Publication List (incomplete, and updated only sporadically)

Roni Rosenfeld, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Computational Epidemiology and Computational Biology:

• Nicholas G. Reich, Justin Lessler, Sebastian Funk and Cecile Viboud, Alessandro Vespignani and Ryan J. Tibshirani, Katriona Shea, Melanie Schienle, Michael C. Runge, Roni Rosenfeld, Evan L. Ray, Rene Niehus , Helen C. Johnson, Michael A. Johansson, Harry Hochheiser, Lauren Gardner, Johannes Bracher, Rebecca K. Borchering, Matthew Biggerstaff (2022) Collaborative Hubs: Making the Most of Predictive Epidemic Modeling. American Journal of Public Health, e1_e4. 10.2105/ajph.2022.306831.
• Roni Rosenfeld, Ryan Tibshirani (2021) Epidemic Tracking and Forecasting: Lessons Learned from a Tumultuous Year. PNAS, 108(51). doi:10.1073/pnas.2111456118.
• Aaron, Rumack, Ryan Tibshirani, Roni Rosenfeld (2021) Recalibrating probabilistic forecasts of epidemics. Preprint.
• Alex Reinhart, Logan Brooks, Maria Jahja, Aaron Rumack, Jingjing Tang, Sumit Agrawal, Wael Al Saeed, Taylor Arnold, Amartya Basu, Jacob Bien, Ángel A. Cabrera, Andrew Chin, Eu Jing Chua, Brian Clark, Sarah Colquhoun, Nat DeFries, David C. Farrow, Jodi Forlizzi, Jed Grabman, Samuel Gratzl, Alden Green, George Haff, Robin Han, Kate Harwood, Addison J. Hu, Raphael Hyde, Sangwon Hyun, Ananya Joshi, Jimi Kim, Andrew Kuznetsov, Wichada La Motte-Kerr, Yeon Jin Lee, Kenneth Lee, Zachary C. Lipton, Michael X. Liu, Lester Mackey, Kathryn Mazaitis, Daniel J. McDonald, Phillip McGuinness, Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Michael P. O’Brien, Natalia L. Oliveira, Pratik Patil, Adam Perer, Collin A. Politsch, Samyak Rajanala, Dawn Rucker, Chris Scott, Nigam H. Shah, Vishnu Shankar, James Sharpnack, Dmitry Shemetov, Noah Simon, Benjamin Y. Smith, Vishakha Srivastava, Shuyi Tan, Robert Tibshirani, Elena Tuzhilina, Ana Karina Van Nortwick, Valérie Ventura, Larry Wasserman, Benjamin Weaver, Jeremy C. Weiss, Spencer Whitman, Kristin Williams, Roni Rosenfeld, and Ryan J. Tibshirani (2021) An Open Repository of Real-Time COVID-19 Indicators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(51). doi:10.1073/pnas.2111452118.
• Joshua A. Salomon, Alex Reinhart, Alyssa Bilinski, Eu Jing Chua, Wichada La Motte-Kerr, Minttu M. Rönn, Marissa B. Reitsma, Katherine A. Morris, Sarah LaRocca, Tamer H. Farag, Frauke Kreuter, Roni Rosenfeld, and Ryan J. Tibshirani (2021) The US COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey: Continuous Real-Time Measurement of COVID-19 Symptoms, Risks, Protective Behaviors, Testing, and Vaccination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(51). doi:10.1073/pnas.2111452118.
• Nicholas G. Reich, Craig J. McGowan, Teresa K. Yamana, Abhinav Tushar, Evan L. Ray, Dave Osthus, Sasikiran Kandula, Logan C. Brooks, Willow Crawford-Crudell, Graham Casey Gibson, Evan Moore, Rebecca Silva, Matthew Biggerstaff, Michael A. Johansson, Roni Rosenfeld, Jeffrey Shaman (2019) Accuracy of real-time multi-model ensemble forecasts for seasonal influenza in the U.S.. PLOS Comp Bio, 15(11): e1007486. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007486.
• Maria Jahja, David Farrow, Ryan J. Tibshirani, Roni Rosenfeld. Kalman Filter, Sensor Fusion, and Constrained Regression: Equivalences and Insights. Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019, Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada.
• Johansson MA, Apfeldorf KM, Dobson S, et al. (2019) An open challenge to advance probabilistic forecasting for dengue epidemics. [published correction appears in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Dec 17;116(51):26087-26088]. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 2019;116(48):24268–24274. doi:10.1073/pnas.1909865116.
