Most statistical machine translation systems employ a word-based alignment model. In this paper we demonstrate that word-based alignment is a major cause of translation errors. We...
A fusion scheme of phone duration models (PDMs) is presented in this work. Specifically, a support vector regression (SVR)-fusion model is fed with the predictions of a group of i...
We discuss the relationship between the discriminative training of Gaussian models and the maximum entropy framework for log-linear models. Observing that linear transforms leave ...
A simple mathematical model of laser drilling is proposed. Assuming axi-symmetry of the process around the axis of the laser beam, a one-dimensional formulation is obtained after ...
This paper presents a novel algorithm for 2D planar curve recognition based on B-Spline modeling. It combines the advantages of the B-Spline that are continuous curve representati...