Human language technologies
Advancing how machines understand and generate human language across speech, text, and translation.
Thinking outside-of-the-black-box of machine learning on the long quest to perfecting automatic speech recognition
Speech recognition is something we humans do remarkably well, which includes our ability to understand speech even in noisy multi-talker environments. While our natural sophistication at this is something we take for granted, speech recognition…
Telling Stories: Analyzing Text to Understand Personality, Social behavior, and Narratives
Pronouns, prepositions, articles, and other short function words have traditionally been relegated to STOP word status in the AI world. Dozens of studies are summarized pointing to the value of function words in understanding people’s…
Compressing human text.
I will present a new data compression algorithm that compresses human text more effectively than all current variants of PPM, CTW, DMC, LZ (Lempel-Ziv), LZMA, CSE and BWT. It uses a hierarchical non-parametric sequence model…
