Disfluent speech adds to the difficulty of processing spoken language utterances. In this paper we concentrate on identifying one disfluency phenomenon: fragmented words. Our d...
In human sentence processing, cognitive load can be defined many ways. This report considers a definition of cognitive load in terms of the total probability of structural options...
Often a rule-based system is tested by checking its performance on a number of test cases with known solutions, modifying the system until it gives the correct results for all or ...
We present a novel discriminative training algorithm for n-gram language models for use in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. The algorithm uses large margin estimati...
Probabilistic verification of continuous-time stochastic processes has received increasing attention in the model-checking community in the past five years, with a clear focus on ...