SSLI Lab Publications

Department of Electrical Engineering University of Washington  

2000:

M. H. Siu and M. Ostendorf, ''Variable N-grams and Extensions for Conversational Speech Language Modeling,'' IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 8, no. 1, pp 63-75.
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M. Ostendorf, ``Incorporating linguistic theories of phonological variation into speech recognition models,'' Royal Society Phil. Trans., to appear.
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A. Kannan, M. Ostendorf, W. C. Karl, D. Castañon and R. Fish, ``ML Parameter Estimation of a Multiscale Stochastic Process using the EM Algorithm,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, to appear June 2000.
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D. Palmer and M. Ostendorf, ``Robust Information Extraction from Automatically Generated Speech Transcriptions,'' Speech Communication, to appear.
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M. Ostendorf, ``Prosodic Boundary Detection,'' in Prosody: Theory and Experiment. Studies Presented to Gosta Bruce, M. Horne (Ed.), Kluwer, forthcoming.
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M. Siu and M. Ostendorf, "Integrating a Context-Dependent Phrase Grammar in the variable n-gram framework," Proc. ICASSP, to appear.
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Izhak Shafran and M. Ostendorf, "Use of higher level linguistic structure in acoustic modeling for speech recognition," Proc. ICASSP, June 2000, pp.1021-1024.
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L. Atlas, M. Ostendorf, and G. Bernard, ``Hidden Markov models for monitoring machining tool-wear,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, to appear.
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K. Kirchhoff, "Integrating Articulatory Features into Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition," to appear in Workshop PhonASR, Saarbruecken, Germany, March 2000

K. Kirchhoff, G.A. Fink and G. Sagerer, "Conversational Speech Recognition Using Acoustic and Articulatory Input," to appear in ICASSP-2000, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000

1999:

• M. Bacchiani and M. Ostendorf, ``Joint Lexicon, Acoustic Unit Inventory and Model Design,'' Speech Communication, vol. 29, no. 2-4, pp. 99-114. (invited paper)
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• R. Iyer and M. Ostendorf, ``Modeling Long Distance Dependence in Language: Topic Mixtures vs. Dynamic Cache Models,'' IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 30-39, January 1999.



• M. Ostendorf, ``Moving beyond the `beads-on-a-string' model of speech,'' Proc. IEEE ASRU Workshop, 1999, to appear.

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• K. Ross and M. Ostendorf, ``A Dynamical System Model for Generating Fundamental Frequency for Speech Synthesis,'' IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 295-309, 1999.



• R. Iyer and M. Ostendorf, ``Relevance Weighting for Combining Multi-Domain Data for N-Gram Language Modeling,'' Computer Speech and Language, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 267-282, 1999.



• R. Bates and M. Ostendorf, ``Reducing the Effects of Linear Channel Distortion on Continuous Speech Recognition,'' IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 7, no. 5, 1999.



• D. Palmer, J. Burger, and M. Ostendorf, ``Information Extraction from Broadcast News Speech Data,'' Proceedings of the DARPA Broadcast News and Understanding Workshop, 1999, pp. 41-46.



• I. Bulyko, M. Ostendorf and P. J. Price, ``On the Relative Importance of Different Prosodic Factors for Improving Speech Synthesis,'' XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1999, pp. 81-84.
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• D. Palmer, M. Ostendorf and J. Burger, ``Robust information extraction from spoken language data,'' Proc. Eurospeech, 1999, pp. 1035-1038.



• I. Bulyko and M. Ostendorf, ``Predicting Gradient F0 Variation: Pitch Range and Accent Prominence,'' Proc. Eurospeech, 1999, pp. 1819-1822.
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• K. Kirchhoff and J. Bilmes, ``Statistical Acoustic Indications of Coarticulation,'' Proceedings 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, USA, August 1999



• K. Kirchhoff and J. Bilmes, ``Dynamic Classifier Combination in Hybrid Speech Recognition Systems using Utterance-Level Confidence Values,'' Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Phoenix, USA, March 1999



• J. Bilmes, ``Buried Markov Models for Speech Recognition,'' IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, March 1999.

1998:

• M. Ostendorf, A. Kannan, and O. Ronen, ``Tree-based Dependence Models for Speech Recognition,'' in Computational Models of Speech Pattern Processing, K. Ponting (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 40-53, 1998.



