Bill Byrne
November 24th
4:30PM
"Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers "
Research: Projects
Projects that CLSP researchers are currently involved in:
- PIRE: Investigation of Meaning Representations in Language Understanding for
Machine Translation Systems
Frederick Jelinek, Eugene Charniak, Jason Eisner, Mark Johnson, and Sanjeev Khudanpur. - MALACH: Multilingual
Access to Large Spoken Archives
William Byrne and Frederick Jelinek - Clustering of Words and Class-Based Language Models
Ahmad Emami and Frederick Jelinek - Word Clustering Based on Latent Semantic Analysis
Yan Huang and Sanjeev Khudanpur - Exploiting Nonlocal and Syntactic Word Relationships in Language Models for Conversational Speech Recognition (STIMULATE)
Peng Xu and Frederick Jelinek - Acoustic Modeling for Conversational Speech
Shankar Kumar, Asela Gunawardana, Vaibhava Goel, Veera Venkataramani, William Byrne - Minimum Risk Acoustic Clustering for Multilingual Acoustic Model Combination and Maximum Mutual Information Estimation of HMMs
Stavros Tsakalidis and William Byrne - Pronunciation Modeling for Mandarin Causal Speech
Veera Venkataramani and William Byrne - Estimation Techniques for Acoustic Modeling
Asela Gunawardana and William Byrne - Segmentation and Clustering of Broadcast Speech
Vlasios Doumpiotis and Sanjeev Khudanpur - Transformation Learning in the Fast Lane
Radu Florian, Grace Ngai, and David Yarowsky


