This paper presents a new probabilistic framework of Mandarin speech recognition by incorporating a sophisticated hierarchical prosody model into the conventional HMM-based system...
Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) are commonly used to model the spectral distribution of speech signals for text-independent speaker verification. Mean vectors of the GMM, used in c...
Eryu Wang, Kong-Aik Lee, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, Wu Gu...
Fusion of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Trans Rectal Ultra Sound (TRUS) images during TRUS guided prostate biopsy improves localization of the malignant tissues. Segmented p...
Soumya Ghose, Arnau Oliver, Robert Marti, Xavier L...
Classifying the dialogue act of a user utterance is a key functionality of a dialogue management system. This paper presents a data-driven dialogue act classifier that is learned ...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eun Y. Ha, Robert Phillips...
This work investigates supervised word alignment methods that exploit inversion transduction grammar (ITG) constraints. We consider maximum margin and conditional likelihood objec...
Aria Haghighi, John Blitzer, John DeNero, Dan Klei...