Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition

• Effective Structural Adaptation of LVCSR Systems to Unseen Domains Using Hierarchical Connectionist Acoustic Models

J.Fritsch, M.Finke, A.Waibel
Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'98)
Sydney, Australia, December 1998
• Phonetic-Distance-Based Hypothesis Driven Lexical Adaptation for Transcribing Multilingual Broadcast News

P.Geutner, M.Finke, A.Waibel
Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'98)
Sydney, Australia, December 1998
• Applying Divide and Conquer to Large Scale Pattern Recognition Tasks

J.Fritsch, M.Finke
in "Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade"
G.B. Orr, K.R. Müller (eds), Springer 1998
• Structural Adaptation of Hierarchical Connectionist Acoustic Models to Unseen Domains
  J.Fritsch, M.Finke, A.Waibel

Slides of talk presented at Hub5-E (Switchboard) LVCSR Workshop
Linthicum Heights, Maryland, September 1998
• Adaptive Vocabularies for Transcribing Multilingual Broadcast News

P. Geutner, M. Finke, P. Scheytt
Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing  (ICASSP'98)
Seattle Wa, May 1998
(Postscript)
• Pronunciation Modelling using a Hand-Labelled Corpus for Conversational Speech Recognition

B. Byrne, M. Finke, S. Khudanpur, J. McDonough, H. Nock, M. Riley, M. Saraclar, C. Wooters, G. Zavaliagkos
Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing  (ICASSP'98)
Seattle Wa, May 1998
• ACID/HNN: Clustering Hierarchies of Neural Networks for Context Dependent Connectionist Acoustic Modeling

J. Fritsch, M. Finke
Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing  (ICASSP'98)
Seattle Wa, May 1998
(Postscript)
• Stochastic Pronunciation Modelling from Hand-Labelled Phonetic Corpora

M. Riley, B. Byrne, M. Finke, S. Khudanpur, A.Ljolje, J. McDonough, H. Nock, M. Saraclar, C. Wooters, G. Zavaliagkos
ESCA Workshop on Modeling Pronunciation Variation for Automatic Speech Recognition
May 3-7 1998, Kerkrade, Netherlands
(Postscript)
• Clarity: Inferring Discourse Structure from Speech

M. Finke, M. Lapara, A. Lavie, L. Levin, L. Mayfield Tomokiyo, T. Polzin, K. Ries, A. Waibel, K. Zechner
Proceedings of the AAAI 98 Spring Symposium.
• Transcribing Multilingual Broadcast News using Hypothesis Driven Lexical Adaptation

P. Geutner, M. Finke, P. Scheytt, A. Waibel, H. Wactlar
Proceedings of 1998 DARPA Hub4 Workshop, Lansdowne, W.Virginia
(Postscript)
• Meeting Browser: Tracking and Summarizing Meetings

A. Waibel, M. Finke, M. Bett
Proceedings of 1998 DARPA Hub4 Workshop, Lansdowne, W.Virginia
• Flexible Transcription Alignment

M. Finke and A. Waibel
1997 IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition and Understanding,
Dec 14-17, Santa Barbara, California
(Postscript)
• Pronunciation Modelling for Conversational Speech Recognition: A Status Report from WS97

B. Byrne, M. Finke, S. Khudanpur, J. McDonough, H. Nock, M. Riley, M. Saraclar, C. Wooters, G. Zavaliagkos
1997 IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition and Understanding,
Dec 14-17, Santa Barbara, California
(Postscript)
• Speaking Mode Dependent Pronunciation Modeling in Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition

Michael Finke and Alex Waibel
Eurospeech 97, Rhodos, Greece.
(Postscript)
• Improving Performance on Switchboard by Combining Hybrid HME/HMM and Mixture of Gaussian Acoustic Models

Juergen Fritsch and Michael Finke
Eurospeech 97, Rhodos, Greece.
• Speaker Normalization and Speaker Adaptation - A Combination for Conversational Speech Recogntion

Puming Zhan, Martin Westphal, Michael Finke and Alex Waibel
Eurospeech 97, Rhodos, Greece.
• The JanusRTk Switchboard/Callhome 1997 Evaluation System

Michael Finke, Juergen Fritsch, Petra Geutner, Klaus Ries and Torsten Zeppenfeld
Proceedings of LVCSR Hub5-e Workshop, May 13-15, Baltimore, Maryland.
(System Description - Postscript)
(Pronunciation Modeling - Postscript)
(Hybrid Acoustic Modeling - Postscript)
• The Karlsruhe-Verbmobil Speech Recognition Engine

Michael Finke, Petra Geutner, Hermann Hild, Thomas Kemp, Klaus Ries and Martin Westphal
Proceedings of ICASSP 97, Muenchen, Germany
(Postscript)
• JANUS-III: Speech-To-Speech Translation in Multiple Languages

Alon Lavie, Alex Waibel, Lori Levin, Michael Finke, Donna Gates, Marsal Gavalda, Torsten Zeppenfeld and Puming Zhan
Proceedings of ICASSP 97, Muenchen, Germany
(Postscript)
• Wide Context Acoustic Modeling in Read vs. Spontaneous Speech

Michael Finke and Ivica Rogina
Proceedings of ICASSP 97, Muenchen, Germany
(Postscript)
• Recognition of Conversational Telephone Speech using the Janus Speech Engine

