This paper presents a nativeness classifier for English. The detector was developed and tested with TED Talks collected from the web, where the major non-native cues are in terms...
Features generated by Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) have successfully been introduced into robust speech processing, including noise-robust speech recognition and detect...
We studied communication patterns in face-to-face dialogues between people for the purpose of identifying conversation features that can be exploited to improve human-computer inte...
Automatic relevance determination (ARD) and the closely-related sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) framework are effective tools for pruning large numbers of irrelevant features leadi...
This article surveys three techniques for enhancing heuristic game-tree search pioneered in the author's Othello program Logistello, which dominated the computer Othello scen...