View Seminar Video Abstract In most social settings, competing speech sounds mask one another, causing us to hear only portions of the signal we are trying to understand. Moreover, multiple signals vie for our attention,[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract In fields ranging from reasoning to linguistics, the idea of humans as perfect, rational, optimal creatures is making a comeback – but should it be? Hamlet’s musings that the mind was[…]
Abstract A long-term goal of Machine Learning research is to solve highly complex “intelligent” tasks, such as visual perception, auditory perception, and language understanding. To reach that goal, the ML community must solve two problems:[…]
Research Groups Multilingual Spoken Term Detection: Finding and Testing New Pronunciations Robust Speaker Recognition Over Varying Channels Vocal Aging Explained by Vocal Tract Modeling
View Seminar Video Abstract Dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) are a class of directed graphical models for use on variable length sequences. DBNs have been applied to a number of tasks including automatic speech recognition, language[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Many problems in Natural Language Processing (NLP) involves an efficient search for the best derivation over (exponentially) many candidates, especially in parsing and machine translation. In these cases, the concept of[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Extracting relational information about times and events referred to in a document has a wide range of applications, from information retrieval to document summarization. While there has been a long history[…]
