Feature selection methods and their combinations in high-dimensional classification of speaker likability, intelligibility and personality traits

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 145-171

  Pohjalainen, Jouni ^a   Räsänen, Okko ^a   Kadioglu, Serdar ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational paralinguistics; Feature selection; Machine learning; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; PARALINGUISTICS; PERSONALITY TRAITS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84908507721     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2013.11.004     Document Type: Article

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