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While there have been significant advances in de-tecting emotions in text, in the field of utter-ance-level emotion recognition (ULER), there are still many problems to be solved. In this paper, we address some challenges in ULER in dialog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 QingBiao Li , ChunHua Wu , KangFeng Zheng , Zhe Wang

Recently very deep transformers have outperformed conventional bi-directional long short-term memory networks by a large margin in speech recognition. However, to put it into production usage, inference computation cost is still a serious…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Nanxin Chen , Shinji Watanabe , Jesús Villalba , Najim Dehak

Personal rare word recognition in end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (E2E ASR) models is a challenge due to the lack of training data. A standard way to address this issue is with shallow fusion methods at inference time. However, due…

End-to-end transformer-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often capture multiple speech traits in their learned representations that are highly entangled, leading to a lack of interpretability. In this study, we propose the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Pu Wang , Hugo Van hamme

Current state-of-the-art speech recognition models are trained to map acoustic signals into sub-lexical units. While these models demonstrate superior performance, they remain vulnerable to out-of-distribution conditions such as background…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Sagarika Alavilli , Annesya Banerjee , Gasser Elbanna , Annika Magaro

In modern NLP applications, word embeddings are a crucial backbone that can be readily shared across a number of tasks. However as the text distributions change and word semantics evolve over time, the downstream applications using the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Nishtha Madaan , Prateek Chaudhury , Nishant Kumar , Srikanta Bedathur

Time-series classification is one of the most frequently performed tasks in industrial data science, and one of the most widely used data representation in the industrial setting is tabular representation. In this work, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Sharath M Shankaranarayana , Davor Runje

In this paper we investigate continuous speech recognition using electroencephalography (EEG) features using recently introduced end-to-end transformer based automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. Our results demonstrate that transformer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Mason Carnahan , Ahmed H Tewfik

Transformers have demonstrated effectiveness in in-context solving data-fitting problems from various (latent) models, as reported by Garg et al. However, the absence of an inherent iterative structure in the transformer architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Liu Yang , Kangwook Lee , Robert Nowak , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

Self-supervised pre-trained transformers have improved the state of the art on a variety of speech tasks. Due to the quadratic time and space complexity of self-attention, they usually operate at the level of relatively short (e.g.,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Suwon Shon , Felix Wu , Kwangyoun Kim , Prashant Sridhar , Karen Livescu , Shinji Watanabe

Attention-based models have made tremendous progress on end-to-end automatic speech recognition(ASR) recently. However, the conventional transformer-based approaches usually generate the sequence results token by token from left to right,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Xi Chen , Songyang Zhang , Dandan Song , Peng Ouyang , Shouyi Yin

Table structure recognition (TSR) aims to convert tabular images into a machine-readable format, where a visual encoder extracts image features and a textual decoder generates table-representing tokens. Existing approaches use classic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 ShengYun Peng , Seongmin Lee , Xiaojing Wang , Rajarajeswari Balasubramaniyan , Duen Horng Chau

Contrastive learning has proven to be an effective method for pre-training models using weakly labeled data in the vision domain. Sentence transformers are the NLP counterparts to this architecture, and have been growing in popularity due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Tanmay Chavan , Shantanu Patankar , Aditya Kane , Omkar Gokhale , Geetanjali Kale , Raviraj Joshi

Neural transducers have achieved human level performance on standard speech recognition benchmarks. However, their performance significantly degrades in the presence of cross-talk, especially when the primary speaker has a low…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-31 Desh Raj , Junteng Jia , Jay Mahadeokar , Chunyang Wu , Niko Moritz , Xiaohui Zhang , Ozlem Kalinli

Vector representations of sentences, trained on massive text corpora, are widely used as generic sentence embeddings across a variety of NLP problems. The learned representations are generally assumed to be continuous and real-valued,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Dinghan Shen , Pengyu Cheng , Dhanasekar Sundararaman , Xinyuan Zhang , Qian Yang , Meng Tang , Asli Celikyilmaz , Lawrence Carin

Large transformer-based language models have been shown to be very effective in many classification tasks. However, their computational complexity prevents their use in applications requiring the classification of a large set of candidates.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Luca Soldaini , Alessandro Moschitti

We propose a novel method for translation selection in statistical machine translation, in which a convolutional neural network is employed to judge the similarity between a phrase pair in two languages. The specifically designed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Zhaopeng Tu , Baotian Hu , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li

Pre-trained transformer language models have shown remarkable performance on a variety of NLP tasks. However, recent research has suggested that phrase-level representations in these models reflect heavy influences of lexical content, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Lang Yu , Allyson Ettinger

While deep learning has revolutionized research and applications in NLP and computer vision, this has not yet been the case for behavioral modeling and behavioral health applications. This is because the domain's datasets are smaller, have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Mike A. Merrill , Tim Althoff

Modeling the parser state is key to good performance in transition-based parsing. Recurrent Neural Networks considerably improved the performance of transition-based systems by modelling the global state, e.g. stack-LSTM parsers, or local…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ramon Fernandez Astudillo , Miguel Ballesteros , Tahira Naseem , Austin Blodgett , Radu Florian