M.Ablimit, T.Kawahara, and A.Hamdulla.
Discriminative approach to lexical entry selection for automatic speech recognition of agglutinative language.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.5009--5012, 2012. (PDF file)
M.Ablimit, A.Hamdulla, and T.Kawahara.
Morpheme concatenation approach in language modeling for large-vocabulary Uyghur speech recognition.
In Proc. Oriental-COCOSDA Workshop, 2011. (PDF file)
R.Gomez and T.Kawahara.
Optimized wavelet-based speech enhancement for speech recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions.
In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2011. (PDF file)
M.Mimura and T.Kawahara.
Fast speaker normalization and adaptation based on BIC for meeting speech recognition.
In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2011. (PDF file)
M.Ablimit, T.Kawahara, and A.Hamdulla.
Lexicon optimization for automatic speech recognition based on discriminative learning.
In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2011. (PDF file)
H.Wang, T.Kawahara, and Y.Wang.
Improving non-native speech recognition performance by discriminative training for language model in a CALL system.
In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2011. (PDF file)
T.Hirayama, Y.Sumi, T.Kawahara, and T.Matsuyama.
Info-concierge: Proactive multi-modal interaction through mind probing.
In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2011. (PDF file)
C.Lee, T.Kawahara, and A.Rudnicky.
Combining slot-based vector space model for voice book search.
In Proc. Int'l Workshop Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), pp. 27--35, 2011. (PDF file)
Y.Akita and T.Kawahara.
Automatic comma insertion of lecture transcripts based on multiple annotations.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2889--2892, 2011. (PDF file)
R.Gomez and T.Kawahara.
Denoising using optimized wavelet filtering for automatic speech recognition.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1673--1676, 2011. (PDF file)
G.Neubig, T.Watanabe, E.Sumita, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
An unsupervised model for joint phrase alignment and extraction.
In Proc. ACL-HLT, pp.632--641, 2011. (PDF file)
K.Yoshino, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
Spoken dialogue system based on information extraction using similarity of predicate argument structures.
In Proc. SIGdial Meeting Discourse \& Dialogue, pp.59--66, 2011. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, H.Wang, Y.Tsubota, and M.Dantsuji.
English and Japanese CALL systems developed at Kyoto University.
In Proc. APSIPA ASC, pp.804--810, 2010. (PDF file)
R.Gomez and T.Kawahara.
Optimizing wavelet parameters for dereverberation in automatic speech recognition.
In Proc. APSIPA ASC, pp.446--449, 2010. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara.
Automatic transcription of parliamentary meetings and classroom lectures -- a sustainable approach and real system evaluations --.
In Proc. Int'l Sympo. Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), pp.1--6 (keynote speech), 2010. (PDF file) (text)
M.Ablimit, G.Neubig, M.Mimura, S.Mori, T.Kawahara, and A.Hamdulla.
Uyghur morpheme-based language models and ASR.
In Proc. Int'l Conf. Signal Processing, pp.581--584, 2010. (PDF file)
K.Yoshino and T.Kawahara.
Spoken dialogue system based on information extraction from web text.
In Proc. Int'l Workshop Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS) (LNAI 6392), Vol.Demo. Paper, pp.196--197, 2010. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, K.Sumi, Z.Q.Chang, and K.Takanashi.
Detection of hot spots in poster conversations based on reactive tokens of audience.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.3042--3045, 2010. (PDF file)
G.Neubig, M.Mimura, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
Learning a language model from continuous speech.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1053--1056, 2010. (PDF file)
Y.Itoh, H.Nishizaki, X.Hu, H.Nanjo, T.Akiba, T.Kawahara, S.Nakagawa, T.Matsui, Y.Yamashita, and K.Aikawa.
Constructing Japanese test collections for spoken term detection.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.677--680, 2010. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, N.Katsumaru, Y.Akita, and S.Mori.
Classroom note-taking system for hearing impaired students using automatic speech recognition adapted to lectures.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.626--629, 2010. (PDF file)
R.Gomez and T.Kawahara.
An improved wavelet-based dereverberation for robust automatic speech recognition.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.578--581, 2010. (PDF file)
Y.Akita, M.Mimura, G.Neubig, and T.Kawahara.
