Year 2007

Year 2006

J. Tian, J. Nurminen and V. Popa, “Efficient Gaussian Mixture Model Evaluation in Voice Conversion”. in Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, USA, Sept. 2006 (.pdf).

J. Nurminen, J. Tian and V. Popa, “Novel Method for Data Clustering and Mode Selection with Application in Voice Conversion”. in Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, USA, Sept. 2006 (.pdf).

I. Kiss, J. Leppanen and S. Sivadas, “Nokia’s System for TC-STAR EPPS English ASR Evaluation Task”. in Proceedings of TC-STAR Speech-to-Speech Translation Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006 (.pdf)

J. Tian, J. Nurminen, D. Feng and I. Kiss, “Modular design for Mandarin text-to-speech synthesis”. in Proceedings of TC-STAR Speech-to-Speech Translation Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006 (.pdf)

J. Nurminen, V. Popa, J. Tian, Y. Tang and I. Kiss, “A parametric approach for voice conversion”. in Proceedings of TC-STAR Speech-to-Speech Translation Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006 (.pdf)

J. Tian, J. Nurminen and I. Kiss, “Modular Text-to-Speech Synthesis Evaluation for Mandarin Chinese”, in Proceedings of International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, Singapore, Dec. 2006 (.pdf)

D. Vilar, M. Popovic and Hermann Ney: AER: 'Do we need to "improve" our alignments?'. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, pp. 205-212, Kyoto, Japan, November 2006 (.pdf).

E. Matusov, A. Mauser, H. Ney: "Automatic Sentence Segmentation and Punctuation Prediction for Spoken Language Translation". In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, pp. 158-165, Kyoto, Japan, November 2006 (.pdf).

A. Mauser, R. Zens, E. Matusov, S. Hasan, H. Ney: "The RWTH Statistical Machine Translation System for the IWSLT 2006 Evaluation". In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, pp. 103-110, Kyoto, Japan, November 2006 (.pdf)

B. Chen, M. Cettolo, M. Federico, "Reordering Rules for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation". In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT-2006. November, 2006. Kyoto, Japan (.pdf).

B. Chen, R. Cattoni, N. Bertoldi, M. Cettolo, M. Federico, "The ITC-irst SMT System for IWSLT-2006". In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation: IWSLT-2006. November, 2006. Kyoto, Japan (.pdf).

H. Schwenk, D. Dechelotte and J.L. Gauvain, "Continuous space language models for statistical machine translation". In Proceedings of COLING/ACL, pp 723-730, Sydney, Australia, July 2006 (.pdf).

M.Khalilov and J.A.R. Fonollosa, "Language modeling for verbatim translation task”. In proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Speech Technology (IV Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla), pages - to appear, Zaragoza, Spain, November 2006 (.pdf).

P. Lambert, J. Giménez, M.R. Costa-jussà, E. Amigó, R.E. Banchs, L.Máquez, J.A.R. Fonollosa, "Machine Translation System Development based on Human Likeness". In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), 2006 (.pdf).

P. Lambert, R.E. Banchs, "Tuning Machine Translation Parameters with SPSA". In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), 2006 (.pdf).

M.R. Costa-jussà, J.M. Crego, A. de Gispert, P. Lambert, M. Khalilov, J.A.R. Fonollosa, J.B. Mariño, R.E. Banchs, "TALP Phrase-Based System and TALP System Combination for IWSLT 2006", in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), 2006 (.pdf).

J.M. Crego, A. de Gispert, P. Lambert, M. Khalilov, M.R. Costa-jussà, J.B. Mariño, R.E. Banchs, J.A.R. Fonollosa, "The TALP Ngram-based SMT System for IWSLT 2006", in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), 2006 (.pdf).

M. Popovic, D. Stein and H. Ney: "Statistical Machine Translation of German Compound Words". In FinTAL - 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Springer Verlag, LNCS, Turku, Finland, pp. 616-624, August 2006 (.pdf).

J. Lööf, M. Bisani, Ch. Gollan, G. Heigold, B. Hoffmeister, Ch. Plahl, R. Schlüter, and H. Ney, "The 2006 RWTH Parliamentary Speeches Transcription System," in Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Sept. 2006, pp. 105-108 (.pdf).

R. Schlüter, A. Zolnay, H. Ney: "Feature Combination using Linear Discriminant Analysis and its Pitfalls," in Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech), pp. 345-348, Pittsburgh, PA, Sept. 2006 (.pdf).

B. Hoffmeister, T. Klein, R. Schlüter, H. Ney: "Frame Based System Combination and a Comparison with Weighted ROVER and CNC," in Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech), pp.537-540, Pittsburgh, PA, Sept. 2006 (.pdf)

F. Giron, "Correlation analysis for the derivation of speech recognition features based on an auditory model". In Proceedings of the TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation. June 1921, 2006 Barcelona, Spain, (.pdf).

D. Mostefa, O. Hamon, K. Choukri, "Evaluation of Automatic Speech Recognition and Speech Language Translation within TC-STAR: Results from the first evaluation campaign". In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference LREC06, Geno, Italy, May 2006 (.pdf).

