View Seminar Video Abstract We address the problem of performing topic classification of speech when no transcriptions from the speech corpus of interest are available. The approach we take is one of incremental learning about[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Traditionally, linguistic variation within different time scales has been the province of different disciplines, each with a distinctive suite of techniques for obtaining and analyzing data. For example, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Structural ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules play an important role in regulating gene expression in organisms throughout the tree of life. The number of different classes of structural RNA, their possible mechanisms[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract This talk will review our work using several instrumental techniques that image the tongue. These techniques include ultrasound, cine-MRI, tagged-MRI, and DTI. The tongue is of interest because it is the[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract The world we live in is not nearly as clean and orderly as the training data sets of yesteryear. Our (acoustic) world is noisy, filled with unknown people and events. Mark[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Minimum-error-rate training (MERT) is a bottleneck for current development in statistical machine translation (MT) because it has difficulty estimating more than a dozen or two parameters. I will present two classes[…]
Abstract Nonparametric Bayesian methods are interesting because they may provide a way of learning the appropriate units of generalization as well as the generalization’s probability or weight. Adaptor Grammars are a framework for stating a[…]
