Chao Wang Research Scientist SLS CSAIL MIT

Office: 617-253-7772 32 Vassar Street, 32-362 Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

I am interested in speech and language research that can lead to more natural human-computer interfaces, facilitate communications between people speaking different languages, and help people improve foreign language skills.

Language Learning Demo System

Curriculum Vitae

Journal Papers:

1. Anna E. Nousek, Peter J. B. Slater, Chao Wang, and Patrick J. O. Miller
   "The Influence of Social Affiliation on Individual Vocal Signatures of Northern Resident Killer Whales (Orcinus Orca)",
   Biology Letters 2006:2(4).
   
2. Chao Wang, Grace Chung, and Stephanie Seneff
   "Automatic Induction of Language Model Data for A Spoken Dialogue System",
   Special Issue of the Springer Journal on Language Resources and Evaluation 2006:40(1):25-46.
   
3. Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff
   "High-Quality Speech-to-Speech Translation for Computer-Aided Language Learning",
   ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing 2006:3(2):1-21.
   
4. Stephanie Seneff and Chao Wang
   "Statistical Modeling of Phonological Rules through Linguistic Hierarchies" (Preprint version - PDF),
   Speech Communication 2005:46(2):204-216.
   
5. Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang, and Christopher B. Burge
   "Gene Prediction through Human/Mouse Ortholog Similarity Constraints" (Preprint version - PDF),
   Applied Bioinformatics 2004:3(2-3):81-90.
   
   

Conference and Workshop Papers:

1. Chao Wang, Michael Collins, and Phillip Koehn
   "Chinese Syntactic Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation ",
   in Proc. of EMNLP, 2007.


2. Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff
   "A Spoken Translation Game for Second Language Learning",
   in Proc. of AIED, 2007.


3. Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff
   "Automatic Assessment of Student Translations for Foreign Language Tutoring",
   in Proc. of NAACL-HLT, 2007.


4. 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",
   in Proc. of International Workshop on Improved Mobile User Experience (IMUx), 2007.


5. Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff
   "High-quality Speech Translation in the Flight Domain",
   in Proc. of ICSLP, 2006.


6. Alex Gruenstein, Stephanie Seneff, and Chao Wang
   "Scalable and Portable Web-Based Multimodal Dialogue Interaction with Geographical Databases",
   in Proc. of ICSLP, 2006.


7. Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang, and John Lee
   "Combining Linguistic and Statistical Methods for Bi-directional English Chinese Translation in the Flight Domain",
   in Proc. of AMTA, 2006.


8. Chao Wang, Stephanie Seneff, and Grace Chung
   "Language Model Data Filtering via User Simulation and Dialogue Resynthesis",
   in Proc. of EUROSPEECH, 2005.


9. Alexander Gruenstein, Chao Wang, and Stephanie Seneff
   "Context-Sensitive Statistical Language Modeling",
   in Proc. of EUROSPEECH, 2005.


10. Grace Chung, Stephanie Seneff, and Chao Wang
    "Automatic Induction of Language Model Data for a Spoken Dialogue System",
    in Proc. of SIGDIAL, 2005.


11. Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang, Mitchell Peabody, and Victor Zue
    "Second Language Acquisition through Human Computer Dialogue",
    in Proc. of ISCSLP, 2004.


12. Jong-mi Kim, Chao Wang, Mitchell Peabody, and Stephanie Seneff
    "An Interactive English Pronunciation Dictionary for Korean Learners",
    in Proc. of ICSLP, 2004.


13. Grace Chung, Chao Wang, Stephanie Seneff, Ed Filisko, and Min Tang
    "Combining Linguistic Knowledge and Acoustic Information in Automatic Pronunciation Lexicon Generation",
    in Proc. of ICSLP, 2004.


14. Grace Chung, Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang, and Lee Hetherington
    "A Dynamic Vocabulary Spoken Dialogue Interface",
    in Proc. of ICSLP, 2004.


15. Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff
    "High-Quality Speech Translation for Language Learning",
    in Proc. of InSTIL/ICALL Symposium: NLP and Speech Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems, 2004.


16. Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang, and Julia Zhang
    "Spoken Conversational Interaction for Language Learning",
    in Proc. of InSTIL/ICALL Symposium: NLP and Speech Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems, 2004.


17. Mitchell Peabody, Stephanie Seneff, and Chao Wang
    "Mandarin Tone Acquisition through Typed Interactions",
    in Proc. of InSTIL/ICALL Symposium: NLP and Speech Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems, 2004.


18. James Glass, Timothy. J. Hazen, Lee Hetherington, and Chao Wang
    "Analysis and Processing of Lecture Audio Data: Preliminary Investigations",
    in HLT-NAACL Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Speech Indexing and Retrieval, 2004.


19. Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang, and Christ Burge
    "Improved Gene Prediction through Human/Mouse Ortholog Similarity Constraints",
    in Proc. of Biological Language Computing, 2003.


20. Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang, and Timothy J. Hazen
    "Automatic Induction of N-Gram Language Models from a Natural Language Grammar",
    in Proc. of EUROSPEECH, 2003.


21. Stephanie Seneff, Grace Chung, and Chao Wang
    "Empowering End Users to Personalize Dialogue Systems through Spoken Interaction",
    in Proc. of EUROSPEECH, 2003.


22. Grace Chung, Stephanie Seneff, and Chao Wang
    "Automatic Acquisition of Names Using Speak and Spell Mode in Spoken Dialogue Systems",
    in Proc. of HLT-NAACL, 2003.


23. Stephanie Seneff and Chao Wang
    "Modeling Phonological Rules through Linguistic Hierarchies",
    in Proc. of Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation (PMLA) Workshop, 2002.


24. Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff
    "Prosodic Scoring of Recognition Outputs in the JUPITER Domain",
    in Proc. of ISCA Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding, 2001.


25. Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff
    "Lexical Stress Modeling for Improved Speech Recognition of Spontaneous Telephone Speech in the JUPITER Domain",
    in Proc. of EUROSPEECH, 2001.


26. Min Tang, Chao Wang, and Stephanie Seneff
    "Voice Transformations: From Speech Synthesis to Mammalian Vocalizations",
    in Proc. of EUROSPEECH, 2001.


27. Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff
    "Improved Tone Recognition by Normalizing for Coarticulation and Intonation Effects",
    in Proc. of ICSLP, 2000.


28. Chao Wang, Scott Cyphers, Xiaolong Mou, Joe Polifroni, Stephanie Seneff, Jon Yi and Victor Zue
    "MUXING: A Telephone-access Mandarin Conversational System",
    in Proc. of ICSLP, 2000.


29. Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff
    "Robust Pitch Tracking for Prosodic Modeling in Telephone Speech",
    in Proc. of ICASSP, 2000.


30. Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff
    "A study of Tones and Tempo in Continuous Mandarin Digit Strings and their Application in Telephone Quality Speech Recognition",
    in Proc. of ICSLP, 1998.


31. Chao Wang, James Glass, Helen Meng, Joe Polifroni, Stephanie Seneff, and Victor Zue
    "YINHE: A Mandarin Chinese Version of the Galaxy System",
    in Proc. of EUROSPEECH, 1997.

Conference and Workshop Demos:

1. Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang, and Chih-yu Chao
   "Spoken Dialogue Systems for Language Learning",
   NAACL-HLT (Plenary session demo), 2007.
2. Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff
   "A Dialogue System for Language Learning",
   SIGDIAL Workshop, 2004.
3. Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang, and Grace Chung
   "A Flexible Mixed-Initiative Speech Interface for Restaurant Information",
   SIGDIAL Workshop, 2004.

Theses:

• Chao Wang
  "Prosodic Modeling for Improved Speech Recognition and Understanding",
  PhD Thesis, MIT, 2001.


• Chao Wang
  "Porting the Galaxy System to Mandarin Chinese",
  MS Thesis, MIT, 1997.