• Craig J. McGowan, Matthew Biggerstaff , Michael Johansson, Karyn M. Apfeldorf, Michal Ben-Nun, Logan Brooks, Matteo Convertino, Madhav Erraguntla, David C. Farrow, John Freeze, Saurav Ghosh, Sangwon Hyun, Sasikiran Kandula, Joceline Lega, Yang Liu, Nicholas Michaud, Haruka Morita, Jarad Niemi, Naren Ramakrishnan, Evan L. Ray, Nicholas G. Reich, Pete Riley, Jeffrey Shaman, Ryan Tibshirani, Alessandro Vespignani, Qian Zhang, Carrie Reed & The Influenza Forecasting Working Group (2019) Collaborative efforts to forecast seasonal influenza in the United States, 2015–2016. Scientific Reportorts, January 2019. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-36361-9.
• Nicholas G. Reich, Logan C. Brooks, Spencer J. Fox, Sasikiran Kandula, Craig J. McGowan, Evan Moore, Dave Osthus, Evan L. Ray, AbhinavTushar, Teresa K. Yamana, Matthew Biggerstaff, Michael A. Johansson, Roni Rosenfeld, Jeffrey Shaman (2019) A collaborative multiyear, multimodel assessment of seasonal influenza forecasting in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2019, 201812594. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1812594116.
• Baltrusaitis K, Vespignani A, Rosenfeld R, Gray J, Raymond D, Santillana M. (2019) Is there really more flu in the south? Surveillance systems show differences in influenza activity across regions Preprint). JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, January 2019. DOI: 10.2196/13403.
• Brooks LC, Farrow DC, Hyun S, Tibshirani RJ, Rosenfeld R (2018) Nonmechanistic forecasts of seasonal influenza with iterative one-week-ahead distributions. PLoS Comput Biol 14(6): e1006134. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006134.
• Matthew Biggerstaff, Michael Johansson, David Alper, Logan C. Brooks, Prithwish Chakraborty, David C. Farrow, Sangwon Hyung, Sasikiran Kandulah, Craig McGowana, Naren Ramakrishnane, Roni Rosenfeld, Jeffrey Shamanh, Rob Tibshirani, Ryan J. Tibshirani, Alessandro Vespignanil, Wan Yangh, Qian Zhangl, Carrie Reed (2018) Results from the second year of a collaborative effort to forecast influenza seasons in the United States, Elsevier Epidemics, February 24, 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2018.02.003.
• Farrow DC, Brooks L, Hyun S, Tibshirani RJ, Burke DS, Rosenfeld R (2017) A Human Judgment Approach to Epidemiological Forecasting. PLoS Comput Biol 13(3): e1005248. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005248.
• Matthew Biggerstaff, David Alper, Mark Dredze, Spencer Fox, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Kyle S. Hickmann, Bryan Lewis, Roni Rosenfeld, Jeffrey Shaman, Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Paola Velardi, Alessandro Vespignani, Lyn Finelli and for the Influenza Forecasting Contest Working Group (2016). Results from the centers for disease control and prevention’s predict the 2013–2014 Influenza Season Challenge (another link). BMC Infectious Diseases, 16:357. DOI: 10.1186/s12879-016-1669-x.
• Leo L M Poon, Timothy Song, Roni Rosenfeld, Xudong Lin, Matthew B Rogers, Bin Zhou, Robert Sebra, Rebecca A Halpin, Yi Guan, Alan Twaddle, Jay V DePasse, Timothy B Stockwell, David E Wentworth, Edward C Holmes, Benjamin Greenbaum, Joseph S M Peiris, Benjamin J Cowling & Elodie Ghedin. Quantifying influenza virus diversity and transmission in humans, Nature Genetics 48, 195–200 (2016). DOI: 10.1038/ng.3479.
• Brooks LC, Farrow DC, Hyun S, Tibshirani RJ, Rosenfeld R (2015) Flexible Modeling of Epidemics with an Empirical Bayes Framework. PLoS Comput Bio 11(8): e1004382. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004382.
• Farrow DC, Burke DS, Rosenfeld R (2015) Computational Characterization of Transient Strain-Transcending Immunity against Influenza A. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0125047. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125047.
• van Panhuis WG, Hyun S, Blaney E, Marques ETA Jr, Coelho GE, Siqueira JB Jr, Tibshirani RJ, Silva BJ Jr, Rosenfeld R (2014) Risk of Dengue for Tourists and Teams during the World Cup 2014 in Brazil. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 8(7): e3063. DOI:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003063. PMCID: PMC4120682.
• Sarah Lukens, Jay DePasse, Roni Rosenfeld, Elodie Ghedin, Ericka Mochan, Shawn T Brown, John Grefenstette, Donald S Burke, David Swigon, Gilles Clermont. (2014) A large-scale immuno-epidemiological simulation of influenza A epidemics. BMC Public Health; 14: 1019. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1019. PMCID: PMC4194421.
• Wu C, Rosenfeld R, Clermont G (2014) Using Data-Driven Rules to Predict Mortality in Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia. PLoS ONE 9(4):e89053. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089053. PMCID: PMC3974677.
