The detection of laughter in conversational interaction presents an important challenge in meeting understanding, important primarily because laughter is predictive of the emotion...
This paper presents a novel approach for those applications where vocabulary is defined by a set of acoustic samples. In this approach, the acoustic samples are used as reference...
Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia and uses Ethiopic script for writing. In this paper, we present writer-independent HMM-based Amharic word recognition for offline hand...
—One common approach to active learning is to iteratively train a single classifier by choosing data points based on its uncertainty, but it is nontrivial to design uncertainty ...
A pervasive problem in large relational databases is identity uncertainty which occurs when multiple entries in a database refer to the same underlying entity in the world. Relati...