J. E. Fosler-Lussier. "Dynamic Pronunciation Models for Automatic Speech Recognition," Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1999. Reprinted as International Computer Science Institute technical report TR-99-015.
E. Fosler-Lussier, C. H. Lee, A. Pargellis, and A. Potamianos, "System and method for measuring domain independence of semantic classes," filed 2002 (in review).
E. Ammicht, E. Fosler-Lussier, and A. Potamianos, "System and method for representing and resolving ambiguity in spoken dialogue systems," filed 2002 (in review).
E. Fosler-Lussier. "A Tutorial on Pronunciation Modeling for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition," invited chapter for ELSNET book Text and Speech Triggered Information Access, Springer Verlag, to appear.
E. Fosler-Lussier. "Linguistic Categories for Speech Recognition," in N. Morgan and B. Gold, Speech and Audio Signal Processing: Processing and Perception of Speech and Music, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1999, Chapter 23.
W. Byrne, E. Fosler-Lussier, and D. Jurafsky, eds. Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation in Spoken Language Technology, Estes Park, Colorado, 2002.
A. Bell, D. Jurafsky, E. Fosler-Lussier, C. Girand, M. Gregory, and D. Gildea. "Form variation of English function words in conversation," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 113:2, pp. 1001-1024, February, 2003.
A. J. Robinson, G. D. Cook, D. P. W. Ellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, S. J. Renals, and D. A. G. Williams. "Connectionist Speech Recognition of Broadcast News," Speech Communication 37:1-2, DARPA Broadcast News special issue, pp. 27--45, 2002.
E. Fosler-Lussier and N. Morgan. "Effects of Speaking Rate and Word Predictability on Conversational Pronunciations," Speech Communication 29:2-4, pp. 137--158, 1999.
Work in progress
E. Fosler-Lussier, I. Amdal, and H.-K. J. Kuo. "A Framework for Predicting Speech Recognition Errors," invited paper for Speech Communication issue on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation.
E. Ammicht, E. Fosler-Lussier, and A. Potamianos. "Pragmatic Understanding: Combining Semantics and Pragmatics in the Bell Labs Communicator System."
A. Pargellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, C.-H. Lee, A. Potamianos, and A. Tsai. "Automatic Induction of Semantic Classes for Spoken Dialogue Systems."
E. Fosler-Lussier, I. Amdal, and H.-K. J. Kuo. "On the road to improved lexical confusability metrics," ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation (PMLA-2002), Estes Park, Colorado, 2002.
M. Wester and E. Fosler-Lussier. "A comparison of data-derived and knowledge-based modeling of pronunciation variation," International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP-2000), Beijing, China, 2000.
E. Fosler-Lussier. "Contextual word and syllable pronunciation models," International Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU '99), Keystone, Colorado, 1999.
E. Fosler-Lussier. "Multi-level decision trees for static and dynamic pronunciation models," Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '99), Budapest, Hungary, 1999. Awarded ELSNET Prize for Best Student Paper in Linguistic Resource Issues
E. Fosler-Lussier, S. Greenberg, and N. Morgan. "Incorporating Contextual Phonetics into Automatic Speech Recognition," Invited paper for the symposium "The Phonetics of Spontaneous Speech," International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS '99), San Francisco, California, 1999.
E. Fosler-Lussier and G. Williams, "Not just what, but also when: Guided automatic pronunciation modeling for Broadcast News," DARPA Hub4E Evaluation Workshop, 1999.
E. Fosler, M. Weintraub, S. Wegmann, Y.-H. Kao, S. Khudanpur, C. Galles, M. Saraclar. "Automatic Learning of Word Pronunciations from Data," Invited paper, International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-96), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1996.
G. Tajchman, E. Fosler, and D. Jurafsky. "Building Multiple Pronunciation Models for Novel Words using Exploratory Computational Phonology," Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '95), Madrid, Spain, 1995.
G. Tajchman, D. Jurafsky, and E. Fosler. "Learning Phonological Rule Probabilities from Speech Corpora with Exploratory Computational Phonology," Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-95), Boston, Massachusetts, 1995.
H.-K. Kuo, E. Fosler-Lussier, H. Jiang, and C.-H. Lee. "Discriminative Training of Language Models for Speech Recognition," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Orlando, Florida, 2002.
R. Argiles Solsona, E. Fosler-Lussier, H.-K. Kuo, A. Potamianos and I. Zitouni. "Adaptive Language Models for Spoken Dialogue Systems," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Orlando, Florida, 2002.
E. Fosler-Lussier and H.-K. J. Kuo. "Using Semantic Class Information for Rapid Development of Language Models within ASR Dialogue Systems," International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2001), Salt Lake City, Utah, 2001.
D. Jurafsky, C. Wooters, J. Segal, A. Stolcke, E. Fosler, G. Tajchman, and N. Morgan. "Using A Stochastic Context-Free Grammar as a Language Model for Speech Recognition," International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-95), Detroit, Michigan, 1995.
G. Cook, J. Christie, D. Ellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, Y. Gotoh, B. Kingsbury, N. Morgan, S. Renals, T. Robinson, and G. Williams, "The SPRACH System for the Transcription of Broadcast News," DARPA Hub4E Evaluation Workshop, 1999.
N. Morgan, D. Ellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, A. Janin, and B. Kingsbury, "Reducing errors by increasing the error rate: MLP Acoustic Modeling for Broadcast News Transcription," DARPA Hub4E Evaluation Workshop, 1999.
