This paper extends language identification (LID) techniques to a large scale accent classification task: 23-way classification of foreign-accented English. We find that a pure...
Ghinwa F. Choueiter, Geoffrey Zweig, Patrick Nguye...
Abstract. The implementation of high-performance robot controllers for complex control tasks such as playing autonomous robot soccer is tedious, errorprone, and a never ending prog...
The morphology of Semitic languages is unique in the sense that the major word-formation mechanism is an inherently non-concatenative process of interdigitation, whereby two morph...
Reordering is currently one of the most important problems in statistical machine translation systems. This paper presents a novel strategy for dealing with it: statistical machin...
Like most natural language disambiguation tasks, word sense disambiguation (WSD) requires world knowledge for accurate predictions. Several proxies for this knowledge have been in...