Speech and Language

• Ebru Arisoy, Brian Roark, Izhak Shafran and Murat Saraclar, Discriminative N-gram Language Modeling for Turkish, Proc. Interspeech, pages 825-28, Brisbane, Australia, Sept. 22-26, 2008.
• Izhak Shafran and Haolang Zhou, Multiple Heteroscedastic Linear Discriminant Analysis, CLSP Research Note 54, draft.
• Markus Dreyer and Izhak Shafran, Exploiting Prosody for PCFGs with Latent Annotations, Proc. Interspeech, Aug. 27-31, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007.
• Dimitra Vergyri, Izhak Shafran, Andreas Stolcke, Ramana R. Gadde, Murat Akbacak, Brian Roark, and Wen Wang, The SRI/OGI 2006 Spoken Term Detection System, Proc. Interspeech 2007, Aug. 27-31, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007.
• Izhak Shafran, Multi-Stream Fusion for Speaker Classification (chapter), Speaker Classification (Lecture notes in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence), Springer, Heidelberg-Berlin-New York, vol. 4343, 2007.
• Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang, Gareth J. F. Jones, Ryan W. White, Pavel Pecina, Dagobert Soergel, Xiaoli Huang, and Izhak Shafran, Overview of the CLEF- 2006 cross-language speech retrieval track, In Working Notes of the CLEF-2006 Evaluation, Alicante, Spain, 12 pages, 2006.
• Izhak Shafran, and Keith Hall Corrective Models for Speech Recognition of Inflected Languages , Proc. of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 390-8, Sydney, Australia, July 22-23, 2006.
• John Hale, Izhak Shafran, Lisa Yung, Bonnie Dorr, Mary Harper, Anna Krasnyanskaya, Mathew Lease, Yang Liu, Brian Roark, Mathew Snover, and Robin Stewart, PCFGs with Syntactic and Prosodic Indicators of Speech Repairs , Proc. of the joint conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL), pages 161-8, Sydney, Australia, July 17-21, 2006.
• Christopher White, Izhak Shafran, and Jean-luc Gauvain, Discriminative classifiers for language recognition, Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conference on Acoustic Signal and Speech Processing (ICASSP), vol 1, pages 213-6, Toulouse, France, May 14-19, 2006.
• Brian Roark, Yang Liu, Mary Harper, Robin Stewart, Mathew Lease, Mathew Snover, Izhak Shafran, Bonnie Dorr, John Hale, Anna Krasnyanskaya, and Lisa Yung, Reranking for sentence boundary detection in conversational speech, Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conference on Acoustic Signal and Speech Processing (ICASSP), vol 1, pages 545-8, Toulouse, France, May 14-19, 2006.
• Brian Roark, Mary Harper, Eugene Charniak, Bonnie Dorr, Mark Johnson, Jeremy G. Kahn, Yang Liu, Mari Ostendorf, John Hale, Anna Krasnyanskaya, Matthew Lease, Izhak Shafran, Matthew Snover, Robin Stewart, and Lisa Yung, SParseval: Evaluation Metrics for Parsing Speech, Proc. Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Genoa, Italy, 2006.
• Izhak Shafran, Acoustic and Language Modeling for MALACH Czech ASR System, CLSP Research Note No. 52, The Johns Hopkins University, 2006.
• Yanli Zheng, Richard Sproat, Liang Gu, Izhak Shafran, Haolang Zhou, Yi Su, Dan Jurafsky, Rebecca Starr and Su-Youn Yoon, Accent Detection and Speech Recognition for Shanghai-Accented Mandarin, 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech), Lisboa, Portugal, 2005.
• Izhak Shafran and Mehryar Mohri, A comparison of classifiers for detecting emotion from speech, Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conference on Acoustic Signal and Speech Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, PA, Mar 19-23, vol. 1, pp. 341-344, 2005.
• Izhak Shafran and William Byrne, Task-Specific Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding using Learned Edit Distance, Proc. of INTERSPEECH2004-ICSLP, vol. 3, pp. 1945-48, Jeju Islands, Korea, Oct. 4-8, 2004.
• Izhak Shafran, Michael Riley and Mehryar Mohri, Voice Signatures, Proc. of IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), US Virgin Islands, Nov 30-Dec 4, pp. 31-36, 2003.
• Izhak Shafran and Richard Rose, Robust Speech Detection and Segmentation for Real-Time ASR Applications, Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conference on Acoustic Signal and Speech Processing (ICASSP), vol. 1, pp. 432-45, Hong Kong, 2003.
• Mari Ostendorf, Izhak Shafran and Rebecca Bates, Prosody Models for Conversational Speech Recognition, Proc. of the 2nd Plenary Meeting and Symposium on Prosody and Speech Processing, Invited Paper, pp. 147-154, 2003.
• Izhak Shafran and Mari Ostendorf, Acoustic model clustering based on syllable structure, Computer Speech and Language, vol. 17(4), pg. 311-328, 2003.
• Izhak Shafran, Mari Ostendorf and Richard Wright, Prosody and phonetic variability: Lessons learned from acoustic model clustering, Proc. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding, pg. 127--131, 2001.
• Mari Ostendorf, Izhak Shafran, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Leslie Carmichael and William Byrne, A prosodically labeled database of spontaneous speech, Proc. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding, pg. 119--121, 2001.
• Izhak Shafran and Mari Ostendorf, Use of higher level linguistic structure in acoustic modeling for speech recognition, Proc. IEEE Int'l Conference on Acoustic Signal and Speech Processing (ICASSP), vol. 2, pg. 1021-1024, Istanbul, Turkey, Jun 5-9, 2000.
• Izhak Shafran, Clustering wide-contexts and HMM topologies for Spontaneous Speech Recognition, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, Seattle, 2001.

