Abstract Code-switching is a commonly occurring phenomenon in many multilingual communities, wherein a speaker switches between languages within a single utterance. Conventional Word Error Rate (WER) is not sufficient for measuring the performance of code-mixed[…]

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Abstract Even conversational systems have attracted a lot of attention recently, the current systems sometimes fail due to the errors from different components. This talk presents our recent research: 1) we focus on analyzing the[…]

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Abstract Language is not only about the words, it is also about the people. While much of the work in computational linguistics has focused almost exclusively on words (and their relations), recent research in the[…]

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Abstract Traditional semantic representation frameworks generally define complex, often exclusive category systems that require highly trained annotators to build. And in spite of their high quality for the cases they are designed to handle, these[…]

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Abstract: The increased availability of high resolution cameras and array microphones in live meetings, video production, and camera enabled assistant devices has created opportunities for exploiting multiple modalities in speech applications.  This presentation summarizes initial[…]

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Abstract Acoustic event detection (AED) refers to the task of detecting target events in audios. It provides artificial intelligence systems the capability to better understand surrounding environments. In this talk, I will discuss our team’s[…]

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Abstract: We introduce Vecalign, a novel bilingual sentence alignment method which is linear in time and space with respect to the number of sentences being aligned and which requires only bilingual sentence embeddings. On a[…]

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