We describe a system for the training of Second Language Acquisition Pronunciation (SLAP) for nonnative speakers. This speech recognition-based system is designed to mimic the val...
This paper describes a new grapheme-tophoneme framework, based on a combination of formal linguistic and statistical methods. A context-free grammar is used to parse words into th...
Statistical language models play a major role in current speech recognition systems. Most of these models have focussed on relatively local interactions between words. Recently, h...
Our focus this year was to investigate methods for increasing query length in interactive information searching in the Web context, and to see if these methods led to changes in t...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Colleen Cool, J. Jeng, Amymari...
Spoken language interfaces based on interactive semantic language models [16, 14] allow probabilities for hypothesized words to be conditioned on the semantic interpretation of th...
Lane Schwartz, Luan Nguyen, Andrew Exley, William ...