H. van den Heuvel, K. Choukri, C. Gollan, A. Moreno, D. Mostefa, "TC-STAR: New language resources for ASR and SST purposes". In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference LREC06, Geno,. Italy, May 2006 (.pdf).

H. van den Heuvel, E. Sanders, "Validation of language resources in TC-STAR". In Proceedings of the TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation. June 1921, 2006 Barcelona, Spain, pp 165-169 (.pdf).

D. Giuliani, F. Brugnara, "Acoustic Model Adaptation with Multiple Supervisions". In Proceedings of the TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006, pp. 151-154 (.pdf).

F. Brugnara, D. Falavigna, D. Giuliani, R. Gretter, D. Pineda, G. Stemmer, "The ITC-irst Transcription Systems for the TC-STAR-06 Evaluation Campaign". In Proceedings of the TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006, pp. 117-122 (.pdf).

G. Stemmer, F. Brugnara, D. Giuliani, "Using Simple Target Models for Adaptive Training". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, USA, March 2005, Vol. 1, pp. 997-1000 (.pdf).

L. Lamel, J.L. Gauvain, G. Adda, C. Barras, E. Bilinski, O. Galibert, A. Pujol, H. Schwenk, X. Zhu, "The LIMSI 2006 TC-STAR Transcription Systems". In proceedings of TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation,pp. 123-128, Barcelona, Spain (.pdf).

D. Dechelotte, H. Schwenk, J.L. Gauvain, "The 2006 LIMSI Statistical Machine Translation System for TC-STAR". In proceedings of TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation, pp. 25-30, Barcelona, Spain (.pdf).

Jennequin, Nicolas and Gauvain, Jean-Luc, Lattice Rescoring Experiments with Duration Models, In proceedings of TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation, pp. 155-158, Barcelona, Spain (.pdf).

Patrik Lambert, Jesús Giménez, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Enrique Amigó, Rafael Banchs, Llúis Màrquez and J.A. Fonollosa Machine Translation System Development Based on Human Likeness Accepted for publication in IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology

Cettolo, Mauro; Federico, Marcello. "Text Segmentation Criteria for Statistical Machine Translation", In /FinTAL - 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing/. pp. 664-673. August, 2006. Springer Verlag, LNCS, Turku, Finland. (.pdf)

Chen, Boxing; Federico, Marcello. "Improving Phrase-Based Statistical Translation through Combination of Word Alignment", In /FinTAL - 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing/. pp. 356-367. August, 2006. Springer Verlag, LNCS, Turku, Finland (.pdf).

De Gispert, Adria; Gupta, Deepa; Popovic, Maja; Lambert, Patrik; Marino, Jose B.; Federico, Marcello; Ney, Hermann; Banchs, Rafael. "Morpho-syntactic Information for Automatic Error Analysis of Statistical Machine Translation Output". In /FinTAL - 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing/. pp. 368-379. August, 2006. Springer Verlag, LNCS, Turku, Finland (.pdf).

B. Ramabhadran, O. Siohan, L. Mangu, G. Zweig, M. Westphal, H. Schulz, A. Soneiro, "The IBM 2006 Speech Transcription System for European Parliamentary Speeches" to appear in ICSLP, Sept. 2006 (.pdf)

Cattoni, Roldano; Bertoldi, Nicola; Cettolo, Mauro; Chen, Boxing; Federico, Marcello. "A Web-based Interface to a Multi-lingual Phrase-based Translation System". In /Systems Demonstrations of the ECAI 2006/. August, 2006. Riva del Garda, Italy (.pdf).

Bertoldi, Nicola; Cattoni, Roldano; Cettolo, Mauro; Chen, Boxing; Federico, Marcello. ITC-irst at the 2006 TC-STAR SLT Evaluation Campaign. In Proceedings of the TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation. pp. 18-24. 2006. Barcelona, Spain (.pdf)

Cattoni, Roldano; Bertoldi, Nicola; Chen, Boxing; Federico, Marcello; Mauro Cettolo. A Web-based Demonstrator of a Multi-lingual Phrase-based Translation System. In Proceedings of the 1th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Posters and Demonstrations. pp. 91-94. 2006 (.pdf)

Federico, Marcello; Bertoldi, Nicola. How Many Bits Are Needed To Store Probabilities for Phrase-Based Translation?. In Proceedings on the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. pp. 94-101. June, 2006. Association for Computational Linguistics, New York City (.pdf)

Gupta, Deepa; Federico, Marcello. Exploiting Word Transformation in Statistical Machine from Spanish to English. In Proceedings on the 11th conference of the European Association for Machine Translation. June, 2006. Oslo University, Norway (.pdf)

Sandrini, Vanessa; Federico, Marcello; Cettolo, Mauro. Maximum Entropy Tagging with Binary and Real-Valued Features.In Proceedings of the Workshop on Learning Structured Information in Natural Language Applications, 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). pp. 1-8. 2006 (.pdf).