• John J Grefenstette, Shawn T Brown, Roni Rosenfeld, Jay DePasse, Nathan TB Stone, Phillip C Cooley, William D Wheaton, Alona Fyshe, David D Galloway, Anuroop Sriram, Hasan Guclu, Thomas Abraham, Donald S Burke (2013). FRED (A Framework for Reconstructing Epidemic Dynamics): an open-source software system for modeling infectious diseases and control strategies using census-based populations. BMC Public Health. 13: 940. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-940. PMCID: PMC3852955.
• Roni Rosenfeld, John Grefenstette, Donald Burke (2012) A Proposal for Standardized Evaluation of Epidemiological Models. Whitepaper. November 9, 2012.
• B. Aditya Prakash, Alex Beutel, Roni Rosenfeld and Christos Faloutsos. Winner Takes All: Competing Viruses or Ideas on fair-play Networks, Proc. WWW2012.
• Daniel Percival, Kathryn Roeder, Roni Rosenfeld and Larry Wasserman. Structured Sparse Regression with Application to HIV Drug Resistance, The Annals of Applied Statistics, 2011, Vol. 5, No. 2A, 628–644, DOI: 10.1214/10-AOAS428, or arXiv.
• Chuang Wu, Andrew S. Walsh, and Roni Rosenfeld. Genotype Phenotype Mapping In RNA Viruses – Disjunctive Normal Form Learning, Proc. PSB, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Jan 2011. DOI: 10.1142/9789814335058_0007.
• Lee BY, Brown ST, Cooley P, Grefenstette JJ, Zimmerman RK, Zimmer SM, Potter MA, Rosenfeld R, Wheaton WD, Wiringa AE, Bacon KM, Burke DS. Vaccination Deep into a Pandemic Wave: Potential Mechanisms for a ’Third Wave’ and the Impact of Vaccination, Am J Prev Med. 2010 Nov;39(5):e21-9.
• Y. Lu, R. Rosenfeld, G.J. Nau and Z. Bar-Joseph, Cross species expression analysis of innate immune response. Journal of Computational Biology, 17(3):253-68, 2010. Earlier version published in Proceedings of  RECOMB2009. [ conference website |  proceedings ]
• David W. Dreisigmeyer, Roni Rosenfeld, Jay V. DePasse, Elodie Ghedin, Ian Price, Gilles Clermont (2009). A multi-reservoir model of influenza evolution. J Crit Care. September; 24(3): e33–e34. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2009.06.040. PMCID: PMC4123430.
• Y. Lu, R. Rosenfeld, I. Simon, G.J. Nau and Z. Bar-Joseph, A Probabilistic Generative Model for GO Enrichment Analysis,   Nucleic Acids Res. 36(17):e109,  Epub Aug 1 2008. Also Proceedings RECOMB Satellite Conference on Systems Biology 2007.[ abstract | html | pdf | conference website ]
• Y. Lu, S. Mahony, P.V. Benos, R. Rosenfeld, I. Simon, L.L. Breeden and Z. Bar-Joseph, Selecting a threshold for identifying cell cycle genes, Genome Biology, 9:403, 2008. [ html | pdf ] (correspondence -- our response is in the second part).
• Y. Lu, S. Mahony, P.V. Benos, R. Rosenfeld, I., Simon, L.L. Breeden and Z. Bar-Joseph, Combined Analysis Reveals a Core Set of Cycling Genes, Genome Biology 2007, 8:R146. [ pdf | http | supplements | supporting website ] (Ranked 2nd in Hidden Jewels).
• Yong Lu, Roni Rosenfeld and Ziv Bar-Joseph. Identifying Cycling Genes by Combining Sequence Homology and Expression Data, J. Bioinformatics, 22(14):e314-322, 2006. Also presented in The Fourteenth International Conference on Intelligence Systems for Molecular Biology ( ISMB 2006, Aug 7-10, Fortaleza, Brazil) [ bib | .pdf | http ].
• Henry C.M. Leung, Francis Y.L. Chin, S.M. Yiu, Roni Rosenfeld, W.W. Tsang, Finding Motifs with Insufficient Number of Strong Binding Sites, Journal of Computational Biology, 12(6), pp. 686–701, 2005.
• Rose Hoberman, Judith Klein-Seetharaman and Roni Rosenfeld, Inferring Property Selection Pressure from Positional Residue Conservation, Appl. Bioinformatics. 2004; 3(2-3): 167-179 ( pubmed, pdf). Also Proc. Biological Language Modeling Conference, November 2003 (Best Student Presentation award).
• Ziv Bar-Joseph, Shlomit Farkash, David K. Gifford, Itamar Simon and Roni Rosenfeld, Deconvolving Cell-Cycle Expression Data with Complementary Information, J. Bioinformatics,(Proceedings of ISMB), 20 Suppl. 1, pp. I23-I30, 2004.
• Francis Y.L. Chin, Henry C.M. Leung, S.M. Yiu, T.W. Lam, Roni Rosenfeld, W.W. Tsang, David K. Smith, Y.Jiang, Finding Motifs for Insufficient Number of Sequences with Strong Binding to Transcription Factor, Proceedings of Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), 2004, pages 125 - 132.
