Opportunity Recognition: Conversational Foundations and Pathways Ahead

Conversational telephone speech recognition

This paper describes the development of a speech recognition system for the processing of telephone conversations, starting with a state-of-the-art broadcast news transcription system. We identify major changes and improvements in acoustic and language modeling, as well as decoding, which are required to achieve state-of-theart performance on conversational speech. Some major changes on the aco...

Running Head: Pathways of Opportunity PATHWAYS OF OPPORTUNITY IN DYNAMIC ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS

How do organizational networks change continuously to provide new opportunities for members? We view organizations as complex adaptive systems embedded in heterogeneous networks consisting of different kinds of nodes (such as people, machines, projects, and heterogeneous components of the modern technological environment), and consider new opportunities to reside in the creation of new pathways...

Ethnomethodology and Conversational Analysis

In a speech community, people utilize their communicative competence which they have acquired from their society as part of their distinctive sociolinguistic identity. They negotiate and share meanings, because they have commonsense knowledge about the world, and have universal practical reasoning. Their commonsense knowledge is embodied in their language. Thus, not only does social life depend...

Towards robust conversational speech recognition and understanding

Opportunity Recognition in Complex Environments

An agent operating in an unpredictable world must be able to take advantage of opportunities but cannot afford to perform a detailed analysis of the effects of every nuance of the current situation on its goals if it is to respond in a timely manner. This paper describes a filtering mechanism that enables the effective recognition of opportunities. The mechanism is based on a characterization o...