Query logs of a Web search engine have been increasingly used as a vital source for data mining. This paper presents a study on largescale domain-independent entity extraction fro...
This paper gives an overview of a politeness recognition tool (PoRT) for Hindi that is currently under preparation. It describes the the kind of problems that need to be tackled w...
The debate in philosophy and cognitive science about the Chinese Room Argument has focused on whether it shows that machines can have minds. We present a quantitative argument whi...
In this paper we evaluate a method for generating synthetic speech at high speaking rates based on the interpolation of hidden semi-Markov models (HSMMs) trained on speech data re...
Michael Pucher, Dietmar Schabus, Junichi Yamagishi
Using variational analysis techniques, we study convex-composite optimization problems. In connection with such a problem, we introduce several new notions as variances of the clas...