Papers by Shengli Hu
Somm: Into the Model (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | sommeliers have three skills: wine theory, blind tasting, and beverage service . current study suggests that the sophist profession is at least to some extent automatable . |
| Approach: | They propose to train machine learning models that match sommelier's skills and compare results with real data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform human sommeliers on most tasks, compared with real data from a large group of wine professionals. |
Detecting Concealed Information in Text and Speech (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | despite the importance and potential impact of detecting concealed information, research on detecting it has been scarce. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-task learning framework that automatically detects concealed information from text and speech using acoustic-prosodic, linguistic, and individual feature sets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms human performance by 15% in acoustic, linguistic, and individual features. |