Medicine and Health

• Henry Lin, Izhak Shafran, David Yuh, and Gregory D. Hagery, Towards Automatic Surgical Skill Evaluation: Detection and Segmentation of Robotic-Sugrical Motions, Journal of Computer Aided Surgery, Invited Paper, vol. 11, No.5, pp. 20-30, 2006.
• Henry Lin, Izhak Shafran, David D. Yuh, and Gregory D. Hager, Vision-Assisted Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Robot-Assisted Surgical Motions, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14, Long Beach, CA, 2006.
• Henry Lin, Izhak Shafran, Todd E. Murphy, Allison M. Okamura, David D. Yuh, and Gregory D. Hager, Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Robot-Assisted Surgical Motions, 8th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), MICCAI Student Paper Award, vol. I, pp. 802-810, Palm Springs, CA, 2005.

Other Presentations/Publications

• Mary Harper, Bonnie J. Dorr, John Hale, Brian Roark, Izhak Shafran, Matthew Lease, Yang Liu, Matthew Snover, Lisa Yung, Anna Krasnyanskaya, and Robin Stewart, Parsing and Spoken Structural Event Detection, Final Report of 2005 Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop, 2005.
• Shankar Kumar, Yonggang Deng, Charles Schafer, Woosung Kim, Paola Virga, Nizar Habash, David Smith, Filip Jurcicek, Bill Byrne, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Izhak Shafran, and David Yarowsky, The JHU 2004 Chinese-English and Arabic-English MT Evaluation Systems, NIST Machine Translation 2004 Evaluation. June 22, 2004.
• Enrico Bocchieri, Andrej Ljolje, Michael Riley, Brian Roark, Murat Saraclar and Izhak Shafran, AT&T 1xRT CTS STT System, DARPA Rich Transcription Workshop, unpublished presentation, Boston, Spring 2003.
• Izhak Shafran, Yashwant Gupta and C. R. Subramanya, Coherent de-dispersion system for GMRT, Proc. 6th Asia Pacific Meet on Astronomy, Int'l Astronomical Union, 1993.
• G. Sankarasubramanian, M. R. Shankaraman, Izhak Shafran, et. al., Feeds for GMRT, Proc. 6th Asia Pacific Meet on Astronomy, Int'l Astronomical Union, 1993.
• Izhak Shafran, Signal Processing for Analyzing Pulsars, M.Tech. Thesis, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (Mumbai), 1996.
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Links
Some useful links:

• European Language and Speech Calendar
• Journal of Machine Learning
• Online Machine Translation
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