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- 2Birkbeck, Neil Aylon Charles
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- 2Chowdhury, Md Solimul
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- 83Machine Learning
- 76Reinforcement Learning
- 42Artificial Intelligence
- 37Machine learning
- 24Natural Language Processing
- 23reinforcement learning
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Fall 2009
The problem of stress assignment is to identify which syllables are phonetically more prominent than the others in a word. It is not only of theoretical interests to linguists but also very important to Text-to-Speech systems in terms of both accuracy and naturalness of pronunciation. Besides...
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Spring 2014
Loneliness among the elderly is a growing problem in today's society. Many of them live in isolation either due to their ailments or losing loved ones. Measures need to be taken to improve the living condition of these people. We propose a system that engages in meaningful conversation with the...
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Spring 2022
Policy gradient (PG) estimators are ineffective in dealing with softmax policies that are sub-optimally saturated, which refers to the situation when the policy concentrates its probability mass on sub-optimal actions. Sub-optimal policy saturation may arise from a bad policy initialization or a...