Sebastian Stüker, Christian Fügen, Susanne Burger, Matthias Wölfel, Cross-System Adaptation and Combination for Continuous Speech Recognition: The Influence of Phoneme Set and Acoustic Front-End, To appear in Proc. of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH) 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006 (.pdf).

Christian Fügen, Muntsin Kolss, Matthias Paulik, and Alex Waibel, Open Domain Speech Translation: From Seminars and Speeches to Lectures, In Proceedings of the TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 2006, ELDA (.pdf).

Sebastian Stüker, Christian Fügen, Roger Hsiao, Shajith Ikbal, Qin Jin, Florian Kraft, Matthias Paulik, Martin Raab, Yik-Cheung Tam, and Matthias Wölfel, The ISL TC-STAR Spring 2006 ASR Evaluation Systems, Proceedings. of the TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 2006, ELDA (.pdf).

Muntsin Kolss, Bing Zhao, Stephan Vogel, Almut Silja Hildebrand, Jan Niehues, Ashish Venugopal, and Ying Zhang, The ISL Statistical Machine Translation System for the TC-STAR Spring 2006 Evaluation, In Proceedings of the TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006 (.pdf)

Matthias Paulik, Sebastian Stüker, Christian Fügen, Speech Recognition in Human Mediated Translation Scenarios, In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), Malaga, Spain, May 2006 (.pdf)

Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel, and Alex Waibel, A Flexible Online Server for Machine Translation Evaluation, In Proceedings of the 11th EAMT Conference, Oslo, Norway, June 2006 (.pdf)

Andreas Zollmann and Ashish Venugopal, Syntax Augmented Machine Translation via Chart Parsing, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, New York City, June, 2006 (.pdf)

de Gispert, A. and Mariño, J.B., Catalan-English Statistical Machine Translation without Parallel Corpus: Bridging through Spanish Proc. of LREC 5th Workshop on Strategies for developing Machine Translation for Minority Languages (SALTMIL'06), pp. 65-68. Genova (Italy), May 2006 (.pdf).

Crego, J.M., de Gispert, A., Lambert, P., Costa-jussa, M., Khalilov, M., Banchs, R., Mariño, J.B. and Fonollosa, J.A., N-gram based SMT system enhanced with reordering patterns, in Proceedings of the HLT/NAACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, New York, NY, June 2006 (.ps).

Costa-jussa, M., Crego, J.M., de Gispert, A., Lambert, P., Khalilov, M., Banchs, R., Mariño, J.B. and Fonollosa, J.A., TALP phrase-based statistical translation system for European language pairs, in Proceedings of the HLT/NAACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, New York, NY, June 2006 (.pdf).

Costa-jussà, M.R. and Fonollosa, J.A.R., Statistical Machine Reordering, in Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP06), Sydney, July 2006 (.pdf).

Mariño, J.B., Banchs, R., Crego, J.M., de Gispert, A., Lambert, P., Fonollosa, J.A., Costa-jussa, M. and Khalilov, M., UPC's bilingual n-gram translation system, in Proceedings of the TC-Star Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation, pp. 43-48, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006 (.ps).

Costa-jussà, M.R. and Fonollosa, J.A.R., Sistema de Reordenamiento Estadístico, Accepted for publication in Proceedings of Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, núm 6 (SEPLN'06), Zaragoza (Spain), Sep 2006 (.pdf).

Crego, J.M., Mariño, J.B., Integración de reordenamientos en el algoritmo de decodificación en traducción automática estocástica, Accepted for publication in Proceedings of Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, núm 6 (SEPLN'06), Zaragoza (Spain), Sep 2006 (.ps).

de Gispert, A., Gupta, D., Popovic, M., Lambert, P., Mariño, J.B., Federico, M., Ney, H. and Banchs, R., Improving Statistical Word Alignments with Morpho-syntactic Transformations, Accepted for publication at FINTAL 2006, August 2006 (.pdf).

de Gispert, A. and Mariño, J.B., Linguistic tuple segmentation in ngram-based statistical machine translation, Accepted for publication at ICSLP 2006, September 2006 (.pdf).

Crego, J.M. and Mariño, J.B., Integration of POStag-based source reordering into SMT decoding by an extended search graph, Accepted for publication at 7th biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA'06), Boston (USA), August 2006 (.ps).

de Gispert, A. and Mariño, J.B., Linguistic knowledge in statistical phrase-based word alignment. Natural Language Engineering, Volume 12, Issue 01, March 2006. pp 91-108. Cambridge University Press (.pdf).

Mariño, J.B., Banchs, R., Crego, J.M., de Gispert, A., Lambert, P., Fonollosa, J.A. and Costa-jussa, M., N-gram based machine translation, Accepted for publication in Computational Linguistics (.pdf).

J. Adell, P. D. Agüero and A. Bonafonte, “Database Pruning for Unsupervised Building of Text-to-Speech Voices”. In Proceedings of the ICASSP 2006, 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006.

