scholarly journals Experiments on Detection of Voiced Hesitations in Russian Spontaneous Speech

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Vasilisa Verkhodanova ◽  
Vladimir Shapranov
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Speech Processing ◽  
Gradient Descent ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Acoustic Features ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Voice User

The development and popularity of voice-user interfaces made spontaneous speech processing an important research field. One of the main focus areas in this field is automatic speech recognition (ASR) that enables the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. However, ASR systems often work less efficiently for spontaneous than for read speech, since the former differs from any other type of speech in many ways. And the presence of speech disfluencies is its prominent characteristic. These phenomena are an important feature in human-human communication and at the same time they are a challenging obstacle for the speech processing tasks. In this paper we address an issue of voiced hesitations (filled pauses and sound lengthenings) detection in Russian spontaneous speech by utilizing different machine learning techniques, from grid search and gradient descent in rule-based approaches to such data-driven ones as ELM and SVM based on the automatically extracted acoustic features. Experimental results on the mixed and quality diverse corpus of spontaneous Russian speech indicate the efficiency of the techniques for the task in question, with SVM outperforming other methods.

scholarly journals Categorizing Touch-Input Locations from Touchscreen Device Interfaces via On-Board Mechano-Acoustic Transducers

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 4834
Author(s):  
Kai Ren Teo ◽  
Balamurali B T ◽  
Jianying Zhou ◽  
Jer-Ming Chen
Keyword(s):  
User Interaction ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Acoustic Features ◽  
Touch Input ◽  
Acoustic Transducers ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Access Controls ◽  
Input Location ◽  
Mitigation Methods

Many mobile electronics devices, including smartphones and tablets, require the user to interact physically with the device via tapping the touchscreen. Conveniently, these compact devices are also equipped with high-precision transducers such as accelerometers and microphones, integrated mechanically and designed on-board to support a range of user functionalities. However, unintended access to these transducer signals (bypassing normal on-board data access controls) may allow sensitive user interaction information to be detected and thereby exploited. In this study, we show that acoustic features extracted from the on-board microphone signals, supported with accelerometer and gyroscope signals, may be used together with machine learning techniques to successfully determine the user’s touch input location on a touchscreen: our ensemble model, namely the random forest model, predicts touch input location with up to 86% accuracy in a realistic scenario. Accordingly, we present the approach and techniques used, the performance of the model developed, and also discuss limitations and possible mitigation methods to thwart possible exploitation of such unintended signal channels.

scholarly journals The state of voice user interfaces in Latin America

2020 ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Adriana L Iñiguez-Carrillo ◽  
Laura S Gaytán-Lugo ◽  
Rocío Maciel-Arellano ◽  
Miguel A García-Ruiz ◽  
Daniel Aréchiga
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Speech Processing ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Conversational Agents ◽  
Voice User ◽  
Latin American Countries

This paper describes and analyzes the state of research in Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) in Latin America based on the review of scientific documents published in SCOPUS from 1999 to June 2020, through a bibliometric analysis. We analyzed 419 academic papers. Although a gradual increase is observed over the years, the number of published documents has increased considerably since 2014. Brazil (44%) and Mexico (28%) are the countries with more documents published. Co-authorship occurs between Latin American countries (Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, and Costa Rica). However, the mayor collaboration from Latin American countries occurs with the United States, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and Japan. The main researched topics are studies of automatic speech recognition, artificial intelligence, speech processing, and human-computer interaction, which have grown over the past few years. Natural language processing, conversational agents, user experience, and chatbots are keywords related to more recent studies. Our analysis reveals that the primary active research developed in the short-term future are personal assistants and assistive technology using voice user interfaces.

scholarly journals Digital Twin for Operation of Microgrid: Optimal Scheduling in Virtual Space of Digital Twin

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 5504
Author(s):  
Hyang-A Park ◽  
Gilsung Byeon ◽  
Wanbin Son ◽  
Hyung-Chul Jo ◽  
Jongyul Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Storage System ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Optimization Techniques ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Digital Twin ◽  
Learning Techniques

