In this paper, we propose an automatic learning method for gesture recognition. We combine two different pattern recognition techniques: the SelfOrganizing Map (SOM) and Support Ve...
Ultrasound has become a useful tool for speech scientists studying mechanisms of language sound production. State-of-the-art methods for extracting tongue contours from ultrasound...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...
Semantic taxonomies such as WordNet provide a rich source of knowledge for natural language processing applications, but are expensive to build, maintain, and extend. Motivated by...
This paper presents a new learning method for automatic acquisition of translation knowledge from parallel corpora. We apply this learning method to automatic extraction of bilingu...