J. Adell, A. Bonafonte and D. Escudero, “Disfluent Speech Analysis and Synthesis: a preliminary approach”. In Proceedings of the 3th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Dresden, Germany May 2006.

P. D. Agüero, J. Adell and A. Bonafonte, “Prosody generation for Speech-to-Speech Translation”. In Proceedings of the ICASSP 2006, 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006.

P. D. Agüero, J. Adell and A. Bonafonte, “Prosody generation in the Speech-to-Speech Translation Framework”. In Proceedings of the 3th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2006. Dresden, Germany. May 2006.

P. D. Agüero and A. Bonafonte, “Facing data scarcity using variable feature vector dimension”. In Proceedings of the 3th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2006. Dresden, Germany. May 2006.

A. Bonafonte, H. Höge, I. Kiss, A. Moreno, U. Ziegenhain, H. van den Heuvel, H.-U. Hain, X.S. Wang, M. N. Garcia, “TC-STAR: Specifications of Language Resources and Evaluation for Speech Synthesis”. In Proceedings of the 5th Int. Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Genoa, Italy, May 2006.

D. Dechelotte, H. Schwenk, and J.L. Gauvain, “Transcription et traduction de debats parlementaires”. In Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle, Tours, January 2006 (.pdf).

H. Duxans and A. Bonafonte, “Residual Conversion versus Prediction on Voice Morphing Systems”. In Proceedings of the ICASSP 2006, 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006. 

D. Erro, A. Moreno, “Efficient Speech Synthesis System using the Deterministic plus Stochastic Model”. In Proceedings of the 3th International Conference on Speech Prosody 06. Dresden, Germany. 2006.

F. Lefevre and J.L. Gauvain, “Discriminant Initialization for Factor Analyzed HMM Training”. In Proceedings of the ICASSP 2006, 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006.

C. Fügen, M. Kolss, D. Bernreuther, M. Paulik, S. Stüker, S. Vogel, A. Waibel, “Open Domain Speech Recognition & Translation: Lectures and Speeches”. In Proceedings of the ICASSP 2006, 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006 (.pdf)

H. v. de. Heuvel, K. Choukri, C. Gollan, A. Moreno, D. Mostefa, “TC-STAR: New language resources for ASR and SST purposes”. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference LREC’06. Genoa. Italy May 2006.

S. Hasan, O. Bender, and H. Ney, "Reranking Translation Hypotheses Using Structural Properties". In Proceedings of the EACL Workshop on Learning Structured Information in Natural Language Applications, Trento, Italy, April 2006 (.pdf).

B. Hoffmeister, T. Klein, R. Schlüter, H. Ney: "Comparison of System Combination Methods for ASR," presentation given at TC-Star Open Lab on Speech Translation, Trento, Italy, March/April 2006 (.pdf).

A. B., H. Höge, I. Kiss, A. Moreno, U. Ziegenhain, H. van den Heuvel, H.U. Hain, X. S. Wang, M. N. Garcia, “TC-STAR:Specifications of Language Resources and Evaluation for Speech Synthesis”. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference LREC’06. Genoa. Italy May 2006.

H. Höge, B. Kotnik, Z. Kacic, H. R. Pfitzinger, “Evaluation of Pitch Marking Algorithms“. In Proceedings of the 7. ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, Kiel, Germany, April 2006.

S. Khadivi, R. Zens, H. Ney: "Integration of Speech to Computer-Assisted Translation Using Finite-State Automata," in Proceedings of the COLING/ACL, Sydney, Australia, pp. 467-474, July 2006 (.pdf).

B. Kotnik, H. Höge, “Zdravko Kacic, Evaluation of Pitch Detection Algorithms in Adverse Conditions“. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Speech Prosody, Dresden, Germany, May 2006.

P. Lambert, R. Banchs, "Grouping Multi-word Expressions According to Part-Of-Speech in Statistical Machine Translation", In Proceedings of the EACL Workshop on "Multi-word expressions in a multilingual context", Trento, Italy, April 2006 (.ps).

J. Leppänen, I. Kiss, "Gaussian Selection with Non-Overlapping Clusters for ASR in Embedded Devices", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006), Toulouse, France, May 2006 (.pdf).

J. Lööf, S. Umesh, H. Ney: "VTLN Warping Factor Estimation Using Accumulations of Sufficient Statistics," in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. I, p.
1201-1204, Toulouse, France, May 2006 (.pdf).

E. Matusov, N. Ueffing and H. Ney: "Computing Consensus Translation from Multiple Machine Translation Systems Using Enhanced Hypotheses Alignment," in Proceedings of EACL 2006 (11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), pp. 33-40, Trento, Italy, April 2006 (.pdf).

E. Matusov, R. Zens, D. Vilar, A. Mauser, M. Popovic, H. Ney: "The RWTH Machine Translation System," in Proceedings of the TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation, p. 31-36, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006 (.pdf).

