Publications

T. Schultz and K. Kirchhoff (eds.), Multilingual Speech Processing , Elsevier, 2006
Elsevier book description

2011

• K. Kirchhoff and A. Alexandrescu, "Phonetic classification using controlled random walks", Proceedings of Interspeech, 2011
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff, A.M. Turner, A. Axelrod and F. Saavedra, "Application of statistical machine translation to public health information: a feasibility study", Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2011 (Online first link)
  
  
• K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, "Semi-supervised Ranking for Document Retrieval", Computer, Speech and Language 25(2), pp. 261-281, January 2011 (Science Direct link)

2010

• T. Baldwin, J. Y. Chai, and K. Kirchhoff, "Hand Gestures in Disambiguating Types of You Expressions in Multiparty Meetings", Proceedings of the 11th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, pp. 306-313, Tokyo, Japan, September, 2010.
  
  
• M. Yang and K. Kirchhoff, "Contextual Modeling for Meeting Translation Using Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation", Proceedings of COLING, Beijing, August 2010 [pdf]

2009

• T. Baldwin, J. Y. Chai, and K. Kirchhoff, " Communicative Gestures in Reference Resolution in Multiparty Meetings", Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), Cambridge, MA, USA, November 2-6, 2009.
  
  
• A. Alexandrescu and K. Kirchhoff, "Graph-Based Learning for Statistical Machine Translation", Proceedings of NAACL/HLT, 2009 [pdf]
  

2008

• A. Axelrod, M. Yang, K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, "The University of Washington Machine Translation System for WMT 2008", Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation , 2008
  
  
• K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, "Beyond Log-Linear Models: Boosted Minimum Error Rate Training for N-best Re-ranking", Proceedings of ACL 2008
  
  
• K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, "Learning to Rank with Partially Labeled Data", Proceedings of SIGIR 2008 [pdf]
  
  

2007

• A. Alexandrescu and K. Kirchhoff, ``Graph-based learning for phonetic classification'', Proceedings of ASRU 2007, Kyoto, Japan [pdf]
  
  
• H. Lui, J. Bilmes, D. Vergyri and K. Kirchhoff, `` OOV Detection by Joint Word/Phone Lattice Alignment'', Proceedings of ASRU 2007, Kyoto, Japan
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff and M. Yang, ``The University of Washington Machine Translation System for the IWSLT 2007 Competition'', Proceedings of IWSLT 2007, Trento, Italy [pdf]
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff, O. Rambow, N. Habash and M. Diab, ``Semi-Automatic Error Analysis for Large-Scale Statistical Machine Translation'', Proceedings of MT-Summit IX, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007 [doc]
  
  
• R. Sampath Kumaran, J. Bilmes and K. Kirchhoff, ``Attention-Shift Decoding for Conversational Speech Recognition'', Proceedings of Interspeech 2007 Antwerp, Belgium
  
  
• A. Alexandrescu and K. Kirchhoff, "Data-Driven Graph Construction for Semi-Supervised Graph-Based Learning in NLP", Proceedings HLT 2007 [pdf]
  

2006

• A. Stolcke, B. Chen, H. Franco, R. Gadde, M. Graciarena, K. Kirchhoff, A. Mandal, N. Morgan, M. Ostendorf, K. Sonmez, A. Venkataramanan, D. Vergyri, W. Wang, J. Zheng and Q. Zhu, "Recent Innovations in Speech-to-Text Transcription at SRI-ICSI-UW", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing 14(5), pp. 1729-1744, 2006
  
  
• G. Ji, J. Bilmes, J. Michels, K. Kirchhoff, C. Manning, "Graphical Model Representations of Word Lattices", Proceedings of the IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, 2006
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff, K. Duh and C. Lim, "The University of Washington Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2006", Proceedings of IWSLT 2006
  
  
• M. Sammer, K. Reiter, S. Soderland, K. Kirchhoff and O. Etzioni, ``Ambiguity Reduction for Machine Translation: Human-Computer Collaboration'', Proceedings of AMTA (Machine Translation in the Americas), Boston, MA, 2006 [pdf]
  
