Projects
The Speech and Dialogue Processing (SDP) Lab is one of the world’s leading laboratories in speech and dialogue processing research. Since its inception in 1992 as a joint research lab between Apple Computer and the Institute of Systems Science, the SDP Lab has been closely linked with the industrial and academic sectors in developing use-inspired voice enabled technologies. It pioneered the world’s first Chinese dictation system for Macintosh, the world’s first speech, pen and keyboard integrated text entry solution for Asian languages, and the largest telephony spoken dialogue system in Asia in the 90’s. It has developed speaker and language recognition technologies that represent the state-of-the-art performance in NIST international benchmarking in 2005-2007. The SDP Lab strives to become the preferred speech technology provider that empowers Interactive & Digital Media industry. It currently focuses on the research in the following areas:
- Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition
- Speaker and Language Recognition
- Spoken Dialogue Technology
- Keyword Voice Mining
- Spoken Document Retrieval
- Spoken Language Learning
In line with the HLT department’s Asian language thrust, the M2 project aims to provide, ease and enhance multilingual information access capabilities across South-east Asian languages, specifically through the development of machine translation, and bilingual and mutilingual lexicon extraction technologies. These technologies employ various language-processing techniques including statistical and rule-based solutions to resolve complex human language problems that hinder information access.
Our Research is focused on Content Alignment, Term Extraction, and Translation. The Applications of our technology include Machine Translation, Terminology and Lexicon Databases, Multilingual Information Management, etc.
Robotics has since evolved from autonomous industrial robots, mostly robot arms for assembly purposes in 1960 to service robotics with artificial intelligence capable of reasoning about their own actions and environments. In 1990, through the technologies that allows robot to have mobility capability, personal robots has since then emerged that are designed to be socially interaction to serve or entertain human being.
The existence of such intelligent robots among human is a much anticipated vision and years of research and development has produced intelligent robots that can be deployed in sectors such as healthcare, smart-home, tourism and exploration. Despite their capability carrying out tasks equivalent or better than their human counterpart, robot’s ability to function is limited by their ability in interpreting and recognizing direct or indirect orders from human.
To address this issue, research in human-robot interaction related to various fields such as artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, natural language understanding and social science are carried out.