Semi-automated update of automatic transcription system for the Japanese national congress.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.338--341, 2010. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, Z.Q.Chang, and K.Takanashi.
Analysis on prosodic features of Japanese reactive tokens in poster conversations.
In Proc. Int'l Conf. Speech Prosody, 2010. (PDF file)
G.Neubig, Y.Akita, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
Improved statistical models for SMT-based speaking style transformation.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.5206--5209, 2010. (PDF file)
R.Gomez and T.Kawahara.
Optimizing spectral subtraction and Wiener filtering for robust speech recognition in reverberant and noisy conditions.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.4566--4569, 2010. (PDF file)
D.Cournapeau, S.Watanabe, A.Nakamura, and T.Kawahara.
Using online model comparison in the Variational Bayes framework for online unsupervised voice activity detection.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.4462--4465, 2010. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara.
New perspectives on spoken language understanding: Does machine need to fully understand speech?
In Proc. IEEE Workshop Automatic Speech Recognition \& Understanding (ASRU), pp.46--50 (invited paper), 2009. (PDF file)
T.Misu, K.Sugiura, T.Kawahara, K.Ohtake, C.Hori, H.Kashioka, and S.Nakamura.
Online learning of Bayes risk-based optimization of dialogue management.
In Proc. Int'l Workshop Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), 2009. (PDF file)
R.Gomez and T.Kawahara.
Tight integration of dereverberation and automatic speech recognition.
In Proc. APSIPA ASC, pp.639--643, 2009. (PDF file)
T.Akiba, K.Aikawa, Y.Itoh, T.Kawahara, H.Nanjo, H.Nishizaki, N.Yasuda, Y.Yamashita, and K.Itou.
Developing an SDR test collection from Japanese lecture audio data.
In Proc. APSIPA ASC, pp.324--330, 2009. (PDF file)
K.Katsurada, A.Lee, T.Kawahara, T.Yotsukura, S.Morishima, T.Nishimoto, Y.Yamashita, and T.Nitta.
Development of a toolkit for spoken dialog systems with an anthropomorphic agent: Galatea.
In Proc. APSIPA ASC, pp.148--153, 2009. (PDF file)
A.Lee and T.Kawahara.
Recent development of open-source speech recognition engine Julius.
In Proc. APSIPA ASC, pp.131--137, 2009. (PDF file)
G.Neubig, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
A WFST-based log-linear framework for speaking-style transformation.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1495--1498, 2009. (PDF file)
R.Gomez and T.Kawahara.
Optimization of dereverberation parameters based on likelihood of speech recognizer.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1223--1226, 2009. (PDF file)
K.Sumi, T.Kawahara, J.Ogata, and M.Goto.
Acoustic event detection for spotting hot spots in podcasts.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1143--1146, 2009. (PDF file)
Y.Akita, M.Mimura, and T.Kawahara.
Automatic transcription system for meetings of the Japanese national congress.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.84--87, 2009. (PDF file)
K.Komatani, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
A model of temporally changing user behaviors in a deployed spoken dialogue system.
In Proc. Int'l Conf. User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) (LNCS 5535), pp.409--414, 2009. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, M.Mimura, and Y.Akita.
Language model transformation applied to lightly supervised training of acoustic model for congress meetings.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.3853--3856, 2009. (PDF file)
M.Ablimit, M.Eli, and T.Kawahara.
Partly supervised Uighur morpheme segmentation.
In Proc. Oriental-COCOSDA Workshop, pp.71--76, 2008. (PDF file)
T.Shinozaki, S.Furui, and T.Kawahara.
Aggregated cross-validation and its efficient application to Gaussian mixture optimization.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2382--2385, 2008. (PDF file)
T.Sasada, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
Extracting word-pronunciation pairs from comparable set of text and speech.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1821--1824, 2008. (PDF file)
H.Wang and T.Kawahara.
A Japanese CALL system based on dynamic question generation and error prediction for ASR.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1737--1740, 2008. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, M.Toyokura, T.Misu, and C.Hori.
Detection of feeling through back-channels in spoken dialogue.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, p. 1696, 2008. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, H.Setoguchi, K.Takanashi, K.Ishizuka, and S.Araki.
