The detection of prosodic characteristics is an important aspect of both speech synthesis and speech recognition. Correct placement of pitch accents aids in more natural sounding ...
Abstract-- Extending traditional models for discriminative labeling of structured data to include higher-order structure in the labels results in an undesirable exponential increas...
Hidden Conditional Random Fields(HCRF) is a very promising approach to model speech. However, because HCRF computes the score of a hypothesis by summing up linearly weighted featu...
Automatic segmentation and classification of recorded meetings provides a basis towards understanding the content of a meeting. It enables effective browsing and querying in a me...
This paper presents an effective method for generating natural language sentences from their underlying meaning representations. The method is built on top of a hybrid tree repres...