Speaker independent feature extraction is a critical problem in speech recognition. Oriented principal component analysis (OPCA) is a potential solution that can find a subspace r...
The high availability of video streams is making necessary mechanisms for indexing such contents in the Web world. In this paper we focus on news programs and we propose a mechani...
In this paper we investigate the role of user emotions in human-machine goal-oriented conversations. There has been a growing interest in predicting emotions from acted and non-act...
ProPOSEL is a prototype prosody and PoS (part-of-speech) English lexicon for Language Engineering, derived from the following language resources: the computer-usable dictionary CU...
In this paper, we describe a first prototype of a pattern-based analyzer developed in the context of a speech-to-speech translation project using a pivot-based approach (the pivot...