Spectral data often have a large number of highly-correlated features, making feature selection both necessary and uneasy. A methodology combining hierarchical constrained clusteri...
The paper deals with the process of designing a phonetically and prosodically rich speech corpus for unit selection speech synthesis. The attention is given mainly to the recordin...
We focused on two issues: answer selection and confidence estimation. We found that some simple constraints on the candidate answers can improve a pure IR-based technique for answ...
Jinxi Xu, Ana Licuanan, Jonathan May, Scott Miller...
Lexical selection is a significant problem for widecoverage machine translation: depending on the context, a given source language word can often be translated into different targ...
— This paper presents an approach to agent’s action selection strategy called stepwise case-based reasoning (SCBR). In this paper an agent that roams in 3D synthetic world is c...