T. J. Hazen: Publications (sorted by type)

T. J. Hazen: Publications (sorted by type)

Book Chapters & Magazine Articles | Journal Articles | Conference Papers | Workshops and Meetings | Demonstration Sessions | Theses and Technical Reports

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Book Chapters & Magazine Articles

Timothy J. Hazen, "Topic Identification", Chapter 12 of Spoken Language Understanding: Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech, Gokhan Tur and Renato De Mori (Editors), John Wiley & Sons, 2011.

Ciprian Chelba, Timothy J. Hazen, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, and Murat Saraclar, "Speech Retrieval", Chapter 15 of Spoken Language Understanding: Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech, Gokhan Tur and Renato De Mori (Editors), John Wiley & Sons, 2011.

Ciprian Chelba, Timothy J. Hazen and Murat Saraclar, "Retrieval and browsing of spoken content", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 39-49, May 2008. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, Eugene Weinstein, Bernd Heisele, Alex Park, and Ji Ming, "Multimodal Face and Speaker Identification for Mobile Devices," Book Chapter in Face Biometrics for Personal Identification: Multi-Sensory Multi-Modal Systems, R. I. Hammoud, B. R. Abidi, and M. A. Abidi (Editors), pp. 123-138, Springer, 2007. (Preprint - PDF)

Journal Articles

Timothy J. Hazen, "MCE training techniques for topic identification of spoken audio documents", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 2451-2460, November 2011. (PDF)

Ji Ming, Timothy J. Hazen and James R. Glass, "Combining missing-feature theory, speech enhancement and speaker-dependent/-independent modeling for speech separation", Computer Speech and Language, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 67-76, January 2010. (Preprint PDF)

Ji Ming, Timothy J. Hazen, James R. Glass, and Douglas A. Reynolds, "Robust speaker recognition in noisy conditions," in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1711-1723, July 2007. (PDF)

Erik McDermott, Timothy J. Hazen, Jonathan Le Roux, Atsushi Nakamura, and Shigeru Katagiri, "Discriminative training for large vocabulary speech recognition using minimum classification error," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 203-223, January 2007. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen. "Visual model structures and synchrony constraints for audio-visual speech recognition," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 1082-1089, May 2006. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, I. Lee Hetherington, Han Shu, and Karen Livescu, "Pronunciation modeling using a finite-state transducer representation," Speech Communication, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 189-203, June 2005. (Preprint version - PDF) (Speech Communication Home Page)

Timothy J. Hazen, Joseph Polifroni and Stephanie Seneff, "Recognition confidence scoring for use in speech understanding systems," Computer Speech and Language, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 49-67, January 2002. (Preprint version - PDF) (Computer Speech and Language Home Page)

Timothy J. Hazen, "A comparison of novel techniques for rapid speaker adaptation," Speech Communication, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 15-33, May 2000. (Preprint version - PDF) (Speech Communication Home Page)

Victor Zue, Stephanie Seneff, James Glass, Joseph Polifroni, Christine Pao, Timothy J. Hazen and Lee Hetherington, "JUPITER: A telephone-based conversational interface for weather information," IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 8, No. 1, January 2000. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen and Victor W. Zue, "Segment-based automatic language identification," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 101, No. 4, pp. 2323-2331, April 1997. (PDF from JASA)

Conference Papers

David Harwath and Timothy J. Hazen, "Topic identification based extrinsic evaluation of summarization techniques applied to conversational speech", Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, March 2012. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, "Latent topic modeling for audio corpus summarization", Proceedings of Interspeech, Florence, Italy, August 2011. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, "Multi-class SVM optimization using MCE training with application to topic identification", Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Dallas, March 2010. (PDF)

Wade Shen, Christopher White and Timothy J. Hazen, "A comparison of query-by-example methods for spoken term detection", Proceedings of Interspeech, Brighton, England, September 2009. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen and Fred Richardson, "A hybrid SVM/MCE training approach for vector space topic identification of spoken audio recordings", Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen and Anna Margolis, "Discriminative feature weighting using MCE training for topic identification of spoken audio recordings", Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, April 2008. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen and Daniel Schultz, "Multi-modal user authentication from video for mobile or variable-environment applications", Proceedings of Interspeech, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, Brennan Sherry, and Mark Adler, "Speech-based annotation and retrieval of digital photographs", Proceedings of Interspeech, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen and Erik McDermott, "Discriminative MCE-based speaker adaptation of acoustic models for a spoken lecture processing task", Proceedings of Interspeech, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. (PDF)

Bo Zhu, Timothy J. Hazen and James R. Glass, "Multimodal speech recognition with ultrasonic sensors", Proceedings of Interspeech, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. (PDF)

