ERIC FOSLER-LUSSIER

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2009

I. Heintz, E. Fosler-Lussier, and C. Brew. "Discriminative Input Stream Combination for Conditional Random Field Phone Recognition," IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Language Processing, to appear, 2009.

I. Heintz, M. Beckman, E. Fosler-Lussier, L. Ménard, "Evaluating parameters for mapping adult vowels to imitative babbling," Proceedings of Interspeech, Brighton, UK, 2009.

R. Prabhavalkar, Z. Jin, and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Monaural Segregation of Voiced Speech using Discriminative Random Fields," Proceedings of Interspeech, Brighton, UK, 2009.

W. Hartmann and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Investigating phonetic information reduction and lexical confusability," Proceedings of Interspeech, Brighton, UK, 2009.

J. Morris and E. Fosler-Lussier, "CRANDEM: Conditional Random Fields for Word Recognition," Proceedings of Interspeech, Brighton, UK, 2009.

P. Jyothi and E. Fosler-Lussier, "A Comparison of Audio-free Speech Recognition Error Prediction Methods," Proceedings of Interspeech, Brighton, UK, 2009.

T. Weale, C. Brew, and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Using the Wiktionary Graph Structure for Synonym Detection," in ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshop on Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources, Singapore, 2009.

S. Dimopoulos, A. Potamianos, E. Fosler-Lussier, and C.-H. Lee, "Multiple time resolution analysis of speech signal using MCE training with application to speech recognition," Proc. ICASSP, 2009.

2008

P. Mohapatra and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Investigations into phonological attribute classifier representations for CRF phone recognition," Proc. Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, 2008.

P. Mohapatra and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Incorporating Suprasegmental Knowledge for Phone Recognition with Conditional Random Fields," ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Analysis and Processing for Knowledge Discovery, Aalborg, Denmark, 2008.

E. Fosler-Lussier, "Strategies for teaching 'mixed' computational linguistics classes," The Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics (TeachCL-08), Columbus, OH, 2008.

L. Stoia, D. Shockley, D. Byron, and E. Fosler-Lussier. "SCARE: A Situated Corpus with Annotated Referring Expressions," Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morroco, 2008.

J. Morris and E. Fosler-Lussier. "Conditional Random Fields for Integrating Local Discriminative Classifiers," IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Language Processing, 16:3, pp 617-628, March 2008.

E. Fosler-Lussier and J. Morris, "CRANDEM systems: Conditional Random Field Acoustic Models for Hidden Markov Models," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008.

I. Heintz, E. Fosler-Lussier, and C. Brew, "Latent Phonetic Analysis: Use of Singular Value Decomposition to Determine Features for CRF Phone Recognition," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008.

2007

E. Fosler-Lussier, L. Dilley, N. Tyson, and M. Pitt, "The Buckeye Corpus of Speech: Updates and Enhancements," Proc. Interspeech, Antewerp, Belgium, 2007.

C.-H. Lee, M. A. Clements, S. Dusan, E. Fosler-Lussier, K. Johnson, B.-H. Juang, and L. R. Rabiner, "An Overview on Automatic Speech Attribute Transcription (ASAT)," Proc. Interspeech, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007.

E. Ammicht, E. Fosler-Lussier, and A. Potamianos. "Information Seeking Spoken Dialogue Systems -- Part I: Semantics and Pragmatics," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 9:3, pp 532-549, April 2007.

A. Potamianos, E. Fosler-Lussier, E. Ammicht, and M. Perakakis. "Information Seeking Spoken Dialogue Systems -- Part II: Multimodal Dialogue," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 9:3, pp 550-566, April 2007.

I. Bromberg, J. Morris, and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Joint versus independent phonological feature models within CRF phone recognition," NAACL-HLT (short paper session), Rochester, NY, 2007.

J. Morris and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Further experiments with detector-based conditional random fields in phonetic recognition," International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, 2007.

2006

E. Ammicht, E. Fosler-Lussier, and A. Potamianos. "Information Seeking Spoken Dialogue Systems -- Part I: Semantics and Pragmatics," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, in press.

A. Potamianos, E. Fosler-Lussier, E. Ammicht, and M. Perakakis. "Information Seeking Spoken Dialogue Systems -- Part II: Multimodal Dialogue," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, in press.

E. Iosif, A. Tegos, A. Pangos, E. Fosler-Lussier, and A. Potamianos, "Unsupervised Combination of Metrics for Semantic Class Induction," IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2006), Palm Beach, Aruba, 2006.

