Speech & natural language publications
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The names we play: exploring MMOG players’ avatar naming conventions
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…
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Semiotics and the order of acquisition of deictics in L1 French: A corpus-based study
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…
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Detecting Leadership and Cohesion in Spoken Interactions
We present a system for detecting leadership and group cohesion in multiparty dialogs and broadcast conversations in English and Mandarin.
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Normalized amplitude modulation features for large vocabulary noise-robust speech recognition
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...
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Ivector-based prosodic system for language identification
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.
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Unsupervised topic modeling for leader detection in spoken discourse
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.
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Towards Noise-Robust Speaker Recognition Using Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis
This work addresses the problem of speaker verification where additive noise is present in the enrollment and testing utterances.
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SRIUBC: simple similarity features for semantic textual similarity
We describe the systems submitted by SRI International and the University of the Basque Country for the Semantic Textual Similarity SemEval-2012 task.
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Recognizing articulatory gestures from speech for robust speech recognition
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.
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Leveraging Psycholinguistic Resources and Emotional Sequence models for Suicide Note Emotion Annotation
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…
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Bag-of-Audio-Words Approach for Multimedia Event Classification
We explore variations of the BoAW method and present results on NIST 2011 multimedia event detection (MED) dataset.
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Speaker recognition with region-constrained MLLR transforms
We define regions based on phonetic and prosodic criteria, based on automatic speech recognition output, and perform MLLR estimation using only frames selected by these criteria.