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Paper - Human error rates for speaker recognition
Wade Shen, Joseph P Campbell, Reva Schwartz, "Human error rates for speaker recognition," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2011
January 2011
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Paper - Advocate: A Distributed Architecture for Speech-to-Speech Translation
A Ryan Aminzadeh, Wade Shen, "Advocate: A Distributed Architecture for Speech-to-Speech Translation," , 2009
January 2009
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Paper - Toward an interagency language roundtable based assessment of speech-to-speech translation capabilities
Douglas Jones, Wade Shen, Brian Delaney, Martha Herzog, Timothy Anderson, Michael Emonts, Sabine Atwell, James Dirgin, Neil Granoien, Sargon Jabri, "Toward an interagency language roundtable based assessment of speech-to-speech translation capabilities," , 2006
January 2006
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Paper - Finding good enough: A task-based evaluation of query biased summarization for cross-language information retrieval
Jennifer Williams, Sharon Tam, Wade Shen, "Finding good enough: A task-based evaluation of query biased summarization for cross-language information retrieval," Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2014
January 2014
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Paper - Analyzing and interpreting automatically learned rules across dialects
Nancy F Chen, Wade Shen, Joseph P Campbell, "Analyzing and interpreting automatically learned rules across dialects," Thirteenth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012
January 2012
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Paper - Improved phrase translation modeling using MAP adaptation
A Ryan Aminzadeh, Jennifer Drexler, Timothy Anderson, Wade Shen, "Improved phrase translation modeling using MAP adaptation," International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, 2012
January 2012
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Paper - Characterizing deletion transformations across dialects using a sophisticated tying mechanism
Nancy F Chen, Wade Shen, Joseph P Campbell, "Characterizing deletion transformations across dialects using a sophisticated tying mechanism," Twelfth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011
January 2011
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Paper - Bridging the Gap between Linguists and Technology Developers: Large-Scale, Sociolinguistic Annotation for Dialect and Speaker Recognition.
Christopher Cieri, Stephanie M Strassel, Meghan Lammie Glenn, Reva Schwartz, Wade Shen, Joseph P Campbell, "Bridging the Gap between Linguists and Technology Developers: Large-Scale, Sociolinguistic Annotation for Dialect and Speaker Recognition.," LREC, 2008
January 2008
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Paper - Low-resource speech translation of Urdu to English using semi-supervised part-of-speech tagging and transliteration
A Ryan Aminzadeh, Wade Shen, "Low-resource speech translation of Urdu to English using semi-supervised part-of-speech tagging and transliteration," 2008 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2008
January 2008
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Paper - The MITLL-AFRL IWSLT 2014 MT System
Michaeel Kazi, Elizabeth Salesky, Brian Thompson, Jessica Ray, Michael Coury, Wade Shen, Tim Anderson, Grant Erdmann, Jeremy Gwinnup, Katherine Young, "The MITLL-AFRL IWSLT 2014 MT System," Proceedings of the international workshop on spoken language translation (IWSLT), Lake Tahoe, 2014
January 2014
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Paper - A comparison of speaker clustering and speech recognition techniques for air situational awareness
Wade Shen, Douglas Reynolds, "A comparison of speaker clustering and speech recognition techniques for air situational awareness," Eighth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2007
January 2007
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Paper - The MIT-LL/AFRL MT System
Wade Shen, Brian Delaney, Tim Anderson, "The MIT-LL/AFRL MT System," , 2005
January 2005
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Paper - Machine translation for government applications
Douglas Jones, Wade Shen, Martha Herzog, "Machine translation for government applications," Lincoln Laboratory Journal, 2009
January 2009
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Paper - Design and characterization of the non-native military air traffic communications database (nnMATC)
Stephane Pigeon, Wade Shen, Aaron Lawson, David A van Leeuwen, "Design and characterization of the non-native military air traffic communications database (nnMATC)," Eighth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2007
January 2007
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Paper - Comparing a high and low-level deep neural network implementation for automatic speech recognition
Jessica Ray, Brian Thompson, Wade Shen, "Comparing a high and low-level deep neural network implementation for automatic speech recognition," Proceedings of the 1st First Workshop for High Performance Technical Computing in Dynamic Languages, 2014
January 2014
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Paper - Two experiments comparing reading with listening for human processing of conversational telephone speech
Douglas Jones, Wade Shen, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Teresa Kamm, Douglas Reynolds, "Two experiments comparing reading with listening for human processing of conversational telephone speech," Ninth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005
January 2005
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Paper - Analysis of factors affecting system performance in the aspire challenge
Jennifer Melot, Nicolas Malyska, Jessica Ray, Wade Shen, "Analysis of factors affecting system performance in the aspire challenge," 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), 2015
January 2015
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Paper - When to punt on speaker comparison?
Reva Schwartz, Joseph P Campbell, Wade Shen, "When to punt on speaker comparison?," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2011
January 2011
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Paper - The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2011 MT System
A Ryan Aminzadeh, Tim Anderson, Ray Slyh, Brian Ore, Eric Hansen, Wade Shen, Jennifer Drexler, Terry Gleason, "The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2011 MT System," , 2011
January 2011
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Paper - Construction of a phonotactic dialect corpus using semiautomatic annotation
Reva Schwartz, Wade Shen, Joseph Campbell, Shelley Paget, Julie Vonwiller, Dominique Estival, Christopher Cieri, "Construction of a phonotactic dialect corpus using semiautomatic annotation," , 2007
January 2007
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Paper - The Effect of Text Difficulty on Machine Translation Performance--A Pilot Study with ILR-Rated texts in Spanish, Farsi, Arabic, Russian and Korean
Ray Clifford, Neil Granoien, Douglas Jones, Wade Shen, Clifford Weinstein, "The Effect of Text Difficulty on Machine Translation Performance--A Pilot Study with ILR-Rated texts in Spanish, Farsi, Arabic, Russian and Korean," , 2004
January 2004
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Paper - Exploiting morphological, grammatical, and semantic correlates for improved text difficulty assessment
Elizabeth Salesky, Wade Shen, "Exploiting morphological, grammatical, and semantic correlates for improved text difficulty assessment," Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2014
January 2014
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Paper - Assessing the speaker recognition performance of naive listeners using mechanical turk
Wade Shen, Joseph Campbell, Derek Straub, Reva Schwartz, "Assessing the speaker recognition performance of naive listeners using mechanical turk," 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011
January 2011
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Paper - Large-scale analysis of formant frequency estimation variability in conversational telephone speech
Nancy F Chen, Wade Shen, Joseph Campbell, Reva Schwartz, "Large-scale analysis of formant frequency estimation variability in conversational telephone speech," Tenth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009
January 2009
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Paper - USSS-MITLL 2010 human assisted speaker recognition
Reva Schwartz, Joseph P Campbell, Wade Shen, Douglas E Sturim, William M Campbell, Fred S Richardson, Robert B Dunn, Robert Granville, "USSS-MITLL 2010 human assisted speaker recognition," 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011
January 2011
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Paper - Two protocols comparing human and machine phonetic recognition performance in conversational speech
Wade Shen, Joseph Olive, Douglas Jones, "Two protocols comparing human and machine phonetic recognition performance in conversational speech," Ninth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008
January 2008
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Paper - ILR-based MT comprehension test with multi-level questions
Douglas Jones, Martha Herzog, Hussny Ibrahim, Arvind Jairam, Wade Shen, Edward Gibson, Michael Emonts, "ILR-based MT comprehension test with multi-level questions," Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers, 2007
January 2007
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Paper - Measuring translation quality by testing English speakers with a new defense language proficiency test for Arabic
Douglas Jones, Wade Shen, Neil Granoien, Martha Herzog, Clifford Weinstein, "Measuring translation quality by testing English speakers with a new defense language proficiency test for Arabic," , 2005
January 2005
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Paper - Informative dialect recognition using context-dependent pronunciation modeling
Nancy F Chen, Wade Shen, Joseph P Campbell, Pedro A Torres-Carrasquillo, "Informative dialect recognition using context-dependent pronunciation modeling," 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011
January 2011
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Paper - Advanced language recognition using cepstra and phonotactics: MITLL system performance on the NIST 2005 language recognition evaluation
William Campbell, Terry Gleason, Jiri Navratil, Douglas Reynolds, Wade Shen, Elliot Singer, Pedro Torres-Carrasquillo, "Advanced language recognition using cepstra and phonotactics: MITLL system performance on the NIST 2005 language recognition evaluation," 2006 IEEE Odyssey-The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, 2006
January 2006
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Paper - Dialect recognition using adapted phonetic models
Wade Shen, Nancy Chen, Douglas A Reynolds, "Dialect recognition using adapted phonetic models," Ninth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008
January 2008
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Paper - The JHU workshop 2006 IWSLT system
Wade Shen, Richard Zens, Nicola Bertoldi, Marcello Federico, "The JHU workshop 2006 IWSLT system," International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) 2006, 2006
January 2006
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Paper - Improving phonotactic language recognition with acoustic adaptation
Wade Shen, Douglas Reynolds, "Improving phonotactic language recognition with acoustic adaptation," Eighth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2007
January 2007
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Paper - Improved GMM-based language recognition using constrained MLLR transforms
Wade Shen, Douglas Reynolds, "Improved GMM-based language recognition using constrained MLLR transforms," 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2008
January 2008
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Paper - A linguistically-informative approach to dialect recognition using dialect-discriminating context-dependent phonetic models
Nancy F Chen, Wade Shen, Joseph P Campbell, "A linguistically-informative approach to dialect recognition using dialect-discriminating context-dependent phonetic models," 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2010
January 2010
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Paper - Automatic language recognition via spectral and token based approaches
Douglas A Reynolds, William M Campbell, Wade Shen, Elliot Singer, "Automatic language recognition via spectral and token based approaches," Springer Handbook of Speech Processing, 2008
January 2008
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Paper - Open source toolkit for statistical machine translation: Factored translation models and confusion network decoding
Philipp Koehn, Marcello Federico, Wade Shen, Nicola Bertoldi, Ondrej Bojar, Chris Callison-Burch, Brooke Cowan, Chris Dyer, Hieu Hoang, Richard Zens, "Open source toolkit for statistical machine translation: Factored translation models and confusion network decoding," Final Report of the 2006 JHU Summer Workshop, 2006
January 2006
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Paper - The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2010 MT System
Wade Shen, AR Aminzadeh, Tim Anderson, Ray Slyh, "The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2010 MT System," International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 2011
January 2011
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Paper - Measuring human readability of machine generated text: three case studies in speech recognition and machine translation
Douglas Jones, Edward Gibson, Wade Shen, Neil Granoien, Martha Herzog, Douglas Reynolds, Clifford Weinstein, "Measuring human readability of machine generated text: three case studies in speech recognition and machine translation," Proceedings.(ICASSP"05). IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing., 2005
January 2005
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Paper - The MIT-LL/IBM 2006 speaker recognition system: High-performance reduced-complexity recognition
William M Campbell, Douglas E Sturim, Wade Shen, Douglas A Reynolds, Jirí Navrátil, "The MIT-LL/IBM 2006 speaker recognition system: High-performance reduced-complexity recognition," 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing-ICASSP"07, 2007
January 2007
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Paper - Experiments with lattice-based PPRLM language identification
Wade Shen, William Campbell, Terry Gleason, Doug Reynolds, Elliot Singer, "Experiments with lattice-based PPRLM language identification," 2006 IEEE Odyssey-The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, 2006
January 2006
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Paper - Efficient speech translation through confusion network decoding
Nicola Bertoldi, Richard Zens, Marcello Federico, Wade Shen, "Efficient speech translation through confusion network decoding," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2008
January 2008
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Paper - End-to-end training of differentiable pipelines across machine learning frameworks
Mitar Milutinovic, Atılım Güneş Baydin, Robert Zinkov, William Harvey, Dawn Song, Frank Wood, Wade Shen, "End-to-end training of differentiable pipelines across machine learning frameworks," , 2017
January 2017
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Paper - A language-independent approach to automatic text difficulty assessment for second-language learners
Wade Shen, Jennifer Williams, Tamas Marius, Elizabeth Salesky, "A language-independent approach to automatic text difficulty assessment for second-language learners," Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations, 2013
January 2013
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Paper - Characterizing phonetic transformations and acoustic differences across english dialects
Nancy F Chen, Sharon W Tam, Wade Shen, Joseph P Campbell, "Characterizing phonetic transformations and acoustic differences across english dialects," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2013
January 2013
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Paper - A comparison of query-by-example methods for spoken term detection
Wade Shen, Christopher M White, Timothy J Hazen, "A comparison of query-by-example methods for spoken term detection," Interspeech Brighton, 2009
January 2009
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Paper - Speaker verification using support vector machines and high-level features
William M Campbell, Joseph P Campbell, Terry P Gleason, Douglas A Reynolds, Wade Shen, "Speaker verification using support vector machines and high-level features," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2007
January 2007
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Paper - Forensic speaker recognition
Joseph P Campbell, Wade Shen, William M Campbell, Reva Schwartz, J-F Bonastre, Driss Matrouf, "Forensic speaker recognition," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2009
January 2009
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Paper - Query-by-example spoken term detection using phonetic posteriorgram templates
Timothy J Hazen, Wade Shen, Christopher White, "Query-by-example spoken term detection using phonetic posteriorgram templates," 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2009
January 2009
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Paper - Moses: Open source toolkit for statistical machine translation
Philipp Koehn, Hieu Hoang, Alexandra Birch, Chris Callison-Burch, Marcello Federico, Nicola Bertoldi, Brooke Cowan, Wade Shen, Christine Moran, Richard Zens, "Moses: Open source toolkit for statistical machine translation," Proceedings of the 45th annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics, 2007
January 2007
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Paper - Operational Assessment of Keyword Search on Oral History
Elizabeth Salesky, Jessica Ray, Wade Shen, "Operational Assessment of Keyword Search on Oral History," Language Resource and Evaluation Conference, 2016
January 2016
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Paper - The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2013 MT System
Lane Oscar Schwartz, Michaeel Kazi, Michael Coury, Elizabeth Salesky, Jessica Ray, Wade Shen, Terry Gleason, Tim Anderson, Grant Erdmann, Brian Ore, "The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2013 MT System," International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 2013
January 2013
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Paper - The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2012 MT System
Jennifer Drexler, Wade Shen, Tim Anderson, Raymond Slyh, Brian Ore, Eric Hansen, "The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2012 MT System," International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) 2012, 2012
January 2012
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Paper - An efficient graph search decoder for phrase-based statistical machine translation
Brian Delaney, Wade Shen, Timothy Anderson, "An efficient graph search decoder for phrase-based statistical machine translation," Submitted to the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, Kyoto, Japan, 2006
January 2006
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Paper - Experimental facility for measuring the impact of environmental noise and speaker variation on speech-to-speech translation devices
Douglas A Jones, Arvind Jairam, Wade Shen, Paul Gatewood, John Tardelli, Michael Emonts, "Experimental facility for measuring the impact of environmental noise and speaker variation on speech-to-speech translation devices," 2006 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2006
January 2006
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