Multi-modal recording, analysis and indexing of poster sessions.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1622--1625, 2008. (PDF file)
K.Komatani, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
Predicting ASR errors by exploiting barge-in rate of individual users for spoken dialogue systems.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.183--186, 2008. (PDF file)
K.Ishizuka, S.Araki, and T.Kawahara.
Statistical speech activity detection based on spatial power distribution for analyses of poster presentations.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.99--102, 2008. (PDF file)
T.Misu and T.Kawahara.
Bayes risk-based dialogue management for document retrieval system with speech interface.
In Proc. COLING, Vol.Posters \& Demo., pp.59--62, 2008. (PDF file)
H.Wang and T.Kawahara.
Effective error prediction using decision tree for ASR grammar network in CALL system.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.5069--5072, 2008. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, Y.Nemoto, and Y.Akita.
Automatic lecture transcription by exploiting presentation slide information for language model adaptation.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.4929--4932, 2008. (PDF file)
S.Sakai, T.Kawahara, and S.Nakamura.
Admissible stopping in Viterbi beam search for unit selection in concatenative speech synthesis.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.4613--4616, 2008. (PDF file)
D.Cournapeau and T.Kawahara.
Using Variational Bayes Free Energy for unsupervised voice activity detection.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.4429--4432, 2008. (PDF file)
T.Shinozaki and T.Kawahara.
GMM and HMM training by aggregated EM algorithm with increased ensemble sizes for robust parameter estimation.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.4405--4408, 2008. (PDF file)
T.Shinozaki and T.Kawahara.
HMM training based on CV-EM and CV Gaussian mixture optimization.
In Proc. IEEE Workshop Automatic Speech Recognition \& Understanding (ASRU), pp.318--322, 2007. (PDF file)
H.Setoguchi, K.Takanashi, and T.Kawahara.
Multi-modal conversational analysis of poster presentations using multiple sensors.
In Proc. ACM ICMI-2007 Workshop on Tagging, Mining and Retrieval of Human Related Activity Information, pp.44--47, 2007. (PDF file)
D.Cournapeau and T.Kawahara.
Evaluation of real-time voice activity detection based on high order statistics.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2945--2948, 2007. (PDF file)
T.Misu and T.Kawahara.
Bayes risk-based optimization of dialogue management for document retrieval system with speech interface.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2705--2708, 2007. (PDF file)
C.Waple, H.Wang, T.Kawahara Y.Tsubota, and M.Dantsuji.
Evaluating and optimizing Japanese tutor system featuring dynamic question generation and interactive guidance.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2177--2180, 2007. (PDF file)
T.Shinozaki and T.Kawahara.
Gaussian mixture optimization for HMM based on efficient cross-validation.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2061--2064, 2007. (PDF file)
Y.Akita, Y.Nemoto, and T.Kawahara.
PLSA-based topic detection in meetings for adaptation of lexicon and language model.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.602--605, 2007. (PDF file)
K.Komatani, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
Analyzing temporal transition of real user's behaviors in a spoken dialogue system.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.142--145, 2007. (PDF file)
T.Misu and T.Kawahara.
An interactive framework for document retrieval and presentation with question-answering function in restricted domain.
In Proc. Int'l Conf. Industrial, Engineering \& Other Applications of Artificial Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE) (LNAI 4570), pp. 126--134, 2007. (PDF file)
T.Misu and T.Kawahara.
Speech-based interactive information guidance system using question-answering technique.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.4, pp.145--148, 2007. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, M.Saikou, and K.Takanashi.
Automatic detection of sentence and clause units using local syntactic dependency.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.4, pp.125--128, 2007. (PDF file)
Y.Akita and T.Kawahara.
Topic-independent speaking-style transformation of language model for spontaneous speech recognition.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.4, pp.33--36, 2007. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara.
Intelligent transcription system based on spontaneous speech processing.
In Proc. Int'l Conference on Informatics Research for Development of Knowledge Society Infrastructure, pp.19--26, 2007. (PDF file)
Y.Kida and T.Kawahara.
Evaluation of voice activity detection by combining multiple features with weight adaptation.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1966--1969, 2006. (PDF file)
S.Sakai and T.Kawahara.
