Yongping Du, Helen Meng, Xuanjing Huang, Lide Wu
A reading comprehension (RC) system attempts to understand a document and returns an answer sentence when posed with a question. RC resembles the ad hoc question answering (QA) task that aims to...
Kui Xu, Helen Meng, Fuliang Weng
Automatic reading comprehension (RC) systems can analyze a given passage and generate/extract answers in response to questions about the passage. The RC passages are often constrained in their...
Using Verb Dependency Matching in a Reading Comprehension System (2008)
Abstract. In this paper, we describe a reading comprehension system. This system can return a sentence in a given document as the answer to a given question. This system applies bag-of-words matching...
A Corpus-based Approach for Cooperative Response Generation in a Dialog System (2008)
Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Hui Ning, Sam C. Tse
Abstract. This paper presents a corpus-based approach for cooperative response generation in a spoken dialog system for the Hong Kong tourism domain. A corpus with 3874 requests and responses is...
Discriminant Mutual Subspace Learning for Indoor and Outdoor Face Recognition (2008)
Zhifeng Li, Dahua Lin, Helen Meng, Xiaoou Tang, Dept Of Seem, The Chinese
Outdoor face recognition is among the most challenging problems for face recognition. In this paper, we develop a discriminant mutual subspace learning algorithm for indoor and outdoor face...
Kui Xu, Helen Meng, Fuliang Weng
Automatic reading comprehension (RC) systems can analyze a given passage and generate/extract answers in response to questions about the passage. The RC passages are often constrained in their...
Automatic Grammar Partitioning for Syntactic Parsing (2008)
Po Chui Luk, Fuliang Weng, Helen Meng
Natural language processing technologies offer ease-of-use of computers for average users, and ease-of-access to on-line information. Natural language, however, is complex, and the traditional...
Prof Isabel Trancoso, Dr. Harry Printz, Eric Chang, Frank Seide, Helen Meng, Zhuoran Chen, ...
We present a system which allows the user to search for information on mobile devices using spoken natural language queries. This is the first work that we are aware of which evaluates spoken query...
Shi-xiong Zhang, Man-wai Mak, Helen Meng
Although articulatory feature-based conditional pronunciation models (AFCPMs) can capture the pronunciation characteristics of speakers, they requires one discrete density function for each phoneme,...
Zhengyu Zhou, Jianfeng Gao, Frank K. Soong, Helen Meng
This paper is an empirical study on the performance of different discriminative approaches to reranking the N-best hypotheses output from a large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer (LVCSR). Four...
Li Ccb Yuanxiang, Yuanxiang Li, Xiaoqing Ding, Chew Lim, Tan Combining, Wai-kit Lo, ...
M [7] Helen Meng, Po-Chui Luk, Kui Xu, and Fuliang Weng. GLR parsing with multiple grammars for natural language queries. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, 1(2): 123--144,...
M.H.: Multi-level fusion of audio and visual features for speaker identification (2006)
Zhiyong Wu, Lianhong Cai, Helen Meng
Abstract. This paper explores the fusion of audio and visual evidences through a multi-level hybrid fusion architecture based on dynamic Bayesian network (DBN), which combines model level and...
Eric Chang, Helen Meng, Yuk-chi Li, Tien-ying Fung, Shatin N. T, Shatin N. T, ...
Ease of browsing and searching for information on mobile devices has been an area of increasing interest in the World Wide Web research community [1, 2, 3, 6, 7]. While some work has been done to...
Discovery of Unknown Events From Multi-lingual News (2001)
We have proposed a new approach to detect topically-related events from multi-lingual news sources. In particular, we are interested in Chinese and English on-line newswire stories. Three categories...
Multi-scale audio indexing for translingual spoken document retrieval (2001)
Hsin-min Wang, Helen Meng, Patrick Schone, Berlin Chen, Wai-kit Lo
MEI (Mandarin-English Information) is an English-Chinese crosslingual spoken document retrieval (CL-SDR) system developed during the Johns Hopkins University Summer Workshop 2000. We integrate speech...
Mandarin-English information (MEI): Investigating translingual speech retrieval (2000)
Helen Meng, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Gina Levow, Douglas W. Oard, Hsin-min Wang
We describe a system which supports English text queries searching for Mandarin Chinese spoken documents. This is one of the first attempts to tightly couple speech recognition with machine...
