... to correct the errors in the results of
speech recognition to increase the performance of a
speech translation system. This paper proposes a
method for correcting errors using the statistical ... the use of
our proposed method as a post-processor for speech
recognition is likely to make a significant contribution
to the performance of speech translation systems.
method also o...
... simi-
lar to the one used in speech recognition (Jelinek,
1976). We also use several techniques that have
been very successfully applied to speech recogni-
tion. For instance, in this paper, ... riley}@research.att.com
Abstract
Traditional concatenative speech synthesis systems
use a number of heuristics to define the target and
concatenation costs, essential for the design of the
un...
... 2007.
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2007 Association for Computational Linguistics
Vocabulary Decomposition for Estonian Open Vocabulary Speech
Recognition
Antti Puurula and Mikko Kurimo
Adaptive Informatics Research Centre
Helsinki ... solve this problem
for a subset of these languages. This pa-
per compares various vocabulary decompo-
sition approaches to open vocabulary speech
recognition,...
... That means that the most common rea-
son for the speaker to interrupt is to ask for or give
information that is crucial for the driving task (as
opposed for the other and traffic domains, which
are ... inter-
ruption. We therefore sorted all utterances coded
800
as resume-topic in two categories, those which
contained redundant information when comparing
with the last utterance before...
... concerned
with choosing a formalism for an extended semantic component,
but rather with demonstrating where the syntax has to provide
for those elements of discourse information that influence ... framework can be found in Gazdar
and Pullum (1982). For :t description of the II)/LP format refer to Gazdar
and Pullum (Ig8l} and Klein
(1983),
for the ID/LP treatment of German
t,, ts...
... algorithm is given no information
whatsoever
about the phonemic transcription .used,
and even though
cognate identification
is carried
out on the basis of a context-free one -for- one
matching ...
mata/nas.
We base
no information about the phonetic values of their
constituent characters, we do not know whether the
same system of transcription was used in both
wordllsts: for all...
... members of opposing subgroups. For
example, consider the following snippet taken from
a debate about school uniform
1
www.politicalforum.com, www.createdebate.com,
www.forandagainst.com, etc
(1) ... The system is open
source and is freely available for download.
An online demo of the system is available at:
http://clair.eecs.umich.edu/SubgroupDetector/
1 Introduction
Online forums discu...
... present was built to
serve as a platform for research in computational
linguistics and tutoring, and can be used for task-
based evaluation of algorithms developed for other
domains. We are currently ... get the same remediation
for the same error regardless of their past perfor-
mance or dialogue context, as it is infeasible to
author a different remediation dialogue for every
poss...
... AFNLP
Minimized Models for Unsupervised Part-of -Speech Tagging
Sujith Ravi and Kevin Knight
University of Southern California
Information Sciences Institute
Marina del Rey, California 90292
{sravi,knight}@isi.edu
Abstract
We ... new methods for un-
supervised part-of -speech tagging. We adopt the
problem formulation of Merialdo (1994), in which
we are given a raw word sequence and a di...
... words,
resulting in somewhat less interesting examples for
some POS tags. More typical examples might be big
for adjectives, quickly for adverbs or read for verbs.
As suggested in Petrov et al. (2012), ... crossover date for the frequency of
the verb forms that is several decades earlier than
the overall (verbs and adjectives) crossover.
We use state-of-the-art statistical part-of -...