• Madhavi Ganapathiraju, Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Roni Rosenfeld, Jaime Carbonell and Raj Reddy, Comparative n-gram analysis of whole-genome sequences. Proc. HLT'02: Human Language Technologies Conference, San Diego, March, 2002.
• Madhavi Ganapathiraju, Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Roni Rosenfeld, Jaime Carbonell and Raj Reddy, Rare and frequent amino acid n-grams in whole-genome protein sequences. RECOMB'02: The Sixth Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, Washington DC, USA, April, 2002.
• Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Madhavi Ganapathiraju, Jaime Carbonell, Roni Rosenfeld and Raj Reddy, Differences in usage of local combinations of amino acids in various genomes. Proc. International Symposium On Crystallography And Bioinformatics in Structural Biology, Bangalore, India, November, 2001.

Spoken Language Technologies for Development:

• Agha Ali Raza, Zain Tariq, Shan Randhawa, Bilal Saleem, Awais Athar, Umar Saif, Roni Rosenfeld. Voice-Based Quizzes for Measuring Knowledge Retention in Hard-to-Reach Populations. Accepted for publication in proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), May 4-9, Glasgow, UK.
• Agha Ali Raza, Awais Athar, Shan Randhawa, Zain Tariq, Muhammad Bilal Saleem, Haris Bin Zia, Umar Saif and Roni Rosenfeld. Rapid Collection of Spontaneous Speech Corpora Using Telephonic Community Forums. In Proc. Interspeech, 2018.
• Agha Ali Raza, Bilal Saleem, Shan Randhawa, Zain Tariq, Awais Athar, Umar Saif, Roni Rosenfeld. Baang: A Viral Speech-based Social Platform for Under-Connected Populations. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 21-26, Montréal, Canada.
• Agha Ali Raza, Rajat Kulshreshtha, Spandana Gella, Sean Blagsvedt, Maya Chandrasekaran, Bhiksha Raj, Roni Rosenfeld, Viral Spread via Entertainment and Voice Messaging Among Telephone Users in India. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD '16), Jun 03-06, 2016, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
• Aditya Vashistha, Agha Ali Raza, Umar Saif, Roni Rosenfeld, Richard Anderson. Changing Perceptions of Citizens of India and Pakistan. In Development Consortium: HCI Across Borders and Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. May 07-12, 2016, San Jose, USA.
• Nikolas Wolfe, Juneki Hong, Agha Ali Raza, Bhiksha Raj, Roni Rosenfeld. Rapid Development of Public Health Education Systems in Low-Literacy Multilingual Environments: Combating Ebola Through Voice Messaging. Proc. SLaTe 2015.
• Yibin Lin, Agha Ali Raza, Jay-Yoon Lee, Danai Koutra, Roni Rosenfeld and Christos Faloutsos. Influence Propagation: Patterns, Model and a Case Study. PAKDD2014 (The 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), May 13-16, 2014, Tainan, Taiwan.
• Haohan Wang, Agha Ali Raza, Yibin Lin and Roni Rosenfeld. Behavior Analysis of Low-literate Users of a Viral Speech-based Telephone Service. ACM DEV-4, December 6-7, 2013, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Agha Ali Raza, Farhan Ul Haq, Zain Tariq, Mansoor Pervaiz, Samia Razaq, Umar Saif and Roni Rosenfeld, Job Opportunities through Entertainment: Virally Spread Speech-Based Services for Low-Literate Users, in Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. April 27-May 2, 2013, Paris, France. (Extended Version) (CHI Best Paper Award).
• Agha Ali Raza, Farhan Ul Haq, Zain Tariq, Umar Saif and Roni Rosenfeld. Spread and Sustainability: The Geography and Economics of Speech-Based Services. In ACM DEV, January 11-12, 2013, Bangalore, India (extended abstract).
• Hao Yee Chan and Roni Rosenfeld. Discriminative Pronunciation Learning for Speech Recognition for Resource Scarce Languages. Proc. ACM DEV 2012, Annual ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, March 2012, Atlanta, GA.
• Agha Ali Raza, Mansoor Pervaiz, Samia Razaq, Christina Milo, Guy Alster, Jahanzeb Sherwani, Umar Saif, Roni Rosenfeld. Viral Entertainment as a Vehicle for Disseminating Speech-Based Services to Low-Literate Users. Proc. IEEE/ACM Int'l Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, (ICTD) Atlanta, GA, March 2012.
• Fang Qiao, Jahanzeb Sherwani, Roni Rosenfeld. Small-Vocabulary Speech Recognition for Resource-Scarce Languages. Proc. ACM DEV 2010, Annual ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, December 2010, London, UK.
• Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Carolyn Rose, Roni Rosenfeld. Orality-Grounded HCID: Understanding the Oral User. J.Information Technologies & International Development, Special Issue on Human Computer Interaction and Development, December 2009.
