Performance Improvement of Probabilistic Transcriptions with Language-specific Constraints

the role of application of dynamic assessment approach in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels

the present study sought to investigate the role of dynamic assessment (da) in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels. to this end, after conducting the quick placement test, 60 iranian efl learners were assigned to two groups with different language proficiency levels. in both groups each participant wrote two compositions, one before and one af...

Performance Improvements of Probabilistic Transcript-adapted ASR with Recurrent Neural Network and Language-specific Constraints

Mismatched transcriptions have been proposed as a mean to acquire probabilistic transcriptions from non-native speakers of a language. Prior work has demonstrated the value of these transcriptions by successfully adapting cross-lingual ASR systems for different target languages. In this work, we describe two techniques to refine these probabilistic transcriptions: a noisy-channel model of nonna...

Probabilistic Constraints in Language Acquisition

An approach to language acquisition is described in which the foundational questions are about how the child acquires adult-like language processing capacities. This approach assumes that the child’s primary task is not to identify the grammar of the target language, but rather to learn to comprehend and produce utterances in the service of communicating with others. In this framework the input...

Support vector regression with random output variable and probabilistic constraints

Support Vector Regression (SVR) solves regression problems based on the concept of Support Vector Machine (SVM). In this paper, a new model of SVR with probabilistic constraints is proposed that any of output data and bias are considered the random variables with uniform probability functions. Using the new proposed method, the optimal hyperplane regression can be obtained by solving a quadrati...

Canadian raising with language-specific weighted constraints