This paper presents trainable methods for generating letter to sound rules from a given lexicon for use in pronouncing out-ofvocabulary words and as a method for lexicon compressi...
Corpus-based grammar induction generally relies on hand-parsed training data to learn the structure of the language. Unfortunately, the cost of building large annotated corpora is...
We propose an efficient system for realistic speech animation. The system supports all steps of the animation pipeline, from the capture or design of 3D head models up to the synth...
We propose a method for choosing the number of colors or true gray levels in an image; this allows fully automatic segmentation of images. Our underlying probability model is a hid...
Different presentations of candidate expansion terms have not been fully explored in interactive query expansion (IQE). Most existing systems that offer an IQE facility use a list...
Hideo Joho, Claire Coverson, Mark Sanderson, Miche...