natashas@mit.edu : research

Introduction

I'm a Ph.D. student in CSAIL at MIT. I work with Prof. Michael Collins in the areas of non-parametric methods and acoustic modeling.

My current works involves developing non-parametric methods to perform acoustic modeling to minimize word error rate in large-vocabulary speech recognition.

Publications

2007: Dimensionality Reduction for Speech Recognition Using Neighborhood Components Analysis

2007: Trigger-based Language Modeling Using a Loss-Sensitive Perceptron Algorithm

(extended version for RQE)

2004: Master's Thesis: The Use of Syntactic Structure in Relationship Extraction