• Jahanzeb Sherwani, Roni Rosenfeld. Speech vs. Touch-tone: Telephony Interfaces for Information Access by Low Literate Users. Proc. IEEE/ACM Int'l Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Doha, Qatar, April 2009.
• Jahanzeb Sherwani, Roni Rosenfeld. The Case for Speech and Language Technologies for Developing Regions. In Proc. Human-Computer Interaction for Community and International Development workshop, Florence, Italy, April 2008.
• Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Sarwat Mirza, Anjum Fatma, Yousuf Memon, Mehtab Karim, Rahul Tongia, Roni Rosenfeld. HealthLine: Speech-based Access to Health Information by Low-literate Users. In Proc. IEEE/ACM Int'l Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Bangalore, India, December 2007.
• Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Rahul Tongia, Roni Rosenfeld, Yousuf Memon, Mehtab Karim, Gregory Pappas. HealthLine: Towards Speech-based Access to Health Information by Semi-literate Users. In Proc. Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments, Singapore, September 2007.
• Jahanzeb Sherwani, Rahul Tongia, Roni Rosenfeld, Yousuf Memon, Mehtab Karim, Gregory Pappas. Towards Speech Interfaces for Health Information Access by Semi-literate Users. In Proc. AI in ICT for Development,Hyderabad,India, January 2007.

Human-Machine Speech Communication:

• Jahanzeb Sherwani, Stefanie Tomko, and Roni Rosenfeld. Sublime: A Speech- and Language-based Information Management Environment. In Proc. IEEE Int.l Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006.
• Stefanie Tomko, Thomas K. Harris, Arthur Toth, James Sanders, Alexander Rudnicky, Roni Rosenfeld. Towards Efficient Human Machine Speech Communication: The Speech Graffiti Project. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, 2(1), February 2005.
• Stefanie Tomko and Roni Rosenfeld.  Shaping Spoken Input in User-Initiative Systems. Proc. ICSLP 2004.
• Thomas K. Harris and Roni Rosenfeld.  A Universal Speech Interface for Appliances.  Proc. ICSLP 2004.
• Stefanie Tomko and Roni Rosenfeld. Speech Graffiti vs. Natural Language: Assessing the User Experience.  Proc. HLT/NAACL, Boston, MA, 2004.
• Stefanie Tomko and Roni Rosenfeld. Speech Graffiti habitability: What do users really say? Proc. SIGDIAL, Boston, MA, 2004.
• Stanjeev Banerjee et. al. (group paper), Creating Multi-Modal, User-Centric Records of Meetings with the Carnegie Mellon Meeting Recorder Architecture, In Proc. ICASSP 2004.
• Brad A. Myers, Jeffrey Nichols, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Kevin Litwack, Michael Higgins, Joe Hughes, Thomas K. Harris, Roni Rosenfeld, Mathilde Pignol. Handheld Devices for Control, Human-Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC 2003), Winter Park, CO, Feb 5-9, 2003.
• Jeffrey Nichols, Brad A. Myers, Michael Higgins, Joseph Hughes, Thomas K. Harris, Roni Rosenfeld, Kevin Litwack. Personal Universal Controllers: Controlling Complex Appliances With GUIs and Speech.  Extended Abstract CHI'2003: Human Factors in Computing Systems. (Demonstration Abstract). Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 5-10, 2003. pp. 624-625.
• Arthur Toth, Thomas K. Harris, James Sanders, Stefanie Shriver, Roni Rosenfeld. Towards Every-Citizen's Speech Interface: An Application Generator for Speech Interfaces to Databases. Proc. 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP/Interspeech 2002).
• Jeffrey Nichols, Brad Myers, Thomas K. Harris, Roni Rosenfeld, Stefanie Shriver, Michael Higgins, Joseph Hughes. Requirements for Automatically Generating Multi-Modal Interfaces for Complex Appliances. Proc. IEEE Fourth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'02), Pittsburgh, PA. October 14-16, 2002. pp. 377-382.
• Jeffrey Nichols, Brad Myers, Michael Higgins, Joseph Hughes, Thomas K. Harris, Roni Rosenfeld, Mathilde Pignol. Generating Remote Control Interfaces for Complex Appliances 15th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST'02). 27-30 Oct. 2002, Paris, France. pp. 161-170.
• Stefanie Shriver and Roni Rosenfeld. Keyword Selection, and the Universal Speech Interface Project. Proc. AVIOS, San Jose, CA,2002.
• Stefanie Shriver and Roni Rosenfeld. Keywords for a Universal Speech Interface. Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Minneapolis, MN, 2002.
• Roni Rosenfeld, Dan Olsen and Alexander Rudnicky.  Universal Speech Interfaces. Interactions, VIII(6), 2001, pp.34--44.   Earlier version published as   Universal Human-Machine Speech Interface: A White paper. Technical Report CMU-CS-00-114, School of Computer Science,  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2000.