A. Mauser, E. Matusov and H. Ney, "Training a Statistical Machine Translation System without GIZA++", In Proceedings of LREC 2006, Genova, Italy, May 2006 (pdf.).

D. Mostefa, O. Hamon, K. Choukri, “Evaluation of Automatic Speech Recognition and Speech Language Translation within TC-STAR: Results from the first evaluation campaign”. In Proceedings of the 5th Int. Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Genoa, Italy, May 2006.

J. Olsen, D. Oria, "Profile based compression of N-Gram language models". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006), Toulouse, France, May 2006 (.pdf).

J. Pérez, A. Bonafonte, H.-U. Hain, E. Keller, S. Breuer and J. Tian, “ECESS Inter-Module Interface Specification for Speech Synthesis”. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference LREC’06. Genoa. Italy May 2006.

M. Popovic, H. Ney, "POS-based Word Reorderings for Statistical Machine Translation". In Proceedings of the LREC 2006, Genova, Italy, May 2006 (pdf.).

M. Popovic: "Improving Word Alignment and Translation Quality using Morpho-syntactic Information," presentation given at TC-Star OpenLab on Speech Translation, Trento, Italy, March/April 2006 (.pdf).

M. Popovic: "Morpho-syntactic Information for Automatic Error Analysis of Statistical Machine Translation Output," presentation given at TC-Star OpenLab on Speech Translation, Trento, Italy, March/April 2006 (.pdf)

M. Popovic, H. Ney: "Statistical Machine Translation with a Small Amount of Training Data," in Proceedings of the 5th LREC SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages, pp. 25-29, Genoa, Italy, May 2006 (.pdf). 

M. Popovic, A. de Gispert, D. Gupta, P. Lambert, H. Ney, J. B. Mariño, M.Federico and R. Banchs: "Morpho-syntactic Information for Automatic Error Analysis of Statistical Machine Translation Output," in Proceedings of the HLT/NAACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, New York, NY, June 2006 (.pdf).

M. Popovic, H. Ney: "Error Analysis of Verb Inflections in Spanish Translation Output," in Proceedings of the TC-Star Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation, pp. 99-103, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006 (.pdf).

S. Sivdas, "Title: Time-frequency averaging of noise compensation filters for ASR", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006), Toulouse, France, May 2006 (.pdf).

G. Stemmer and F. Brugnara, "Integration of Heteroscedastic Linear Discriminant Analysis (HLDA) into Adaptive Training". In Proceedings of the ICASSP 2006, Toulose, France (.pdf).

D. Suendermann, H. Hoege, A. Bonafonte, H. Ney, A. Black and S. Narayanan, "Text-Independent Voice Conversion Based on Unit Selection". In Proceedings of the ICASSP 2006, 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006 (.pdf). 

D. Suendermann, H. Hoege, and T. Fingscheidt, "Breaking a Paradox: Applying VTLN to Residuals". In Proc. of the 7th Symposium on Speech Communication of the Information Technology Society, ITG 2006, Kiel, Germany, April 2006 (.pdf)

D. Suendermann, H. Hoege, A. Bonafonte, H. Ney, and J. Hirschberg, "TC-Star: Cross-Language Voice Conversion Revisited". In Proc. of the TC-Star Workshop 2006, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006 (.pdf)

D. Suendermann, H. Hoege, A. Bonafonte, H. Ney, and J. Hirschberg, "Text-Independent Cross-Language Voice Conversion". In Proc. of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, USA, September 2006 (.pdf)

A. Bonafonte, H. Höge, I. Kiss, A. Moreno, U. Ziegenhain, H. van den Heuvel, H.-U. Hain, X. S. Wang and M. N. Garcia, "TC-STAR: Specifications of Language Resources and Evaluation for Speech Synthesis". In LREC 2006, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Genoa, Italy, May 2006 (.pdf).

Javier Pérez, Antonio Bonafonte, Horst-Udo Hain, Eric Keller, Stefan Breuer and Jilei Tian, "ECESS Inter-Module Interface Specification for Speech Synthesis". In LREC 2006, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Genoa, Italy, May 2006 (.pdf)

Horst-Udo Hain, Jens Racky and Thomas Volk, "The Papageno TTS System". In Proceedings of the TC-Star Workshop 2006, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006 (.pdf).

M.Umbert, A. Moreno, P. Aguero, A. Bonafonte, “Spanish Synthesis Corpora”. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference LREC’06. Genoa. Italy May 2006

David Vilar, Jia Xu, Luis Fernando D’Haro and Hermann Ney, "Error Analysis of Statistical Machine Translation Output" In Proceedings of LREC 2006, Genova, Italy, May 2006 (pdf.).

R. Zens, H. Ney: "Discriminative Reordering Models for Statistical Machine Translation," in Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL): Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pp. 55-63, New York City, NY, June 2006 (.pdf)

R. Zens, H. Ney: "N-gram Posterior Probabilities for Statistical Machine Translation," in Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL): Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pp. 72-77, New York City, NY, June 2006 (.pdf).