J. Morris and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Combining phonetic attributes using conditional random fields," Proc. Interspeech, Pittsburgh, 2006.

Y. Wang and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Integrating phonetic boundary discrimination explicitly into HMM systems," Proc. Interspeech, Pittsburgh, 2006.

E. Fosler-Lussier. "Underspecified Feature Models for Pronunciation Variation in ASR," Keynote paper, ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Recognition and Intrinsic Variation, Toulouse, France, 2006.

J. Morris and E. Fosler-Lussier. "Discriminative Phonetic Recognition with Conditional Random Fields," HLT-NAACL workshop on Computationally Hard Problems and Joint Inference in Speech and Language Processing, New York, 2006.

L. Stoia, D. Byron, D. Shockley, and E. Fosler-Lussier. "Noun Phrase Generation for Situated Dialogs," International Natural Language Generation Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2006.

L. Stoia, D. Byron, D. Shockley, and E. Fosler-Lussier. "Sentence Planning for Realtime Navigational Instruction," Human Language Technology conference - North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT-NAACL), Short paper session, New York, 2006.

D. Byron and E. Fosler-Lussier, "The OSU Quake 2004 corpus of two-party situated problem-solving dialogs," Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), Genoa, Italy, 2006.

(TALK) E. Fosler-Lussier, "What speech technology can bring to information theory and phonology," Invited talk, Symposium on Information Theory and Phonology, Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, Albuquerque, NM, 2006.

(TALK) E. Fosler-Lussier and K. Johnson, "Pronunciation variation as a problem for lexical representation", Invited talk, Symposium on Phonetic Variation: What Does It Mean to Speakers and Listeners, Lingustic Society of America annual meeting, Albuquerque, NM, 2006.

2001-2005

E. Fosler-Lussier and C. A. Rytting. "A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Hybrid Phone-Manner Representations for ASR," Joint Conference on Human Language Technologies and Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 2005.

E. Fosler-Lussier, C. A. Rytting, and S. Srinivasan. "Phonetic ignorance is bliss: Investigating the effects of phonetic information reduction on ASR performance," Proceedings of Interspeech, Lisbon Portugal, 2005.

M. Rajamanohar and E. Fosler-Lussier, "An Evaluation of Hierarchical Articulatory Feature Detectors," IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workkshop (ASRU 2005), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2005.

E. Fosler-Lussier, W. Byrne, and D. Jurafsky, eds. Speech Communication Special Issue on Pronunciation Modleing and Lexicon Adaptation, 46:2, June 2005.

E. Fosler-Lussier, I. Amdal, and H.-K. J. Kuo. "A Framework for Predicting Speech Recognition Errors," Speech Communication issue on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation, 46:2, pp. 153-170, 2005.

A. Pangos, E. Iosif, A. Potamianos, and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Combining Statistical Similarity Measures for Automatic Induction of Semantic Classes," IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2005), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2005.

L. Stoia, T. Xu, D. Byron, and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Populating semantic classes using large-scale corpora", MEANING-05 Workshop, Trento, Italy, 2005.

A. Pargellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, C.-H. Lee, A. Potamianos, and A. Tsai. "Automatic Induction of Semantic Classes for Spoken Dialogue Systems," Speech Communication, 43:3, pp 183-203, 2004.

I. Amdal and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Pronunciation Variation Modeling in Automatic Speech Recognition," Telektronikk, Telenor, 2.2003.

A. Bell, D. Jurafsky, E. Fosler-Lussier, C. Girand, M. Gregory, and D. Gildea. "Effects of disfluencies, predictability, and utterance position on word form variation in English conversation," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 113:2, pp. 1001-1024, February, 2003.

E. Fosler-Lussier. "A Tutorial on Pronunciation Modeling for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition,", in S. Renals and G. Grefenstette (eds), Text and Speech Triggered Information Access, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2003. (invited chapter)

M. Galley, K. McKeown, E. Fosler-Lussier, H. Jing. "Discourse Segmentation of Multi-party Conversation," Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-03) Sapporo, Japan, July 2003.

H.-K. Kuo, C.-H. Lee, I. Zitouni, and E. Fosler-Lussier. "Minimum Verification Error Training for Topic Verification," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2003), Hong Kong, China, 2003.

H.-K. Kuo, I. Zitouni, E. Fosler-Lussier, E. Ammicht, and C.-H. Lee. "Discriminative Training for Call Classification and Routing," International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-2002), Denver, Colorado, 2002.

A. Pargellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, and A. Tsai. "Using part-of-speech tags, context thresholding, and trigram contexts to improve the auto-induction of semantic classes," International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-2002), Denver, Colorado, 2002.

E. Fosler-Lussier, I. Amdal, and H.-K. J. Kuo. "On the road to improved lexical confusability metrics," ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation (PMLA-2002), Estes Park, Colorado, 2002.

A. J. Robinson, G. D. Cook, D. P. W. Ellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, S. J. Renals, and D. A. G. Williams. "Connectionist Speech Recognition of Broadcast News," Speech Communication 37:1-2, DARPA Broadcast News special issue, pp. 27--45, 2002.

W. Byrne, E. Fosler-Lussier, and D. Jurafsky, eds. Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation in Spoken Language Technology, Estes Park, Colorado, 2002.

H.-K. Kuo, E. Fosler-Lussier, H. Jiang, and C.-H. Lee. "Discriminative Training of Language Models for Speech Recognition," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Orlando, Florida, 2002.

R. Argiles Solsona, E. Fosler-Lussier, H.-K. Kuo, A. Potamianos and I. Zitouni. "Adaptive Language Models for Spoken Dialogue Systems," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Orlando, Florida, 2002.

S. Lee, E. Ammicht, E. Fosler-Lussier, H.-K. Kuo, and A. Potamianos, "Spoken Dialogue Evaluation for the Bell Labs Communicator System," Human Language Technologies Conference, San Diego, California, 2002.

A. Pargellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, A. Potamianos, and C.-H. Lee. "A comparison of four metrics for auto-inducing semantic classes," IEEE Automatics Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU-2001), Trento, Italy, 2001.

P. Durston, M. Farrell, D. Attwater, J. Allen, H.-K. J. Kuo, M. Afify, E. Fosler-Lussier, C.-H. Lee. "OASIS Natural Language Call Steering Trial," Seventh European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '01), Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.

C. Shih, G. Kochanski, E. Fosler-Lussier, M. Chan, and J.-H. Yuan. "Implications of Prosody Modeling for Prosody Recognition," ICSA Research and Tutorial Workshop on Prosody in Automatic Speech Recognition (PROSODY-2001), Red Bank, New Jersey, 2001.

E. Ammicht, A. Potamianos, and E. Fosler-Lussier. "Ambiguity Representation and Resolution in Spoken Dialogue Systems," Seventh European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '01), Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.

A. Pargellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, A. Potamianos, and C.-H. Lee. "Metrics for Measuring Domain Independence of Semantic Classes," Seventh European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '01), Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.

M. Galley, E. Fosler-Lussier, and A. Potamianos. "Hybrid Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems," Seventh European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '01), Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.

E. Fosler-Lussier and H.-K. J. Kuo. "Using Semantic Class Information for Rapid Development of Language Models within ASR Dialogue Systems," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2001), Salt Lake City, Utah, 2001.

1994-2000

S. Greenberg and E. Fosler-Lussier. "The uninvited guest: Information's role in guiding the production of spontaneous speech," in the Proceedings of the Crest Workshop on Models of Speech Production: Motor Planning and Articulatory Modelling, Kloster Seeon, Germany, 2000.

M. Wester and E. Fosler-Lussier. "A comparison of data-derived and knowledge-based modeling of pronunciation variation," International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP-2000), Beijing, China, 2000.

E. Fosler-Lussier. "Contextual word and syllable pronunciation models," International Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU '99), Keystone, Colorado, 1999.

E. Fosler-Lussier. "Multi-level decision trees for static and dynamic pronunciation models," Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '99), Budapest, Hungary, 1999. Awarded ELSNET Prize for Best Student Paper in Linguistic Resource Issues

E. Fosler-Lussier, S. Greenberg, and N. Morgan. "Incorporating Contextual Phonetics into Automatic Speech Recognition," Invited paper for the symposium "The Phonetics of Spontaneous Speech," International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS '99), San Francisco, California, 1999.

E. Fosler-Lussier and G. Williams, "Not just what, but also when: Guided automatic pronunciation modeling for Broadcast News," DARPA Hub4E Evaluation Workshop, 1999.

G. Cook, J. Christie, D. Ellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, Y. Gotoh, B. Kingsbury, N. Morgan, S. Renals, T. Robinson, and G. Williams, "The SPRACH System for the Transcription of Broadcast News," DARPA Hub4E Evaluation Workshop, 1999.