D. Jurafsky, C. Wooters, G. Tajchman, J. Segal, A. Stolcke, E. Fosler, and N. Morgan. "The Berkeley Restaurant Project," International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-94), Yokohama, Japan, 1994.
N. Morgan and E. Fosler-Lussier. "Combining Multiple Estimators of Speaking Rate," International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-98), Seattle, Washington, 1998.
N. Morgan, E. Fosler, and N. Mirghafori. "Speech Recognition using On-line Estimation of Speaking Rate," Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '97), Rhodes, Greece, 1997.
N. Mirghafori, E. Fosler, and N. Morgan. "Towards Robustness to Fast Speech in ASR," International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-96), Atlanta, Georgia, 1996.
N. Mirghafori, E. Fosler, and N. Morgan. "Why Is ASR Harder For Fast Speech and What Can We Do About It?" Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU '95), Snowbird, Utah, 1995.
N. Mirghafori, E. Fosler, and N. Morgan. "Fast Speakers in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition: Analysis & Antidotes," Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '95), Madrid, Spain, 1995.
S. Lee, E. Ammicht, E. Fosler-Lussier, H.-K. Kuo, and A. Potamianos, "Spoken Dialogue Evaluation for the Bell Labs Communicator System," Human Language Technologies Conference, San Diego, California, 2002.
M. Galley, E. Fosler-Lussier, and A. Potamianos. "Hybrid Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems," Seventh European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '01), Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.
A. Pargellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, and A. Tsai. "Using part-of-speech tags, context thresholding, and trigram contexts to improve the auto-induction of semantic classes," International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-2002), Denver, Colorado, 2002.
A. Pargellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, A. Potamianos, and C.-H. Lee. "A comparison of four metrics for auto-inducing semantic classes," IEEE Automatics Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU-2001), Trento, Italy, 2001.
E. Ammicht, A. Potamianos, and E. Fosler-Lussier. "Ambiguity Representation and Resolution in Spoken Dialogue Systems," Seventh European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '01), Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.
A. Pargellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, A. Potamianos, and C.-H. Lee. "Metrics for Measuring Domain Independence of Semantic Classes," Seventh European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '01), Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.
H.-K. Kuo, C.-H. Lee, I. Zitouni, and E. Fosler-Lussier. "Minimum Verification Error Training for Topic Verification," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2003), Hong Kong, China, 2003.
H.-K. Kuo, I. Zitouni, E. Fosler-Lussier, E. Ammicht, and C.-H. Lee. "Discriminative Training for Call Classification and Routing," International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-2002), Denver, Colorado, 2002.
P. Durston, M. Farrell, D. Attwater, J. Allen, H.-K. J. Kuo, M. Afify, E. Fosler-Lussier, C.-H. Lee. "OASIS Natural Language Call Steering Trial," Seventh European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '01), Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.
C. Shih, G. Kochanski, E. Fosler-Lussier, M. Chan, and J.-H. Yuan. "Implications of Prosody Modeling for Prosody Recognition," ICSA Research and Tutorial Workshop on Prosody in Automatic Speech Recognition (PROSODY-2001), Red Bank, New Jersey, 2001.
S. Greenberg and E. Fosler-Lussier. "The uninvited guest: Information's role in guiding the production of spontaneous speech," in the Proceedings of the Crest Workshop on Models of Speech Production: Motor Planning and Articulatory Modelling, Kloster Seeon, Germany, 2000.
A. Bell, D. Jurafsky, E. Fosler-Lussier, C. Girand and D. Gildea. "Reduction of English Function Words In Disfluent Contexts," International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS '99), San Francisco, California, 1999.
M. L. Gregory, W. D. Raymond, A. Bell, E. Fosler-Lussier, and D. Jurafsky. "The effects of collocational strength and contextual predictability in lexical production," Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society, v. 35, 1999.
D. Jurafsky, A. Bell, E. Fosler-Lussier, C. Girand, and W. Raymond. "Reduction of English function words in Switchboard," International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-98), Sydney, Australia, 1998.
E. Fosler-Lussier and N. Morgan. "Effects of Speaking Rate and Word Predictability on Conversational Pronunciations," ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Modeling Pronunciation Variation for Automatic Speech Recognition, Kerkrade, Netherlands, 1998.
E. Fosler. "On Reversing the Generation Process in Optimality Theory," Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Santa Cruz, California, 1996.
I. Amdal and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Pronunciation Modeling in Speech Technology," Telektronikk, to appear.
E. Fosler-Lussier. "Markov Models and Hidden Markov Models: A Brief Tutorial," International Computer Science Institute Technical Report TR-98-041, 1998. CS 188 (Introduction to Artificial Intelligence), Fall 1995 Teaching Materials.
E. Fosler. "Automatic learning of a model for word pronunciations: Status report," Conversational Speech Recognition Workshop: DARPA Hub~5E Evaluation, Baltimore, Maryland, 1997.
M. Weintraub, E. Fosler, C. Galles, Y.-H. Kao, S. Khudanpur, M. Saraclar, and S. Wegmann, "WS96 Project Report: Automatic Learning of Word Pronunciation from Data," in F. Jelinek, editor, 1996 Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Summer Research Workshop Technical Reports, Chapter 3. Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, Research Notes No. 24, 1997.
N. Mirghafori, E. Fosler, and N. Morgan. "Making Automatic Speech Recognition More Robust to Fast Speech," International Computer Science Institute Technical Report TR-95-067, Berkeley, California, 1995.