In conversational speech, irregularities in the speech such as overlaps and disruptions make it difficult to decide what is a sentence. Thus, despite very precise guidelines on how...
The use of large speech corpora in example-based approaches for speech recognition is mainly focused on increasing the number of examples. This strategy presents some difficulties ...
In this paper we present a meeting state recognizer based on a combination of multi-modal sensor data in a smart room. Our approach is based on the training of a statistical model ...
Motivation is well-known for its importance in learning and its influence on cognitive processes. Adaptive systems would greatly benefit from having a user model of the learner’s...
Because of the great variability of factors to take into account, designing a spoken dialogue system is still a tailoring task. Rapid design and reusability of previous work is ma...