A significant challenge in Text-to-Speech (TtS) synthesis is the formulation of the prosodic structures (phrase breaks, pitch accents, phrase accents and boundary tones) of uttera...
Abstract— We develop a general framework for MAP estimation in discrete and Gaussian graphical models using Lagrangian relaxation techniques. The key idea is to reformulate an in...
Jason K. Johnson, Dmitry M. Malioutov, Alan S. Wil...
Although there have been many recent studies on the mining of sequential patterns in a static database and in a database with increasing data, these works, in general, do not fully...
Query answers from on-line databases can easily be corrupted by hackers or malicious database publishers. Thus it is important to provide mechanisms which allow clients to trust th...
Charles U. Martel, Glen Nuckolls, Premkumar T. Dev...
Gaifman’s locality theorem states that every first-order sentence is equivalent to a local sentence. We show that there is no elementary bound on the length of the local sentenc...
Anuj Dawar, Martin Grohe, Stephan Kreutzer, Nicole...