Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Speech to Reply to SMS Messages While Driving: An In-Car Simulator User Study" docx

... ability to listen to incoming SMS messages using text -to -speech (TTS). Au- tomatic speech recognition (ASR) affords users a hands-free, eyes-free method of replying to SMS messages. However, to ... Linguistics Using Speech to Reply to SMS Messages While Driving: An In-Car Simulator User Study Yun-Cheng Ju, Tim Paek Microsoft Research Redmond,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20

... characteristics is an im- portant aspect of both speech synthesis and speech recognition. Correct placement of pitch accents aids in more natural sounding speech, while automatic detection of accents can contribute ... utterances with 13,190 words. These utter- ances were hand coded for pitch accent and intona- tional phrase brakes. 3.1 Pitch Accent Coding The utterances were hand la...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22

... optimum, worst and mean performances (see Table 8) on the data by using Precision (P), Recall (R) and F-measure (F). In addition, we also report the performance of two human annotators on 40 ACE ... cross-document, cross- sentence and cross-event inferences. Transductive inference is a process to use the known instances to predict the attributes of unknown instances. As an exampl...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... S t and the unobserved user state is U t . The user state indi- cates the user s hidden goal and relevant dialog his- tory which, due to ASR confusions, is known with certainty only to the user. Conditioned ... high-quality user model is needed. The usual method of building a user model is to estimate it from transcribed corpora of human-computer di- alogs. However, manually t...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 09:20

... sequence into Chinese characters, Computer Speech and Language 5(4):363-377. Ho, T.H., K.C. Yang, J.S. Lin and L.S. Lee. 1997. Integrating long-distance language modeling to phonetic -to- text ... four tones) and tone- less (syllables input without four tones) syllable -to- word (STW) accuracies of 99% and 92%, respectively, among the converted words; and (2) while apply- ing the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... replaced by the Art and Architecture Thesaurus 6 and an equiv- alent mapping tool to annotate images related to art and art history (Klavans et al., 2008). 3.1 Terminology To describe our features, ... queries can be more naturally specified by a human user (Inoue, 2004). However, manu- ally annotating biomedical images is a laborious and subjective task that often leads to noisy r...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... detection. Second, it is difficult to link answers with ques- tions. In forums, multiple questions and answers can be discussed in parallel and are interweaved to- gether while the reply relationship between ... to find the contexts and an- swers for each question. We first discuss using Lin- ear CRFs for context and answer detection, and then extend the basic framework to Skip-cha...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20

... was stored whether a comma was placed next to it or not. Therefore, each token in the corpus is equivalent to an ex- ample (an instance). The attributes of each token are based on the token ... chunks to the beginning and to the end of the sentence  number of nominal chunks to the begin- ning and to the end of the sentence  number of subordinate-clause marks to the be...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20

... technologies. Heckerman and Horvitz (1998) and Horvitz et al. (1998) used hand-crafted models and super- vised learning to construct Bayesian models that predict users’ goals and needs for assistance in the context ... 69/6 Topic Itself clues Initial component, Attribute clues Topic 193/9 Total NOUNs Total ADJs, Total AJPs, Total PRONOUNs Focus 226/10 Initial component Topic Itself clues, T...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 04:20

... responsible for source language speech recognition, including parsing and production of semantic representation; transfer and generation; and synthesis of target language speech. The speech processing ... (recognition and synthesis) are implemented on top of the standard Nuance Toolkit platform (Nuance, 2003). Recogni- tion is constrained by a CFG language model written in Nuance Gramma...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20