Christopher Miles White (Homepage)

I am a Ph.D. student and a Graduate Fellow at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLT COE) at the The Johns Hopkins University under Jim Baker. I am also a Department of Homeland Security Graduate Fellow and a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing led by Fred Jelinek under adviser Sanjeev Khudanpur. E mail: cmileswhite 'at' jhu 'dot' edu Telephone: +1.410.516.5409 Fax: +1.410.516.5050 Office: Computational Science and Engineering Building 321 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218

Interests: human language technology, automatic speech recognition, multilingual conversational large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, multilingual spoken term detection, machine learning, language identification, language modeling, confidence estimation, statistical methods for large data sets

While this page is under construction you can browse my CV. ( .pdf)

Recent Work

Member of the 2008 Summer Workshop team 'Multilingual Spoken Term Detection: Finding and Testing New Pronunciations' led by Mike Riley of Google and Richard Sproat of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


Member of the 2007 Summer Workshop team 'Recovery from Model Inconsistency in Multilingual Speech Recognition' led by Hynek Hermansky of IDIAP. Joint work completed with Geoff Zwieg of Microsoft Research.


Intern (Summer 2006) at Microsoft Research under Jasha Droppo.


Joint intern (Summer 2005) at the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense.

Publications

An Investigation of Acoustic Models for Multilingual Code-Switching
C.M. White, S. Khudanpur, J. Baker. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Sept., 2008. (Accepted)

Confidence Estimation, OOV Detection, and Language ID using Phone-to-Word Transduction and Phone-Level Alignments ( .pdf)
C.M. White, G. Zweig, L. Burget, P. Schwarz, H. Hermansky. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April, 2008.

Sample Selection for Automatic Language Identification ( .ps)
D. Farris, C.M. White, S. Khudanpur. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April, 2008.

Combination of Strongly and Weakly Constrained Recognizers for Reliable Detection of OOVs ( .pdf)
L. Burget, P. Schwarz, P. Matejka, M. Hannemann, A. Rastrow, C.M. White, S. Khudanpur, H. Hermansky, J. Cernocky. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April, 2008.

Maximum Entropy Confidence Estimation for Speech Recognition ( .pdf)
C.M. White, J. Droppo, A. Acero, J. Odell. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April, 2007.

Discriminative Classifiers for Language Recognition ( .pdf)
C.M. White, I. Shafran, J-L. Gauvain. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, May, 2006.

A real-time network analysis tool to aid in characterizing VoIP system performance ( .pdf)
C.M. White, E.J. Daniel, K.A. Teague. In International Journal for Electrical Engineering Education, Vol. 42, Issue 2, April 2005.

Packet Loss Concealment in a Secure Voice over IP Environment ( .pdf)
C.M. White, K.A. Teague, E.J. Daniel. In Proceedings of the 38th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November, 2004.

A Real-Time Network Simulation Application for Multimedia over IP ( .pdf)
C.M. White, J.A. Raymond, K.A. Teague. In Proceedings of the 38th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November, 2004.

A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm for Traveling Salesman Problem ( .pdf)
C.M. White, G. Yen. In Proceedings of the 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, June, 2004.

Wireless Midi Merge Apparatus
C. White, E. Stein, J. Raymond, J. Miller. U.S. Provisional Patent Serial No. 60/665,452, May, 2004.

A Network Performance Application for Modeling, Simulation, and Characterization of Packet Network Behavior ( .pdf)
C.M. White, E.J. Daniel, K.A. Teague. In Proceedings of the 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November, 2003.
*Fourth Place Paper, Finalist Student Paper Competition

An Inter-Arrival Delay Jitter Model using Multi-Structure Network Delay Characteristics for Packet Networks ( .pdf)
E.J. Daniel, C.M. White, K.A. Teague. In Proceedings of the 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November, 2003.

Miscellaneous

Lab for JHU summer-school07