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ICASSP
2010
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Vocabulary and language model adaptation using just one speech file
This paper investigates unsupervised vocabulary and language model self-adaptation (VLA) from just one speech file using the web as a knowledge source and without prior knowledge...
Sha Meng, Kishan Thambiratnam, Yimeng Lin, Lifang ...
KDD
2007
ACM
159views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
16 years 6 months ago
Practical guide to controlled experiments on the web: listen to your customers not to the hippo
The web provides an unprecedented opportunity to evaluate ideas quickly using controlled experiments, also called randomized experiments (single-factor or factorial designs), A/B ...
Ron Kohavi, Randal M. Henne, Dan Sommerfield
MIR
2004
ACM
176views Multimedia» more  MIR 2004»
15 years 11 months ago
Analysing the performance of visual, concept and text features in content-based video retrieval
This paper describes revised content-based search experiments in the context of TRECVID 2003 benchmark. Experiments focus on measuring content-based video retrieval performance wi...
Mika Rautiainen, Timo Ojala, Tapio Seppänen
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Compare&contrast: using the web to discover comparable cases for news stories
Comparing and contrasting is an important strategy people employ to understand new situations and create solutions for new problems. Similar events can provide hints for problem s...
Jiahui Liu, Earl Wagner, Larry Birnbaum
WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Disambiguating Web appearances of people in a social network
Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...
Ron Bekkerman, Andrew McCallum