EARS STT May'04 Workshop, Montreal

Saturday Morning (15 May 2004) 9:00 Welcome(Phil Woodland/Rich Schwartz) Schedule Changes etc. 1  Broadcast News English Transcription I, 9:30-10:40 9:30 Results with more BN data (PDF slides) Long Nguyen, Bing Xiang, Spyros Matsoukas, Rich Schwartz, BBN 9:50 Cluster-dependent Modeling, Results on BN using multiple speaker-clustered models. (PDF slides) Bing Xiang, Long Nguyen, Spyros Matsoukas, Rich Schwartz, BBN 10:20 Recent Progress in Broadcast News English Transcription (PDF slides) D. Kim, Mark Gales, Ricky Chan, Phil Woodland, S. Umesh, Thomas Hain, Cambridge 10:40-11:10 Break 2  Broadcast News English Transcription II, 11:10-12:30 11:10 Ongoing Experiments with Lightly Supervised Discriminative Training (PDF slides) Ricky Chan, Mark Gales, Phil Woodland, Cambridge 11:30 Lightly supervised training by quick transcription cleanup (PDF slides) Anand Venkataraman, Dimitri Vergyri, Wen Wang, Ramana Rao Gadde, Martin Graciarena, Horacio Franco, Jing Zheng, Andreas Stolcke, SRI 12:00 Discussion on broadcast news transcription, 12:00-12:30 12:30-13:45 Lunch

Saturday Afternoon (15 May, 2004) 3  Acoustic Modelling / Improved Training Algroithms, 13:45-15:30 13:45 Update on Discriminative Training, Recent results with MPE, MMI (PDF slides) Thomas Colthurst, Spyros Matsoukas, Owen Kimball, BBN 13:55 Precision Matrix Modelling for LVCSR (PDF slides) Khe Chai Sim, Mark Gales, Cambridge 14:20 Decision-tree versus genonic clustering of HMM states (PDF slides) Venkata Gadde, Dimitri Vergyri, Jing Zheng, Horacio Franco, SRI 14:30 Novel Approaches update (PDF slides) Nelson Morgan, ICSI and Andreas Stolcke, SRI 15:00 Discussion on Acoustic Modelling / Training Algorithms, 15:00-15:30 15:30-16:00 Break 4  Language Modelling and Fast Algorithms, 16:00-17:20 16:00 Language Modelling Using Fisher Data (PDF slides) Holger Schwenk, Gilles Adda, Jean-Luc Gauvain, LIMSI 16:15 Adaptive Language Models (PDF slides) Langzhou Chen, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel, Gilles Adda, LIMSI 16:35 Reducing storage and computation in training (PDF slides) Jeff Ma, Spyros Matsoukas, Rich Schwartz, BBN 16:55 Quick update on faster CTS decoding (PDF slides) Andreas Stocke, Jing Zheng, SRI 17:05 Towards efficient cross-site system combination (PDF slides) Rohit Prasad, Spyros Matsoukas, Rich Schwartz, BBN Jean-Luc Gauvain, Holger Schwenk, Lori Lamel, LIMSI 17:25 Discussion, 17:05-17:20

Sunday Morning (16 Dec, 2004) 5  Fisher Training and CTS Experiments I, 9:30-10:30 9:30 Using Fisher Data in CTS Training (PDF files) Chia-lin Kao, Owen Kimball, Jeff Ma, Spyros Matsoukas, BBN 9:50 Experiments with Fisher Data (PDF slides) Gunnar Evermann, Bin Jia, Kai Yu, David Mrva, Ricky Chan, Mark Gales, Phil Woodland, Cambridge University 10:20 Experiments with Fisher data (PDF slides) Wen Wang, Andreas Stolcke, SRI 10:30-11:00 Break 6  Fisher Training and CTS Experiments II, 11:00-12:20 11:00 Training a 2300-hour Fisher System (PDF slides) Brian Kingsbury, Stan Chen Lidia Mangu, Dan Povey, George Saon, Hagen Soltau Geoffrey Zweig, IBM 11:25 SRI-ICSI-UW Progress on Mandarin CTS (PDF slides) Mei-Yuh Hwang, Xin Lei Ng, Ivan Bulyko, Mari Ostendorf, UW, Wen Wang, Jing Zheng, Andreas Stocke, SRI, Yan Huang, ICSI 11:45 Discussion on Fisher Training 12:20-13:35 Lunch

