Ilia Vovsha

INTERSPEECH 2007 Classification of Discourse Functions of Affirmative Words in Spoken Dialogue (2009)

Agustín Gravano, Stefan Benus, Julia Hirschberg, Shira Mitchell, Ilia Vovsha

We present results of a series of machine learning experiments that address the classification of the discourse function of single affirmative cue words such as alright, okay and mm-hm in a spoken...

Online Coordinate Boosting (2008)

Pelossof, Raphael, Jones, Michael, Vovsha, Ilia, Rudin, Cynthia

We present a new online boosting algorithm for adapting the weights of a boosted classifier, which yields a closer approximation to Freund and Schapire's AdaBoost algorithm than previous online...