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Jan Sedivy

Czech Technical University, dpt. Cybernetics

Verified email at fel.cvut.cz

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Portable information and transaction processing system and method utilizing biometric authorization and digital certificate security

SH Maes, J Sedivy - US Patent 6,016,476, 2000 - Google Patents

The present invention is a portable client PDA with a touch screen or other equivalent user

interface and having a microphone and local central processing unit (CPU) for processing

voice commands and for processing biometric data to provide user verification. The PDA ...

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Systems and methods for providing conversational computing via javaserver pages and javabeans

…, J Kleindienst, S Maes, T Raman, J Sedivy - US Patent App. 09/ …, 2001 - Google Patents

A new application programming language is provided which is based on user interaction

with any device which a user is employing to access any type of information. The new

language is referred to herein as a “Conversational Markup Language (CML). In a ...

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Speaker model adaptation via network of similar users

D Kanevsky, VV Libal, J Sedivy… - US Patent 6,442,519, 2002 - Google Patents

A speech recognition system, method and program product for recognizing speech input

from computer users connected together over a network of computers. Speech recognition

computer users on the network are clustered into classes of similar users according their ...

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Statistical language model for inflected languages

D Kanevsky, SE Roukos, J Sedivy - US Patent 5,835,888, 1998 - Google Patents

A statistical language model for inflected languages, having very large vocabularies, is

generated by splitting words into stems, prefixes and endings, and deriving trigrams for the

stems, ending and prefixes. The statistical dependence of endings and prefixes from each ...

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Multi-modal messaging

J Kleindienst, M Labsky, SH Maes, J Sedivy - US Patent 7,315,613, 2008 - Google Patents

Systems and methods for multi-modal messaging that enable a user to compose, send and

retrieve messages, such as SMS, MMS, IM or ordinary e-mail messages, for example, using

one or more I/O (input/output) modalities (eg, speech I/O and/or GUI I/O). A method for ...

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Reusable voiceXML dialog components, subdialogs and beans

…, J Kleindienst, SH Maes, TV Raman, J Sedivy… - US Patent …, 2009 - Google Patents

Systems and methods for building speech-based applications using reusable dialog

components based on VoiceXML (Voice eXtensible Markup Language). VoiceXML reusable

dialog components can be used for building a voice interface for use with multi-modal, ...

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Hierarchical labeler in a speech recognition system

R Bakis, D Nahamoo, MA Picheny, J Sedivy - US Patent 6,023,673, 2000 - Google Patents

A speech coding apparatus and method uses a hierarchy of prototype sets to code an

utterance while consuming fewer computing resources. The value of at least one feature of

an utterance is measured during each of a series of successive time intervals to produce a ...

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The IBM personal speech assistant

…, R Gopinath, J Sedivy - … , Speech, and Signal …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org

ABSTRACT In this paper, we describe technology and experience with an experimental

personal information manager, which interacts with the user primarily but not exclusively

through speech recognition and synthesis. This device, which controls a client PDA, is ...

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Apparatus and method for forming a filtered inflected language model for automatic speech recognition

D Kanevsky, MD Monkowski, J Sedivy - US Patent 6,073,091, 2000 - Google Patents

A method of forming a language model for a language having a selected vocabulary of word

forms comprises:(a) mapping the word forms into integer vectors in accordance with

frequencies of word form occurrence;(b) partitioning the integer vectors into subsets, the ...

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Speech coding apparatus and method using classification rules

…, D Nahamoo, MA Picheny, J Sedivy - US Patent …, 1996 - Google Patents

A speech coding apparatus and method uses classification rules to code an utterance while

consuming fewer computing resources. The value of at least one feature of an utterance is

measured during each of a series of successive time intervals to produce a series of ...

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Systems and methods for providing dialog localization in a distributed environment and enabling conversational communication using generalized user gestures

GN Ramaswamy, J Sedivy, SH Maes - US Patent 7,478,171, 2009 - Google Patents

Systems and methods for providing conversational computing in a distributed multi-modal

environment and in particular, systems and methods for enabling a user to conversationally

communicate with entities in a distributed network using a portable access device, ...

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[PDF] Low-resource speech recognition of 500-word vocabularies

…, B Maison, P Olsen, H Printz, J Sedivy - Proc. Eurospeech …, 2001 - Citeseer

Abstract We describe techniques for enhancing the accuracy, efficiency and features of a

low-resource, medium-vocabulary, grammarbased speech recognition system. Among the

issues and techniques we explore are front-end speech/silence detection to reduce ...

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Embedded viavoice

T Beran, V Bergl, R Hampl, P Krbec, J Šedivý… - … Conference on Text, …, 2004 - Springer

Abstract In this paper we present IBM Embedded ViaVoice (EVV), a speech recognizer for

embedded devices. It is designed for grammar-based command and control applications

with medium to large vocabularies. We show what algorithms and technologies were used ...

