The latest communication technologies invariably consist of modules with dynamic behavior. There exists a number of design tools for communication system design with their foundat...
Given a number of machine translations of a source segment, the goal of system combination is to produce a new translation that has better quality than all of them. This paper des...
The success of spoken dialog applications depends strongly on the quality of the semantic confidence measure that determines the selection of the dialog strategy. However, the sem...
In this paper we review the acoustic features used for music-to-score alignment and study their influence on the performance in a challenging alignment task, where the audio data...
This paper summarizes recent work at Microsoft on the development of novel direct models. The key characteristic of our approaches is the use of long-span segment level features t...