  
• K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, ``Lexicon Acquisition for Dialectal Arabic Using Transductive Learning'', Proceedings of EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), Sydney, Australia, 2006 [pdf]
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff, M. Yang and K. Duh, "Machine Translation of Parliamentary Proceedings Using Morpho-Syntactic Knowledge", Proceedings of the TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation , 2006 [pdf]
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff, D. Vergyri, K. Duh, J. Bilmes and A. Stolcke, ``Morphology-based language modeling for Arabic speech recognition'', Computer Speech and Language 20(4), 2006, pp. 589-608 (Science direct link)
  
  
• T. Schultz and K. Kirchhoff (eds.) Multilingual Speech Processing , Elsevier, 2006
  
  
• M. Yang and K. Kirchhoff, "Phrase-Based Backoff Models for Machine Translation of Highly Inflected Languages", Proceedings of EACL, 2006 [pdf]
  
  
• J. Bilmes, J. Malkin, X. Li, S. Harada, K. Kilansky, K. Kirchhoff, R. Wright, A. Subramanya, J. Landay, P. Dowden, H. Chizeck, "The Vocal Joystick", Proceedings of ICASSP , 2006
  
  
• A. Alexandrescu and K. Kirchhoff, "Factored Neural Language Models", Proceedings of HLT, 2006 [pdf]
  
  

2005

• K. Kirchhoff and D. Vergyri,``Cross-Dialectal Data Sharing for Acoustic Modeling in Arabic Speech Recognition'', Speech Communication 46, pp. 37-51, 2005 (preprint version here: [pdf]
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff and M. Yang, "Improved Language Modeling for Statistical Machine Translation", Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts, 2005 [pdf]
  
  
• K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, "POS Tagging of Dialectal Arabic: a Minimally Supervised Approach", Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, 2005 [pdf]
  
  
• I. Bulyko, K. Kirchhoff, M. Ostendorf and J. Goldberg, "Error Correction Detection and Response Generation in a Spoken Langugage Dialogue System", Speech Communication 45(3) (Special Issue on Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems) 2005, pp. 271-288 (Science Direct link)
  
  
• M. Hasegawa-Johnson, J. Baker, S. Borys, K. Chen, E. Coogan, S. Greenberg, A. Juneja, K. Kirchhoff, K. Livescu, S. Mohan, J. Muller, K. Sonmez and T. Wang, "Landmark-based Speech Recognition: Report of the 2004 Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop", Proceedings of ICASSP, 2005
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff and S. Schimmel, "Statistical properties of infant-directed vs. adult-directed speech: insights from speech recognition", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 117(4), pp. 2224-2237, 2005 [pdf]
  
  
• C. Bartels, K. Duh, J. Bilmes, K. Kirchhoff, "Genetic Triangulation of Graphical Models for Speech and Language Processing", Proceedings of Eurospeech/Interspeech 2005, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2005
  
  
• D. Vergyri, K. Kirchhoff, R. Gadde, A. Stolcke and J. Zheng, "Development of a Conversational Telephone Speech Recognizer for Levantine Arabic", Proceedings of Interspeech, Lisboa, Portugal, 2005
  
  
• J.Bilmes, X. Li, K. Kilanski, R. Wright, K. Kirchhoff, A. Subramanya, S. Harada, J.A. Landay, P. Dowden and H. Chizeck, "The Vocal Joystick: Voice-Based Human Computer Interface for Individuals with Motor Impairments", Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP, 2005
  
  
• K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, "Structured Multilabel Transductive Learning: a Case Study in Lexicon Acquisition", NIPS Workshop on Advances in Structured Learning for Text and Speech Processing, 2005
  
  

2004

• K. Kirchhoff and D. Vergyri, "Cross-dialectal acoustic data sharing for Arabic speech recognition", Proceedings of ICASSP 2004, Montreal, Canada, [pdf]
  
  
• D. Vergyri, K. Kirchhoff, K. Duh and A. Stolcke, "Morphology-based language modeling for Arabic speech recognition", Proceedings of ICSLP 2004, Jeju, South Korea [pdf]
  
