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ITRW on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language Technology

Aspen Lodge, Estes Park, Colorado, USA
14-15 September 2002

Regular Papers


Which predictability measures affect content word durations?
Alan Bell, Michelle L. Gregory, Jason M. Brenier, Daniel Jurafsky, Ayako Ikeno, Cynthia Girand

Automatic alignment of map task dialogs using WFSTs
Diamantino Caseiro, F. M. Silva, Isabel Trancoso, C. Viana

Modeling pronunciation variation for Cantonese speech recognition
Patgi Kam, Tan Lee

Modeling pronunciation variation for ASR: Comparing criteria for rule selection
J. M. Kessens, Helmer Strik, Catia Cucchiarini

Symbolic speaker adaptation for pronunciation modeling
Kyung-Tak Lee, Lynette Melnar, Jim Talley

A syllable based approach for improved recognition of spoken names
Abhinav Sethy, Shrikanth Narayanan, S. Parthasarthy

Unsupervised pronunciation adaptation for off-line transcription of Japanese lecture speeches
Daniel Willett, Erik McDermott, Shigeru Katagiri

Modeling pronunciation variation in conversational speech using prosody
Mari Ostendorf, Rebecca Bates

Pinpointing pronunciation errors in children's speech: examining the role of the speech recognizer
Maxine Eskenazi, Gary Pelton

On the road to improved lexical confusability metrics
Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ingunn Amdal, Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo

Modelling pronunciation variability for ASR tasks
Serguei Koval, Natalia Smirnova, Mikhail Khitrov

Pronunciation variation modelling in a model of human word recognition
Odette Scharenborg, Lou Boves

Modelling phonological rules through linguistic hierarchies
Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang

Improved pronunciation modeling by properly integrating better approaches for baseform generation, ranking and pruning
Ming-yi Tsai, Fu-chiang Chou, Lin-shan Lee

Lexicon adaptation for LVCSR: Speaker idiosyncracies, non-native speakers, and pronunciation choice
Wayne Ward, Holly Krech, Xiuyang Yu, Keith Herold, George Figgs, Ayako Ikeno, Dan Jurafsky, William Byrne

Investigating syllabic structure and its variation in speech from French radio interviews
Martine Adda-Decker, Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Gilles Adda, Lori Lamel

A novel approach to unsupervised grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
Jerome R. Bellegarda

Pronunciation modeling using a finite-state transducer representation
Timothy J. Hazen, I. Lee Hetherington, Han Shu, Karen Livescu

Discriminative optimization of the lexical model
Hauke Schramm, Peter Beyerlein

Pronunciation modeling and lexical adaptation using small training sets
Louis ten Bosch, Nick Cremelie

Measuring the quality of pronunciation dictionaries
Matthias Wolff, Matthias Eichner, Rüdiger Hoffmann

Pronunciation variation modeling for asr: large improvements are possible but small ones are likely
Qian Yang, Jean-Pierre Martens, Pieter-Jan Ghesquiere, Dirk Van Compernolle


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