• Stefanie Shriver, Arthur Toth, Xiaojin Zhu, Alex Rudnicky, Roni Rosenfeld. A Unified Design for Human-Machine Voice Interaction. In Proc. CHI 2001.
• Stefanie Shriver, Roni Rosenfeld, Xiaojin Zhu, Arthur Toth, Alex Rudnicky, Markus Flueckiger. Universalizing Speech: Notes from the USI Project. In Proc. Eurospeech 2001.
• Stefanie Shriver, Alan W Black and Roni Rosenfeld.  Audio Signals in Speech Interfaces. (web page)   In Proc. ICSLP 2000.
• Ronald Rosenfeld, Xiaojin Zhu, Stefanie Shriver, Arthur Toth, Kevin Lenzo, Alan W Black.  Towards a Universal Speech Interface. (web page) In Proc. ICSLP 2000.

Statistical/Machine Learning Methods in Speech and Language Processing:

• P. Schulam, R. Rosenfeld, P. Devanbu, Building Statistical Language Models of Code, Data Analysis Patterns in Software Engineering, 2013.
• Mark Johnson, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Mari Ostendorf and Roni Rosenfeld (eds.), Mathematical Foundations of Speech and Language Processing, The IMA volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications, 138, Springer, 2004.
• Xiaojin Zhu and Roni Rosenfeld, Improving Trigram Language Modeling with the World Wide Web. In Proc ICASSP 2001, longer version published as Technical Report CMU-CS-00-171.
• Roni Rosenfeld, Stanley F. Chen and Xiaojin Zhu.  Whole-Sentence Exponential Language Models: a Vehicle for Linguistic-Statistical Integration. Computers Speech and Language, 15(1), 2001. 
• Can Cai, Roni Rosenfeld and Larry Wasserman.  Exponential Language Models, Logistic Regression, and Semantic Coherence. In Proc. NIST/DARPA Speech Transcription Workshop, May 2000.
• Chris Paciorek and Roni Rosenfeld.  Minimum Classification Error Training in Exponential Language Models. In Proc. NIST/DARPA Speech Transcription Workshop, May 2000.
• Ronald Rosenfeld. Two decades of Statistical Language Modeling: Where Do We Go From Here? Proceedings of the IEEE, 88(8), 2000.
• Ronald Rosenfeld, Incorporating Linguistic Structure into Statistical Language Models, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A, 358 (1769), pp. 1311--1324, April 2000.
• Ronald Rosenfeld, Larry Wasserman, Can Cai, Xiaojin Zhu. Interactive Feature Induction and Logistic Regression for Whole Sentence Exponential Language Models. In Proc. IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Keystone, Colorado, December 1999.
• Xiaojin Zhu, Stanley Chen and Ronald Rosenfeld. Linguistic Features for Whole Sentence Maximum Entropy Language Models. In Proc. Eurospeech '99, Hungary, September 1999.
• Kristie Seymore, Andrew McCallum and Ronald Rosenfeld. Learning Hidden Markov Model Structure for Information Extraction. AAAI'99 Workshop on Machine Learning for Information Extraction.
• Stanley Chen and Ronald Rosenfeld. Efficient Sampling and Feature Selection in Whole Sentence Maximum Entropy Language Models. In Proc. ICASSP '99, Phoenix, Arizona, March 1999.
• Adam Kalai, Stanley Chen, Avrim Blum and Ronald Rosenfeld. On-Line Algorithms for Combining Language Models. In Proc. ICASSP '99, Phoenix, Arizona, March 1999.
• Stanley Chen and Ronald Rosenfeld. A Survey of Smoothing Techniques for ME Models. IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing,8(1), pp. 37--50. January 2000. Also published as A Gaussian Prior for Smoothing Maximum Entropy Models, Technical Report CMU-CS-99-108, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, February 1999.
• Kristie Seymore, Stan Chen and Ronald Rosenfeld.  Nonlinear Interpolation of Topic Models for Language Model Adaptation.   In Proc. ICSLP98, Sydney, Australia.
• Andrew McCallum, Ronald Rosenfeld, Tom Mitchell and Andrew Ng.  Improving Text Classification by Shrinkage in a Hierarchy of Classes.   Intl. Conference on Machine Learning, ICML-98, July 1998.
• Stanley Chen, Kristie Seymore and Ronald Rosenfeld. Topic Adaptation for Language Modeling using Unnormalized Exponential Models. In Proc. Int'l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seattle, Washington, May 1998.
• Stanley Chen, Douglas Beeferman and Ronald Rosenfeld. Evaluation Metrics for Language Models. In Proc. DARPA Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop (BNTUW), Lansdowne, Virginia, February 1998.
