Constrained cepstral systems, which select frames to match various linguistic “constraints” in enrollment and test, have shown significant improvements for speaker verificatio...
Korean is an agglutinative language that does not have explicit word boundaries. It is also a highly inflective language that exhibits severe coarticulation effects. These charac...
Sakriani Sakti, Andrew M. Finch, Ryosuke Isotani, ...
The success of spoken dialog applications depends strongly on the quality of the semantic confidence measure that determines the selection of the dialog strategy. However, the sem...
Past research on automatic laughter detection has focused mainly on audio-based detection. Here we present an audiovisual approach to distinguishing laughter from speech and we sh...
Background: When term ambiguity and variability are very high, dictionary-based Named Entity Recognition (NER) is not an ideal solution even though large-scale terminological reso...
Yutaka Sasaki, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, John McNaught, ...