Decision tree-based training of probabilistic concatenation models for corpus-based speech synthesis.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1746--1749, 2006. (PDF file)
D.Cournapeau, T.Kawahara, K.Mase, and T.Toriyama.
Voice activity detector based on enhanced cumulant of LPC residual and on-line EM algorithm.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1201--1204, 2006. (PDF file)
Y.Akita, M.Saikou, H.Nanjo, and T.Kawahara.
Sentence boundary detection of spontaneous Japanese using statistical language model and support vector machines.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1033--1036, 2006. (PDF file)
C.Waple, Y.Tsubota, M.Dantsuji, and T.Kawahara.
Prototyping a CALL system for students of Japanese using dynamic diagram generation and interactive hints.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.821--824, 2006. (PDF file)
R.Hamabe, K.Uchimoto, T.Kawahara, and H.Isahara.
Detection of quotations and inserted clauses and its application to dependency structure analysis in spontaneous Japanese.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.729--732, 2006. (PDF file)
T.Misu and T.Kawahara.
A bootstrapping approach for developing language model of new spoken dialogue systems by selecting web texts.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.9--12, 2006. (PDF file)
R.Hamabe, K.Uchimoto, T.Kawahara, and H.Isahara.
Detection of quotations and inserted clauses and its application to dependency structure analysis in spontaneous Japanese.
In Proc. COLING-ACL, Vol.Poster Sessions, pp.324--330, 2006. (PDF file)
Y.Akita, C.Troncoso, and T.Kawahara.
Automatic transcription of meetings using topic-oriented language model adaptation.
In Proc. Western Pacific Acoustics Conference (WESPAC), 2006. (PDF file)
H.Nanjo, Y.Akita, and T.Kawahara.
Computer assisted speech transcription system for efficient speech archive.
In Proc. Western Pacific Acoustics Conference (WESPAC), 2006. (PDF file)
Y.Akita and T.Kawahara.
Efficient estimation of language model statistics of spontaneous speech via statistical transformation model.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.1, pp.1049--1052, 2006. (PDF file)
T.Misu and T.Kawahara.
Speech-based information retrieval system with clarification dialogue strategy.
In Proc. Human Language Technology Conf. (HLT/EMNLP), pp. 1003--1010, 2005. (PDF file)
Y.Kida and T.Kawahara.
Voice activity detection based on optimally weighted combination of multiple features.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2621--2624, 2005. (PDF file)
C.Troncoso and T.Kawahara.
Trigger-based language model adaptation for automatic meeting transcription.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1297--1300, 2005. (PDF file)
T.Misu and T.Kawahara.
Dialogue strategy to clarify user's queries for document retrieval system with speech interface.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.637--640, 2005. (PDF file)
H.Nanjo, T.Misu, and T.Kawahara.
Minimum Bayes-risk decoding considering word significance for information retrieval system.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.561--564, 2005. (PDF file)
I.R.Lane and T.Kawahara.
Utterance verification incorporating in-domain confidence and discourse coherence measures.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.421--424, 2005. (PDF file)
C.Troncoso, T.Kawahara, H.Yamamoto, and G.Kikui.
Trigger-based language model construction by combining different corpora.
In Proc. Pacific Assoc. Computational Linguistics (PACLING), pp.340--344, 2005. (PDF file)
H.Nanjo and T.Kawahara.
A new ASR evaluation measure and minimum Bayes-risk decoding for open-domain speech understanding.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.1, pp.1053--1056, 2005. (PDF file)
I.R.Lane and T.Kawahara.
Incorporating dialogue context and topic clustering in out-of-domain detection.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.1, pp.1045--1048, 2005. (PDF file)
Y.Akita and T.Kawahara.
Generalized statistical modeling of pronunciation variations using variable-length phone context.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.1, pp.689--692, 2005. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, A.Lee, K.Takeda, K.Itou, and K.Shikano.
Recent progress of open-source LVCSR engine Julius and Japanese model repository.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.3069--3072, 2004. (PDF file)
K.Shitaoka, H.Nanjo, and T.Kawahara.
Automatic transformation of lecture transcription into document style using statistical framework.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2881--2884, 2004. (PDF file)
S.Ueno, I.R.Lane, and T.Kawahara.
