We present a discriminative structureprediction model for the letter-to-phoneme task, a crucial step in text-to-speech processing. Our method encompasses three tasks that have bee...
Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Colin Cherry, Grzegorz Kon...
Phonetic string transduction problems, such as letter-to-phoneme conversion and name transliteration, have recently received much attention in the NLP community. In the past few y...
Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Colin Cherry, Grzegorz Kon...
With a few exceptions, discriminative training in statistical machine translation (SMT) has been content with tuning weights for large feature sets on small development data. Evid...
Visual categorization problems, such as object classification or action recognition,
are increasingly often approached using a detection strategy: a classifier function
is first ...
Minh Hoai Nguyen, Lorenzo Torresani, Fernando de l...
This paper presents a discriminative training (DT) approach to irrelevant variability normalization (IVN) based training of feature transforms and hidden Markov models for large v...