  
• D. Vergyri and K. Kirchhoff, "Automatic Diacritization of Arabic for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition", COLING Workshop on Arabic-script Based Languages, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004 [pdf]
  
  
• K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, "Automatic learning of language model structure", Proceedings of COLING 2004, Geneva, Switzerland, [pdf]
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff, "Machine Translation", in Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, Berkshire, 2004
  
  
• D. Vergyri, K. Kirchhoff, A. Stolcke, R. Gadde and J. Zheng, "Models for dialectal Arabic CTS", Proceedings of the EARS RT-04 Workshop, 2004

2003

• J. Bilmes and K. Kirchhoff, "Factored Language Models and Generalized Parallel Backoff", Proceedings of HLT/NAACL 2003, Edmonton, Canada, May 2003 [pdf]
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff, J. Bilmes, S. Das, N. Duta, M. Egan, G. Ji, F. He, J. Henderson, D. Liu, M. Noamany, P. Schone, R. Schwartz and D. Vergyri, "Novel Approaches to Arabic Speech Recognition: Report from the 2002 Johns-Hopkins Workshop", Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Hong Kong, April 2003 [pdf]
  
  
• S. Parandekar and K. Kirchhoff, "Multi-Stream Language Identification Using Data-driven Dependency Selection", Proceedings of ICASSP 2003 , Hong Kong [pdf]
  
  
• J. Goldberg, M. Ostendorf and K. Kirchhoff, "The Impact of Response Wording on Error Correction Subdialogues", ISCA Workshop on Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems , 2003
  
  
• J. Bilmes and K. Kirchhoff, "Generalized rules for combination and joint training of classifiers", Pattern Analysis and Applications, 6(3) pp. 201-211, 2003 [pdf]
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff and S. Schimmel, "Statistical Modelling of Infant-Directed vs. Adult-Directed Speech: Insights from Speech Recognition", Proceedings of the 146th Meeting of the ASA, 2003

2002

• K. Kirchhoff, S. Parandekar and J. Bilmes, "Mixed-memory Markov Models for Automatic Language Identification", Proceedings of ICASSP 2002, Orlando, Florida [pdf]
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff, G.A. Fink and G. Sagerer. ``Combining acoustic and articulatory feature information for robust speech recognition'' Speech Communication 37, 2002, pp. 303-319 (Science Direct link)
  
  
• C. Chen, J. Bilmes and K. Kirchhoff, "Low-resource noise-robust feature post-processing on Aurora 2.0", Proceedings of ICSLP, 2002

2001

• K. Kirchhoff and S. Parandekar, "Multi-stream statistical N-gram modeling with application to automatic language identification", Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001 [pdf]
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff, "A Comparison of Classification Techniques for the Automatic Detection of Error Corrections in Human-Computer Dialogues", Proceedings of the NAACL Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems , Pittsburgh, PA, June 2001 [pdf]
  
  

2000

• K. Kirchhoff and J. Bilmes. "Combination and Joint Training of Acoustic Classifiers for Speech Recognition", Proceedings of ASR 2000, Paris, France, 2000
  
  
• J. Bilmes and K. Kirchhoff. "Directed Graphical Models of Classifier Combination: Application to Phone Recognition", Proceedings of ICSLP, Beijing, China, 2000
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff,"Integrating Articulatory Features into Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition", Workshop PhonASR, Saarbruecken, Germany, May 2000
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff, G.A. Fink and G. Sagerer, "Conversational Speech Recognition Using Acoustic and Articulatory Input", ICASSP 2000, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000 (Postscript)
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff. "Speech Analysis by Rule Extraction from Trained Artificial Neural Networks", Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing , Beijing, 2000
  
  

Prior to 2000

• 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 (Postscript)
  
  
• 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, 891-894 (Postscript)
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff Robust Speech Recognition Using Articulatory Information, PhD thesis, University of Bielefeld, Germany, July 1999 (Postscript)
  
  
• 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
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff. "Syllable-level desynchronisation of phonetic features for speech recognition", International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Philadelphia, USA, 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
  
  
• K. Kirchhoff and J. Bilmes. "Statistical Acoustic Indications of Coarticulation", Proceedings 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, USA, August 1999 (Postscript)