In this paper, we present a sentence simplification method and demonstrate its use to improve intent determination and slot filling tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU) ...
A novel frame-wise model adaptation approach for reverberationrobust distant-talking speech recognition is proposed. It adjusts the means of static cepstral features to capture th...
Services like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk have opened the door for exploration of processes that outsource computation to humans. These human computation processes hold tremendous ...
One of the fundamental building blocks of text processing for textto-speech (TTS) synthesis is the assignment of a part-of-speech (POS) tag to each input word. POS tags are heavil...
The treatment of factual data has been widely studied in different areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, processing subjective information still poses important cha...