Brian Roark

• 2008
  
  • Brian Roark and Kristy Hollingshead. 2008. Classifying chart cells for quadratic complexity context-free inference. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pp. 745-752.
  • Ebru Arisoy, Brian Roark, Izhak Shafran and Murat Saraclar. 2008. Discriminative N-gram Language Modeling for Turkish. In Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 825-28.
  • Brian Roark. 2008. A survey of discriminative language modeling approaches for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. To appear in Large Margin and Kernel Approaches to Speech and Speaker Recognition, Joseph Keshet and Samy Bengio, Eds. Wiley.
• 2007
  
  • Dimitra Vergyri, Izhak Shafran, Andreas Stolcke, Ramana R. Gadde, Murat Akbacak, Brian Roark, and Wen Wang. 2007. The SRI/OGI 2006 Spoken Term Detection System. To appear in Proceedings of Interspeech, Antwerp, Belgium, August.
  • Brian Roark, Margaret Mitchell and Kristy Hollingshead. 2007. Syntactic complexity measures for detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment. In Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP), pp. 1-8.
  • Seeger Fisher and and Brian Roark. 2007. The utility of parse-derived features for automatic discourse segmentation. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 488-495.
  • Kristy Hollingshead and Brian Roark. 2007. Pipeline Iteration. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 952-959.
  • Brian Roark, John-Paul Hosom, Margaret Mitchell and Jeffrey A. Kaye. 2007. Automatically derived spoken language markers for detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Technology and Aging (ICTA).
  • Brian Roark, Murat Saraclar and Michael Collins. 2007. Discriminative n-gram language modeling. Computer Speech and Language, 21(2):373-392.
  • Brian Roark and Richard Sproat. 2007. Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• 2006
  
  • Michiel Bacchiani, Michael Riley, Brian Roark and Richard Sproat. 2006. MAP Adaptation of Stochastic Grammars. Computer Speech and Language, 20(1):41-68.
  • John Hale, Izhak Shafran, Lisa Yung, Bonnie Dorr, Mary Harper, Anna Krasnyanskaya, Matthew Lease, Yang Liu, Brian Roark, Matthew Snover and Robin Stewart. 2006. PCFGs with Syntactic and Prosodic Indicators of Speech Repairs. In Proceedings of COLING and Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL), pp. 161-168.
  • Mehryar Mohri and Brian Roark. 2006. Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar Induction Based on Structural Zeros. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL), pp. 312-319.
  • Brian Roark, Mary Harper, Eugene Charniak, Bonnie Dorr, Mark Johnson, Jeremy Kahn, Yang Liu, Mari Ostendorf, John Hale, Anna Krasnyanskaya, Matthew Lease, Izhak Shafran, Matthew Snover, Robin Stewart and Lisa Yung. 2006. SParseval: Evaluation Metrics for Parsing Speech. To appear in Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Genoa, Italy.
  • Brian Roark, Yang Liu, Mary Harper, Robin Stewart, Matthew Lease, Matthew Snover, Izhak Shafran, Bonnie Dorr, John Hale, Anna Krasnyanskaya and Lisa Yung. 2006. Reranking for Sentence Boundary Detection in Conversational Speech. To appear in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, France.
  • Murat Saraclar and Brian Roark. 2006. Utterance Classification with Discriminative Language Modeling. Speech Communication, 48(3-4):276-287.
• 2005
  
  • Cyril Allauzen, Mehryar Mohri and Brian Roark. 2005. The Design Principles and Algorithms of a Weighted Grammar Library. International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 16(3):403-421.
  • Michael Collins, Murat Saraclar and Brian Roark. 2005. Discriminative Syntactic Language Modeling for Speech Recognition. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 507-514
  • Kristy Hollingshead, Seeger Fisher and Brian Roark. 2005. Comparing and Combining Finite-State and Context-Free Parsers. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT-EMNLP), pages 787-794.
  • Murat Saraclar and Brian Roark. 2005. Joint Discriminative Language Modeling and Utterance Classification. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pages 561-564.
• 2004
  
  • Cyril Allauzen, Mehryar Mohri, Michael Riley and Brian Roark. 2004. A Generalized Construction of Speech Recognition Transducers. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pages 761-764.
  • Cyril Allauzen, Mehryar Mohri and Brian Roark. 2004. A General Weighted Grammar Library. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA), , volume 3317 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, pages 23-34.
  • Michiel Bacchiani and Brian Roark. 2004. Meta-data conditional language modeling. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pages 241-244.
  • Michiel Bacchiani, Brian Roark and Murat Saraclar. 2004. Language model adaptation with MAP estimation and the perceptron algorithm. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL), pages 21-24.
  • Michael Collins and Brian Roark. 2004. Incremental Parsing with the Perceptron Algorithm. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 111-118.
  • Sameer R. Maskey, Michiel Bacchiani, Brian Roark and Richard Sproat. 2004. Improved name recognition with meta-data dependent name networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pages 789-792.
  • Brian Roark. 2004. Robust garden path parsing. Natural Language Engineering, 10(1), pages 1-24.
  • Brian Roark, Murat Saraclar and Michael Collins. 2004. Corrective language modeling for large vocabulary ASR with the perceptron algorithm. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pages 749-752.
  • Brian Roark, Murat Saraclar, Michael Collins and Mark Johnson. 2004. Discriminative language modeling with conditional random fields and the perceptron algorithm. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 47-54.
• 2001-2003
  
  • Cyril Allauzen, Mehryar Mohri, and Brian Roark. 2003. Generalized algorithms for constructing language models. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 40-47.
  • Michiel Bacchiani and Brian Roark. 2003. Unsupervised language model adaptation. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pages 224-227.
  • Michael Riley, Brian Roark and Richard Sproat. 2003. Good-Turing estimation from word lattices for unsupervised language model adaptation. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), pages 453-458.
  • Brian Roark and Michiel Bacchiani. 2003. Supervised and unsupervised PCFG adaptation to novel domains. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL).
  • Brian Roark. 2002. Markov Parsing: Lattice Rescoring with a Statistical Parser. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 287-294.
  • Brian Roark. 2001. Robust Probabilistic Predictive Syntactic Processing: Motivations, Models, and Applications. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University.
  • Brian Roark. 2001. Probabilistic top-down parsing and language modeling. In Computational Linguistics, 27(2), pages 249-276.
  • Brian Roark. 2001. Explaining vowel inventory tendencies via simulation: finding a role for quantal locations and formant normalization. In Proceedings of the 31st Conference of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 31) . pdf
• Earlier
  
  • Mark Johnson and Brian Roark. 2000. Compact non-left-recursive grammars using the selective left-corner transform and factoring. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pages 355-361.
  • Brian Roark and Eugene Charniak. 2000. Measuring efficiency in high-accuracy, broad-coverage statistical parsing. In Proceedings of the COLING-2000 Workshop on Efficiency in Large-scale Parsing Systems, pages 29-36.
  • Brian Roark and Katherine Demuth. 2000. Prosodic constraints and the learner's environment: a corpus study. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, pages 597-608.
  • Brian Roark and Mark Johnson. 1999. Efficient probabilistic top-down and left-corner parsing. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 421-428.
  • Brian Roark and Eugene Charniak. 1998. Noun-phrase co-occurrence statistics for semi-automatic semantic lexicon construction. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 1110-1116.