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Homophones present a significant challenge to authors in any languages due to their similarities of pronunciations but different meanings and spellings. This issue is particularly pronounced in the Khmer language, rich in homophones due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Seanghort Born , Madeth May , Claudine Piau-Toffolon , Sébastien Iksal

Catastrophic forgetting is a thorny challenge when updating keyword spotting (KWS) models after deployment. This problem will be more challenging if KWS models are further required for edge devices due to their limited memory. To alleviate…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yang Xiao , Nana Hou , Eng Siong Chng

Spoken Keyword Spotting (KWS) is the task of distinguishing between the presence and absence of a keyword in audio. The accuracy of a KWS model hinges on its ability to correctly classify examples close to the keyword and non-keyword…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Harry Zhang , Kurt Partridge , Pai Zhu , Neng Chen , Hyun Jin Park , Dhruuv Agarwal , Quan Wang

Open-vocabulary keyword spotting (KWS) refers to the task of detecting words or terms within speech recordings, regardless of whether they were included in the training data. This paper introduces an open-vocabulary keyword spotting model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Yael Segal-Feldman , Ann R. Bradlow , Matthew Goldrick , Joseph Keshet

Learning to recognize new keywords with just a few examples is essential for personalizing keyword spotting (KWS) models to a user's choice of keywords. However, modern KWS models are typically trained on large datasets and restricted to a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-07 Abhijeet Awasthi , Kevin Kilgour , Hassan Rom

In this paper we present a new approach of incorporating kernels into dictionary learning. The kernel K-SVD algorithm (KKSVD), which has been introduced recently, shows an improvement in classification performance, with relation to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Alona Golts , Michael Elad

Keyphrase Prediction (KP) is essential for identifying keyphrases in a document that can summarize its content. However, recent Natural Language Processing (NLP) advances have developed more efficient KP models using deep learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Muhammad Umair , Tangina Sultana , Young-Koo Lee

Chinese word segmentation (CWS) is a fundamental step of Chinese natural language processing. In this paper, we build a new toolkit, named PKUSEG, for multi-domain word segmentation. Unlike existing single-model toolkits, PKUSEG targets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Ruixuan Luo , Jingjing Xu , Yi Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhang , Xuancheng Ren , Xu Sun

Keyphrase Prediction (KP) task aims at predicting several keyphrases that can summarize the main idea of the given document. Mainstream KP methods can be categorized into purely generative approaches and integrated models with extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Huanqin Wu , Wei Liu , Lei Li , Dan Nie , Tao Chen , Feng Zhang , Di Wang

Keyphrases provide a simple way of describing a document, giving the reader some clues about its contents. Keyphrases can be useful in a various applications such as retrieval engines, browsing interfaces, thesaurus construction, text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-04-20 Kamal Sarkar , Mita Nasipuri , Suranjan Ghose

Customized keyword spotting (KWS) has great potential to be deployed on edge devices to achieve hands-free user experience. However, in real applications, false alarm (FA) would be a serious problem for spotting dozens or even hundreds of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Zhanheng Yang , Sining Sun , Jin Li , Xiaoming Zhang , Xiong Wang , Long Ma , Lei Xie

This paper introduces the system submitted by the Yidun NISP team to the video keyword wakeup challenge. We propose a mandarin keyword spotting system (KWS) with several novel and effective improvements, including a big backbone (B) model,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Yuting Yang , Binbin Du , Yingxin Zhang , Wenxuan Wang , Yuke Li

Open-vocabulary keyword spotting (KWS), which allows users to customize keywords, has attracted increasingly more interest. However, existing methods based on acoustic models and post-processing train the acoustic model with ASR training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Ao Zhang , Pan Zhou , Kaixun Huang , Yong Zou , Ming Liu , Lei Xie

Keyword spotting (KWS) is a key component of smart devices, enabling efficient and intuitive audio interaction. However, standard KWS systems deployed on embedded devices often suffer performance degradation under real-world operating…

This work proposes a novel approach to out-of-vocabulary (OOV) keyword search (KWS) task. The proposed approach is based on using high-level features from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, so called phoneme posterior based (PPB)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yuri Khokhlov , Natalia Tomashenko , Ivan Medennikov , Alexei Romanenko

We present the KOKO system that takes declarative information extraction to a new level by incorporating advances in natural language processing techniques in its extraction language. KOKO is novel in that its extraction language…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Xiaolan Wang , Aaron Feng , Behzad Golshan , Alon Halevy , George Mihaila , Hidekazu Oiwa , Wang-Chiew Tan

This paper introduces the system submitted by the DKU-SMIIP team for the Auto-KWS 2021 Challenge. Our implementation consists of a two-stage keyword spotting system based on query-by-example spoken term detection and a speaker verification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-13 Yechen Wang , Yan Jia , Murong Ma , Zexin Cai , Ming Li

As advancements in technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Speaker Verification (SV), and Text-to-Speech (TTS) lead to increased usage of intelligent voice assistants, the demand for privacy and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Jianan Pan , Kejie Huang

Stopwords carry little semantic information and are often removed from text data to reduce dataset size and improve machine learning model performance. Consequently, researchers have sought to develop techniques for generating effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Daniel M. DiPietro

Khmer polarity classification is a fundamental natural language processing task that assigns a positive, negative, or neutral label to a given Khmer text input. Existing Khmer models typically predict the label without explaining the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Marry Kong , Rina Buoy , Sovisal Chenda , Nguonly Taing