A crucial step in processing speech audio data for information extraction, topic detection, or browsing/playback is to segment the input into sentence and topic units. Speech segm...
Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Dilek Z. Hakk...
Abstract. This paper explores the possibility of using a modified Expectation-Maximization algorithm to estimate parameters for a simple hierarchical generative model for XML retr...
Abstract. An off-line hand-written Chinese character recognizer supporting a vocabulary of 4,616 Chinese characters, alphanumerics and punctuation symbols has been reported. Traine...
This paper presents an unsupervised learning approach to building a non-English (Arabic) stemmer. The stemming model is based on statistical machine translation and it uses an Eng...
—We describe the design of an autonomous agent that can teach itself how to translate from a foreign language, by first assembling its own training set, then using it to improve...