Selected Recent Publications

Nelson Morgan
ICSI and University of California at Berkeley
January 2003

2004

• TRAPping Conversational Speech: Extending TRAP/Tandem approaches to conversational telephone speech recognition
  N. Morgan, B. Chen, Q. Zhu, and A. Stolcke
  ICASSP-2004, Montreal, May 2004.

2003

• Meetings about meetings: research at ICSI on speech in multiparty conversations
  N. Morgan, D. Baron, S. Bhagat, H. Carvey, R. Dhillon, J. Edwards, D. Gelbart, A. Janin, A. Krupski, B. Peskin, T. Pfau, E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, and C. Wooters
  ICASSP-2003, Hong Kong, April 2003

2002

• Qualcomm-ICSI-OGI Features for ASR
  A. Adami, L. Burget, S. Dupont, H. Garudadri, F. Grezl, H. Hermansky, P. Jain, S. Kajarekar, N. Morgan, and S. Sivadas
  ICSLP-2002, Denver, Colorado, USA, September 2002.
• Double the Trouble: Handling Noise and Reverberation in Far-Field Automatic Speech Recognition
  David Gelbart and Nelson Morgan
  ICSLP-2002, Denver, Colorado, USA, September 2002.

2001

• The Meeting Project at ICSI
  Nelson Morgan, Don Baron, Jane Edwards, Dan Ellis, David Gelbart, Adam Janin, Thilo Pfau, Elizabeth Shriberg, and Andreas Stolcke
  Human Language Technologies Conference, San Diego, March 2001

1999

• Reducing errors by increasing the error rate: MLP Acoustic Modeling for Broadcast News Transcription
  Nelson Morgan, Dan Ellis, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Adam Janin & Brian Kingsbury
  (Presented at the DARPA Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop, Gaithersburg VA, 1999feb28)
• Speech and Audio Signal Processing
  Ben Gold and Nelson Morgan
  (Wiley, In Press)

1998

• Effects of Speaking Rate and Word Predictability on Conversational Pronunciations
  Eric Fosler-Lussier and Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at ESCA Workshop on Modeling Pronunciation for ASR, May 1998)
• Robust speech recognition using the modulation spectrogram
  Brian Kingsbury, Nelson Morgan and Steven Greenberg
  (Speech Communication 25 pp. 117-132)
• Combining Connectionist Multi-Band and Full-Band Probability Streams for Speech Recognition of Natural Numbers
  Nikki Mirghafori and Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at ICSLP-98, Sydney, Australia, pp. 743-746)
• Transmissions and Transitions: A Study of Two Common Assumptions in Multi-Band ASR
  Nikki Mirghafori and Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at ICASSP-98, Seattle, pp. 713-716)
• Combining Multiple Estimators of Speaking Rate
  Nelson Morgan and Eric Fosler-Lussier
  (Presented at ICASSP-98, Seattle, pp. 729-732)
• Incorporating Information from Syllable-length Time Scales into Automatic Speech Recognition
  Su-Lin Wu, Brian Kingsbury, Nelson Morgan, and Steven Greenberg
  (Presented at ICASSP-98, Seattle, pp. 721-724)
• Performance improvements through combining phone- and syllable-length information in automatic speech recognition
  Su-Lin Wu, Brian Kingsbury, Nelson Morgan, and Steven Greenberg
  (Presented at ICSLP-98, Sydney, Australia, pp. 854-857)

1997

• Recognition using On-line Estimation of Speaking Rate
  Nelson Morgan, Eric Fosler and Nikki Mirghafori
  (Presented at Eurospeech-97, Rhodes, vol. 4 pp. 2079-2082)
• Robust features and environmental compensation: A few comments
  Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at ESCA workshop of Robust Speech Recog., Pont-a-Mousson, pp. 43-44)
• Improving ASR performance for reverberant speech
  Brian Kingsbury, Nelson Morgan and Steven Greenberg
  (Presented at ESCA workshop of Robust Speech Recog., Pont-a-Mousson, pp. 87-90)
• Recognizing reverberant speech with RASTA-PLP
  Brian Kingsbury and Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at ICASSP-97, Munich, vol. 2 pp. 1259-1262)
• Integrating syllable boundary information into speech recognition
  Su-Lin Wu, Michael Shire, Steven Greenberg and Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at ICASSP-97, Munich, vol. 2 pp. 987-990)

