Hulan-2014-06-20

ASR

ASR Kernel development

[ASR group weekly report]

Patent & paper

• Paper still under editing

ASR

• Xuechen: held

TTS

• Child voice

  All 1000 recordings done

• STRAIGHT

  STRAIGHT: c++ code done. Initial voice generated, seems ok.

Dialog system

• Zhaofang: Test set v2 ready (322 queries). All tests moved to v2.
• Zhaofang: Tune insertion/deletion/substitution penalty. 84% accuracy obtained in the answerable subset of v2.
• Zhaofang: labelling chatting queries labelled. 10-best potential answers provided, and acceptable answers labelled.
• Zhaofang: Using chatting template to remedy false acceptance
• Zhaofang: Consider use Lucent to remedy false rejection
• Xingchao: Semantic related tree delivered.

• First version based on pattern match done (v1, 1M pairs, 20k pairs)
• Filter with query log (v2): done, from 1.3M to 0.5M.

• Xingchao: investigating the sub-space approach for semantic relation extraction from w2v.

System design

• Fanxing: company-wide test. Compose v3.0, about 1000 pairs.