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2008
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
Discriminative feature weighting using MCE training for topic identification of spoken audio recordings
In this paper we investigate a discriminative approach to feature weighting for topic identification using minimum classification error (MCE) training. Our approach learns featu...
Timothy J. Hazen, Anna Margolis
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ICASSP
2008
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
Name-aware speech recognition for interactive question answering
In this work we show how interactivity in a voice-enabled question answering application may improve speech recognition. We allow the user to provide a target named entity before ...
Svetlana Stoyanchev, Gökhan Tür, Dilek Z...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
An instantaneous vector representation of delta pitch for speaker-change prediction in conversational dialogue systems
As spoken dialogue systems become deployed in increasingly complex domains, they face rising demands on the naturalness of interaction. We focus on system responsiveness, aiming t...
Kornel Laskowski, Jens Edlund, Mattias Heldner
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
Automatic classification of question turns in spontaneous speech using lexical and prosodic evidence
The ability to identify speech acts reliably is desirable in any spoken language system that interacts with humans. Minimally, such a system should be capable of distinguishing be...
Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Prasanta Ghosh, ...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
Punctuating speech for information extraction
This paper studies the effect of automatic sentence boundary detection and comma prediction on entity and relation extraction in speech. We show that punctuating the machine gener...
Benoît Favre, Ralph Grishman, Dustin Hillard...