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System and methods for acoustic and language modeling for automatic speech recognition with large vocabularies

…, D Kanevsky, MD Monkowski, J Sedivy - US Patent …, 2005 - Google Patents

Systems and methods are provided for generating a language component vocabulary VC for

a speech recognition system having a language vocabulary V of a plurality of word forms.

One method for generating a language component vocabulary VC for a speech ...

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Efficient communication with passive devices

D Kanevsky, M Sabath, J Sedivy, A Zlatsin - US Patent 6,862,454, 2005 - Google Patents

A system and method that provides data messages to a passive device. A passive device,

for example watch, is registered together with the telephone number of a cellular telephone

of a subscriber to the data message service. Since the cellular telephone periodically ...

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Virtual cooperative network formed by local clients in zones without cellular services

SH Basson, D Kanevsky, M Sabath, J Sedivy… - US Patent …, 2005 - Google Patents

A method and system for forming a virtual network. The method comprises the steps of

providing each of a plurality of mobile objects with a transceiver, and transmitting a

cellular/radio signals from a source. At least a first of the mobile objects is located in an ...

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[PDF] Efficient hierarchical labeler algorithm for Gaussian likelihoods computation in resource constrained speech recognition systems

M Novak, RA Gopinath, J Sedivy - available on-line at: http://www. research …, 2002 - Citeseer

ABSTRACT This paper presents a new time/memory-efficient algorithm for the evaluation of

state likelihoods in an HMM-based speech recognizer where the states are modeled by

Gaussian Mixtures. We first present a fast hierarchical labeling scheme and then an ...

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Smart book

D Kanevsky, M Sabath, J Sedivy, A Zlatsin - US Patent 6,974,081, 2005 - Google Patents

A method and system that permits the purchase of a license to make a limited number of

copies of a book. At the time of purchase, the purchaser or user is given a key that contains

the ability to obtain the limited number of copies on demand. The key contains a web ...

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Speech coding apparatus and method for generating acoustic feature vector component values by combining values of the same features for multiple time intervals

…, AJ Nadas, D Nahamoo, MA Picheny, J Sedivy - US Patent …, 1996 - Google Patents

A speech coding apparatus and method measures the values of at least first and second

different features of an utterance during each of a series of successive time intervals. For

each time interval, a feature vector signal has a first component value equal to a first ...

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Interaction framework for home environment using speech and vision

J Kleindienst, T Macek, L Serédi, J Šedivý - Image and Vision Computing, 2007 - Elsevier

In this article we describe an interaction framework that uses speech recognition and

computer-vision to model new generation of interfaces in the residential environment. We

outline the blueprints of the architecture and describe the main building blocks. We show ...

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[PDF] Vision-enhanced multi-modal interactions in domotic environments

J Kleindienst, T Macek, L Serédi, J Sedivy - IBM Tecnologías de Voz y …, 2004 - Citeseer

Abstract. This paper introduces key components of user interaction framework that harness

speech recognition, multi-modality and computer vision in the residential environment. The

interface technologies presented are being developed as part of “HomeTalk” IST-2001- ...

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[PDF] Maximizing utilization in private iaas clouds with heterogenous load

T Vondra, J Sedivy - CLOUD COMPUTING, 2012 - Citeseer

Abstract—This document presents ongoing work on creating a computing system that can

run two types of workloads on a private cloud computing cluster, namely web servers and

batch computing jobs, in a way that would maximize utilization of the computing ...

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Djinn: Interaction framework for home environment using speech and vision

J Kleindienst, T Macek, L Serédi, J Šedivý - International Workshop on …, 2004 - Springer

Abstract In this paper we describe an interaction framework that uses speech recognition

and computer vision to model new generation of interfaces in the residential environment.

We outline the blueprints of the architecture and describe the main building blocks. We ...

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CarDialer: multi-modal in-vehicle cellphone control application

…, M Fanta, M Labský, L Seredi, J Šedivý… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2006 - dl.acm.org

Abstract This demo presents CarDialer-an in-car cellphone control application. Its multi-

modal user interface blends state-of-the-art speech recognition technology (including text-to-

speech synthesis) with the existing well proven elements of a vehicle information system ...

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Enhancement to Viterbi speech processing algorithm for hybrid speech models that conserves memory

…, T Beran, R Hampl, P Krbec, J Sedivy - US Patent 7,805,305, 2010 - Google Patents

The present invention discloses a method for semantically processing speech for speech

recognition purposes. The method can reduce an amount of memory required for a Viterbi

search of an N-gram language model having a value of N greater than two and also ...

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MCSync-Distributed, Decentralized Database for Mobile Devices

J Sedivy, T Barina, I Morozan… - Cloud Computing in …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org

Abstract—A lot of research effort is being spent in the field of synchronization between

mobile devices and cloud lately, but most of the applications use a centralized cloud storage

solution. In contrast, Mobile Cloud Synchronization (MCSync) framework aims to give ...

