Over the last several years, speech-based question answering (QA) has become very popular in contrast to pure search engine based approaches on a desktop. Open-domain QA systems a...
— In connectionist learning, one relevant problem is “catastrophic forgetting” that may occur when a network, trained with a large set of patterns, has to learn new input pat...
Dario Albesano, Roberto Gemello, Pietro Laface, Fr...
Abstract. If we wish to implement dialogue systems which express emotion, dialogue corpora annotated for emotion would be a valuable resource. In order to develop such corpora we r...
Modern speech recognition applications are becoming very complex program packages. To understand the error behaviour of the ASR systems, a special diagnosis - a procedure or a tool...
Multimodal grammars provide an expressive formalism for multimodal integration and understanding. However, handcrafted multimodal grammars can be brittle with respect to unexpecte...