Xuesong Yang

End-to-End Joint Learning of Natural Language Understanding and Dialogue Manager

2016 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Natural language understanding and dialogue policy learning are both essential in conversational systems that predict the next system actions in response to a current user utterance. Conventional approaches aggregate separate models of natural language understanding …

Improved ASR for Under-Resourced Languages Through Multi-Task Learning with Acoustic Landmarks

2018 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Furui first demonstrated that the identity of both consonant and vowel can be perceived from the C-V transition; later, Stevens proposed that acoustic landmarks are the primary cues for speech perception, and that steady-state regions …