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Results of The 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation

September 12, 2016
Author(s)
Hui Zhao, Desire Banse, G R. Doddington, Craig Greenberg, Audrey N. Tong, John M. Howard, Alvin F. Martin, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero, Lisa Mason, Douglas A. Reynolds, Elliot Singer
In 2015, NIST conducted the most recent in an ongoing series of Language Recognition Evaluations (LRE) meant to foster research in language recognition. The 2015 Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE15) featured 20 target languages grouped into 6 language

Summary of the 2015 NIST Language Recognition i-Vector Machine Learning Challenge

June 24, 2016
Author(s)
Audrey N. Tong, Craig S. Greenberg, Alvin F. Martin, Desire Banse, John M. Howard, G R. Doddington, Danilo B. Romero, Douglas A. Reynolds, Lisa Mason, Tina Kohler, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero, Elliot Singer, Alan McCree, Lisa Mason
In 2015 NIST coordinated the first language recognition evaluation (LRE) that used i-vectors as input, with the goals of attracting researchers outside of the speech processing community to tackle the language recognition problem, exploring new ideas in

On the Internet Connectivity in Africa

November 18, 2015
Author(s)
Assane Gueye, Peter Mell, Desire Banse, Faical Y. Congo
This study measures and documents growth of Internet connectivity in Africa from 2010 to 2014 with a focus on inter-country relationships. We evaluate both intra-continent connectivity as well as connectivity to other continents. An initial analysis

Analysis of the Second Phase of the 2013-2014 i-Vector Machine Learning Challenge

September 10, 2015
Author(s)
Desire Banse, G R. Doddington, Craig Greenberg, John M. Howard, Alvin F. Martin, Daniel Garcia-Romero, John J. Godfrey, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero, Lisa Mason, Alan McCree, Douglas A. Reynolds
In late 2013 and 2014, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) coordinated an i-vector challenge utilizing data from previous NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluations. Following the evaluation period, a second phase of the challenge was held

NIST Language Recognition Evaluation – Plans For 2015

September 10, 2015
Author(s)
Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg, John M. Howard, Desire Banse, G R. Doddington, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero, Lisa Mason
We discuss two NIST coordinated evaluations of automatic language recognition technology planned for calendar year 2015 along with possible additional plans for the future. The first is the Language Recognition i-V ector Machine Learning Challenge, largely