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...
This paper describes the Knowledge Base multimedia retrieval system for the TRECVID 2008 evaluation. Our focus this year is on query analysis and the creation of a topic knowledge...
Abstract. The paper describes QAst-v1 a robust question answering system for answering factoid questions in manual and automatic transcriptions of speech. The system is an adaptati...
The widespread availability of broadband connections has led to an increase in the use of Internet broadcasting (webcasting). Most webcasts are archived and accessed numerous time...
Cosmin Munteanu, Ronald Baecker, Gerald Penn, Elai...
This paper investigates postfiltering for residual echo suppression in networks employing low-bit-rate speech compression in the echo path. Simulations show that the residual echo...