Committee |
Date Time |
Place |
Paper Title / Authors |
Abstract |
Paper # |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-20 14:35 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
Detection of back-channel feedback timings based on consistently tagged spoken dialogue corpus Tomohiro Ohno, Yuki Kamiya, Shigeki Matsubara (Nagoya Univ.) NLC2010-15 SP2010-88 |
This paper describes analysis and detection of back-channel feedback timings, aiming at realizing in-car spoken dialogue... [more] |
NLC2010-15 SP2010-88 pp.19-24 |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-20 15:00 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
Evaluation of spotting algorithm constrained by keyword co-occurrence for dialogue systems Aki Kato, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Akinobu Lee, Keiichi Tokuda (Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) NLC2010-16 SP2010-89 |
Question-answering dialogue system often choose a response sentence based on recognized keywords in a user's utterance. ... [more] |
NLC2010-16 SP2010-89 pp.25-30 |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-20 15:50 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
Trigram dialogue control using POMDPs Yasuhiro Minami, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Toyomi Meguro, Akira Mori, Eisaku Maeda (NTT Corp.) NLC2010-17 SP2010-90 |
This paper proposes hybrid dialogue control of both trigram and POMDP dialogue controls by extending our proposed method... [more] |
NLC2010-17 SP2010-90 pp.37-42 |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-20 16:30 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
Noise suppression method based on noise bias-residual decomposition and optimization Masakiyo Fujimoto, Shinji Watanabe, Tomohiro Nakatani (NTT Corp.) NLC2010-18 SP2010-91 |
In this paper, we propose a non-stationary noise estimation method based on bias-residual component decomposition, and s... [more] |
NLC2010-18 SP2010-91 pp.43-48 |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-20 17:20 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
Robust Acoustic Modeling Using MLLR Transformation-based Speech Feature Generation Arata Itoh, Sunao Hara, Norihide Kitaoka, Kazuya Takeda (Nagoya Univ.) NLC2010-19 SP2010-92 |
We propose a novel acoustic model training method based on the new acoustic feature generation. Recently, the speaker ad... [more] |
NLC2010-19 SP2010-92 pp.55-60 |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-20 17:45 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
The Digital Characteristics of Vocal Language
-- The Automata Generated by Digital Signals and Coding Mechanisms -- Kimiaki Tokumaru (System Engineer) NLC2010-20 SP2010-93 |
Having visited Cave No.3 of the Klasies River Mouth Caves, the oldest modern human site in the world with the confirmed ... [more] |
NLC2010-20 SP2010-93 pp.61-66 |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-21 11:05 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
Evaluation of Successive Rapid Hypothesis Determination Algorithm for Continuous Word Recognition Hiroyuki Ohno (Nagoya Inst. of Tech.), Hiroshi Kojima (Nagoya Inst. of Tech/Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.), Yoshihiko Nankaku, Akinobu Lee, Keiichi Tokuda (Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) NLC2010-21 SP2010-94 |
Minimizing response delay of speech recognition system and giving rapid feed backs are important properties for an intui... [more] |
NLC2010-21 SP2010-94 pp.77-82 |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-21 11:30 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
Voice Recognition Method Based on Features of Consonant Using Pipelined Matching Circuit Jun Nonaka, Keita Okamoto, Hakaru Tamukoh, Masatoshi Sekine (Tokyo Univ. of Agr and Tech.) NLC2010-22 SP2010-95 |
The human audition extracts voice characteristics from the sounds flowing into two ears. The recognition circuit of the ... [more] |
NLC2010-22 SP2010-95 pp.83-88 |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-21 13:00 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
[Invited Talk]
Building Watson
-- Can a Computer Compete against the Best Human Contestants in the TV Quiz Show -- Hiroshi Kanayama (IBM Japan) NLC2010-23 SP2010-96 |
IBM Research undertook a challenge to build a computer system, Watson, that could compete at the human champion level in... [more] |
NLC2010-23 SP2010-96 p.89 |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-21 15:35 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
Towards the Domain Independent Why Text Segment Classification by Bag of Grammar and Rule Based Hybrid Model Katsuyuki Tanaka, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki (Kobe Univ) NLC2010-24 SP2010-97 |
[more] |
NLC2010-24 SP2010-97 pp.103-108 |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-21 16:40 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
Spoken Dialogue Manager Using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Yasuhide Kishimoto, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki (Kobe Univ.) NLC2010-25 SP2010-98 |
In this paper,we propose a dialogue manager using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDP) that can treat ... [more] |
NLC2010-25 SP2010-98 pp.121-126 |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-21 16:40 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
A Voice Conversion Method Using Individuality of Sound Source Akihito Uemura, Jun Toyama (Hokkaidou Univ.) NLC2010-26 SP2010-99 |
In this paper, we describe a novel source conversion method for voice conversion. Toda et al. proposed voice conversion ... [more] |
NLC2010-26 SP2010-99 pp.159-163 |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-21 16:40 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
Non-negative matrix factorization of segmental STRAIGHT speech spectrograms Makoto Koseki, Kazunori Mano (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) NLC2010-27 SP2010-100 |
In this paper, we propose a new framework of non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) applied to segmental speech for spe... [more] |
NLC2010-27 SP2010-100 pp.183-188 |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-21 16:40 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
Study on HMM-based F0 Coding for Very Low Bit-Rate Vocoder Takashi Nose, Masashi Kumamoto, Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) NLC2010-28 SP2010-101 |
This paper presents a novel F0 coding technique for very low bit-rate HMM-based phonetic vocoder. Our technique is based... [more] |
NLC2010-28 SP2010-101 pp.189-194 |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-21 16:40 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
Iterative basis generation and supervised non-negative matrix factorization for signal analysis Toru Nakashika, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki (Kobe Univ.) NLC2010-29 SP2010-102 |
NMF (Non-negative Matrix Factorization) has been one of the most useful techniques for signal analysis in recent years.
... [more] |
NLC2010-29 SP2010-102 pp.195-200 |