In this paper we investigate external phone duration models (PDMs) for improving the quality of synthetic speech in hidden Markov model (HMM)-based speech synthesis. Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) were used for this task. SVR and MLP PDMs were compared with the explicit duration modelling of hidden semi-Markov models (HSMMs). Experiments done on an American Engl...

The objective of this study is to develop artificial neural network (ANN) models, including multilayer perceptron (MLP) and Kohonen self-organizing feature map (KSOFM), for spatial disaggregation of areal rainfall in the Wi-stream catchment, an International Hydrological Program (IHP) representative catchment, in South Korea. A three-layer MLP model, using three training algorithms, was used to...

We deene a Gamma multi-layer perceptron (MLP) as an MLP with the usual synaptic weights replaced by gamma lters (as proposed by de Vries and Principe (de Vries & Principe 1992)) and associated gain terms throughout all layers. We derive gradient descent update equations and apply the model to the recognition of speech phonemes. We nd that both the inclusion of gamma lters in all layers, and the...

Several experiments were conducted in order to investigate the usefulness of mixture of experts approach to an online internet system assisting in real estate appraisal. All experiments were performed using real-world datasets taken from a cadastral system. The analysis of the results was performed using statistical methodology including nonparametric tests followed by post-hoc procedures desig...

This paper proposes a new method for prediction of chaotic time series based on Parallel Multi-Layer Perceptron (PMLP) net and dynamics reconstruction technique. The PMLP contains a number of multi-layer perceptron (MLP) subnets connected in parallel. Each MLP subnet predicts the future data independently with a different embedding dimension. The PMLP determines the final predicted result accor...

The Fake News Challenge (FNC-1) is a public competition that aims to find automatic methods for detecting fake news. The dataset for the challenge consists of headline-body pairs, with the objective being to classify the pairs as unrelated, agreeing, disagreeing, or discussing. We developed four neural network models for FNC-1, two using a feed-forward architecture and two using a recurrent arc...

background: municipal solid waste (msw) is the natural result of human activities. msw generation modeling is of prime im­portance in designing and programming municipal solid waste management system. this study tests the short-term pre­diction of waste generation by artificial neural network (ann) and principal component-regression analysis. methods: two forecasting techniques are presented in...

Multiple linear regression (MLR), adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system–ant colony optimization algorithm hybrid (ANFIS-ACOR) and artificial neural network–multilayer perceptron (ANN-MLP) were tested to model the bending strength of Glulam (glue-laminated timber) manufactured with a plane tree (Platanus orientalis L.) wood layer adhered different weight ratios (WR) modified starch/urea ...