ISL NEWS

The ISL EDTRL system

For the translation of text and speech, statistical methods on one side and interlingua based methods on the other have been used successfully. However, the former requires programming grammars for each language, plus the design of an interlingua, while the latter requires the collection of a large parallel corpus for every language pair. To alleviate these problems, we propose an approach that...

The Isl Meeting Room System

Oral communication is transient but many important decisions, social contracts and fact findings are first carried out in an oral setup, documented in written form and later retrieved. At Carnegie Mellons University’s Interactive Systems Laboratories we have been experimenting with the documentation of meetings. This paper summarizes part of the progress that we have made in this test bed, spec...

The ISL Document Image Analysis Toolbox

This paper describes the Document Image Understanding Toolbox currently under development at the University of Washington’s Intelligent Systems Laboratory The Toolbox provides a common data structure and a variety of document image analysis and understanding algorithms from which Toolbox users can construct document image processing systems. An algon’thms for font attribute recognition based on...

The Isl Rt-04s Meeting Transcription System

This paper describes the speech recognition (STT) part of the Interactive Systems Lab’s 2004 Meeting transcription system, for the IPM (Individual Personal Microphone), SDM (Single Distant Microphone), and MDM (Multiple Distant Microphone) conditions; which was evaluated in NIST’s RT-04S “Meeting” evaluation. We compare the performance of our Broadcast News and the most recent Switchboard syste...

Lymphatic filariasis and the ISL consensus document.