• K. Seymore, S. Chen, S.J. Doh, M. Eskenazi, E. Gouvea, B. Raj, M. Ravishankar, R. Rosenfeld, M. Siegler, R. Stern and E. Thayer.  The 1997 CMU Sphinx-3 English Broadcast News Transcription System. In Proc. DARPA Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop (BNTUW), Lansdowne, Virginia, February 1998.
• Ronald Rosenfeld. A Whole Sentence Maximum Entropy Language Model. In Proc. IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Santa Barbara, California, December 1997.
• Pierre Dupont and Ronald Rosenfeld. Lattice Based Language Models. Technical Report CMU-CS-97-173, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 1997.
• Kristie Seymore and Ronald Rosenfeld. Using Story Topics for Language Model Adaptation. In Proc. Eurospeech '97, September 1997.  Longer version published as Large-Scale Topic Detection and Language Model Adaptation, Technical Report CMU-CS-97-152, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1997.
• Philip Clarkson and Ronald Rosenfeld. Statistical Language Modeling using the CMU-Cambridge toolkit. In Proc. Eurospeech '97, September 1997 (ELRA Best Student Paper Prize).
• Andreas Stolcke, Ciprian Chelba, David Engle, Victor Jimenez, Lidia Mangu, Harry Structure and Performance of a dependency language model. In Proc. Eurospeech'97, September 1997.
• Kristie Seymore, Stanley Chen, Maxine Eskenazi and Ronald Rosenfeld. Language and Pronunciation Modeling in the CMU 1996 Hub 4 Evaluation. In Proc. ARPA Spoken Langauge Technology Workshop, Chantilly, VA, February 1997.
• P. Placeway, S. Chen, M. Eskenazi, U. Jain, V. Parikh, B. Raj, M. Ravishankar, R. Rosenfeld, K. Seymore, M. Siegler, R. Stern and E. Thayer. The 1996 Hub-4 Sphinx-3 System. In Proc. ARPA Spoken Language Technology Workshop,Chantilly, VA, February 1997.
• Ronald Rosenfeld. A Maximum Entropy Approach to Adaptive Statistical Language Modeling. Computer, Speech and Language, 10, 187--228, 1996 (2001 award for Most Influential Paper in CSL in the Last 5 Years.  Longer version published as Adaptive Statistical Language Modeling: A Maximum Entropy Approach, Ph.D. thesis, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, TR CMU-CS-94-138, April 1994.
• Kristie Seymore and Ronald Rosenfeld.  Scalable Backoff Language Models. In Proc. ICSLP'96, Philadelphia, October 1996.  Longer version published as Scalable Trigram Backoff Language Models, Technical Report CMU-CS-96-139, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1996.
• Lin Chase, Kristie Seymore and Roni Rosenfeld.  Language Modeling for Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition. Workshop on Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition, Maritime Institue of Technology, Linthicum Heights, Maryland, April 29--May 1, 1996.
• Ronald Rosenfeld, Rajeev Agarwal, Bill Byrne, Rukmini Iyer, MarkLiberman, Liz Shriberg, Jack Unverferth, Dimitra Vergyri, EnriqueVidal.  Error Analysis and Language Modeling for Conversational Speech: Team Report.  In Proceedings of the 1995 Language Modeling Workshop, Johns Hopkins University, July--August 1995.
• Ronald Rosenfeld. Optimizing Lexical and N-gram Coverage Via Judicious Use of Linguistic Data. In Proc. Eurospeech'95, Madrid, Spain, September 1995.
• Ronald Rosenfeld. An Impact Matrix for the 1994 CSR Hub Evaluation.  In Proc. ARPA Spoken Language Technology Workshop, Austin, TX, January 1995.
• Ronald Rosenfeld. The CMU Statistical Language Modeling Toolkit, and its use in the 1994 ARPA CSR Evaluation.   In Proc. ARPA Spoken Language Technology Workshop, Austin, TX, January 1995.
• L. Chase, R. Rosenfeld, A. Hauptmann, M. Ravishankar, E. Thayer, P.Placeway, R. Weide, C. Lu.  Improvements in Language, Lexical, and Phonetic Modeling in Sphinx-II.  In Proc. ARPA Spoken Language Technology Workshop, Austin, TX, January 1995.
• Lin Chase, Ron Rosenfeld, and Wayne Ward.  Error-Responsive Modifications to Speech Recognizers: Negative N-grams. In Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Yokohama, Japan, September 1994.
• M. Hwang, R. Rosenfeld, E. Thayer, R. Mosur, L. Chase, R. Weide, X. Huang, and F. Alleva.  Improving Speech-Recognition Performance via Phone-Dependent VQ Codebooks and Adaptive Language Models in SPHINX-II. In Proc. Int'l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Australia, April 1994.
• Ronald Rosenfeld. A Hybrid Approach to Adaptive Statistical Language Modeling. In Proc. ARPA Human Language Technology Workshop, Plainsboro, NJ, March 1994.
