Brings Another Clarification

Smoking brings another danger to children in Japan.

"Can you give me another word for hyperbaric?": Improving speech translation using targeted clarification questions

We present a novel approach for improving communication success between users of speech-to-speech translation systems by automatically detecting errors in the output of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and statistical machine translation (SMT) systems. Our approach initiates system-driven targeted clarification about errorful regions in user input and repairs them given user responses. Our sy...

Clarification

When Graffiti Brings Order

Most researchers use Petri nets as a formal notation with mathematically defined semantics. Their graphical part is usually only seen as a notation, that does not carry semantics. Contrary to this tradition, we show in this article that, when created by a human, there is inherent semantics in the positions of places, transitions and arcs. We propose to use the full definition of Petri nets: whe...

Energy diversity brings stability.

Energy diversity brings stability W hen I pull up to a gas-station pump, I have three choices: regular, premium, or something in between. I make the obvious choice and fill up with the cheapest option (while I wonder who uses those even more expensive fuels). It is the same scenario whether I'm in State College, Pa., or Los Angeles. All across the U.S., we have a transportation infrastructure b...