• M. Ostendorf, ``Segmental Acoustic Models,'' in Computational Models of Speech Pattern Processing, K. Ponting (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 157-172, 1998.



• M. Bacchiani and M. Ostendorf, ``Joint Acoustic Unit Design and Lexicon Generation,'' Proc. of the ESCA Workshop on Modeling Pronunciation Variation for Automatic Speech Recognition, 1998, pp. 7-12.



• R. Sproat, A. Hunt, M. Ostendorf, P. Taylor, A. Black, K. Lenzo, and M. Edgington, ``SABLE: A Standard for TTS Markup,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1998, vol. 5, pp. 1719-1722.



• M. Bacchiani and M. Ostendorf, ``Using Automatically-Derived Acoustic Subword Units in Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1998, vol. 5, pp. 1843-1846.



• C. Fordyce and M. Ostendorf, ``Prosody Prediction for Speech Synthesis using Transformational Rule-based Learning,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1998, vol. 3, pp. 843-846.



• A. Stolcke, E. Shriberg, R. Bates, M. Ostendorf, D. Hakkani, M. Plauche, G. Tür and Y. Lu, ``Automatic Detection of Sentence Boundaries and Disfluencies based on Recognized Words,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1998, vol. 5, pp. 2247-2250.



• K. Kirchhoff, ``Combining Articulatory and Acoustic Information for Speech Recognition in Noisy and Reverberant Environments,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, December, 1998, pp. 891-894



• J. Bilmes, ``Data Driven Extensions to HMM Statistical Dependencies,'' Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, Dec 1998.



• J. Bilmes, ``Maximum Mutual Information Based Reduction Strategies for Cross-Correlation based Joint Distributional Modeling,'' IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 1998.



• A. Kannan and M. Ostendorf, ``A comparison of constrained trajectory models for large vocabulary speech recognition,'' IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 303-306, May 1998.



• M. Ostendorf, ``Linking Speech Recognition and Language Processing Through Prosody,'' CC-AI, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 279-303, 1998.

1997:

• M. Ostendorf and H. Singer, ``HMM Topology Design using Maximum Likelihood Successive State Splitting,'' Computer Speech and Language, 11, No. 1, pp. 17-42, 1997. (Received 1998 ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Laboratories paper award.)



• M. Swerts and M. Ostendorf, ``Prosodic and Lexical Indications of Discourse Structure in Human-Machine Interactions,'' Speech Communications, vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 25-41, 1997.



• R. Iyer, M. Ostendorf and H. Gish, ``Using Out-of-Domain Data to Improve In-Domain Language Models,'' IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 221-223, August 1997.



• M. Ostendorf and K. Ross, ``A Multi-Level Model for Recognition of Intonation Labels,'' in Computing Prosody, Y. Sagisaka, N. Campbell and N. Higuchi (Eds.), pp. 291-308, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997.



• A. Kannan and M. Ostendorf, ``Adaptation of Polynomial Trajectory Segment Models for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. II, pp. 1411-1414, 1997.



• M. H. Siu and M. Ostendorf, ``Variable N-gram Language Modeling and Extensions for Conversational Speech,'' Proc. Eurospeech, vol. 5, pp. 2739-2742, 1997.



• R. Iyer and M. Ostendorf, ``Transforming Out-of-Domain Estimates to Improve In-Domain Language Models,'' Proc. Eurospeech, vol. 4, pp. 1975-1978, 1997.



• A. Kannan and M. Ostendorf, ``Modeling Dependency in Adaptation of Acoustic Models using Multiscale Tree Processes,'' Proc. Eurospeech, vol. 4, pp. 1863-1866, 1997.



• R. Iyer, M. Ostendorf, and M. Meteer, ``Analyzing and Predicting Language Model Improvements,'' IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition and Understanding Proceedings, (S. Furui, B.-H. Juang, & W. Chou, eds.) pp. 254-261, 1997.



• Ganapathiraju A, Goel V, Picone J, Corrada A, Doddington G, Kirchhoff K, Ordowski M and Wheatley B. ``Syllable - A Promising Recognition Unit for LVCSR,'' Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Santa Barbara, USA, December 1997, pp. 207-214



• J. Bilmes, ``Joint Distributional Modeling with Cross-correlation Based Features,'' Proc. IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Santa Barbara, December 1997.



• J. Bilmes, K. Asanovic, C.-W. Chin, and J. Demmel, ``Optimizing Matrix Multiply using PHiPAC: a Portable, High-Performance, ANSI C Coding Methodology,'' Int. Conf. on Supercomputing, July 1997.



