3 accepted papers
Shared tasks have a long history and have become the mainstream of NLP research. Most of the shared tasks require participants to submit only system outputs and descriptions. It is uncommon for the shared task to request submission of the system itself because of the license issues and implementatio…
This paper describes an automatic fluency evaluation of spontaneous speech. Although we regularly observe a variety of different disfluencies in spontaneous speech, we focus on two types of phenomena, i.e., filled pauses and word fragments. This paper aims to reveal that these two types of disfluenc…
This paper compares unsupervised sequence training techniques for deep neural networks (DNN) for broadcast transcriptions. Recent progress in digital archiving of broadcast content has made it easier to access large amounts of speech data. Such archived data will be helpful for acoustic/language mod…