One problem in concatenative speech synthesis is how to incorporate prosodic factors in the unit selection. Imposing a predicted prosodic target is error-prone and does not benefi...
This paper presents a syntax-driven approach to question answering, specifically the answer-sentence selection problem for short-answer questions. Rather than using syntactic fea...
Abstract—The increasing demand for wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) supporting a wide range of applications such as traffic safety, surveying, infotainment etc.,...
Bogdan Roman, Ian J. Wassell, Ioannis Chatzigeorgi...
We show how a preselection of hidden variables can be used to efficiently train generative models with binary hidden variables. The approach is based on Expectation Maximization (...
This paper presents an adaptation of the peepholing method to regression trees. Peepholing was described as a means to overcome the major computational bottleneck of growing classi...