James Glass, Timothy J. Hazen, Scott Cypers, Igor Malioutov, David Huynh and Regina Barzilay, "Recent progress in the MIT Spoken Lecture Processing Project", Proceedings of Interspeech, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. (PDF)

Natasha Singh-Miller, Michael Collins and Timothy J. Hazen, "Dimensionality reduction for speech recognition using neighborhood components analysis", Proceedings of Interspeech, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. (PDF)

Takaaki Hori, I. Lee Hetherington, Timothy J. Hazen, and James R. Glass, "Open-vocabulary spoken utterance retrieval using confusion neworks," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, "Automatic alignment and error correction of human generated transcripts for long speech recordings," Proceedings of Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 2006. (PDF)

Ji Ming, Timothy J. Hazen, and James R. Glass, "Combining missing-feature theory, speech enhancement and speaker-dependent/-independent modeling for speech separation," Proceedings of Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 2006. (PDF)

Ji Ming, Timothy J. Hazen, and James R. Glass, "Speaker verification over handheld devices with realistic noisy speech data," Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006. (PDF)

Tara Sainath and Timothy J. Hazen, "A sinusoidal model approach to acoustic landmark detection and segmentation for robust segment-based speech recognition," Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006. (PDF)

Alex Park, Timothy J. Hazen and James R. Glass, "Automatic processing of audio lectures for information retrieval: Vocabulary selection and language modeling", Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing , pp. 497-500, Philadelphia, March, 2005. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, Kate Saenko, Chia-Hao La and James R. Glass, "A segment-based audio-visual speech recognizer: Data collection, development and initial experiments," Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, State College, Pennsylvania, October 2004. (PDF)

Alex Park and Timothy J. Hazen, "A comparison of normalization and training approaches for ASR-dependent speaker identification," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju Island, Korea, October, 2004. (PDF)

Erik McDermott and Timothy J. Hazen, "Minimum classification error training of landmark models for real-time continuous speech recognition," Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 937-940, Montreal, Quebec, May, 2004. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, Eugene Weinstein and Alex Park, "Towards robust person recognition on handheld devices using face and speaker identification technologies," Proceeding of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Vancouver, B.C., November, 2003. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, Douglas A. Jones, Alex Park, Linda C. Kukolich and Douglas A. Reynolds, "Integration of speaker recognition into conversational spoken dialogue systems," Proceedings of EUROSPEECH, Geneva, Switzerland, September, 2003. (PDF)

Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang, and Timothy J. Hazen, "Automatic induction of N-gram language models from a natural language grammar," Proceedings of EUROSPEECH, Geneva, Switzerland, September, 2003. (PDF)

Mikio Nakano and Timothy J. Hazen, "Using untranscribed user utterances for improving language models based on confidence scoring," Proceedings of EUROSPEECH, Geneva, Switzerland, September, 2003. (PDF)

Alex Park and Timothy J. Hazen, "ASR dependent techniques for speaker identification," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Denver, Colorado, September, 2002. (PDF)

Ernest J. Pusateri and Timothy J. Hazen, "Rapid speaker adaptation using speaker clustering," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Denver, Colorado, September, 2002. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, I. Lee Hetherington, and Alex Park, "FST-based recognition techniques for multi-lingual and multi-domain spontaneous speech," Proceedings of EUROSPEECH, Aalborg, Denmark, September, 2001. (PDF)

Mikio Nakano, Yasuhiro Minami, Stephanie Seneff, Timothy J. Hazen, D. Scott Cyphers, James Glass, Joseph Polifroni, and Victor Zue "MOKUSEI: A telephone-based Japanese conversational system in the weather domain", Proceedings of EUROSPEECH, Aalborg, Denmark, September, 2001. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen and Issam Bazzi, "A comparison and combination of methods for OOV word detection and word confidence scoring," Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Salt Lake City, May, 2001. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, Theresa Burianek, Joseph Polifroni and Stephanie Seneff, "Integrating recognition confidence scoring with language understanding and dialogue modeling," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, October, 2000. (PDF)

Simo O. Kamppari and Timothy J. Hazen, "Word and phone level acoustic confidence scoring," Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Istanbul, June, 2000. (PDF)

James R. Glass, Timothy J. Hazen and I. Lee Hetherington, "Real-time telephone-based speech recognition in the Jupiter domain," Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Phoenix, March, 1999. (PDF)

James R. Glass and Timothy J. Hazen, "Telephone-based conversational speech recognition in the Jupiter domain," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, December, 1998. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen and Andrew K. Halberstadt, "Using aggregation to improve the performance of mixture Gaussian acoustic models," Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Seattle, May, 1998. (PDF)

