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  • Asela Gunarwardana

    • - Defended his doctoral dissertation "The Information Geometry of EM Variants for Speech and Image Processing" in April 2001

    • Asela Gunawardana, The Information Geometry of EM Variants for Speech and Image Processing. PhD Thesis. April 2001. (ps|pdf) Note erratum at end of file.
    • Asela Gunawardana, ``Maximum Mutual Information Estimation of Acoustic HMM Emission Densities,'' CLSP Research Note No. 40. 2001. (ps)
    • Asela Gunawardana and William Byrne, ``Discounted Likelihood Linear Regression for Rapid Speaker Adaptation,'' Computer Speech and Language. Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 15-38 January 2001. (pdf)
    • William Byrne and Asela Gunawardana, ``Comments on `Efficient Training Algorithms for HMM's Using Incremental Estimation,' '' IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 751-754. November 2000. Correspondence. (ps|pdf)
    • Asela Gunawardana and William Byrne, ``Robust Estimation for Rapid Speaker Adaptation Using Discounted Likelihood Techniques,'' International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. 2000. (ps|pdf)
    • William Byrne and Asela Gunawardana, ``Discounted Likelihood Linear Regression for Rapid Adaptation,'' 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. 1999. (ps|pdf)
    • Asela Gunawardana and William Byrne, ``Convergence of EM Variants,'' CLSP Research Note No. 32. 1999. (ps|pdf)
    • William Byrne and Asela Gunawardana, ``Convergence of EM Variants,'' IEEE Information Theory Workshop on Decisions, Estimation, Classification, and Imaging. February 1999. ps|pdf)
    • Asela Gunawardana, Hsiao-Wuen Hon and Li Jiang, ``Word-Based Acoustic Confidence Measures for Large-Vocabulary Speech Recognition,'' International Conference on Speech and Language Processing, pp. 791-794. 1998. (ps|pdf)
    • M. Ostendorf, B. Byrne, M. Bacchiani, M. Finke, A. Gunawardana, K. Ross, S. Roweis, E. Shreiberg, D. Talkin, A. Waibel, B. Wheatley and T. Zeppenfeld, ``Modeling Systematic Variations in Pronunciation via a Language-Dependent Hidden Speaking Mode,'' International Conference on Spoken Language Processing . 1996.
    • Asela Gunawardana, ``Myoelectric Control of a Prosthetic Hand,'' presented at the IEEE Region II Student Paper Contest at the University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995. (ps|pdf)
    • Andrew Dougherty and Asela Gunawardana, ``The Mean Shape of Three-Dimensional Dendrites: A Comparison of Pivalic Acid and Ammonium Chloride,'' Physical Review E, August 1994.


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  • Vaibhava Goel

    • - Defended his doctoral dissertation "Minimum Bayes-Risk Automatic Speech Recognition" on November 29, 2000

    • Goel V. and Byrne W.J., ``Minimum Bayes-risk automatic speech recognition,'' Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 14(2), pp. 115--135, 2000.
    • Goel V., Brambrink A.M., Baykal A., and Thakor N.V., ``Dominant frequency analysis reveals brain's response to injury and recovery,'' IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 43(11), pp. 1083--1092, 1996.
    • Goel V. and Byrne W.J., ``Applications of Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding to LVCSR,'' LVCSR Workshop, May 16-19, UMCP, College Park, MD, 2000.
    • Goel V. and Byrne W.J., ``Task dependent loss functions in speech recognition: A-star search over recognition lattices,'' Eurospeech-99, pp. 1243--1246, Budapest, Hungary, 1999.
    • Goel V. and Byrne W.J., ``Task dependent loss functions in speech recognition: Application to named entity extraction,'' ESCA ETRW Workshop on Accessing Information from Spoken Audio, pp. 49--53, Cambridge, UK, 1999.
    • Goel V., Byrne W.J., and Khudanpur S., ``LVCSR rescoring with modified loss functions: A decision theoretic perspective,'' ICASSP-98, May 9-12, 1998.
    • Ganapathiraju A., Goel V., Picone J., et.al., ``Syllable - A promising recognition unit for LVCSR,'' 1997 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Dec 14-17, 1997.
    • Corrada A., Doddington G., Ganapathiraju A., Goel V., et.al., ``The syllable team,'' HUB-5 Conversational Speech Recognition Workshop, Nov 4-6, 1997.
    • Goel V. and Thakor N.V., ``A model of excitotoxic injury to the hippocampal neurons,'' Neural Modeling of Cognitive and Brain Disorders, Jun 8-10, 1995.
    • Kong X., Goel V., and Thakor N.V., ``Quantification of injury-related EEG signal changes using Itakura distance measure,'' ICASSP-95, May 9-12, 1995.
    • Goel V., Brambrink A.M., Baykal A., and Thakor N.V., ``Autoregressive modeling of EEG reveals brain's response to injury,'' IEEE/EMBS Annual International Conference, Nov 3-6, 1994.
    • Goel V., Brambrink A.M., Baykal A., and Thakor N.V., ``Detection of hypoxic-asphyxic insult and recovery using autoregressive modeling of EEG signals,'' American EEG Society Annual Meeting, Sep 19-20, 1994.