1996

• Towards Robustness to Fast Speech in ASR
  Nikki Mirghafori, Eric Fosler and Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at ICASSP-96, Atlanta)
• REMAP - Experiments with speech recognition
  Yochai Konig, Hervé Bourlard and Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at ICASSP-96, Atlanta)
• Stochastic perceptual speech models with durational dependence
  Jeff Bilmes, Nelson Morgan, Su-Lin Wu and Hervé Bourlard
  (Presented at ICSLP-96, Philadelphia)

1995

• Digit Recognition with Stochastic Perceptual Models
  Nelson Morgan, Su-Lin Wu, and Herve Bourlard.
  (Presented at Eurospeech-95, Madrid)
• REMAP: Recursive Estimation and Maximization of A Posteriori probabilities in connectionist speech recognition
  Hervé Bourlard, Yochai Konig and Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at Eurospeech-95, Madrid)
• Fast Speakers in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition: Analysis & Antidotes
  Nikki Mirghafori, Eric Fosler and Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at Eurospeech-95, Madrid)
• Stochastic Perceptual Models of Speech
  Nelson Morgan, Herve Bourlard, Steven Greenberg, Hynek Hermansky, and Su-Lin Wu
  (Presented at ICASSP-95, Detroit)
• Using A Stochastic Context-Free Grammar as a Language Model for Speech Recognition
  Daniel Jurafsky, Chuck Wooters, Jonathan Segal, Andreas Stolcke, Eric Fosler, Gary Tajchman and Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at ICASSP-95, Detroit)
• SPAM: Experiments with Digit Recognition
  Nelson Morgan, Su-Lin Wu, and Herve Bourlard
  (Presented at Speech Research Symposium '95)
• Remap modeling for connectionist speech recognition
  Yochai Konig, Hervé Bourlard and Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at Speech Research Symposium '95)
• REMAP: Recursive Estimation and Maximization of A Posteriori Probabilities - Application to Transition-Based Connectionist Speech Recognition
  Yochai Konig, Hervé Bourlard and Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at NIPS-95)
• Why Is ASR Harder For Fast Speech And What Can We Do About It?
  Nikki Mirghafori, Eric Fosler and Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at IEEE Snowbird workshop '95)
• Transition-based statistical training for ASR
  Nelson Morgan, Yochai Konig, Su-Lin Wu and Hervé Bourlard
  (Presented at IEEE Snowbird workshop '95)
• An Introduction to Hybrid HMM/Connectionist Continuous Speech Recognition
  Nelson Morgan and Hervé Bourlard
  (IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, pp. 25-42, May 1995)

1994

• The Berkeley Restaurant Project
  Daniel Jurafsky, Chuck Wooters, Gary Tajchman, Jonathan Segal, Andreas Stolcke, Eric Fosler and Nelson Morgan.
  (Presented at ICSLP-94)
• Stochastic Perceptual Auditory-Event-Based Models for Speech Recognition
  Nelson Morgan, Hervé Bourlard, Steven Greenberg and Hynek Hermansky
  (Presented at ICSLP-94)
• Modeling Dynamics in Connectionist Speech Recognition - the Time Index Model
  Yochai Konig and Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at ICSLP-94)
• Integrating Experimental Models of Syntax, Phonology, and Accent/Dialect in a Speech Recognizer
  Daniel Jurafsky, Chuck Wooters, Gary Tajchman, Jonathan Segal, Andreas Stolcke and Nelson Morgan
  (Presented at AAAI-94)
• Parallel Training of MLP Probability Estimators for Speech Recognition: A Gender-Based Approach
  Nikki Mirghafori, Nelson Morgan and Hervé Bourlard
  (Presented at NNSP-94, Greece)

1993

• Connectionist Speech Recognition: A Hybrid Approach
  Hervé Bourlard and Nelson Morgan
  (Kluwer Press, 1993)

1992

• Connectionist Probability Estimation in the Decipher Speech Recognition System
  Steve Renals, Nelson Morgan, Michael Cohen and Horacio Franco
  (Presented at ICASSP-92)
• Factoring Networks by a Statistical Method
  Nelson Morgan and Hervé Bourlard
  (Neural Computation, vol. 4 no. 6, pp. 835-838)