Year 2005

M. Adda-Decker and L. Lamel, "Do Speech Recognizers Prefer Female Speakers?". In InterSpeech, Lisbon, September 2005 (.pdf).

J. Adell and A. Bonafonte, "Comparative study of automatic phone segmentation methods for tts". In IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP, 2005, Philadelphia, USA, March 2005 (.pdf)

A. Allauzen and J.L. Gauvain, "Diachronic Vocabulary Adaptation for Broadcast News Transcription". In InterSpeech, Lisbon, September 2005 (.pdf).

R. Banchs, J.M. Crego, A. de Gispert, P. Lambert, and J.B. Mariño, "Statistical machine translation of Euparl data by using bilingual n-grams". In "ACL 2005 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts, Data-Driven Machine Translation and Beyond", Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005 (.ps).

O. Bender, S. Hasan, D. Vilar, R. Zens and H. Ney, "Comparison of Generation Strategies for Interactive MT". In Proceedings of the European Association for Machine Translation 10th Annual Conference (EAMT 2005), Budapest, Hungary, May 2005 (.pdf)

N. Bertoldi, M. Federico, "A New Decoder for Spoken Language Translation based on Confusion Networks", In Proceedings of the Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), San Juan, Puerto Rico, November-December 2005 (.pdf).

M. Bisani, H. Ney, "Open Vocabulary Speech Recognition with Flat Hybrid Models". In 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech 2005), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005 (.pdf)

M. Cettolo, M. Federico, N. Bertoldi, R. Cattoni and B. Chen, "A look inside the ITC-irst SMT System". In MT Summit Conference, Phuket, Thailand, September 2005 (.pdf)

B. Chen, R. Cattoni, N. Bertoldi, M. Cettolo and M. Federico, "The ITC-irst SMT System for IWSLT-2005". In Proceedings of the International Workshop Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), Pittsburgh, PA, October 2005.(.pdf).

M.R. Costa-jussà and J.A.R. Fonollosa, "Tuning a phrase-based statistical translation system for the IWSLT 2005 Chinese to English and Arabic to English tasks". In Proceedings of the International Workshop Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), Pittsburgh, PA, October 2005 (.pdf).

J.M. Crego, M.R. Costa-jussà, J.B. Mariño and J.A.R. Fonollosa, "Ngram-based versus Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation". In Proceedings of the International Workshop Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), Pittsburgh, PA, October 2005 (.pdf).

J.M. Crego, A. de Gispert and J.B. Mariño, "The TALP Ngram-based SMT System for IWSLT'05" In Proceedings of the International Workshop Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), Pittsburgh, PA, October 2005 (.pdf).

J.M. Crego, J.B. Mariño, and A. de Gispert, "Reordered search and tuple unfolding for ngram-based SMT". In Machine Translation Summit X, Pukhet, Thailand, September 2005 (.ps).

J.M. Crego, J.B. Mariño, and A. de Gispert, "Algoritmo de decodificación de traducción automática estocástica basado en n-gramas". In "XXI Congreso de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN'05)", Granada, September 2005 (.pdf).

J.M. Crego, J.B. Mariño, and A. de Gispert, "An ngram-based statistical machine translation decoder". In "Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech - 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology", Lisboa, Portugal, September 2005 (.pdf).

D. Dechelotte, H. Schwenk an Jean-Luc Gauvain, Olivier Galibert, and Lori Lamel. Investigating Translation of Parliament Speeches. In Proceeding of IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2005 (.pdf)

M. Eck, S. Vogel, and A. Waibel. "Low Cost Portability for Statistical Machine Translation based on N-Gram Coverage." In Proc. of the 10th Machine Translation Summit, Phuket, Thailand, September 13-15, 2005 (.pdf).

M. Eck, S. Vogel, and A. Waibel."Low Cost Portability for Statistical Machine Translation based on N-gram Frequency and TF-IDF." In Proc. of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 2005 (.pdf)

M. Gerosa, D. Giuliani and F. Brugnara, "Speaker Adaptive Acoustic Modeling with Mixture of Adult and Children's Speech". In "Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech ­ 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2005 (.pdf).

A. de Gispert, "Phrase linguistic classification and generalization for improving statistical machine translation". In "ACL 2005 Students Research Workshop", Ann Arbor, MI, Jun 2005.

A. de Gispert, J.B. Mariño, and J.M. Crego. Improving statistical machine translation by classifying and generalizing inflected verb forms". In "Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech - 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology", Lisboa, Portugal, September 2005 (.pdf)

A. de Gispert, J.B. Mariño, and J.M. Crego, "Clasificación y generalización de formas verbales en sistemas de traducción estocástica". In "XXI Congreso de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN'05)", Granada, September 2005 (.pdf).

Ch. Gollan, M. Bisani, S. Kanthak, R. Schlüter and H. Ney, "Cross Domain Automatic Transcription on the TC-STAR EPPS Corpus”. In Proceedings of IEEE Interantional Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.