Due to the recent development of information and communication technology (ICT), various studies using real-time data are now being conducted. The microgrid research field is also evolving to enable intelligent operation of energy management through digitalization. Problems occur when operating the actual microgrid, causing issues such as difficulty in decision making and system abnormalities. Using digital twin technology, which is one of the technologies representing the fourth industrial revolution, it is possible to overcome these problems by changing the microgrid configuration and operating algorithms of virtual space in various ways and testing them in real time. In this study, we proposed an energy storage system (ESS) operation scheduling model to be applied to virtual space when constructing a microgrid using digital twin technology. An ESS optimal charging/discharging scheduling was established to minimize electricity bills and was implemented using supervised learning techniques such as the decision tree, NARX, and MARS models instead of existing optimization techniques. NARX and decision trees are machine learning techniques. MARS is a nonparametric regression model, and its application has been increasing. Its performance was analyzed by deriving performance evaluation indicators for each model. Using the proposed model, it was found in a case study that the amount of electricity bill savings when operating the ESS is greater than that incurred in the actual ESS operation. The suitability of the model was evaluated by a comparative analysis with the optimization-based ESS charging/discharging scheduling pattern.

Important Issues in Software Fault Prediction

2014 ◽  
pp. 510-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Golnoush Abaei ◽  
Ali Selamat
Keyword(s):  
Software Quality ◽  
Software Metrics ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Verification And Validation ◽  
Fault Prediction ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Software Fault Prediction ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Software Fault

Quality assurance tasks such as testing, verification and validation, fault tolerance, and fault prediction play a major role in software engineering activities. Fault prediction approaches are used when a software company needs to deliver a finished product while it has limited time and budget for testing it. In such cases, identifying and testing parts of the system that are more defect prone is reasonable. In fact, prediction models are mainly used for improving software quality and exploiting available resources. Software fault prediction is studied in this chapter based on different criteria that matters in this research field. Usually, there are certain issues that need to be taken care of such as different machine-learning techniques, artificial intelligence classifiers, variety of software metrics, distinctive performance evaluation metrics, and some statistical analysis. In this chapter, the authors present a roadmap for those researchers who are interested in working in this area. They illustrate problems along with objectives related to each mentioned criterion, which could assist researchers to build the finest software fault prediction model.

Toward understanding the topical structure of hospitality literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 3386-3411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunhye (Olivia) Park ◽  
Bongsug Chae ◽  
Junehee Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Evolutionary Patterns ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Academic Publications

Purpose This paper aims to identify the intellectual structure of four leading hospitality journals over 40 years by applying mixed-method approach, using both machine learning and traditional statistical analyses. Design/methodology/approach Abstracts from all 4,139 articles published in four top hospitality journals were analyzed using the structured topic modeling and inferential statistics. Topic correlation and community detection were applied to identify strengths of correlations and sub-groups of topics. Trend visualization and regression analysis were used to quantify the effects of the metadata (i.e. year of publication and journal) on topic proportions. Findings The authors found 50 topics and eight subgroups in the hospitality journals. Different evolutionary patterns in topic popularity were demonstrated, thereby providing the insights for popular research topics over time. The significant differences in topical proportions were found across the four leading hospitality journals, suggesting different foci in research topics in each journal. Research limitations/implications Combining machine learning techniques with traditional statistics demonstrated potential for discovering valuable insights from big text data in hospitality and tourism research contexts. The findings of this study may serve as a guide to understand the trends in the research field as well as the progress of specific areas or subfields. Originality/value It is the first attempt to apply topic modeling to academic publications and explore the effects of article metadata with the hospitality literature.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of Deep Learning Approaches to Educational Data Mining

Complexity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Hernández-Blanco ◽  
Boris Herrera-Flores ◽  
David Tomás ◽  
Borja Navarro-Colorado
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Mining ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Educational Data Mining ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Mining Machine ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Learning Techniques

Educational Data Mining (EDM) is a research field that focuses on the application of data mining, machine learning, and statistical methods to detect patterns in large collections of educational data. Different machine learning techniques have been applied in this field over the years, but it has been recently that Deep Learning has gained increasing attention in the educational domain. Deep Learning is a machine learning method based on neural network architectures with multiple layers of processing units, which has been successfully applied to a broad set of problems in the areas of image recognition and natural language processing. This paper surveys the research carried out in Deep Learning techniques applied to EDM, from its origins to the present day. The main goals of this study are to identify the EDM tasks that have benefited from Deep Learning and those that are pending to be explored, to describe the main datasets used, to provide an overview of the key concepts, main architectures, and configurations of Deep Learning and its applications to EDM, and to discuss current state-of-the-art and future directions on this area of research.

