The use of figurative language is ubiquitous in natural language texts and it is a serious bottleneck in automatic text understanding. We address the problem of interpretation of ...
—We present a new technique for joint estimation of the chord progression and the downbeats from an audio file. Musical signals are highly structured in terms of harmony and rhy...
In this paper, we present a sentence simplification method and demonstrate its use to improve intent determination and slot filling tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU) ...
Contending with signal variability due to source and channel effects is a critical problem in automatic emotion recognition. Any approach in mitigating these effects however has t...
Carlos Busso, Angeliki Metallinou, Shrikanth S. Na...
We propose a language-independent method for the automatic extraction of transliteration pairs from parallel corpora. In contrast to previous work, our method uses no form of supe...