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A deep learning approach has been proposed recently to derive speaker identifies (d-vector) by a deep neural network (DNN). This approach has been applied to text-dependent speaker recognition tasks and shows reasonable performance gains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Lantian Li , Yiye Lin , Zhiyong Zhang , Dong Wang

Native Language Identification (NLI) is the task of determining an author's native language (L1) from their non-native writings. With the advent of human-AI co-authorship, non-native texts are routinely corrected and rewritten by large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu , Mark Gales , Kate Knill , Gerold Schneider

While discriminative neural network classifiers are generally preferred, recent work has shown advantages of generative classifiers in term of data efficiency and robustness. In this paper, we focus on natural language inference (NLI). We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Xiaoan Ding , Tianyu Liu , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui , Kevin Gimpel

Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence have enabled the creation of highly realistic image forgeries, raising significant concerns about digital media authenticity. While existing detection methods demonstrate promising…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Junhao Xu , Jingjing Chen , Yang Jiao , Jiacheng Zhang , Zhiyu Tan , Hao Li , Yu-Gang Jiang

Face verification systems have seen substantial advancements; however, they often lack transparency in their decision-making processes. In this paper, we introduce an innovative Vision-Language Model (VLM) for Face Verification, which not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Syed Abdul Hannan , Hazim Bukhari , Thomas Cantalapiedra , Eman Ansar , Massa Baali , Rita Singh , Bhiksha Raj

Natural Language Processing systems are heavily dependent on the availability of annotated data to train practical models. Primarily, models are trained on English datasets. In recent times, significant advances have been made in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ankit Kumar Upadhyay , Harsit Kumar Upadhya

State-of-the-art natural language processing systems rely on supervision in the form of annotated data to learn competent models. These models are generally trained on data in a single language (usually English), and cannot be directly used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Alexis Conneau , Guillaume Lample , Ruty Rinott , Adina Williams , Samuel R. Bowman , Holger Schwenk , Veselin Stoyanov

Multilingual speaker verification introduces the challenge of verifying a speaker in multiple languages. Existing systems were built using i-vector/x-vector approaches along with Bi-LSTMs, which were trained to discriminate speakers,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Aravinda Reddy PN , Raghavendra Ramachandra , K. Sreenivasa Rao , Pabitra Mitra

Natural language-based assessment (NLA) is an approach to second language assessment that uses instructions - expressed in the form of can-do descriptors - originally intended for human examiners, aiming to determine whether large language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Stefano Bannò , Rao Ma , Mengjie Qian , Siyuan Tang , Kate Knill , Mark Gales

Natural language inference (NLI) is a fundamentally important task in natural language processing that has many applications. The recently released Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) corpus has made it possible to develop and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Shuohang Wang , Jing Jiang

Recent years have seen a growing number of publications that analyse Natural Language Inference (NLI) datasets for superficial cues, whether they undermine the complexity of the tasks underlying those datasets and how they impact those…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Viktor Schlegel , Goran Nenadic , Riza Batista-Navarro

Text-dependent speaker verification is becoming popular in the speaker recognition society. However, the conventional i-vector framework which has been successful for speaker identification and other similar tasks works relatively poorly in…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Yi Liu , Liang He , Yao Tian , Zhuzi Chen , Jia Liu , Michael T. Johnson

We describe a machine learning approach for the 2017 shared task on Native Language Identification (NLI). The proposed approach combines several kernels using multiple kernel learning. While most of our kernels are based on character…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Radu Tudor Ionescu , Marius Popescu

Random Indexing is a simple implementation of Random Projections with a wide range of applications. It can solve a variety of problems with good accuracy without introducing much complexity. Here we use it for identifying the language of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Aditya Joshi , Johan Halseth , Pentti Kanerva

Natural Language Inference (NLI) has been an important task for evaluating language models for Natural Language Understanding, but the logical properties of the task are poorly understood and often mischaracterized. Understanding the notion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Rasmus Blanck , Bill Noble , Stergios Chatzikyriakidis

The most pressing challenge in the field of voice biometrics is selecting the most efficient technique of speaker recognition. Every individual's voice is peculiar, factors like physical differences in vocal organs, accent and pronunciation…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Rishi Charan , Manisha. A , Karthik. R , Rajesh Kumar M

The acoustic and linguistic features are important cues for the spoken language identification (LID) task. Recent advanced LID systems mainly use acoustic features that lack the usage of explicit linguistic feature encoding. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Peng Shen , Xugang Lu , Hisashi Kawai

This paper introduces and motivates the use of hybrid robust feature extraction technique for spoken language identification (LID) system. The speech recognizers use a parametric form of a signal to get the most important distinguishable…

Sound · Computer Science 2010-03-31 Pawan Kumar , Astik Biswas , A . N. Mishra , Mahesh Chandra

Deep learning (DL) based language models achieve high performance on various benchmarks for Natural Language Inference (NLI). And at this time, symbolic approaches to NLI are receiving less attention. Both approaches (symbolic and DL) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Zeming Chen , Qiyue Gao , Lawrence S. Moss

Existing speaker verification (SV) systems often suffer from performance degradation if there is any language mismatch between model training, speaker enrollment, and test. A major cause of this degradation is that most existing SV methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Lantian Li , Dong Wang , Askar Rozi , Thomas Fang Zheng