Sharath Rao K.

Achtung ! Having graduated in Aug 2007, I will be with Yahoo Applied Research at Santa Clara starting Oct 2007.

Greetings ! I am a second year graduate student at the Language Technologies Institute at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. I work with Dr. Tanja Schultz on the GALE project, specifically on the annotation of disfluencies in spoken language and automatic sentence segmentation to improve speech translation.

My broad interests include other aspects of statistical natural language processing such as speech recognition, information retrieval and machine learning.

Education

I have been a student for as long as I can remember and at more than just a few institutions !

Carnegie Mellon University, Masters in Computer Science (Language Technologies), June 2005 - Aug 2007

Boston University, Masters in Electrical Engineering, Sep 2004 - May 2005 before I transferred to Carnegie Mellon

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Research Assistant, July 2003 - June 2004 with Dr. T. V. Sreenivas, Speech and Audio Group.

National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Suratkal, Sep 1999 - May 2003, Undergraduate Student, Electrical Engineering

Little Rock Indian School, Brahmavar, India ( 1987-91, 1993-1999)

Army School, Narangi, Guwahati, India ( 1991-93)

Madhava Kripa English Higher Primary School, Manipal, India (1985-1987)

Don Bosco Nursey School, Ernakulam, India (1985-1985)

Publications

Matthias Paulik, Sharath Rao, Ian Lane, Stephan Vogel and Tanja Schultz, "Sentence Segmentation and Punctuation Recovery for Spoken Language Translation", Submitted to the Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding 2007, Kyoto, Japan
Sharath Rao, Ian Lane and Tanja Schultz, "Improving Spoken Language Translation by Automatic Disfluency Removal : Evidence from Conversational Speech Transcripts", Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit 2007, Copenhagen [ pdf ]
Rohit Kumar, Rashmi Gangadhariah, Sharath Rao, Kishore Prahallad, Carolyn P. Rose, Alan Black, "Building a better Indian English Voice with more data", Proceedings of 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis 2007 , Bonn, Germany
Sharath Rao, Ian Lane and Tanja Schultz, "Optimizing Sentence Segmentation for Spoken Language Translation", Proceedings of the Interspeech, 2007, Belgium [ pdf ]
Sharath Rao, T.V.Sreenivas, "Matrix quantization based time varying filter speech enhancement", Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, 2005. [ pdf ]
Sharath Rao, Sreenivasa Murthy, T.V.Sreenivas, "Improved Iterative Wiener Filter for non-stationary noise Speech Enhancement", Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, South Korea, 2004. [ pdf ]

Etc.

Little Rock Alumni Community

I have been an active member of my high school alumni related activities. Ashith and I setup an online alumni group - The Melting Pot - that brought together over 150 of our far flung classmates ! Also, with my friends, I maintain a blog - thelittlerocker - related to alumni news and updates. Little Rock is celebrating 25 years of its existence and I have been coordinating some activities related to the celebrations slated for Dec 16-17, 2006. Now and then, I update the Wikipedia page. And finally I manage the orkut community that brings together over 1600 of my school mates. I started the Class photograph collection project - do you have your class photographs from Little Rock ? Write to me ! I recently co-authored a case-study with Ashith that describes what my classmates from high school have been doing. Its been published in a 25th anniversary souvenir published by my school.

I was in India last winter. And these pictures somehow sum up the visit ! .

Download my quotations collection ( 1996 - 2001 ).

I was at some point a member of my college newsletter - Newswagon. You may want to download the collection of half-satirical, quarter-humorous, quarter-incomprehensible articles here. Partners in crime here.

My old (and first) website that I dont quite update anymore.

Education Publications Etc.

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Late Updated : Aug 27, 2007