• J. Bilmes, K. Asanovic, C.-W. Chin, and J. Demmel, ``Using PHiPAC to Speed Error Back-Propagation Learning,'' IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, April 1997.



• V. Iyer, J. Bilmes, M. Wright, and D. Wessel, ``A Novel Representation for Rhythmic Structure,'' Int. Comp. Mus. Conf, September 1997. J. Bilmes.



• J. Bilmes, ``A Gentle Tutorial of the EM Algorithm and its Application to Parameter Estimation for Gaussian Mixture and Hidden Markov Models,'' ICSI TR-97-021, May 1997.

1996:

• K. Ross and M. Ostendorf, ``Prediction of Abstract Prosodic Labels for Speech Synthesis,'' Computer, Speech and Language, Vol. 10, No. 3, July 1996, pp. 155-185.



• M. Ostendorf, V. Digalakis and O. Kimball, ``From HMMs to Segment Models: A Unified View of Stochastic Modeling for Speech Recognition,'' IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 4, no. 5, September 1996, pp. 360-378.



• L. Dilley, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel and M. Ostendorf, ``Glottalization of Vowel-Initial Syllables as a Function of Prosodic Structure,'' Journal of Phonetics, 24, pp. 423-444 1996.



• P. Price and M. Ostendorf, ``Combining Linguistic with Statistical Methods in Modeling Prosody,'' in J. L. Morgan and K. Demuth (Eds.), Signal to syntax: Bootstrapping from speech to grammar in early acquisition, pp. 67-83, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.



• M. Ostendorf, ``From HMMs to Segment Models: Stochastic Modeling for CSR,'' in Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition - Advanced Topics, C. H. Lee, F. K. Soong and K. K. Paliwal (Eds.), pp. 185-210, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.



• M. Bacchiani, M. Ostendorf, Y. Sagisaka and K. Paliwal, ``Design of a Speech Recognition System based on Acoustically Derived Segmental Units,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. I, pp. 443-446, 1996.



• O. Ronen and M. Ostendorf, ``A Dependence Tree Model of Phone Correlation,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. II, pp. 873-876, 1996.



• H. Singer and M. Ostendorf, ``Maximum Likelihood Successive State Splitting,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. II, pp. 601-604, 1996.



• R. Iyer and M. Ostendorf, ``Modeling Long Distance Dependence in Language,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol. 1, pp. 236-239, 1996.



• M.H. Siu, M. Ostendorf, and H. Gish, ``Modeling Disfluencies in Conversational Speech,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol. 1, pp. 386-389, 1996.



• M. Ostendorf, B. Byrne, M. Bacchiani, M. Finke, A. Gunawardana, K. Ross, S. Roweis, E. Shriberg, D. Talkin, A. Waibel, B. Wheatley and T. Zeppenfeld, ``Modeling Systematic Variations in Pronunciation via a Language-Dependent Hidden Speaking Mode,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996, supplementary paper.



• K. Kirchhoff, ``Syllable-level desynchronisation of phonetic features for speech recognition,'' International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Philadelphia, USA, October, 1996, pp. 2274-2276



• K. Kirchhoff, ``Phonologisch strukturierte HMMs f"ur die Spracherkennung,'' Proceedings of KONVENS-96, Bielefeld, Germany, October 1996



• K. Kirchhoff, ``Phonologically structured HMMs for speech recognition,'' Proceedings of the SIGPHON Workshop for Computational Phonology in Speech Technology, Santa Cruz, USA, June 1996, pp. 45-50



• J. Bilmes, N. Morgan, S.-L. Wu, and H. Bourlard, ``Stochastic Perceptual Speech Models With Durational Dependence,'' Intl. Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Oct 1996

1995:

• R. Cole et al. ``The Challenge of Spoken Language Recognition: Research Directions for the 90s,'' IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1995, pp. 1-21.



• O. Ronen, J. R. Rohlicek and M. Ostendorf, ``Parameter Estimation of Dependence Tree Models Using the EM Algorithm,'' IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 2, No. 8, August 1995, pp. 157-159.



• M. Ostendorf, F. Richardson, R. Iyer, A. Kannan, O. Ronen and R. Bates, ``The 1994 BU NAB News Benchmark System,'' Proceedings of the ARPA Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, January 1995, pp. 139-142.