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  • Grace Ngai

    • - Defended her doctoral dissertation "Maximizing Resources for Corpus-Based Natural Language Processing" in October 2000



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  • Murat Saraclar

    • - Defended his doctoral dissertation "Pronunciation Modeling for Conversational Speech Recognition" on May 23, 2000.

    Additional Publications Page at http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/~murat/publications.html

    • Byrne, W., Finke, M., Khudanpur, S., McDonough, J., Nock, H., Riley, M., Saraclar, M., Wooters, C. and Zavaliagkos, G.
      "Pronunciation Modelling Using a Hand-Labelled Corpus for Conversational Speech Recognition,"
      IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seattle, WA, 1998.
    • Byrne, W., Khudanpur, S., and Saraclar, M.
      "A Pronunciation Modeling Update from CLSP,"
      in the Proceedings of the Hub-5 Conversational Speech Recognition Workshop, Linthicum Heights, MD, November 4-6, 1997.
    • Byrne, W., Khudanpur, S., Saraclar, M., et al.
      "Pronunciation Modeling for Conversational Speech Recognition - A Status Report from WS97,"
      in the Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Santa Barbara, CA, pp. 26-33, 1997.
    • Fosler, E., Weintraub, M., Wegmann, S., Kao, Y-H., Khudanpur, S., Galles, C., and Saraclar, M.
      "Automatic Learning of Word Pronunciation from Data,"
      in the Proceedings Addendum of the Int'l Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Philadelphia, PA, pp.28-29, October 1996.
    • Nock, H. and Saraclar, M.
      "Pronunciation Modeling Update from CLSP,"
      Proceedings of the Hub-5 Conversational Speech recognition (LVCSR) Workshop, Linthicum, Maryland, September 24-25, 1998.
    • Riley, M., Byrne, W., Finke, M., Khudanpur, S., Ljolje, A., McDonough, J., Nock, H., Saraclar, M., Wooters, C., and Zavaliagkos, G.
      "Stochastic pronunciation modeling from hand-labelled phonetic corpora,"
      to appear, Speech Communication.
    • Riley, M., Byrne, W., Finke, M., Khudanpur, S., Ljolje, A., McDonough, J., Nock, H., Saraclar, M., Wooters, C., and Zavaliagkos, G.
      "Stochastic pronunciation modeling from hand-labelled phonetic corpora,"
      in the Proceedings of the workshop on Modeling Pronunciation Variation for Automatic Speech Recognition, Rolduc, The Netherlands, May 4-6, 1998.
    • Saraclar, M., Nock, H., and Khudanpur, S.
      "Pronunciation Modeling by Sharing Gaussian Densities Across Phonetic Models,"
      submitted to EuroSpeech'99, Budapest, Hungary.


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  • Dimitra Vergyri

    • - Defended her doctoral dissertation "Integration of Multiple Knowledge Sources in Speech Recognition Using Minimum Error Training" on May 15, 2000.
     
    • Rosenfeld, R., Agarwal, R., Byrne, W., Iyer, R., Liberman, M., Shriberg, L., Unverferth, J., Vergyri, D., and Vidal, E.
      "Error Analysis and Disfluency Modeling in the Switchboard Domain,"
      Proceedings Addendum of ICLSP 96, Philadelphia, PA, p. 15, October 1996.


