NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

Creating Speech and Language Data With Amazon's Mechanical Turk

In this paper we give an introduction to using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform for the purpose of collecting data for human language technologies. We survey the papers published in the NAACL2010 Workshop. 24 researchers participated in the workshop’s shared task to create data for speech and language applications with $100.

Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA@NAACL-HLT 2013, June 13, 2013, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

N-gram-based SMT System Enhanced with Reordering Patterns

This work presents translation results for the three data sets made available in the shared task “Exploiting Parallel Texts for Statistical Machine Translation” of the HLT-NAACL 2006 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. All results presented were generated by using the Ngram-based statistical machine translation system which has been enhanced from the last year’s evaluation with a tagge...

Recognizing Whispered Speech Produced by an Individual with Surgically Reconstructed Larynx Using Articulatory Movement Data.

Individuals with larynx (vocal folds) impaired have problems in controlling their glottal vibration, producing whispered speech with extreme hoarseness. Standard automatic speech recognition using only acoustic cues is typically ineffective for whispered speech because the corresponding spectral characteristics are distorted. Articulatory cues such as the tongue and lip motion may help in recog...

Predicting Intelligible Speaking Rate in Individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis from a Small Number of Speech Acoustic and Articulatory Samples.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressive neurological disease that affects the speech motor functions, resulting in dysarthria, a motor speech disorder. Speech and articulation deterioration is an indicator of the disease progression of ALS; timely monitoring of the disease progression is critical for clinical management of these patients. This paper investigated machine pre...