• F. Richardson, M. Ostendorf and J. R. Rohlicek, ``Lattice-based Search Strategies for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. 1, pp. 576-579, 1995.



• M. Swerts and M. Ostendorf, ``Discourse Prosody in Human-Machine Interactions,'' Proc. of the ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems - Theories and Applications, June 1995.



• K. Ross and M. Ostendorf, ``A Dynamical System Model for Recognizing Intonation Patterns,'' Proc. Eurospeech, Sept. 1995, Vol. 2, pp. 993-996.



• J. Picone and M. Ostendorf, ``New Approaches to Stochastic Modeling of Speech,'' Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition, Dec. 1995.

1994:

• M. Ostendorf and N. Veilleux, ``A Hierarchical Stochastic Model for Automatic Prediction of Prosodic Boundary Location,'' Computational Linguistics, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1994, pp. 27-54.



• A. Kannan, M. Ostendorf and J. R. Rohlicek, ``Maximum Likelihood Clustering of Gaussians for Speech Recognition,'' IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 2, No. 3, July 1994, pp. 453-455.



• C. W. Wightman and M. Ostendorf, ``Automatic Labeling of Prosodic Patterns,'' IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 2, No. 4, October 1994, pp. 469-481.



• S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, M. Ostendorf and K. Ross, ``Stress Shift and Early Pitch Accent Placement in Lexical Items in American English,'' Journal of Phonetics, Vol. 22, 1994, pp. 357-388.



• R. Iyer, M. Ostendorf and J. R. Rohlicek, ``Language Modeling with Sentence-Level Mixtures,'' Proceedings of the ARPA Workshop on Human Language Technology, March 1994, pp. 82-87.



• M. Ostendorf, F. Richardson, S. Tibrewal, R. Iyer, O. Kimball, and J. R. Rohlicek, ``Stochastic Segment Modeling for CSR: the BU WSJ Benchmark System,'' Proceedings of the ARPA Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, 1994, pp. 94-97.



• K. Ross and M. Ostendorf, ``A Dynamical System Model for Generating F0 for Synthesis,'' Proceedings of the ESCA/IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pp. 131-134, September 1994.

1993:

• M. Ostendorf, C. W. Wightman, and N. M. Veilleux, ``Parse Scoring with Prosodic Information: An Analysis/Synthesis Approach,'' Computer Speech and Language, July 1993, pp. 193-210.



• V. Digalakis, J. R. Rohlicek, and M. Ostendorf, ``ML Estimation of a Stochastic Linear System with the EM Algorithm and its Application to Speech Recognition,'' IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 1, no. 4, October 1993, pp. 431-442.



• J. Bilmes, ``Techniques to Foster Drum Machine Expressivity,'' Proc. Int. Comp. Mus. Conf., September 1993.



• N. Morgan, J. Beck, P. Kohn, and J. Bilmes, ``Neurocomputing on the RAP,'' Book chapter for Parallel Digital Implementations of Neural Networks. Prentice-Hall, 1993.



• N. Veilleux and M. Ostendorf, ``Prosody/Parse Scoring and its Application in ATIS,'' Proceedings of the ARPA Workshop on Human Language Technology, March 1993, pp. 335-340.



• O. Kimball and M. Ostendorf, ``On the Use of Tied-Mixture Distributions,'' Proceedings of the DARPA Workshop on Human Language Technology, March 1993, pp. 102-107.



• M. Ostendorf, ``Prosody Session Overview,'' Proceedings of the DARPA Workshop on Human Language Technology, March 1993, pp. 315-316.



• N. Veilleux and M. Ostendorf, ``Probabilistic Parse Scoring with Prosodic Information,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. II, April 1993, pp. 51-55.



• A. Kannan and M. Ostendorf, ``A Comparison of Trajectory and Mixture Modeling in Segment-based Word Recognition,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. II, April 1993, pp. 327-330.



• M. Ostendorf, P. J. Price and S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, ``Combining Statistical and Linguistic Methods for Modeling Prosody,'' Proceedings of the ESCA Workshop on Prosody, Lund, Sweden, September 1993, pp. 272-275.

1992:

C. Wightman, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, M. Ostendorf and P. J. Price, ``Segmental Durations in the Vicinity of Prosodic Phrase Boundaries,'' Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 91, no. 3, March 1992, pp. 1707-1717.

