This paper shows how to improve Hidden Conditional Random Fields (HCRFs) for phone classification by applying various speaker adaptation techniques. These include Maximum A Poste...
Yun-Hsuan Sung, Constantinos Boulis, Daniel Jurafs...
Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) are a state-of-the-art approach to natural language processing tasks like grapheme-tophoneme (g2p) conversion which is used to produce pronunciati...
Patrick Lehnen, Stefan Hahn, Andreas Guta, Hermann...
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
Finding allowable places in words to insert hyphens is an important practical problem. The algorithm that is used most often nowadays has remained essentially unchanged for 25 yea...