In this paper, we investigate unsupervised fast speaker adaptation based on eigenvoice to improve the performance of Korean connected digit recognition over the telephone channel. In addition, utterance verification is introduced into speaker adaptation to examine whether input utterance is appropriate to adaptation or not. Performance evaluation showed that the proposed method yielded performa...

Although there are a number of tools for annotating dialogue, little work has been done in visualizing differences among annotations. Visualization of differences in annotation should help in doing consensus annotation, refining an annotation scheme and training novice annotators. In this paper, we present a graphical Annotation Comparison Tool (ACT), which displays multiple annotations side by...

The present paper presents a unified analysis of free and embedded indirect speech, with a specific focus on German. First we need a context-based analysis of indexicals (rigid/shiftable) which can capture their orientation in uses in indirect speech. The analysis includes a treatment of the German reportative subjunctive as a shiftable indexical tense. Indirect speech in embedded clauses of th...

In this paper, we consider an application of distributed detection and fusion framework to utterance verification (UV) and confidence measure (CM) objectives. We formulate the UV as a distributed detection and Bayesian fusion problem by combining various individual UV methods. We essentially design an optimal fusion rule that achieves minimum error rate. In the relevant isolated word OOV reject...

The danger lurking around these examples is that we will derive a meaning that has Peter ordering up linguistic objects. We must avoid this pitfall, but we must also preserve the meaning difference: (1a) is true in a different class of situations than (1b). It will not do to strip off the quotation marks and gesture at a “metalinguistic” theory to explain why speakers easily find situations in ...

During real-life interactions, people are naturally gesturing and modulating their voice to emphasize specific points or to express their emotions. With the recent growth of social websites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Amazon, video reviews are emerging as a new source of multimodal and natural opinions that has been left almost untapped by automatic opinion analysis techniques. This paper pr...

In order to make spoken dialogue systems more sophisticated, designers need to better understand the conventions that people use in structuring their speech and in interacting with their fellow conversants. In particular, it is crucial to discriminate the basic building blocks of dialogue and how they affect the way people process language. Many researchers have proposed the utterance unit as t...

The cognitive basis of utterance interpretation is an area that continues to provoke intense theoretical debate among pragmatists. That utterance interpretation involves some type of mind-reading or theory of mind (ToM) is indisputable. However, theorists are divided on the exact nature of this ToM-based mechanism. In this paper, it is argued that the only type of ToM-based mechanism that can a...

In this study we investigate utterance-final intonation in two dialects of Kammu, one tonal and one non-tonal. While the general patterns of utterance-final intonation are similar between the dialects, we do find clear evidence that the lexical tones of the tonal dialect restrict the pitch range and the realization of focus. Speaker engagement can have a strong effect on the utterance-final acc...