O. Kimball, M. Ostendorf, and I. Bechwati, ``Context Modeling with the Stochastic Segment Model,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 40, no. 6, June 1992, pp. 1584-1587.

V. Digalakis, M. Ostendorf and J. R. Rohlicek, ``Fast Algorithms for Phone Classification and Recognition Using Segment-Based Models,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 40, no. 12, December 1992, pp. 2885-2896.

N. Veilleux and M. Ostendorf, ``Probabilistic Parse Scoring Based on Prosodic Phrasing,'' Proceedings of the DARPA Workshop on Speech and Natural Language, pp. 429-434, February 1992.

A. Kannan, M. Ostendorf and J. R. Rohlicek, ``Weight Estimation for N-Best Rescoring,'' Proceedings of the DARPA Workshop on Speech and Natural Language, pp. 455-456, February 1992.

O. Kimball, M. Ostendorf and J. R. Rohlicek``Recognition Using Classification and Segmentation Scoring,'' , Proceedings of the DARPA Workshop on Speech and Natural Language, pp. 197-201, February 1992.

M. Ostendorf, I. Bechwati and O. Kimball, ``Context Modeling with the Stochastic Segment Model,'' the Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, March 1992, Vol. I, pp. 389-392.

B. Necioglu, M. Ostendorf and J. R. Rohlicek, ``A Bayesian Approach to Speaker Adaptation of the Stochastic Segment Model,'' the Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, March 1992, Vol. I, pp. 437-440.

C. W. Wightman and M. Ostendorf, ``Automatic Recognition of Intonational Features,''the Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, March 1992, Vol. I, pp. 221-224.

S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, M. Ostendorf, and K. Ross, ``Pitch Accent Placement within Words,'' Proceedings of the IRCS Workshop on Prosody in Natural Speech, ed. M. Liberman and Cynthia McLemore, August 1992, pp. 181-192.

N. Veilleux, C. W. Wightman and M. Ostendorf, ``Parse Scoring with Prosodic Information,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, October 1992, pp. 1605-1608.

K. Ross, M. Ostendorf and S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, ``Factors Affecting Pitch Accent Placement,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, October 1992, pp. 365-368.

K. Silverman et al., ``TOBI: A Standard for Labeling English Prosody,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, October 1992, pp. 867-870.

M. Ostendorf, A. Kannan, O. Kimball and J. R. Rohlicek, ``Continuous Word Recognition Based on the Stochastic Segment Model,'' Proceedings of the 1992 DARPA Workshop on Continuous Speech Recognition.

N. Morgan, J. Beck, P. Kohn, J. Bilmes, E. Allman, and J. Beer, ``The Ring Array Processor (RAP): A Multiprocessing peripheral for connectionist applications,'' Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, April 1992

D.P. Anderson and J. Bilmes, ``MOOD: A Concurrent C++-Based Music Language,'' Proc. Int. Comp. Mus. Conf.. 1992.

J. Bilmes, ``A Model for Musical Rhythm,'' Proc. Int. Comp. Mus. Conf., 1992.

1991:

P. J. Price, M. Ostendorf, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel and C. Fong, ``The Use of Prosody in Syntactic Disambiguation,'' Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 90, no. 6, December 1991, pp. 2956-2970.

V. Digalakis, J. R. Rohlicek, M. Ostendorf, ``A Dynamical System Approach to Continuous Speech Recognition,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, May 1991, pp. 289-292.

C. W. Wightman and M. Ostendorf, ``Automatic Recognition of Prosodic Phrases,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, May 1991, pp. 321-324.

C. W. Wightman, N. M. Veilleux and M. Ostendorf, ``Use of Prosody in Syntactic Disambiguation: An Analysis-by-Synthesis Approach,'' Proceedings of the DARPA Workshop on Speech and Natural Language, February 1991, pp. 384-389.

M. Ostendorf, A. Kannan, S. Austin, O. Kimball, R. Schwartz, J. R. Rohlicek, ``Integration of Diverse Recognition Methodologies Through Reevaluation of N-Best Sentence Hypotheses,'' Proceedings of the DARPA Workshop on Speech and Natural Language, February 1991, pp. 83-87.

P. Price, M. Ostendorf, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, ``The Use of Prosody in Syntactic Disambiguation,'' Proceedings of the DARPA Workshop on Speech and Natural Language, February 1991, pp. 372-377. A shorter version appears as P. Price, M. Ostendorf, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, ``Disambiguating Sentences using Prosody,'' Proc. Inter. Congr. on Phonetic Sciences, Vol. II, pp. 418-421, August 1991.

