Statistical language models play a major role in current speech recognition systems. Most of these models have focussed on relatively local interactions between words. Recently, h...
Automatic sentence segmentation of spoken language is an important precursor to downstream natural language processing. Previous studies combine lexical and prosodic features, but...
This paper explores the relationship between discourse structure and coverbal gesture. Using the idea of gestural cohesion, we show that coherent topic segments are characterized ...
We are developing a cross-media information retrieval system, in which users can view specific segments of lecture videos by submitting text queries. To produce a text index, the ...
Language models used in current automatic speech recognition systems are trained on general-purpose corpora and are therefore not relevant to transcribe spoken documents dealing w...