Feature Selection for Speaker Traits
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چکیده
This study focuses on handling high-dimensional classification problems by means of feature selection. The data sets used are provided by the organizers of the Interspeech 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge. A combination of two feature selection approaches gives results that approach or exceed the challenge baselines using a knearest-neighbor classifier. One of the feature selection methods is based on covering the data set with correct unsupervised or supervised classifications according to individual features. The other selection method applies a measure of statistical dependence between discretized features and class labels.
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