We review key challenges of developing spoken dialog systems that can engage in interactions with one or multiple participants in relatively unconstrained environments. We outline...
Functional RNAs (fRNAs) play a key role in gene regulation, at both the transcriptional and translational levels. Identification of fRNA genes can be difficult, given that some cla...
In this paper we investigate a discriminative approach to feature weighting for topic identification using minimum classification error (MCE) training. Our approach learns featu...
We propose a novel feature set for speaker recognition that is based on the voice source signal. The feature extraction process uses closed-phase LPC analysis to estimate the voca...
Robustness is one of the most critical issues in the appearance-based learning strategies. In this work, we propose a novel kernel that is robust against data corruption for vario...