This paper summarizes the experience of teaching objectoriented modeling and UML for more than a decade to various audiences (academic or corporate, software developers or not). W...
In this work we show how interactivity in a voice-enabled question answering application may improve speech recognition. We allow the user to provide a target named entity before ...
This paper extends language identification (LID) techniques to a large scale accent classification task: 23-way classification of foreign-accented English. We find that a pure...
Ghinwa F. Choueiter, Geoffrey Zweig, Patrick Nguye...
Information distillation techniques are used to analyze and interpret large volumes of speech and text archives in multiple languages and produce structured information of interes...
The importance of evaluation in promoting research and development in the information retrieval and natural language processing domains has long been recognised but is this suffic...