In this paper, several approaches for language portability of dialogue systems are investigated with a focus on the spoken language understanding (SLU) component. We show that the...
This paper investigates using Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) based vowel duration features for automated assessment of non-native speech. Two different types of models were compared...
This paper presents a novel method for inferring the odor based on neural activities observed from rats’ main olfactory bulbs. Multi-channel extra-cellular single unit recording...
In this paper, we extend our previous study on discriminative training using non-uniform criteria for speech recognition. The work will put emphasis on how the acoustic modeling i...
In this paper, we present a sentence simplification method and demonstrate its use to improve intent determination and slot filling tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU) ...