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INTERSPEECH
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Cross-cultural investigation of prosody in verbal feedback in interactional rapport
Aspects of speech and non-verbal behavior allow conversational partners to establish and maintain rapport by signaling engagement or endorsement. In the verbal channel, these fact...
Gina-Anne Levow, Susan Duncan, Edward T. King
INTERSPEECH
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Dialect recognition using a phone-GMM-supervector-based SVM kernel
In this paper, we introduce a new approach to dialect recognition which relies on the hypothesis that certain phones are realized differently across dialects. Given a speaker'...
Fadi Biadsy, Julia Hirschberg, Michael Collins
JDCTA
2010
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A Semantic Approach to Extract the Final Answer in SBUQA Question Answering System
In this paper we introduce the semantic approach of the answer extraction component of a question answering system called SBUQA. The answer extraction component gets the retrieved...
Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Mahsa Arab Yarmohammadi
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Informative dialect recognition using context-dependent pronunciation modeling
We propose an informative dialect recognition system that learns phonetic transformation rules, and uses them to identify dialects. A hidden Markov model is used to align referenc...
Nancy F. Chen, Wade Shen, Joseph P. Campbell, Pedr...
ACL
2011
14 years 10 months ago
An Algorithm for Unsupervised Transliteration Mining with an Application to Word Alignment
We propose a language-independent method for the automatic extraction of transliteration pairs from parallel corpora. In contrast to previous work, our method uses no form of supe...
Hassan Sajjad, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid