We propose an integrated approach to interactive word-completion for users with linguistic disabilities in which semantic knowledge combines with n-gram probabilities to predict s...
In Chinese, phrases and named entities play a central role in information retrieval. Abbreviations, however, make keyword-based approaches less effective. This paper presents an em...
One of the main problems in developing a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesizer for French lies in grapheme-to-phoneme conversion. Automatic converters produce still too many errors in ...
BAYDA is a software package for flexible data analysis in predictive data mining tasks. The mathematical model underlying the program is based on a simple Bayesian network, the Na...
During face-to-face interactions, listeners use backchannel feedback such as head nods as a signal to the speaker that the communication is working and that they should continue sp...
Louis-Philippe Morency, Iwan de Kok, Jonathan Grat...