Sunday Afternoon (16 May, 2004) 7  Generalisation and Portability of EARS Recognisers, 13:35-14:05 13:35 Porting a CTS System to a New Domain: Adventures in Meeting Recognition (PDF slides, 4.2MB) presented by Nikki Mirghafori, ICSI, SRI, UW 8  STT Scoring, 14:05-15:05 14:05 STT Scoring: Accounting for Transcription Ambiguity (PDFslides) Jon Fiscus, NIST and Rich Schwartz, BBN 14:25 Discussion of Scoring Issues 15:05-15:20 Break 9  Discussion and Wrapup, 15:20-?16:20 15:20 Format of RT04F, Planning, Action Items RT04F Facilities(PDF slides) Geoffroy Zweig, IBM

Attendees: 
John Makhoul            BBN             makhoul@bbn.com
Rich Schwartz           BBN             schwartz@bbn.com
Long Nguyen             BBN             ln@bbn.com
Spyros Matsoukas        BBN             smatsouk@bbn.com
Thomas Colthurst        BBN             thomasc@bbn.com
Chia-lin Kao            BBN             ckao@bbn.com
Nicolae Duta            BBN             dutanico@bbn.com
Bing Xiang              BBN             bxiang@bbn.com
Rohit Prasad            BBN             rprasad@bbn.com
Owen Kimball            BBN             okimball@bbn.com

Phil Woodland           Cambridge       pcw@eng.cam.ac.uk
Mark Gales              Cambridge       mjfg@eng.cam.ac.uk
Gunnar Evermann         Cambridge       ge204@eng.cam.ac.uk
Ricky Chan              Cambridge       hyc27@eng.cam.ac.uk
Khe Chai Sim            Cambridge       kcs23@eng.cam.ac.uk
Lan Wang                Cambridge       lw256@eng.cam.ac.uk

Geoff Zweig             IBM             gzweig@us.ibm.com
Hagen Soltau            IBM             hsoltau@us.ibm.com
Brian Kingsbury         IBM             bedk@us.ibm.com
Dan Povey               IBM             dpovey@us.ibm.com

Nelson Morgan           ICSI            morgan@icsi.berkeley.edu
Qifeng Zhu              ICSI            qifeng@icsi.berkeley.edu
Nikki Mirghafori        ICSI            nikki@icsi.berkeley.edu

Jean Luc Gauvain        LIMSI           gauvain@limsi.fr
Lori Lamel              LIMSI           lamel@limsi.fr
Holger Schwenk          LIMSI           Holger.Schwenk@limsi.fr
Langzhou Chen           LIMSI           clz@limsi.fr
Fabrice Lefevre         LIMSI           lefevre@limsi.fr

Jonathan Fiscus         NIST            jfiscus@nist.gov

Andreas Stolcke         SRI/ICSI        stolcke@speech.sri.com
Anand Venkatarman       SRI             anand@speech.sri.com
Horacio Franco          SRI             hef@speech.sri.com
Jing Zheng              SRI             zj@speech.sri.com
Dimitra Vergyri         SRI             dverg@speech.sri.com
Ramana Gadde            SRI             rao@speech.sri.com
Martin Graciarena       SRI             martin@speech.sri.com

Ivan Bulyko             UW              bulyko@ssli.ee.washington.edu
Mei-yuh Hwang           UW              mhwang@ssli.ee.washington.edu
Mari Ostendorf          UW              mo@ssli.ee.washington.edu