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Participatory Language Technologies as Core Systems for Sustainable Development Activities
Introduction and purpose: Language is the medium by which people interact with all aspects of their worlds, whether economics, health, the environment, or technology. In both development programs and technology, however, language is usually given secondary ...
2014Acoustic and Lexical Resource Constrained ASR using Language-Independent Acoustic Model and Language-Dependent Probabilistic Lexical Model
One of the key challenge involved in building a statistical automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is modeling the relationship between lexical units (that are based on subword units in the pronunciation lexicon) and acoustic feature observations. To mo ...
Idiap2014Architecture without Content 6: Without Venturi
Robert Venturi is probably architecture's best-known hero for the wrong reason. Extremely successful at a young age as the iconoclast of North America's late modernism, he soon came to represent (through his collaboration with Denise Scott Brown and Steven ...
2014Sleepers’ lag - study on motion and attention
Pierre Dillenbourg, Roland John Tormey, Mirko Raca
Human body-language is one of the richest and most obscure sources of information in inter-personal communication which we aim to re-introduce into the classroom’s ecosystem. In this paper we present our observations of student-to-student influence and mea ...
ACM2014Multilingual Lexicography with a Focus on Less-Resourced Languages: Data Mining, Expert Input, Crowdsourcing, and Gamification
This paper looks at the challenges that the Kamusi Project faces for acquiring open lexical data for less-resourced languages (LRLs), of a range, depth, and quality that can be useful within Human Language Technology (HLT). These challenges include accessi ...
2014Combining language and space: Sentence bisection in unilateral spatial neglect
In line bisection right-brain-damaged patients with left spatial neglect show a rightward deviation, with respect to the line's physical center. In word bisection ortho-phonological features of the stimulus' final (right-sided) part modulate performance of ...
Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2014Scala-Virtualized: Linguistic Reuse for Deep Embeddings
Martin Odersky, Tiark Rompf, Philipp Haller, Nada Amin
Scala-Virtualized extends the Scala language to better support hosting embedded DSLs. Scala is an expressive language that provides a flexible syntax, type-level computation using implicits, and other features that facilitate the development of em- bedded ...
Springer Verlag2013Crosslingual Tandem-SGMM: Exploiting Out-Of-Language Data for Acoustic Model and Feature Level Adaptation
Petr Motlicek, Philip Neil Garner, David Imseng
Recent studies have shown that speech recognizers may benefit from data in languages other than the target language through efficient acoustic model- or feature-level adaptation. Crosslingual Tandem-Subspace Gaussian Mixture Models (SGMM) are successfully ...
ISCA2013Crosslingual Tandem-SGMM: Exploiting Out-Of-Language Data for Acoustic Model and Feature Level Adaptation
Petr Motlicek, Philip Neil Garner, David Imseng
Recent studies have shown that speech recognizers may benefit from data in languages other than the target language through efficient acoustic model- or feature-level adaptation. Crosslingual Tandem-Subspace Gaussian Mixture Models (SGMM) are successfully ...
Idiap2013Comparing different acoustic modeling techniques for multilingual boosting
Hervé Bourlard, Petr Motlicek, Philip Neil Garner, John David Scott Dines, David Imseng
In this paper, we explore how different acoustic modeling techniques can benefit from data in languages other than the target language. We propose an algorithm to perform decision tree state clustering for the recently proposed Kullback-Leibler divergence ...
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