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ACL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Spontaneous Lexicon Change
The paper argues that language change can be explained through the stochasticity observed in real-world natural language use. This thesis is demonstrated by modeling language use ...
Luc Steels, Frédéric Kaplan
LREC
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Lexicon Design for Transcription of Spontaneous Voice Messages
Building a comprehensive pronunciation lexicon is a crucial element in the success of any speech recognition engine. The first stage of lexicon design involves the compilation of ...
Michal Gishri, Vered Silber-Varod, Ami Moyal
NAACL
1994
13 years 6 months ago
Recent Improvements in the CMU Spoken Language Understanding System
We have been developing a spoken language system to recognize and understand spontaneous speech. It is difficult for such systems to achieve good coverage of the lexicon and gramm...
Wayne Ward, Sunil Issar
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Pronunciation variation modeling of non-native proper names by discriminative tree search
In this paper, the task of selecting the optimal subset of pronunciation variants from a set of automatically generated candidates is recast as a tree search problem. In this appr...
Line Adde, Torbjørn Svendsen
COGSCI
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Learning words from sights and sounds: a computational model
This paper presents an implemented computational model of word acquisition which learns directly from raw multimodal sensory input. Set in an information theoretic framework, the ...
Deb Roy, Alex Pentland