Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training System (CAPT) has become an important learning aid in second language (L2) learning. Our approach to CAPT is based on the use of phonologi...
We address the feature selection problem for hidden Markov models (HMMs) in sequence classification. Temporal correlation in sequences often causes difficulty in applying featur...
Pei Yin, Irfan A. Essa, Thad Starner, James M. Reh...
Wikipedia provides an interesting amount of text for more than hundred languages. This also includes languages where no reference corpora or other linguistic resources are easily ...
Preparation of a lexicon for speech recognition systems can be a significant effort in languages where the written form is not exactly phonetic. On the other hand, in languages w...
Nagendra Goel, Samuel Thomas, Mohit Agarwal, Pinar...
This paper presents an adaptation of Luc Steels’s model of Category Formation and Language Sharing. The simple competitive learning algorithm is proposed as a more general means ...