Many private and/or public organizations have been reported to create and monitor targeted Twitter streams to collect and understand users’ opinions about the organizations. Tar...
One of the key tasks for analyzing conversational data is segmenting it into coherent topic segments. However, most models of topic segmentation ignore the social aspect of conver...
Viet-An Nguyen, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Philip Resn...
The psycholinguistic theory of communication accommodation accounts for the general observation that participants in conversations tend to converge to one another’s communicativ...
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Michael Gamon, S...
Statistical voice conversion is very effective for enhancing body transmitted speech recorded with Non-Audible Murmur (NAM) microphone. In this method, a probabilistic model to co...
This paper presents a dependency language model (DLM) that captures linguistic constraints via a dependency structure, i.e., a set of probabilistic dependencies that express the r...