Search Results - "Chen, Nancy F."

A transformer-Based neural language model that synthesizes brain activation maps from free-form text queries by Ngo, Gia H., Nguyen, Minh, Chen, Nancy F., Sabuncu, Mert R.

“…•Text2Brain combines a transformer-based text encoder and a 3D convolutional neural network for brain image synthesis•Generates meaningful activation maps from…”
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Picking the Underused Heads: A Network Pruning Perspective of Attention Head Selection for Fusing Dialogue Coreference Information by Liu, Zhengyuan, Chen, Nancy F.

“…The Transformer-based models with the multi-head self-attention mechanism are widely used in natural language processing, and provide state-of-the-art results…”
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Progressive Continual Learning for Spoken Keyword Spotting by Huang, Yizheng, Hou, Nana, Chen, Nancy F.

“…Catastrophic forgetting is a thorny challenge when updating keyword spotting (KWS) models after deployment. To tackle such challenges, we propose a progressive…”
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Cross-lingual deep neural network based submodular unbiased data selection for low-resource keyword search by Chongjia Ni, Cheung-Chi Leung, Lei Wang, Haibo Liu, Feng Rao, Li Lu, Chen, Nancy F., Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

“…In this paper, we propose a cross-lingual deep neural network (DNN) based submodular unbiased data selection approach for low-resource keyword search (KWS). A…”
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Large-scale characterization of non-native Mandarin Chinese spoken by speakers of European origin: Analysis on iCALL by Chen, Nancy F., Wee, Darren, Tong, Rong, Ma, Bin, Li, Haizhou

“…In this work, we analyze phonetic and prosodic pronunciation patterns from iCALL, a speech corpus designed to evaluate Mandarin mispronunciations by non-native…”
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Senone-Aware Adversarial Multi-Task Training for Unsupervised Child to Adult Speech Adaptation by Duan, Richeng, Chen, Nancy F.

“…Acoustic modeling for child speech is challenging due to the high acoustic variability caused by physiological differences in the vocal tract. The dearth of…”
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Hierarchical Character Embeddings: Learning Phonological and Semantic Representations in Languages of Logographic Origin Using Recursive Neural Networks by Nguyen, Minh, Ngo, Gia H., Chen, Nancy F.

“…Logographs (Chinese characters) have recursive structures (i.e. hierarchies of sub-units in logographs) that contain phonological and semantic information, as…”
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Domain-Shift Conditioning Using Adaptable Filtering Via Hierarchical Embeddings for Robust Chinese Spell Check by Nguyen, Minh, Ngo, Gia H., Chen, Nancy F.

“…Spell check is a useful application which processes noisy human-generated text. Spell check for Chinese poses unresolved problems due to the large number of…”
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Improving non-native mispronunciation detection and enriching diagnostic feedback with DNN-based speech attribute modeling by Wei Li, Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco, Chen, Nancy F., Chin-Hui Lee

“…We propose the use of speech attributes, such as voicing and aspiration, to address two key research issues in computer assisted pronunciation training (CAPT)…”
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Modelling Inter-rater Uncertainty in Spoken Language Assessment by Wong, Jeremy H. M., Zhang, Huayun, Chen, Nancy F.

“…In a subjective task, such as Spoken Language Assessment (SLA), the reference scores provided by different human raters may vary. A collection of annotated…”
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Characterization of Telecare Conversations on Lifestyle Management and Their Relation to Health Care Utilization for Patients with Heart Failure: Mixed Methods Study by Erdt, Mojisola, Yusof, Sakinah Binte, Chai, Liquan, Md Salleh, Siti Umairah, Liu, Zhengyuan, Sarim, Halimah Binte, Lim, Geok Choo, Lim, Hazel, Suhaimi, Nur Farah Ain, Yulong, Lin, Guo, Yang, Ng, Angela, Ong, Sharon, Choo, Bryan Peide, Lee, Sheldon, Weiliang, Huang, Oh, Hong Choon, Wolters, Maria Klara, Chen, Nancy F, Krishnaswamy, Pavitra

“…Telehealth interventions where providers offer support and coaching to patients with chronic conditions such as heart failure (HF) and type 2 diabetes mellitus…”
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Personalized mispronunciation detection and diagnosis based on unsupervised error pattern discovery by Lee, Ann, Chen, Nancy F., Glass, James

“…In this work, we introduce two improvements to our previously proposed mispronunciation detection framework. The framework focuses on each learner individually…”
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Incremental Context Aware Attentive Knowledge Tracing by Yin Wong, Cheryl Sze, Yang, Guo, Chen, Nancy F., Savitha, Ramasamy

“…Knowledge Tracing is the prediction of the future performance of a learner, given the past performance. The existing knowledge tracing models represent the…”
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Improving Mispronunciation Detection of Mandarin Tones for Non-Native Learners With Soft-Target Tone Labels and BLSTM-Based Deep Tone Models by Li, Wei, Chen, Nancy F., Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco, Lee, Chin-Hui

“…We investigate the effectiveness of soft-target tone labels and sequential context information for mispronunciation detection of Mandarin lexical tones…”
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Re-ranking spoken term detection with acoustic exemplars of keywords by Pham, Van Tung, Xu, Haihua, Xiao, Xiong, Chen, Nancy F., Chng, Eng Siong, Li, Haizhou

“…Spoken term detection (STD) systems rank hypothesized detections by scores, which indicate how confident a hypothesized detection is a true instance of the…”
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Improving Mandarin Tone Recognition Based on DNN by Combining Acoustic and Articulatory Features Using Extended Recognition Networks by Lin, Ju, Li, Wei, Gao, Yingming, Xie, Yanlu, Chen, Nancy F., Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco, Zhang, Jinsong, Lee, Chin-Hui

“…In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of articulatory information for Mandarin tone modeling and recognition in a deep neural network – hidden Markov…”
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Phonology-Augmented Statistical Framework for Machine Transliteration Using Limited Linguistic Resources by Ngo, Gia H., Nguyen, Minh, Chen, Nancy F.

“…Transliteration converts words in a source language (e.g., English) into words in a target language (e.g., Vietnamese). This conversion considers the…”
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Characterizing Phonetic Transformations and Acoustic Differences Across English Dialects by Chen, Nancy F., Tam, Sharon W., Wade Shen, Campbell, Joseph P.

“…In this work, we propose a framework that automatically discovers dialect-specific phonetic rules. These rules characterize when certain phonetic or acoustic…”
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Topic-Aware Pointer-Generator Networks for Summarizing Spoken Conversations by Liu, Zhengyuan, Ng, Angela, Lee, Sheldon, Aw, Ai Ti, Chen, Nancy F.

“…Due to the lack of publicly available resources, conversation summarization has received far less attention than text summarization. As the purpose of…”
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ASR for Under-Resourced Languages From Probabilistic Transcription by Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark A., Jyothi, Preethi, McCloy, Daniel, Mirbagheri, Majid, Di Liberto, Giovanni M., Das, Amit, Ekin, Bradley, Chunxi Liu, Manohar, Vimal, Hao Tang, Lalor, Edmund C., Chen, Nancy F., Hager, Paul, Kekona, Tyler, Sloan, Rose, Lee, Adrian K. C.

“…In many under-resourced languages it is possible to find text, and it is possible to find speech, but transcribed speech suitable for training automatic speech…”
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