This research investigates Speech Acts performed in the war film Platoon. It aims at finding details about the types of speech acts, their form and how they are expressed by the i...
Abstract. In this paper we present the creation of a Mexican Spanish version of the CMU Sphinx-III speech recognition system. We trained acoustic and N-gram language models with a ...
In this work we show how interactivity in a voice-enabled question answering application may improve speech recognition. We allow the user to provide a target named entity before ...
In the context of deployed spoken dialogue telecom services, we introduce a preprocessor called Fiction into the Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) component. It acts as an inter...
In this paper we propose a novel general framework for unsupervised model adaptation. Our method is based on entropy which has been used previously as a regularizer in semi-superv...
Ariya Rastrow, Frederick Jelinek, Abhinav Sethy, B...