M. Ostendorf and V. Digalakis, ``The Stochastic Segment Model for Continuous Speech Recognition,'' Proceedings of the 25th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, pp. 964-968, November 1991.

O. Gunther and J. Bilmes, ``Tree-Based Access Methods for Spatial Databases: Implementation and Performance Evaluation,'' IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 3(3), 1991.

P. Kohn, J. Bilmes, N. Morgan, and J. Beck, ``Software for ANN training on a Ring Array Processor,'' Neural Info. Proc. Systems 4, 1991

D. Anderson and J. Bilmes, ``Concurrent Real-Time Music in C++,'' USENIX C++ Conf., April 1991

H. Schmidt and J. Bilmes, ``Exception Handling in pSather,'' Exception Handling Workshop, European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Geneva, Switzerland, July 1991.

1990:

• M. Ostendorf and J. R. Rohlicek, ``Joint Quantizer Design and Parameter Estimation for Discrete Hidden Markov Models,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April 1990, pp. 705-708.



• J. W. Butzberger Jr., M. Ostendorf, P. J. Price and S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, ``Isolated Word Intonation Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April 1990, pp. 773-776.



• N. Veilleux, M. Ostendorf, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel and P. J. Price, ``Markov Modeling of Prosodic Phrase Structure,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April 1990, pp. 777-780.



• M. Ostendorf, P. Price. J. Bear and C. W. Wightman, ``The Use of Relative Duration in Syntactic Disambiguation,'' Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, June 1990, pp. 26-31. A shorter version appears in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, November 1990, pp. 13-16.



• V. Digalakis, M. Ostendorf, J. R. Rohlicek, ``Fast Search Algorithms for Connected Phone Recognition Using the Stochastic Segment Model,'' Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, June 1990, pp. 173-178.

1980's:

• O. Gunther and J. Bilmes, ``The Implementation of the Cell Tree: Design Alternatives and Performance Evaluation,'' Datenbanksysteme in Buro, Technik und Wissenschaft, Informatik-Fachberichte 204, Springer-Verlag, 1989.



• M. Ostendorf Dunham and R. M. Gray, ``An Algorithm for the Design of Labeled-Transition Finite-State Vector Quantizers," IEEE Transactions on Communications, January 1985, pp. 83-89.



• J. Foster, R. M. Gray and M. Ostendorf Dunham, ``Finite-State Vector Quantization for Waveform Coding," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, May 1985, pp. 348-359.



• R. M. Gray, M. Ostendorf Dunham and R. Gobbi, ``Ergodicity of Markov Channels," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Sept. 1987, pp. 656-664.



• M. Ostendorf and S. Roukos, ``A Stochastic Segment Model for Phoneme-Based Continuous Speech Recognition,'' IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. 37, No. 12, December 1989, pp. 1857-1869.



• S. Roucos and M. Ostendorf Dunham, ``A Comparison of Two Methods for Very-Low-Rate Speech Coding,'' Proceedings of the Milcom Conference, Boston, MA, October 1985.



• Y. Chow et al., ``The Role of Word-Dependent Coarticulatory Effects in a Phoneme-Based Speech Recognition System,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Tokyo, Japan, April 1986.



• Y. Chow et al., ``BYBLOS: The BBN Continuous Speech Recognition System,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Dallas, Texas, April 1987, pp. 89-92.



• S. Roucos and M. Ostendorf Dunham, ``A Stochastic Segment Model for Phoneme-Based Continuous Speech Recognition,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Dallas, Texas, April 1987, pp. 73-76. A reprint appears in Readings in Speech Recognition, ed. A. Waibel and K.-F. Lee, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., 1990.



• S. Roucos, M. Ostendorf, H. Gish, A. Derr, ``Stochastic Segment Modelling Using the Estimate-Maximize Algorithm,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, New York, NY, April 1988, pp. 127-130.



• P. J. Price, M. Ostendorf, and C. W. Wightman, ``Prosody and Parsing,'' Proceedings of the 2nd DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, October 1989, pp. 5-11.



• V. Digalakis, M. Ostendorf and J. R. Rohlicek, ``Improvements in the Stochastic Segment Model for Phoneme Recognition,'' Proceedings of the 2nd DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, October 1989, pp. 332-338.

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