When dialogue systems, through the use of incremental processing, are not bounded anymore by strict, nonoverlapping turn-taking, a whole range of additional interactional devices ...
CADIAG-2 is a successful expert system assisting in the differential diagnosis in internal medicine. With its aid, conjectures about present diseases are derived from possibly vag...
In light of the serious problems with both illiteracy and information access in the developing world, there is a widespread belief that speech technology can play a significant ro...
Etienne Barnard, Johan Schalkwyk, Charl Johannes v...
We focus in this paper on the named entity recognition task in spoken data. The proposed approach investigates the use of various contexts of the words to improve recognition. Exp...
In this paper, we propose a new semi-supervised training method for Gaussian Mixture Models. We add a conditional entropy minimizer to the maximum mutual information criteria, whi...