Abstract--Collaborating agents require either prior agreement on the shared vocabularies that they use for communication, or some means of translating between their private ontolog...
Heather S. Packer, Nicholas Gibbins, Nicholas R. J...
Large vocabulary speech recognition systems fail to recognize words beyond their vocabulary, many of which are information rich terms, like named entities or foreign words. Hybrid...
Carolina Parada, Mark Dredze, Abhinav Sethy, Ariya...
A novel tandem-free solution for multiparty VoIP conferences called PASS (Peer-Aware Silence Suppression) is presented. Similar to traditional tandem-free solutions, PASS introduc...
Active inference seeks to maximize classification performance while minimizing the amount of data that must be labeled ex ante. This task is particularly relevant in the context o...
Matthew J. Rattigan, Marc Maier, David Jensen, Bin...
We present a new and efficient semi-supervised training method for parameter estimation and feature selection in conditional random fields (CRFs). In real-world applications suc...