Dominique M. Hanssens is Bud Knapp Professor of Marketing, Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (e-mail: [email protected]). Roland T. Rust is Distinguished University Professor, David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing, and Chair of the Department of Marketing, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland (e-mail: [email protected]...

Riskiness of a particular loan can be estimated based on several of its economic indicators. Although the actual relationship is very complicated, it is possible to construct a simplified model which can roughly classify a loan into one of the three categories high risk loan, medium risk loan and low risk loan based on certain criteria. This paper seeks to build such a model based on publicly a...

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In this paper, we present a robust speech acquisition system to acquire continuous speech using a microphone array. A microphone array based speech recognition system is also presented to study the environmental interference due to reverberation, background noises and mismatch between the training and testing conditions. This is important in the context of smart meeting rooms of Augmented Multi...

We report grammar inference experiments on partially parsed sentences taken from the Wall Street Journal corpus using the inside-outside algorithm for stochastic context-free grammars. The initial grammar for the inference process makes no ,assumption of the kinds of structures and their distributions. The inferred grammar is evaluated by its predicting power and by comparing the bracketing of ...

Geometric context has been recognised as important high-level knowledge towards the goal of scene understanding. In this work we present two approaches to estimate the local geometric structure of urban street canyons captured from a head-mounted stereo camera. A dense disparity estimation is the only input for both approaches. First, we show how the left and right building facade can be obtain...

For decades, the world of financial advisors has been dominated by large investment banks such as Goldman Sachs. In recent years, user-contributed investment services such as SeekingAlpha and StockTwits have grown to millions of users. In this paper, we seek to understand the quality and impact of content on social investment platforms, by empirically analyzing complete datasets of SeekingAlpha...

The DARPA Spoken Language System (SLS) community has long taken a leadership position in designing, implementing, and globally distributing significant speech corpora widely used for advancing speech recognition research. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) CSR Corpus described here is the newest addition to this valuable set of resources. In contrast to previous corpora, the WSJ corpus will provide ...