Consider the problem of tting a nite Gaussian mixture, with an unknown number of components, to observed data. This paper proposes a new minimum description length (MDL) type crite...
Many object-oriented methods have assumed classbased approaches, without considering prototype-based ones. Some authors, while admitting prototypes as a useful concept, only envis...
Birgitte Krogh, Sean Levy, Allen H. Dutoit, Eswara...
The notion of partial and evolutionary specification has gained attention both in research and industry in the last years. While many people regard this just as a process issue, w...
A major challenge faced by a spoken term detection (STD) system is the detection of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) terms. Although a subword-based STD system is able to detect OOV terms,...
We present a novel discriminative training algorithm for n-gram language models for use in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. The algorithm uses large margin estimati...