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Showing 1 to 20 of 230 for “"spoken language"”.
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Learning spoken language through vision
Humans learn language at an early age by simply observing the world around them. Why can't computers do the same? Conventional automatic speech recognition systems have a long history and have recently made great strides thanks to the revival of deep neural networks. However, their reliance on …
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Phonological prediction in spoken language processing
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Transfer Learning For Spoken Language Processing
… thesis develops transfer learning paradigms for spoken language processing applications. In particular, we tackle domain adaptation in the context of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Cross-Lingual Learning in Automatic Speech Translation (AST). The first part of the thesis develops an …
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Detecting cognitive impairment from spoken language
… interviews to measure memory, thinking, language, and motor skills. Work is on-going to determine biomarkers of cognitive impairment, yet one modality that has been relatively less explored is speech. Speech has the advantage of being easy to record, and contains the majority of …
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Improving Cascaded Systems in Spoken Language Processing
Spoken language processing encompasses a broad range of speech production and perception tasks. One of the central challenges in building spoken language systems is the lack of end-to-end training corpora. For example in spoken language translation, there is little annotated data that directly …
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Crowd-supervised training of spoken language systems
Spoken language systems are often deployed with static speech recognizers. Only rarely are parameters in the underlying language, lexical, or acoustic models updated on-the-fly. In the few instances where parameters are learned in an online fashion, developers traditionally resort to unsupervised …
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Spoken Language Processing and Modeling for Aviation Communications
… aviation-specific corpora, applying natural language processing technologies, especially those based on transformer neural networks, to aviation communications is becoming increasingly feasible. Previous work has focused on machine learning applications to natural language processing, such as …
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Spoken Language Understanding in an Intelligent Tutoring Scenario
Moreover, this study tries to acknowledge the role of speech in SLU. The existing semantic analysis of speech is usually achieved through text transcription. However, human interpretation of speech and text is via different channels. We admit the role of text in semantic analysis, but we also …
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Spoken language understanding in a nutrition dialogue system
… to existing self-assessment methods, whether spoken language descriptions of meals can accurately quantify caloric and nutrient absorption, and whether dialogue can efficiently and effectively be used to ascertain and clarify food properties, perhaps in conjunction with other modalities. In …
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SLLS : an online conversational spoken language learning system
The Spoken Language Learning System (SLLS) is intended to be an engaging, educational, and extensible spoken language learning system showcasing the multilingual capabilities of the Spoken Language Systems Group's (SLS) systems. The motivation behind SLLS is to satisfy both the demand for spoken …
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PLUTO : a preprocessor for multilingual spoken language generation
Surface realization, a subtask of natural language generation, maps a meaning representation to a natural language string. This thesis presents an architecture for a surface realization component in a spoken dialogue system. The architecture divides the surface realization task in two: (1) …
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LanguageLand : a multimodal conversational spoken language learning system
LanguageLand is a multimodal conversational spoken language learning system whose purpose is to help native English users learn Mandarin Chinese. The system is centered on a game that involves navigation on a simulated map. It consists of an edit and play mode. In edit mode, users can set up the …
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Spoken Language Understanding: from Spoken Utterances to Semantic Structures
… two decades there have been several projects on Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). In the early nineties DARPA ATIS project aimed at providing a natural language interface to a travel information database. Following the ATIS project, DARPA Communicator project aimed at building a spoken dialog …
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Utterance verification in large vocabulary spoken language understanding system
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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SLS-Lite : enabling spoken language systems design for non-experts
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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CHATTER : a spoken language dialogue system for language learning applications
… goal of this thesis is to build a Computer Aided Language Learning game that simulates a casual conversation in Mandarin Chinese. In the envisioned system, users will chat with a computer on topics ranging from relationship status to favorite Chinese dish. I hope to provide learners with more …
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Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Learning with application to Spoken Language Assessment
… approach to addressing computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition and bio-informatics tasks. However, despite impressive performance, neural networks tend to make over-confident predictions. Thus, it is necessary to investigate robust, interpretable and tractable estimates …
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A hierarchical model of German morphology in a spoken language lexicon environment
Die Dissertation entwirft eine zeichenbasierte Theorie der Morphologie des Deutschen. Die allgemeine Strategie ist, die existierenden, zum Teil widersprüchlichen Ansätze zum Lexikon in der Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar einerseits und zur Morphologie andererseits kritisch zu evaluieren und …
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Incorporating non-verbal modalities in spoken language understanding for multimodal conversational systems
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Computer Science, 2009
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The Use of Language Models in End-to-End Spoken Language Processing
… modelling approach has achieved great success in spoken language processing including automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech translation (ST). E2E spoken language processing systems have many advantages compared to cascaded systems, including global optimisation, a simplified pipeline, and …
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