N. Morgan, D. Ellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, A. Janin, and B. Kingsbury, "Reducing errors by increasing the error rate: MLP Acoustic Modeling for Broadcast News Transcription," DARPA Hub4E Evaluation Workshop, 1999.

J. E. Fosler-Lussier. "Dynamic Pronunciation Models for Automatic Speech Recognition," Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1999. Reprinted as International Computer Science Institute technical report TR-99-015.

E. Fosler-Lussier. "Linguistic Categories for Speech Recognition," in N. Morgan and B. Gold, Speech and Audio Signal Processing: Processing and Perception of Speech and Music, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1999, Chapter 23.

A. Bell, D. Jurafsky, E. Fosler-Lussier, C. Girand and D. Gildea. "Reduction of English Function Words In Disfluent Contexts," International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS '99), San Francisco, California, 1999.

M. L. Gregory, W. D. Raymond, A. Bell, E. Fosler-Lussier, and D. Jurafsky. "The effects of collocational strength and contextual predictability in lexical production," Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society, v. 35, 1999.

D. Jurafsky, A. Bell, E. Fosler-Lussier, C. Girand, and W. Raymond. "Reduction of English function words in Switchboard," International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-98), Sydney, Australia, 1998.

E. Fosler-Lussier and N. Morgan. "Effects of Speaking Rate and Word Predictability on Conversational Pronunciations," ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Modeling Pronunciation Variation for Automatic Speech Recognition, Kerkrade, Netherlands, 1998.

N. Morgan and E. Fosler-Lussier. "Combining Multiple Estimators of Speaking Rate," International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-98), Seattle, Washington, 1998.

E. Fosler-Lussier. "Markov Models and Hidden Markov Models: A Brief Tutorial," International Computer Science Institute Technical Report TR-98-041, 1998. CS 188 (Introduction to Artificial Intelligence), Fall 1995 Teaching Materials.

E. Fosler. "Automatic learning of a model for word pronunciations: Status report," Conversational Speech Recognition Workshop: DARPA Hub~5E Evaluation, Baltimore, Maryland, 1997.

M. Weintraub, E. Fosler, C. Galles, Y.-H. Kao, S. Khudanpur, M. Saraclar, and S. Wegmann, "WS96 Project Report: Automatic Learning of Word Pronunciation from Data," in F. Jelinek, editor, 1996 Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Summer Research Workshop Technical Reports, Chapter 3. Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, Research Notes No. 24, 1997.

N. Morgan, E. Fosler, and N. Mirghafori. "Speech Recognition using On-line Estimation of Speaking Rate," Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '97), Rhodes, Greece, 1997.

E. Fosler, M. Weintraub, S. Wegmann, Y.-H. Kao, S. Khudanpur, C. Galles, M. Saraclar. "Automatic Learning of Word Pronunciations from Data," Invited paper, International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-96), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1996.

N. Mirghafori, E. Fosler, and N. Morgan. "Towards Robustness to Fast Speech in ASR," International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-96), Atlanta, Georgia, 1996.

E. Fosler. "On Reversing the Generation Process in Optimality Theory," Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Santa Cruz, California, 1996.

N. Mirghafori, E. Fosler, and N. Morgan. "Why Is ASR Harder For Fast Speech and What Can We Do About It?" Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU '95), Snowbird, Utah, 1995.

N. Mirghafori, E. Fosler, and N. Morgan. "Fast Speakers in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition: Analysis & Antidotes," Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '95), Madrid, Spain, 1995.

G. Tajchman, E. Fosler, and D. Jurafsky. "Building Multiple Pronunciation Models for Novel Words using Exploratory Computational Phonology," Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '95), Madrid, Spain, 1995.

G. Tajchman, D. Jurafsky, and E. Fosler. "Learning Phonological Rule Probabilities from Speech Corpora with Exploratory Computational Phonology," Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-95), Boston, Massachusetts, 1995.

D. Jurafsky, C. Wooters, J. Segal, A. Stolcke, E. Fosler, G. Tajchman, and N. Morgan. "Using A Stochastic Context-Free Grammar as a Language Model for Speech Recognition," International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-95), Detroit, Michigan, 1995.

N. Mirghafori, E. Fosler, and N. Morgan. "Making Automatic Speech Recognition More Robust to Fast Speech," International Computer Science Institute Technical Report TR-95-067, Berkeley, California, 1995.

D. Jurafsky, C. Wooters, G. Tajchman, J. Segal, A. Stolcke, E. Fosler, and N. Morgan. "The Berkeley Restaurant Project," International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-94), Yokohama, Japan, 1994.


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