Joseph Polifroni, Stephanie Seneff, James Glass, and Timothy J. Hazen, "Evaluation methodology for a telephone-based conversational system," Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, pp. 42-50, Granada, Spain, May 1998. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen and James R. Glass, "A comparison of novel techniques for instantaneous speaker adaptation," Proceedings of EUROSPEECH, pp. 2047-2050, Rhodes, Greece, September, 1997. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen and Victor W. Zue, "Recent improvements in an approach to segment-based automatic language identification," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. 1883-1886, Yokohama, September, 1994. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen and Victor W. Zue, "Automatic language identification using a segment-based approach," Proceedings of EUROSPEECH, pp. 1307-1310, Berlin, September, 1993. (PDF)

Workshops and Meetings

Timothy J. Hazen and Fred Richardson, "Modeling multiword phrases with constrained phrase trees for improved topic modeling of conversational speech", Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Miami, Florida, December 2012. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, Man-Hung Siu, Herbert Gish, Steve Lowe and Arthur Chan, "Topic modeling for spoken documents using only phonetic information", Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Waikoloa, Hawaii, December 2011. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, "Direct and latent modeling techniques for computing spoken document similarity", Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Berkeley, December 2010. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, Wade Shen and Christopher White "Query-by-example spoken term detection using phonetic posteriogram templates", Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Merano, Italy, December 2009. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, Fred Richardson and Anna Margolis, "Topic identification from audio recordings using word and phone recognition lattices", Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Kyoto, Japan, December 2007. (PDF)

Stephanie Seneff, Mark Adler, James R. Glass, Brennan Sherry, Timothy J. Hazen, Chao Wang, and Tao Wu "Exploiting context information in spoken dialogue interaction with mobile devices", Proc. of International Workshop on Improved Mobile User Experience (IMUx), Toronto, Canada, May 2007. (PDF)

Ram Woo, Alex Park, and Timothy J. Hazen, "The MIT Mobile Device Speaker Verification Corpus: Data collection and preliminary experiments," Proceedings of Odyssey 2006, The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, June 2006. (PDF)

Ji Ming, Timothy J. Hazen, and James R. Glass, "A comparative study of methods for handheld speaker verification in realistic noisy conditions" Proceedings of Odyssey 2006, The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, June 2006. (PDF)

James Glass, Timothy J. Hazen, Lee Hetherington and Chao Wang, "Analysis and processing of lecture audio data: Preliminary investigations", Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2004 Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Speech Indexing and Retrieval, pp. 9-12, Boston, Massachusetts, May, 2004. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, Eugene Weinstein, Ryan Kabir, Alex Park and Bernd Heisele, "Multi-modal face and speaker identification on a handheld device," Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication, pp. 113-120, Santa Barbara, California, December, 2003. (PDF)

Mikio Nakano and Timothy J. Hazen, "Utilizing untranscribed user utterances for improving language models based on confidence scoring," Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, Yokohama, Japan, March, 2003. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, I. Lee Hetherington, Han Shu and Karen Livescu, "Pronunciation modeling using a finite-state transducer representation," Proceedings of ISCA Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation, Estes Park, Colorado, September, 2002. (PDF)

Victor Zue, Stephanie Seneff, Joseph Polifroni, Mikio Nakano, Yasuhiro Minami, Timothy Hazen and James Glass, "From JUPITER to MOKUSEI: Multilingual conversational systems in the weather domain," Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-lingual Speech Communication (MSC2000), Kyoto, Japan, October, 2000. (Postscript file)

Timothy J. Hazen, Theresa Burianek, Joseph Polifroni and Stephanie Seneff, "Recognition confidence scoring for use in speech understanding systems," Proceedings of The ISCA ASR2000 Tutorial and Research Workshop, Paris, September, 2000. (PDF)

N. Strom, L. Hetherington, T. J. Hazen, E. Sandness, J. Glass, "Acoustic modeling improvements in a segment-based speech recognizer," Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Keystone, Colorado, December, 1999. (PDF)

Demonstration Sessions

James R. Glass, Timothy J. Hazen, D. Scott Cyphers, K. Schutte, and Alex Park, "The MIT Spoken Lecture Processing Project," Proc. HLT/EMNLP Demo Session, Vancouver, October 2005. (PDF)

Theses and Technical Reports

Timothy J. Hazen, The Use of Speaker Correlation Information for Automatic Speech Recognition, PhD Thesis, MIT, January, 1998. (PDF)

Timothy J. Hazen, Automatic Language Identification Using a Segment-Based Approach, Masters Thesis, MIT, August, 1993. (PDF)

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