We propose a method to train a cascade of classifiers by simultaneously optimizing all its stages. The approach relies on the idea of optimizing soft cascades. In particular, inst...
We present an unsupervised speaker identification system for personal annotations of conversations and meetings. The system dynamically learns new speakers and recognizes already k...
Mirco Rossi, Oliver Amft, Martin Kusserow, Gerhard...
Written documents created through dictation differ significantly from a true verbatim transcript of the recorded speech. This poses an obstacle in automatic dictation systems as s...
Maximilian Bisani, Paul Vozila, Olivier Divay, Jef...
EVALITA 2007, the first edition of the initiative devoted to the evaluation of Natural Language Processing tools for Italian, provided a shared framework where participants' ...
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of locating and classifying names in text. In previous work, NER was limited to a small number of predefined entity classes (e.g., peop...