
1996
14 years 23 days ago
A Unified Theory of Irony and Its Computational Formalization
This paper presents a unified theory of verbal irony tbr developing a computational model of irony. The theory claims that an ironic utterance implicitly communicates the fact tha...
Akira Utsumi