Mandarin-English information (MEI): Investigating translingual speech retrieval (2000)
Helen Meng, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Gina Levow, Douglas W. Oard, Hsin-min Wang
We describe a system which supports English text queries searching for Mandarin Chinese spoken documents. This is one of the first attempts to tightly couple speech recognition with machine...
Mandarin-English Information (MEI (2000)
Helen Meng, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Douglas W. Oard, Hsin-min Wang
Mandarin-English Information (MEI) is one of the four projects selected for the Johns Hopkins University Summer Workshop 2000. We plan to develop technologies for using written queries to search...
Mandarin-English information (MEI): Investigating translingual speech retrieval (2000)
Helen Meng, Berlin Chen, Erika Grams, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Wai-kit Lo, Gina-anne Levow, ...
ISIS: A Multilingual Spoken Dialog System developed with (2000)
Helen Meng, Shuk Fong Chan, Yee Fong Wong, Tien Ying Fung, Wai Ching Tsui, Tin Hang Lo, ...
ISIS, which abbreviates Intelligent Speech for Information Systems, is a trilingual spoken dialog system (SDS) for the financial domain. It handles two dialects of Chinese (Cantonese and Putonghua),...
Mandarin-English information (MEI): Investigating translingual speech retrieval (2000)
Helen Meng, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Gina Levow, Douglas W. Oard, Hsin-min Wang
We describe a system which supports English text queries searching for Mandarin Chinese spoken documents. This is one of the first attempts to tightly couple speech recognition with machine...
Mandarin-English Information (MEI): Investigating Translingual Speech Retrieval (2000)
Helen Meng, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Gina Levow, Douglas W. Oard, Hsin-min Wang
We describe a system which supports English text queries searching for Mandarin Chinese spoken documents. This is one of the first attempts to tightly couple speech recognition with machine...
Mandarin-English Information (MEI): Investigating Translingual Speech Retrieval (2000)
Helen Meng Sanjeev, Helen Meng, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Gina Levow, Hsin-min Wang
We describe a system which supports English text queries searching for Mandarin Chinese spoken documents. This is one of the first attempts to tightly couple speech recognition with machine...
Mandarin-English Information (MEI) (2000)
Helen Meng, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Douglas W. Oard, Hsin-min Wang
Mandarin-English Information (MEI) is one of the four projects selected for the Johns Hopkins University Summer Workshop 2000. We plan to develop technologies for using written queries to search...
A form-based dialogue manager for spoken language applications (1996)
David Goddeau, Helen Meng, Joe Polifroni, Stephanie Seneff, Senis Busayapongchaiy
A popular approach to dialogue management is based on a finitestate model, where user utterances trigger transitions between the dialogue states, and these states, in turn, determine the system’s...
Wheels: A conversational system in the automobile classifieds domain (1996)
Helen Meng, Senis Busayapongchaiy, James Glass, Dave Goddeau, Lee Hetherington, Christine Pao, ...
WHEELS is a conversational system which provides access to a database of eletronic automobile classified advertisements. It leverages off the existing spoken language technologies from our GALAXY...
Multilingual Human-Computer Interactions: From Information Access to Language (1996)
Victor Zue, Stephanie Seneff, Joseph Polifroni, Helen Meng, James Glass
This paper describes our recent work in developing multilingual conversational systems that support human-computer interactions. Our approach is based on the premise that a common semantic...
Angie: A New Framework For Speech Analysis Based On Morpho-Phonological Modelling (1996)
Stephanie Seneff Raymond, Raymond Lau, Helen Meng
This paper describes a new system for speech analysis, ANGIE, which characterizes word substructure in terms of a trainable grammar. ANGIE capture morpho-phonemic and phonological phenomena through a...
Angie: A New Framework For Speech Analysis Based On Morpho-Phonological Modelling (1996)
Stephanie Seneff, Raymond Lau, Helen Meng
This paper describes a new system for speech analysis, ANGIE, which characterizes word substructure in terms of a trainable grammar. ANGIE capture morpho-phonemic and phonological phenomena through a...
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Yinhe: A Mandarin Chinese Version Of The Galaxy System
Chao Wang, James Glass, Helen Meng, Joe Polifroni, Stephanie Seneff, Victor Zue
The galaxy system is a human-computer conversational system providing a spoken language interface for accessing on-line information. It was initially implemented for English in travel-related...