Example-based training of dialogue planning incorporating user and situation models.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2837--2840, 2004. (PDF file)
I.R.Lane, T.Kawahara, T.Matsui, and S.Nakamura.
Topic classification and verification modeling for out-of-domain utterance detection.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2197--2200, 2004. (PDF file)
T.Kitade, H.Nanjo, and T.Kawahara.
Automatic extraction of key sentences from oral presentations using statistical measure based on discourse markers.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2169--2172, 2004. (PDF file)
Y.Tsubota, M.Dantsuji, and T.Kawahara.
Practical use of English pronunciation system for Japanese students in the CALL classroom.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1689--1692, 2004. (PDF file)
K.Shitaoka, K.Uchimoto, T.Kawahara, and H.Isahara.
Dependency structure analysis and sentence boundary detection in spontaneous Japanese.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1353--1356, 2004. (PDF file)
Y.Akita and T.Kawahara.
Language model adaptation based on PLSA of topics and speakers.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1045--1048, 2004. (PDF file)
T.Misu, K.Komatani, and T.Kawahara.
Confirmation strategy for document retrieval systems with spoken dialog interface.
In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.45--48, 2004. (PDF file)
K.Komatani, T.Misu, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
Efficient confirmation strategy for large-scale text retrieval systems with spoken dialogue interface.
In Proc. COLING, pp.1100--1106, 2004. (PDF file)
K.Shitaoka, K.Uchimoto, T.Kawahara, and H.Isahara.
Dependency structure analysis and sentence boundary detection in spontaneous Japanese.
In Proc. COLING, pp.1107--1113, 2004. (PDF file)
Y.Akita, M.Hasegawa, and T.Kawahara.
Automatic audio archiving system for panel discussions.
In Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2004. (PDF file)
Y.Tsubota, M.Dantsuji, and T.Kawahara.
Practical use of autonomous English pronunciation learning system for Japanese students.
In Proc. InSTIL/ICALL -- NLP and Speech Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems, pp.139--142, 2004. (PDF file)
A.Lee, K.Shikano, and T.Kawahara.
Real-time word confidence scoring using local posterior probabilities on tree trellis search.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.1, pp.793--796, 2004. (PDF file)
I.R.Lane, T.Kawahara, T.Matsui, and S.Nakamura.
Out-of-domain detection based on confidence measures from multiple topic classification.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.1, pp.757--760, 2004. (PDF file)
H.Nanjo, T.Kitade, and T.Kawahara.
Automatic indexing of key sentences for lecture archives using statistics of presumed discourse markers.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.1, pp.449--452, 2004. (PDF file)
M.Nishida and T.Kawahara.
Speaker indexing and adaptation using speaker clustering based on statistical model selection.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.1, pp.353--356, 2004. (PDF file)
K.Komatani, R.Ito, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
Recognition of emotional states in spoken dialogue with a robot.
In Proc. Int'l Conf. Industrial \& Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence \& Expert Systems (IEA/AIE) (LNAI 3029), pp. 413--423, 2004. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara.
Automatic speech transcription and archiving system using the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese.
In Proc. Int'l Congress Acoustics (ICA), pp.161--164 (invited paper), 2004. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara.
Spoken language processing for audio archives of lectures and panel discussions.
In Proc. Int'l Conference on Informatics Research for Development of Knowledge Society Infrastructure, pp.23--30, 2004. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, T.Kitade, K.Shitaoka, and H.Nanjo.
Efficient access to lecture audio archives through spoken language processing.
In Proc. Special Workshop in Maui (SWIM), 2004. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, K.Shitaoka, T.Kitade, and H.Nanjo.
Automatic indexing of key sentences for lecture archives.
In Proc. IEEE Workshop Automatic Speech Recognition \& Understanding (ASRU), 2003. (PDF file)
Y.Tsubota, M.Dantsuji, and T.Kawahara.
An English pronunciation learning system for Japanese students based on diagnosis of critical pronunciation errors.
In Proc. EUROCALL, p. 204, 2003. (PDF file)
Y.Akita and T.Kawahara.
Unsupervised speaker indexing using anchor models and automatic transcription of discussions.
