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INTERSPEECH
2010
14 years 4 months ago
Cross-cultural investigation of prosody in verbal feedback in interactional rapport
Aspects of speech and non-verbal behavior allow conversational partners to establish and maintain rapport by signaling engagement or endorsement. In the verbal channel, these fact...
Gina-Anne Levow, Susan Duncan, Edward T. King
INTERSPEECH
2010
14 years 4 months ago
Dialect recognition using a phone-GMM-supervector-based SVM kernel
In this paper, we introduce a new approach to dialect recognition which relies on the hypothesis that certain phones are realized differently across dialects. Given a speaker'...
Fadi Biadsy, Julia Hirschberg, Michael Collins
JDCTA
2010
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14 years 4 months ago
A Semantic Approach to Extract the Final Answer in SBUQA Question Answering System
In this paper we introduce the semantic approach of the answer extraction component of a question answering system called SBUQA. The answer extraction component gets the retrieved...
Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Mahsa Arab Yarmohammadi
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Informative dialect recognition using context-dependent pronunciation modeling
We propose an informative dialect recognition system that learns phonetic transformation rules, and uses them to identify dialects. A hidden Markov model is used to align referenc...
Nancy F. Chen, Wade Shen, Joseph P. Campbell, Pedr...
ACL
2011
14 years 1 months ago
An Algorithm for Unsupervised Transliteration Mining with an Application to Word Alignment
We propose a language-independent method for the automatic extraction of transliteration pairs from parallel corpora. In contrast to previous work, our method uses no form of supe...
Hassan Sajjad, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid