Main area of research
Speech recognition
Fan Yang joined Nuance in 2010. He has a PhD in computational linguistics from OHSU/OGI. His research interests include ASR/LM, NLP, and dialogue.
Word segmentation is usually recognized as the first step for many Chinese natural language processing tasks, yet its impact on these subsequent tasks is relatively under-studied. For example, …
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There is rich knowledge encoded in online web data. For example, punctuation and entity tags in Wikipedia data define some word boundaries in a sentence. …
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In this paper we report an empirical study on semi-supervised Chinese word segmentation using co-training. We utilize two segmenters:1) a word-based segmenter leveraginga word-level language …
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In this article we focus on human–human multi-tasking dialogues, in which pairs of conversants, using speech, work on an ongoing task while occasionally completing real-time …
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