In Proc. EUROSPEECH, pp.2985--2988, 2003. (PDF file)
M.Nishida and T.Kawahara.
Speaker model selection using Bayesian information criterion for speaker indexing and speaker adaptation.
In Proc. EUROSPEECH, pp.1849--1852, 2003. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, R.Ito, and K.Komatani.
Spoken dialogue system for queries on appliance manuals using hierarchical confirmation strategy.
In Proc. EUROSPEECH, pp.1701--1704, 2003. (PDF file)
K.Komatani, S.Ueno, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
User modeling in spoken dialogue systems for flexible guidance generation.
In Proc. EUROSPEECH, pp.745--748, 2003. (PDFfile)
I.R.Lane, T.Matsui, S.Nakamura, and T.Kawahara.
Hierarchical topic classification for dialog speech recognition based on language model switching.
In Proc. EUROSPEECH, pp.429--432, 2003. (PDF file)
K.Komatani, S.Ueno, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
Flexible guidance generation using user model in spoken dialogue systems.
In Proc. ACL, pp.256--263, 2003. (PDF file)
Y.Kiyota, S.Kurohashi, T.Misu, K.Komatani, T.Kawahara, and F.Kido.
Dialog navigator: A spoken dialog Q-A system based on large text knowledge base.
In Proc. ACL, Vol.Interactive Poster \& Demo., pp.149--152, 2003. (PDF file)
K.Komatani, F.Adachi, S.Ueno, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
Flexible spoken dialogue system based on user models and dynamic generation of VoiceXML scripts.
In Proc. SIGdial Workshop Discourse \& Dialogue, pp.87--96, 2003. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, H.Nanjo, T.Shinozaki, and S.Furui.
Benchmark test for speech recognition using the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese.
In Proc. ISCA \& IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition, pp.135--138, 2003. (PDF file)
H.Nanjo, K.Shitaoka, and T.Kawahara.
Automatic transformation of lecture transcription into document style using statistical framework.
In Proc. ISCA \& IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition, pp.215--218, 2003. (PDF file)
Y.Akita, M.Nishida, and T.Kawahara.
Automatic transcription of discussions using unsupervised speaker indexing.
In Proc. ISCA \& IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition, pp.79--82, 2003. (PDF file)
H.Nanjo and T.Kawahara.
Unsupervised language model adaptation for lecture speech recognition.
In Proc. ISCA \& IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition, pp.75--78, 2003. (PDF file)
I.R.Lane, T.Kawahara, and T.Matsui.
Language model switching based on topic detection for dialog speech recognition.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.1, pp.616--619, 2003. (PDF file)
M.Nishida and T.Kawahara.
Unsupervised speaker indexing using speaker model selection based on Bayesian information criterion.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.1, pp.172--175, 2003. (PDF file)
K.Okuda, T.Kawahara, and S.Nakamura.
Speaking rate compensation based on likelihood criterion in acoustic model training and decoding.
In Proc. ICSLP, pp.2589--2592, 2002. (PDF file)
Y.Tsubota, T.Kawahara, and M.Dantsuji.
Recognition and verification of English by Japanese students for computer-assisted language learning system.
In Proc. ICSLP, pp.1205--1208, 2002. (PDF file)
K.Imoto, Y.Tsubota, A.Raux, T.Kawahara, and M.Dantsuji.
Modeling and automatic detection of English sentence stress for computer-assisted English prosody learning system.
In Proc. ICSLP, pp.749--752, 2002. (PDF file)
A.Raux and T.Kawahara.
Automatic intelligibility assessment and diagnosis of critical pronunciation errors for computer-assisted pronunciation learning.
In Proc. ICSLP, pp.737--740, 2002. (PDF file)
Y.Yamakata, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
Belief network based disambiguation of object reference in spoken dialogue system for robot.
In Proc. ICSLP, pp.177--180, 2002. (PDF file)
K.Komatani, T.Kawahara, R.Ito, and H.G.Okuno.
Efficient dialogue strategy to find users' intended items from information query results.
In Proc. COLING, pp.481--487, 2002. (PDF file)
Y.Yamakata, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
Belief network based disambiguation of object reference in spoken dialogue system for robot.