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Advanced Development of Speech Enabled Voice Recognition Enabled Embedded Navigation Systems

K White, H Ruback, J Sedivy, K Kojima, K Kondo - 2006 - papers.sae.org

Abstract: This paper will focus on the technology improvements and development effort

required to enable human sounding system responses and voice enablement for destination

entry for automotive navigation systems. Honda and IBM have been working together ...

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Smart thermometer

D Kanevsky, M Sabath, J Sedivy, A Zlatsin - US Patent 6,584,425, 2003 - Google Patents

A smart thermometer distributed system comprising a thermometer with a screen that allows

one to enter a variety of data for the thermometer. The thermometer is connected to a

computer and to a network and can retrieve from a history data base information about ...

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[PDF] Biomedical Question Answering using the YodaQA System: Prototype Notes

P Baudiš, J Šedivý - 2015 - ceur-ws.org

Abstract. We briefly outline the YodaQA open domain question answering system and its

initial adaptation to the Biomedical domain for the purposes of the BIOASQ challenge

(question answering task 3b) on CLEF2015. Keywords: Question answering, linked data, ...

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System and methods for acoustic and language modeling for automatic speech recognition with large vocabularies

…, D Kanevsky, MD Monkowski, J Sedivy - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents

A method for generating a language component vocabulary VC for a speech recognition

system having a language vocabulary V of a plurality of word forms is disclosed. The method

includes: partitioning the language vocabulary V into subsets of word forms based on ...

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Pairwise Learning to Rank for Search Query Correction

A Novak, J Sedivy - 2013 IEEE International Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org

Abstract—This article introduces a new algorithm for a Search Query Spelling Correction

System. It is based on learning to rank approach and allows to use large number of various

signals leading to an improved accuracy. The performance will be tested against the ...

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[PDF] Towards multi-modal interfaces for embedded devices

V Fischer, C Günther, J Ivanecký, J Šedivý… - … –Tagungsband der 13. …, 2002 - ivanecky.sk

Abstract: The paper describes our efforts towards a multi–modal interface for embedded

devices. Multi-modality is becoming more important especially in an embedded scenario

where the” standard” ways of input (keyboard, mouse, stylus) as well as output (display) ...

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Modeling of the question answering task in the YodaQA system

P Baudiš, J Šedivý - International Conference of the Cross-Language …, 2015 - Springer

Abstract We briefly survey the current state of art in the field of Question Answering and

present the YodaQA system, an open source framework for this task and a baseline pipeline

with reasonable performance. We take a holistic approach, reviewing and aiming to ...

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[PDF] YodaQA: a modular question answering system pipeline

P Baudiš - POSTER 2015-19th International Student Conference …, 2015 - ailao.eu

Abstract. This is a preprint, submitted on 2015-03-22. Question Answering as a sub-field of

information retrieval and information extraction is recently enjoying renewed popularity,

triggered by the publicized success of IBM Watson in the Jeopardy! competition. But ...

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[PDF] Biomedical Question Answering using the YodaQA System: Prototype Notes

P Baudiš, J Šedivý - 2015 - ceur-ws.org

Abstract. We briefly outline the YodaQA open domain question answering system and its

initial adaptation to the Biomedical domain for the purposes of the BIOASQ challenge

(question answering task 3b) on CLEF2015. Keywords: Question answering, linked data, ...

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Joint Learning of Sentence Embeddings for Relevance and Entailment

P Baudis, S Stanko, J Sedivy - arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.04655, 2016 - arxiv.org

Abstract: We consider the problem of Recognizing Textual Entailment within an Information

Retrieval context, where we must simultaneously determine the relevancy as well as degree

of entailment for individual pieces of evidence to determine a yes/no answer to a binary ...

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Sentence Pair Scoring: Towards Unified Framework for Text Comprehension

P Baudiš, J Šedivý - arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.06127, 2016 - arxiv.org

Abstract: We review the task of Sentence Pair Scoring, popular in the literature in various

forms---slanted as Answer Sentence Selection, Paraphrasing, Semantic Text Scoring, Next

Utterance Ranking, Recognizing Textual Entailment or eg a component of Memory ...

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[PDF] QALD Challenge and the YodaQA System: Prototype Notes

P Baudiš, J Šedivý - ailao.eu

Abstract. We briefly outline the YodaQA open domain question answering system and its

initial application on the Question Answering over Linked Data challenge QALD5 on

CLEF2015. Since YodaQA is focused on QA over unstructured data and has been only ...

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Deep Neural Networks for Web Page Information Extraction

T Gogar, O Hubacek, J Sedivy - IFIP International Conference on Artificial …, 2016 - Springer

Abstract Web wrappers are systems for extracting structured information from web pages.

Currently, wrappers need to be adapted to a particular website template before they can

start the extraction process. In this work we present a new method, which uses ...

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