Torsten Zeppenfeld, Michael Finke, Klaus Ries, Martin Westphal and Alex Waibel
Proceedings of ICASSP 97, Muenchen, Germany
(Postscript)
• Context-Dependent Hybrid HME/HMM Speech Recognition using Polyphone Clustering Decision Trees

Jürgen Fritsch, Michael Finke, Alex Waibel
Proceedings of ICASSP 97, Muenchen, Germany
(Postscript)
• Adaptively Growing Hierarchical Mixtures of Experts

Jürgen Fritsch, Michael Finke, Alex Waibel
Neural Information Processing Systems NIPS 96, Denver, USA
(Postscript)
• Mode Dependent Pronunciation Modeling in LVCSR

Michael Finke
Proceedings of the CLSP Workshop 1996, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
• Modeling Systematic Variations in Pronunciation via a Language-Dependent Hidden Speaking Mode

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
Proceedings of the ICSLP 1996
(Postscript)
• LVCSR Switchboard April 1996 Evaluation Report

M.Finke and T.Zeppenfeld
Proceedings of the LVCSR Hub 5 Workshop, April 29 - May 1, 1996
Maritime Institute of Technology, Linthicum Heights, Maryland
• Minimizing Search Errors Due to Delayed Bigrams in Real-Time Speech Recognition Systems

M.Woszczyna, M.Finke
Proceedings of the ICASSP 1996,
postscript (4 pages), html (using latex2html)
• JANUS-II: Translation of Spontaneous Conversational Speech

A.Waibel, M.Finke, D.Gates, M.Gavaldà, T.Kemp, A.Lavie, L.Levin, M.Maier, L.Mayfield, A.McNair, I.Rogina, K.Shima, T.Sloboda, M.Woszczyna, T.Zeppenfeld, P.Zhan
Proceedings of the ICASSP 1996, postscript (4 pages), html (using latex2html)

• A Fast Search Technique for Large Vocabulary On-Line Handwriting Recognition

S. Manke, M. Finke, and A. Waibel
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Colchester, England, 1996.
(Postscript)
• The Use of Dynamic Writing Information in a Connectionist On-Line Cursive Handwriting Recognition System

S. Manke, M. Finke, and A. Waibel
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7, 1995.
(Postscript)
• NPen++: A Writer Independent, Large Vocabulary On-Line Cursive Handwriting Recognition System

S. Manke, M. Finke, and A. Waibel
Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Montreal, 1995.
(Postscript)
• Combining Bitmaps with Dynamic Writing Information for On-Line Handwriting Recognition

S. Manke, M. Finke, and A. Waibel
Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Jerusalem, 1994. (Postscript)

• From Gaze to Focus of Attention

R.Stiefelhagen, M.Finke, J.Yang, A.Waibel
Proceedings of the Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces (PUI98), San Francisco.

• Statistical Theory of Overtraining - Is Cross-Validation Effective?

Amari, S., Murata, N., Müller, K.-R., Finke, M., Yang, H.
NIPS'95: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8, D.S. Touretzky, M.C. Mozer and M.E. Hasselmo (eds.), MIT Press: Cambridge, MA., p. 176-182.
( Postscript, 62kB compressed [in Germany])
• Asymptotic Statistical Theory of Overtraining and Cross-Validation

Amari, S., Murata, N., Müller, K.-R., Finke, M., Yang, H.
University of Tokyo Technical Report METR 95-06 and accepted at IEEE Transactions on neural networks ( Postscript [in USA], Postscript, [in Germany], 128kB compressed)
• A Numerical Study on Learning Curves in Stochastic Multi-Layer Feed-Forward Networks

Müller, K.-R., Finke, M., Schulten, K., Murata, N., Amari, S.
University of Tokyo Technical Report METR 95-03, Neural Computation, 8, 1085-1106 ( Postscript, 129kB compressed [in USA], Postscript, 86 kB gzipped [in Germany])
• On Large Scale Simulations for Learning Curves

Müller, K.-R., Finke, M., Murata, N., Schulten, K., Amari, S.
Proceedings of the CTP-PBSRI Workshop on Theoretical Physics: Neural Networks, The Statistical Mechanics Perspective, World Scientific, Singapore, 73-84
• On Large Scale Simulations for Learning Curves

Müller, K.-R., Finke, M., Schulten, K., Murata, N., Amari, S.
in Proceedings of the 6th Australian conference on Neural Networks (ACNN'95), eds. Margaret Charles & Cyril Latimer, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney, 45-48
• Learning curves of faithful versus unfaithful neural network models

Müller, K.-R., Bös, S., Finke, M., Murata, N.
in NOLTA 95: Las Vegas Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, 127-132 ( Postscript, 38kB gzipped [in Germany])
• Estimating a-posteriori probabilities using stochastic network models

Finke, M., Müller, K.-R.
In Proc. of the 1993 Connectionist Models summer school, Mozer, M., Smolensky, P., Touretzky, D.S., Elman, J.L. and Weigend, A.S. (Eds.), Hillsdale, NJ: Erlenbaum Associates, 324-331 ( Postscript, 52KB gzipped)
• Constructing Neural Network Models

Müller, K.-R., Finke, M.
Extended Abstract in Proc. of the JNNS'94: 5th Annual Conference of the Japanese Neural Network Society, 94-95