Abstract It has been widely observed that search queries are composed in a very different style from that of the body or the title of a document. Many techniques explicitly accounting for this language style[…]
Abstract In structured prediction problems the goal is to learn a function that maps input points to structured output labels: for example, strings, graphs, or trees. These problems are common in many fields—for example, natural[…]
Abstract We are in the midst of extraordinary change in how people interact with one another and with information. A combination of advances in technology and change in people’s expectations is altering the way products[…]
Abstract In the developing world, critical information, such as in the field of healthcare, can often mean the difference between life and death. While information and communications technologies enable multiple mechanisms for information access by[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Starting in the 1920s, researchers at AT&T Research characterized speech perception. Until 1950, this work was done by a large group working under Harvey Fletcher, which resulted in the articulation index,[…]
Abstract Segmental conditional random fields provide an exciting new approach to speech recognition based on the integration of numerous acoustic and linguistic cues. In this approach, acoustic detectors are applied to the audio signal, resulting[…]
Abstract Originally formulated in the context of information retrieval, latent semantic analysis exhibits three main characteristics: (i) words and documents (i.e., discrete entities) are mapped onto a continuous vector space; (ii) this mapping is determined[…]
