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ICASSP
2008
IEEE
16 years 26 days ago
Discriminative feature weighting using MCE training for topic identification of spoken audio recordings
In this paper we investigate a discriminative approach to feature weighting for topic identification using minimum classification error (MCE) training. Our approach learns featu...
Timothy J. Hazen, Anna Margolis
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
16 years 26 days ago
An instantaneous vector representation of delta pitch for speaker-change prediction in conversational dialogue systems
As spoken dialogue systems become deployed in increasingly complex domains, they face rising demands on the naturalness of interaction. We focus on system responsiveness, aiming t...
Kornel Laskowski, Jens Edlund, Mattias Heldner
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
16 years 26 days ago
Punctuating speech for information extraction
This paper studies the effect of automatic sentence boundary detection and comma prediction on entity and relation extraction in speech. We show that punctuating the machine gener...
Benoît Favre, Ralph Grishman, Dustin Hillard...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
16 years 26 days ago
A turbo-style algorithm for lexical baseforms estimation
In this research, an iterative and unsupervised Turbo-style algorithm is presented and implemented for the task of automatic lexical acquisition. The algorithm makes use of spoken...
Ghinwa F. Choueiter, Mesrob I. Ohannessian, Stepha...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
16 years 26 days ago
Combining open vocabulary recognition and word confusion networks
A limitation of most speech recognizers is that they only recognize words from a fixed vocabulary. In this paper, we explore a technique for addressing this deficiency using aut...
Keith Vertanen