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  • John McDonough

    • - Defended his doctoral dissertation: "Speaker Comprehension with All-Pass Transforms" on March 30, 2000. He has taken a position at the Universitaet Karlsruhe with Dr. Alex Waibel.
     
    • Byrne, W., Hajic, J., Ircing, P., Jelinek, F., Khudanpur, S., McDonough, J., Peterek, N., Psutka, J.
      "Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition for Read and Broadcast Czech,"
      accepted to TSD'99, Marienbad, Czech Republic.
    • Byrne, W., Finke, M., Khudanpur, S., McDonough, J., Nock, H., Riley, M., Saraclar, M., Wooters, C. and Zavaliagkos, G.
      "Pronunciation Modelling Using a Hand-Labelled Corpus for Conversational Speech Recognition,"
      IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seattle, WA, 1998.
    • McDonough, J. and Byrne, W.
      "Speaker Adaptation with All-Pass Transforms,"
      accepted to the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Phoenix, Arizona, March 15-19, 1999, Vol. II, p.p. 757-760
    • McDonough, J. and Byrne, W.
      "Single-Pass Adapted Training with All-Pass Transforms,"
      submitted to EuroSpeech-99, Budapest, Hungary.
    • McDonough, J., Byrne, W., and Luo, X.
      "Speaker Normalization with All-Pass Transforms"
      in the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, November 30-December 4, 1998. Vol. 6, pp. 2307-2310.
    • Riley, M., Byrne, W., Finke, M., Khudanpur, S., Ljolje, A., McDonough, J., Nock, H., Saraclar, M., Wooters, C., and Zavaliagkos, G.
      "Stochastic pronunciation modeling from hand-labelled phonetic corpora,"
      to appear, Speech Communication.
    • Riley, M., Byrne, W., Finke, M., Khudanpur, S., Ljolje, A., McDonough, J., Nock, H., Saraclar, M., Wooters, C., and Zavaliagkos, G.
      "Stochastic pronunciation modeling from hand-labelled phonetic corpora,"
      in the Proceedings of the workshop on Modeling Pronunciation Variation for Automatic Speech Recognition, Rolduc, The Netherlands, May 4-6, 1998.
    • Saraclar, M., Byrne, W., Finke, M., Khudanpur, S., McDonough, J., Nock, H., Riley, M., Wooters, C., and Zavaliagkos, G.
      "Pronunciation Modeling Using a Hand-Labelled Corpus for Conversational Speech Recognition."
      ICASSP'98 Conference Proceedings, Vol. I, pp. 313-316, Seattle, WA, 1998.


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  • Lidia Mangu

    • - Left to take a full time position with IBM in January 2000. She returned and defended her doctoral dissertation: "Finding Consensus in Speech Recognition" April, 2000.
     

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  • Xiaoqiang Luo

    • - Defended his doctoral thesis: "Balancing Model Resolution and Generalizability in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition" on February 15, 1999 and has taken a position with IBM.
     
    • Luo, X. and Jelinek, F.
      "Probabilistic Classification of HMM States for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition,"
      Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Phoenix, Arizona, March 15-19, 1999, Vol. I, p.p. 353-356.
    • Luo, X. and Jelinek, F.
      "Nonreciprocal Data Sharing in Estimating HMM Parameters", in the Proceedings of ICSLP-98, Sydney, Australia, 1998, p.p. 65-68.
    • Luo, X.
      "Growth Transform of A Sum of Rational Functions and Its Application in Estimating HMM Parameters", accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST-98), Sydney, Australia, 1998.
    • Luo, X. and Jelinek, F.
      "Improving HMM State Tying,"
      Proceedings of the Hub-5 Conversational Speech recognition (LVCSR) Workshop, Linthicum, Maryland, September 24-25, 1998.
    • Luo, X. and Roukos, S.
      "An Iterative Algorithm to Build Chinese Language Models,"
      Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACL Conference, June 24-27, Santa Cruz, CA, pp. 139-143, 1996.
    • McDonough, J., Byrne, W., and Luo, X.
      "Speaker Normalization with All-Pass Transforms"
      in the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, November 30-December 4, 1998. Vol. 6, pp. 2307-2310.


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  • Ciprian Chelba

    • - Defended his doctoral thesis: "Exploiting Syntactic Structure for Natural Language Modeling" on December 17, 1999 and has taken a position with Microsoft Corporation.