S. Hewavitharana, B. Zhao, A. Silja Hildebrand, M. Eck, C. Hori, S. Vogel and A. Waibel. "The CMU Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2005." In Proc. of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 2005 (.pdf).

A.S. Hildebrand, M. Eck, S. Vogel, and A. Waibel. "Adaptation of the Translation Model for Statistical Machine Translation Based on Information Retrieval." In Proc. of the 10th EAMT Conference, Budapest, Hungary, May 30-June 3, 2005 (.pdf).

S. Hasan and H. Ney, "Clustered Language Models based on Regular Expressions for SMT" In Proceedings of the European Association for Machine Translation 10th Annual Conference (EAMT 2005), Budapest, Hungary, May 2005 (.pdf)

G. Heigold, W. Macherey, R. Schlueter, H. Ney "Minimum Exact Word Error Training" In Proceedings of the Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), San Juan, Puerto Rico, November-December 2005 (.pdf).

S. Kanthak, D. Vilar, E. Matusov, R. Zens, and H. Ney, "Novel Reordering Approaches in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation". In "ACL 2005 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data-Driven Machine Translation and Beyond", Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005 (.pdf).

S. Khadivi and H. Ney, "Automatic Filtering of Bilingual Corpora for Statistical Machine Translation". In NLDB - 10th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, Springer Verlag, Lect. Notes Computer Science, Alicante, Spain, pp. 263-274, June 2005 (.pdf)

D. Kocharov, A. Zolnay, R. Schlüter, and H. Ney, "Articulatory Motivated Acoustic Features for Speech Recognition". Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech 2005), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005 (.pdf)

T. W. Köhler, C. Fügen, S. Stüker, and A.Waibel, "Rapid Porting of ASR-Systems to Mobile Devices". In "Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech ­ 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2005" (.pdf)

P. Lambert and R. Banchs, "Data inferred multi-word expressions for statistical machine translation". In Machine Translation Summit X, Pukhet, Thailand, September 2005 (.ps).

P. Lambert, A. de Gispert, R. Banchs and J. B. Mariño. 2005. Guidelines for Word Alignment Evaluation and Manual Alignment. Language Resources and Evaluation, 39 (4) pp. 267-285. Springer.

L. Lamel and Jean-Luc Gauvain, "Alternate Phone Models for Conversational Speech". In Proceedings of ICASSP, April 2005 (.pdf).

Y-S. Lee, "IBM Statistical Machine Translation for Spoken Languages". In IWSLT 2005 Proceedings, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. October 24-25 (.pdf)

J. Leppanen and I. Kiss, "Comparison of Low Footprint Acoustic Modeling Techniques for Embedded ASR System". In Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech ­ 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2005"(.pdf).

G. Leusch, N. Ueffing, D. Vilar and H. Ney, "Preprocessing and Normalization for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation". In "ACL 2005 Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for MT and/or Summarization", Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005 (.pdf).

W. Macherey, L. Haferkamp, R. Schlüter, H. Ney, "Investigations on Error Minimizing Training Criteria for Discriminative Training in Automatic Speech Recognition". In the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech 2005), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005 (.pdf)

J.B. Mariño, R. Banchs, J.M. Crego, A. de Gispert, P. Lambert, J.A. Fonollosa, and M. Ruiz, "Modelo estocástico de traducción basado en n-gramas de tuplas bilingües y combinación log-lineal de características". In "XXI Congreso de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN'05)", Granada, September 2005 (.pdf).

J.B. Mariño, R. Banchs, J.M. Crego, A. de Gispert, P. Lambert, J.A. Fonollosa, and M. Ruiz, "Bilingual n-gram statistical machine translation". In Machine Translation Summit X, Pukhet, Thailand, September 2005 (.ps).

E. Matusov, G. Leusch, O. Bender, and H. Ney "Evaluating Machine Translation Output with Automatic Sentence Segmentation". In Proceedings of the International Workshop Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), Pittsburgh, PA, October 2005 (.pdf).

E. Matusov, S. Kanthak and H. Ney, "Efficient Statistical Machine Translation with Constrained Reordering" In Proceedings of the European Association for Machine Translation 10th Annual Conference (EAMT 2005), Budapest, Hungary, May 2005 (.pdf)

E. Matusov, S. Kanthak, H. Ney, "On the Integration of Speech Recognition and Statistical Machine Translation". Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech 2005), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005 (.pdf)

E. Matusov, H. Ney, and R. Schlueter "Phrase-based Translation of Speech Recognizer Word Lattices Using Loglinear Model Combination" In Proceedings of the Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), San Juan, Puerto Rico, November-December 2005 (.pdf).

H. Ney, "One decade of Statistical Machine Translation". In X Machine Translation Summit, Pukhet, Thailand, September 2005 (.pdf)

M. Paulik, C. Fügen, S. Stüker, T. Schultz, T. Schaaf, and A. Waibel, "Document Driven Machine Translation Enhanced ASR". In "Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech ­ 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2005" (.pdf)

M. Paulik, S. Stüker, C. Fügen, T. Schultz, T. Schaaf and A. Waibel "Speech translation enhanced automatic speech recognition". In Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 2005 (.pdf)

J. Pérez, and A. Bonafonte, "Automatic voice-source parametrization of natural speech". In "Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech- 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology", Lisboa, Portugal, September 2005 (.pdf).

