Speech & natural language publications

In this work, we apply JFA to a very diverse set of recording conditions and conversation modes in NIST 2008 SRE, showing that having channel matched development data will give…

In this paper, we investigate the effect of using syntax in a large-scale audio document translation task targeting broadcast news and broadcast conversations.

This paper focuses on combining answers generated by a semantic parser that produces semantic role labels (SRLs) and those generated by syntactic parser that produces function tags for answering 5-W…

In this paper, we present an error analysis of a new cross-lingual task: the 5W task, a sentence-level understanding task which seeks to return the English 5W's (Who, What, When,…

This paper proposes a simple method of fuzzy matching between query names and phones of candidate audio segments.

This paper summarizes the CALO-MA architecture and its speech recognition and understanding components, which include realtime and offline speech transcription, dialog act segmentation and tagging, question-answer pair identification, action item…

In this paper, we introduce two methods for efficient selection of training data to be translated by humans. Our methods are motivated by active learning and aim to choose new…

In this paper, we present a complete analysis of the phone-based cepstral system with polynomial features. We start from a simpler system that does not use phones or states and…

We describe the large vocabulary automatic speech recognition system developed for Modern Standard Arabic used for the 2007 GALE evaluation as part of the speech translation system.

We provide an overview of automatic higher-level systems and discuss potential advantages, as well as issues, for their use in the forensic context.