Abstract The cocktail party problem, or speech separation, has evaded a solution for decades in speech and audio processing. I have been advocating a new formulation of this old challenge that estimates an ideal time-frequency[…]
Abstract Devices that document daily life experiences are now smarter, affordable, lightweight, easy to use, and able to record for a whole day. Daylong recordings from wearables could provide a unique view on the user’s[…]
Abstract With the ever-increasing usage of social media for either explicitly seeking help or simply sharing thoughts and feelings, we, in the computational disciplines, have the opportunity to utilize such data for building datasets, models,[…]
Abstract The big data boom in recent years covers a wide spectrum of heterogeneous data types, from text to image, video, speech, and multimedia. Most of the valuable information in such “big data” is encoded[…]
Abstract Humans have an impressive ability to understand long and complex narratives, and to utilize common sense knowledge to quickly comprehend novel situations. NLP systems tend to scale poorly to long texts, and to rely[…]