scholarly journals Big Data Analytics to Increase the Agricultural Yield by Using Machine Learning Approaches

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
pp. 82-86
Author(s):  
V. Sudha ◽  
S. Mohan ◽  
S. Arivalagan
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Modern Trend ◽  
Cropping Pattern ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Learning Techniques

Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy. Big data are emerging précised and viable analytical tool in agricultural research field. This review paper facilitates the farmers in selecting the right crops and appropriate cropping pattern for a particular locality. A modern trend in the Agriculture domain has made people realize the importance of big data. It provides a methodology for facing challenges in agricultural production, by applying this Algorithm, using machine learning techniques. The different machine learning techniques survey is presented in this paper to realize enhanced monitory benefits in a particular area. A study of machine learning algorithms for big data Analytic is also done and presented in this paper.

scholarly journals An Efficient Ad-Click Prediction System using Machine Learning Techniques

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1269-1272
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Prediction System ◽  
Advertising Industry ◽  
Python Language ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Machine Learning Model

Ad-click prediction is a learning problem that is highly related to the multi-billion-dollar ad- promoting the online advertising industry. As the number of internet users in India reached 525 million in 2019, online advertising companies are trying to influence internet usage users for promoting their business. Machine learning is a technique in which systems getting to act without any explicit programming. Currently, machine learning is pervasive today and we can use machine learning models in every research field. The accuracy of the ad-click prediction system impacts business revenue, so it is very important to build a prediction system with fewer false positives and false negatives.in this paper, we proposed an ad-click prediction system based on machine learning techniques. The dataset is taken from Kaggle. The dataset contains nine features. The goal of the model is to evaluate the probability of an online user to click on a given ad. We built a machine learning model based on these features. We applied a voting classifier on the dataset and achieved an accuracy of 98%.We used python language for implementation.

scholarly journals Evaluating the effect of unbalanced data in biomedical document classification

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalía Laza ◽  
Reyes Pavón ◽  
Miguel Reboiro-Jato ◽  
Florentino Fdez-Riverola
Keyword(s):  
Imbalanced Data ◽  
Document Classification ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Mesh Terms ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Under Sampling ◽  
Abstraction Levels

Summary Nowadays, document classification has become an interesting research field. Partly, this is due to the increasing availability of biomedical information in digital form which is necessary to catalogue and organize. In this context, machine learning techniques are usually applied to text classification by using a general inductive process that automatically builds a text classifier from a set of pre-classified documents. Related with this domain, imbalanced data is a well-known problem in many practical applications of knowledge discovery and its effects on the performance of standard classifiers are remarkable. In this paper, we investigate the application of a Bayesian Network (BN) model for the triage of documents, which are represented by the association of different MeSH terms. Our results show that BNs are adequate for describing conditional independencies between MeSH terms and that MeSH ontology is a valuable resource for representing Medline documents at different abstraction levels. Moreover, we perform an extensive experimental evaluation to investigate if the classification of Medline documents using a BN classifier poses additional challenges when dealing with class-imbalanced prediction. The evaluation involves two methods, under-sampling and cost-sensitive learning. We conclude that BN classifier is sensitive to both balancing strategies and existing techniques can improve its overall performance.

scholarly journals Computer vision-based wood identification and its expansion and contribution potentials in wood science: A review

Plant Methods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung-Wook Hwang ◽  
Junji Sugiyama
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Computer Vision ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Wood Identification ◽  
Wood Industry ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
New Research ◽  
Wood Science

AbstractThe remarkable developments in computer vision and machine learning have changed the methodologies of many scientific disciplines. They have also created a new research field in wood science called computer vision-based wood identification, which is making steady progress towards the goal of building automated wood identification systems to meet the needs of the wood industry and market. Nevertheless, computer vision-based wood identification is still only a small area in wood science and is still unfamiliar to many wood anatomists. To familiarize wood scientists with the artificial intelligence-assisted wood anatomy and engineering methods, we have reviewed the published mainstream studies that used or developed machine learning procedures. This review could help researchers understand computer vision and machine learning techniques for wood identification and choose appropriate techniques or strategies for their study objectives in wood science.

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