M. Popovic, H. Ney, "Exploiting Phrasal Lexica and Additional Morpho-syntactic Language Resources for Statistical Machine Translation with Scarce Training Data" In Proceedings of the European Association for Machine Translation 10th Annual Conference (EAMT 2005), Budapest, Hungary, May 2005 (.pdf)

M. Rojc, P.D. Agüero, A. Bonafonte, and Z. Kacic, "Training the tilt intonation model using the JEMA methodology". In "Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech - 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology", Lisboa, Portugal, September 2005 (.pdf).

M. Ruiz, and J.A. Fonollosa. Improving phrase-based statistical translation by modifying phrase extraction and including several features. In "ACL 2005 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts, Data-Driven Machine Translation and Beyond", Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005 (.pdf)

M. Ruiz, and J.A. Fonollosa, "Técnicas mejoradas para la traducción basada en frases". In "XXI Congreso de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN'05)", Granada, September 2005 (.ps).

H.V. Quan, M. Federico, M. Cettolo, "Integrated N-best Re-ranking for Spoken Language Translation''. In "Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech - 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology", Lisboa, Portugal, September 2005 (.pdf)

R. Schlüter, T. Scharrenbach, V. Steinbiss and H. Ney "Bayes Risk Minimization using Metric Loss Functions" Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech 2005), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005 (.pdf)

H. Schwenk and J.L. Gauvain, "Building Continuous Space Language Models for Transcribing European Languages". In InterSpeech, Lisbon, September 2005 (.pdf).

D. Sündermann, "A Language Resources Generation Toolbox for Speech Synthesis". In AST 2005, 12th International Workshop on Advances in Speech Technology, Maribor, Slovenia, July 2005 (.pdf).

D. Sündermann, A. Bonafonte, H. Duxans, and H. Höge,"TC-STAR: Evaluation Plan for Voice Conversion Technology". In DAGA 2005, 31st German Annual Conference on Acoustics, Munich, Germany, March 2005 (.pdf).

D. Sündermann, A.Bonafonte, H. Ney, and H. Höge, "A Study on Residual Prediction Techniques for Voice Conversion" In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Pro-cessing, ICASSP'2005, Philadelphia, USA, March 2005 (.pdf).

D. Sündermann, H. Höge, A. Bonafonte, H. Ney and A. W. Black, "Residual Prediction Based on Unit Selection". Proceedings of the Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), Cancun, Mexico, November-December 2005 (.pdf).

D. Sündermann, G. Strecha, A. Bonafonte, H. Höge and H. Ney "Evaluation of VTLN-Based Voice Conversion for Embedded Speech Synthesis". In "Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech - 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology", Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005 (.pdf)

D. Suendermann, H. Hoege, A. Bonafonte, and H. Duxans, "Residual Prediction". In Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2005, Athens, Greece, December 2005 (.pdf).

J. Tian, J. Nurminen and I. Kiss, "Duration Modeling and Memory Optimization in a mandarin TTS system". In Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech ­ 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2005"(.pdf)

N. Ueffing and H. Ney "Word-Level Confidence Estimation for Machine Translation using Phrase-Based Translation Models". In Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP 2005), Vancouver, Canada, October 2005 (.pdf).

Ashish Venugopal, Andreas Zollmann, and Alex Waibel. "Training and Evaluating Error Minimization Rules for Statistical Machine Translation." In Proc. of the ACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts, Ann Arbor, June 2005 (.pdf)

D. Vilar, E. Matusov, S. Hasan, R. Zens and H. Ney, "Statistical Machine Translation of European Parliamentary Speeches". In proceedings of the X Machine Translation Summit, Pukhet, Thailand, September 2005 (.pdf)

J. Xu, E. Matusov, R. Zens, and H. Ney, "Integrated Chinese Word Segmentation in Statistical Machine Translation". In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), Pittsburgh, PA, October 2005 (.pdf).

J. Xu, R. Zens, and H. Ney, "Sentence Segmentation Using IBM Word Alignment Model 1". In Proceedings of the European Association for Machine Translation 10th Annual Conference (EAMT 2005), Budapest, Hungary, May 2005 (.pdf)

R. Zens, O. Bender, S. Hasan, S. Khadivi, E. Matusov, J. Xu, Y. Zhang and H. Ney, "The RWTH Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation System". In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), Pittsburgh, PA, October 2005 (.pdf).

R. Zens, and H. Ney, "Word Graphs for Statistical Machine Translation". In "ACL 2005 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts, Data-Driven Machine Translation and Beyond", Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005 (.pdf).

A. Zolnay, R. Schlüter and H. Ney, “Acoustic Feature Combination for Robust Speech Recognition”. In Proceeding IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.

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