In Proc. ISCA Workshop on Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments, 2002. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara and M.Hasegawa.
Automatic indexing of lecture speech by extracting topic-independent discourse markers.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.1--4, 2002. (PDF file)
H.Nanjo and T.Kawahara.
Speaking-rate dependent decoding and adaptation for spontaneous lecture speech recognition.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.725--728, 2002. (PDF file)
A.Raux and T.Kawahara.
Optimizing computer-assisted pronunciation instruction by selecting relevant training topics.
In InSTIL Advanced Workshop, 2002. (PDF file)
Y.Tsubota, T.Kawahara, and M.Dantsuji.
CALL system for Japanese students of English using pronunciation error prediction and formant structure estimation.
In InSTIL Advanced Workshop, 2002. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, H.Nanjo, and S.Furui.
Automatic transcription of spontaneous lecture speech.
In Proc. IEEE Workshop Automatic Speech Recognition \& Understanding (ASRU), 2001. (PDF file)
H.Nanjo, K.Kato, and T.Kawahara.
Speaking rate dependent acoustic modeling for spontaneous lecture speech recognition.
In Proc. EUROSPEECH, pp.2531--2534, 2001. (PDF file)
A.Lee, T.Kawahara, and K.Shikano.
Julius -- an open source real-time large vocabulary recognition engine.
In Proc. EUROSPEECH, pp.1691--1694, 2001. (PDF file)
K.Komatani, K.Tanaka, H.Kashima, and T.Kawahara.
Domain-independent spoken dialogue platform using key-phrase spotting based on combined language model.
In Proc. EUROSPEECH, pp.1319--1322, 2001. (PDF file)
A.Lee, T.Kawahara, and K.Shikano.
Gaussian mixture selection using context-independent HMM.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.69--72, 2001. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, A.Lee, T.Kobayashi, K.Takeda, N.Minematsu, S.Sagayama, K.Itou, A.Ito, M.Yamamoto, A.Yamada, T.Utsuro, and K.Shikano.
Free software toolkit for Japanese large vocabulary continuous speech recognition.
In Proc. ICSLP, Vol.4, pp.476--479, 2000. (PDF file)
Y.Tsubota, M.Dantsuji, and T.Kawahara.
Computer-assisted English vowel learning system for Japanese speakers using cross language formant structures.
In Proc. ICSLP, Vol.3, pp.566--569, 2000. (PDF file)
K.Imoto, M.Dantsuji, and T.Kawahara.
Modelling of the perception of English sentence stress for computer-assisted language learning.
In Proc. ICSLP, Vol.3, pp.175--178, 2000. (PDF file)
H.Nanjo, A.Lee, and T.Kawahara.
Automatic diagnosis of recognition errors in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition systems.
In Proc. ICSLP, Vol.2, pp.1027--1030, 2000. (PDF file)
K.Komatani and T.Kawahara.
Generating effective confirmation and guidance using two-level confidence measures for dialogue systems.
In Proc. ICSLP, Vol.2, pp.648--651, 2000. (PDF file)
K.Kato, H.Nanjo, and T.Kawahara.
Automatic transcription of lecture speech using topic-independent language modeling.
In Proc. ICSLP, Vol.1, pp.162--165, 2000. (PDF file)
H.Fujisaki, K.Shirai, S.Doshita, S.Nakagawa, K.Hirose, S.Itahashi, T.Kawahara, S.Ohno, H.Kikuchi, K.Abe, and S.Kiriyama.
Overview of an intelligent system for information retrieval based on human-machine dialogue through spoken language.
In Proc. ICSLP, Vol.1, pp.70--73, 2000. (PDF file)
T.Kawahara, K.Komatani, and S.Doshita.
Dialogue management using concept-level confidence measures of speech recognition.
In Proc. Int'l Sympo. on Spoken Dialogue, 2000. (PDF file)
K.Komatani and T.Kawahara.
Flexible mixed-initiative dialogue management using concept-level confidence measures of speech recognizer output.
In Proc. COLING, pp.467--473, 2000. (PDF file)
A.Lee, T.Kawahara, K.Takeda, and K.Shikano.
A new phonetic tied-mixture model for efficient decoding.
In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.1269--1272, 2000. (PDF file)