• R. Rosenfeld, E. Thayer, R. Mosur, L. Chase, R. Weide, M. Hwang,X. Huang and F. Alleva. Improved Acoustic and Adaptive Language Models for Continuous Speech Recognition.  In Proc. ARPA Spoken Language Systems Workshop, March 1994.
• Francis Kubala, Jerome Bellegarda, Jordan Cohen, Dave Pallett, Doug Paul, Mike Phillips, Raja Rajasekaran, Fred Richardson, Mike Riley, Roni Rosenfeld, Bob Roth, MitchWeintraub. The Hub and Spoke Paradigm for CSR Evaluation. In Proc. ARPA Human Language Technology Workshop, Plainsboro, NJ, March 1994.
• Chase, L., Mosur, R., and Rosenfeld, R. Language Model Adaptation in the CSR Evaluation.  ARPA Spoken Language Systems Workshop, Plainsboro, NJ, March 1994.
• Ronald Rosenfeld. Modeling Long-Distance Linguistic Phenomena Within the Maximum Entropy Framework.  Invited speaker at IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition workshop, Snowbird, UT, December 1993.
• Raymond Lau, Ronald Rosenfeld, and Salim Roukos. Trigger-based Language Models: A Maximum Entropy Approach.  In Proc. Int'l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Minneapolis, MN, April 1993.
• Raymond Lau, Ronald Rosenfeld, and Salim Roukos. Adaptive Language Modeling Using the Maximum Entropy Principle. In Proc. ARPA Human Language Technology Workshop, March 1993.
• Raymond Lau, Ronald Rosenfeld, and Salim Roukos. Building Scalable N-gram Language Models Using Maximum Likelihood Maximum Entropy N-gram models. U.S. Patent 5,467,425, February 1993.
• Xuedong Huang, Fil Alleva, Mei-Yuh Hwang, and Ronald Rosenfeld. An Overview of the SPHINX-II Speech Recognition System. In Proc. ARPA Human Language Technology Workshop, March 1993.
• Xuedong Huang, Fil Alleva, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Ronald Rosenfeld, and Rich Stern. The SPHINX-II system used in the DARPA 1992 evaluation.  DARPA Spoken Language Technology Workshop, Boston, MA, January 1993.
• Ronald Rosenfeld. Adaptive Statistical Language Modeling: A Maximum Entropy Approach.  Ph.D. thesis proposal, Carnegie Mellon University, October 1992.
• Ronald Rosenfeld, Xuedong Huang and Merrick Furst. Exploiting Correlations Among Competing Models with Application to Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition.  In Proc. Int'l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, San Francisco, CA, March 1992.
• X.D. Huang, F. Alleva, H.W. Hon, M.Y. Hwang, K.F. Lee, and R. Rosenfeld. The SPHINX-II Speech Recognition System: An Overview. Computer, Speech and Language, 2, pages 137--148, 1993.  Also published as Technical Report CMU-CS-92-112, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, February, 1992.
• F. Alleva, H. Hon, X. Huang, M. Hwang, R. Rosenfeld, and R. Weide. Applying SPHINX-II to the DARPA Wall Street Journal CSR Task.  In Proc. DARPA Speech and Language Workshop, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,San Mateo, CA, February 1992.
• Ronald Rosenfeld and Xuedong Huang. Improvements in Stochastic Language Modeling.  In Proc. DARPA Speech and Language Workshop, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, CA, February 1992.
• Ronald Rosenfeld, Xuedong Huang and Merrick Furst. Exploiting Correlations Among Models with Application to Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition. Technical Report CMU-CS-91-148, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, May, 1991.
• Barak Pearlmutter and Ronald Rosenfeld. Chaitin-Kolmogorov Complexity and Generalization in Neural Networks.  In D. Touretzky, J. Moody and R. Lippmann (eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 3. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1991.
• Ronald Rosenfeld and David S. Touretzky. Coarse-Coded Symbol Memories and Their Properties.  Journal of Complex Systems, 2(4), pp. 463-484, August 1988.
• Ronald Rosenfeld and David S. Touretzky. A Survey of Coarse-Coded Symbol Memories.  In Proceedings of the 1988 Connectionist Models Summer School, Carnegie Mellon, June 17-26, 1988. Morgan Kaufmann, 1989.
• Ronald Rosenfeld and David S. Touretzky. Four Capacity Models of Coarse-Coded Symbol Memories. Technical Report CMU-CS-87-182, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, December, 1987.
• Ronald Rosenfeld and David S. Touretzky. Scaling Properties of Coarse-Coded Symbol Memories.  In Dana Z. Anderson (Ed.), Neural Information Processing Systems, 1, pp.652--661, AIP, New York, 1988.
• Ronald Rosenfeld, David S. Touretzky and the Boltzmann Research Group.  Connectionist Models as Neural Abstractions: Commentary on ``Brains Make Chaos to Make Sense of the World'' by C.A. Skarda and W.J. Freeman. In Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10(2), June 1987, pp.181-182.