Speech & natural language publications

This study examined the acquisition of deixis in French children from the age of 18-32 months. Emphasis was put on the use of demonstrative pronouns, tense and aspect and the…

Our hypothesis is that naming practices represent one primary (and underexplored) means through which players maintain continuity and a stable identity across their MMOG play. Here, we report on the…

In this paper, an automatic language recognition system that extracts prosody information from speech and makes decisions about the language with a generative classifier based on iVectors is built.

In this paper, we describe a method for leader detection in multiparty spoken discourse that relies on unsupervised topic modeling to segment the discourse automatically.

We present a system for detecting leadership and group cohesion in multiparty dialogs and broadcast conversations in English and Mandarin.

In this work, we present an amplitude modulation feature derived from Teager’s nonlinear energy operator that is power normalized and cosine transformed to produce normalized modulation cepstral coefficient (NMCC) features...

We discuss the issues involved and describe a set of tools for generating optimized decoder solutions for irregular loudspeaker arrays and demonstrate those tools with practical examples.

This work addresses the problem of speaker verification where additive noise is present in the enrollment and testing utterances.

We describe the systems submitted by SRI International and the University of the Basque Country for the Semantic Textual Similarity SemEval-2012 task.

This paper proposes a neural network architecture for recognizing articulatory gestures from speech and presents ways to incorporate articulatory gestures for a digit recognition task.

We describe the submission entered by SRI International and UC Davis for the I2B2 NLP Challenge Track 2. Our system is based on a machine learning approach and employs a…

We explore variations of the BoAW method and present results on NIST 2011 multimedia event detection (MED) dataset.