Publications

Journals - Conferences

R. Sarikaya, Y. Deng, M Afify, B. Kingsbury and Y.Gao, “Machine Translation in Continuous Space”, Interspeech-2008, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008.

R. Sarikaya, M. Afify, Y. Deng, H. Erdogan, Y. Gao, “Joint Morphological-Lexical Modeling for processing Morphologically-rich Languages”, IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Language Process., vol. xx, no: xx, July 2008.

R. Sarikaya, A. Buyuktosunoglu, "Unified Prediction Method for predicting computer behavior", IEEE Transactions on Computers (submitted for publication, January 2008).

I. Zitouni, R. Sarikaya, "Arabic Diacritic Restoration Using Maximum Entropy Models", Computer Speech and Language. (to appear).

R. Sarikaya, "Rapid Bootstrapping of Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems", Speech Communications vol. xx, no: xx, July 2008.

R. Sarikaya and Y. Deng, "Context-dependent Word modeling for SMT", Interspeech-2007, August 2007.

R. Sarikaya, A. Buyuktosunoglu, "Predicting Program Behavior Based on Objective Function Minimization", IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, (IISWC-2007), September 2007.

R. Sarikaya, Y. Deng, "Joint Morphological-Lexical Language Modeling for SMT", HLT/NAACL-2007, Rochester NY April 2007.

M. Afify, O. Siohan, and R. Sarikaya, "Gaussian Mixture Model Language Modeling", ICASSP07, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007.

R. Sarikaya, M. Afify and Y. Gao, "Joint Morphological-Lexical Language Modeling for Arabic", ICASSP-2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007.

R. Sarikaya, B. Zhou, D. Povey, M. Afify and Y. Gao, "The Impact of ASR on the Speech-to-Speech Translation Performance", Invited Paper, ICASSP-2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007.

Y. Gao, B. Zhou, L. Gu, R. Sarikaya, H-K. J. Kuo, M. Afify, W. Zhu, "IBM MASTOR: Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-speech Translator", HLT Medical Speech Translation Workshop, NYC, June 2006.

M. Afify, R. Sarikaya, H-K J. Kuo, L. Besacier, and Y. Gao, "On the Use of Morphological Analysis for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition", Interspeech-2006, Pittsburg PA, September 2006.

R. Sarikaya, O. Emam, I. Zitouni, Y. Gao, "Maximum Entropy Modeling for Vowelization of Arabic Text", Interspeech-2006, Pittsburg PA, September 2006.

I. Zitouni, J. Sorenson and R. Sarikaya, "Feature Mining for Restoring Arabic Diacritics Using Maximum Entropy Approach", ACL/Coling 2006, Sidney Australia, July 2006.

Y. Gao, B. Zhou, L. Gu, R. Sarikaya, H-K. J. Kuo, A. Rosti, M. Afify, W. Zhu, "IBM MASTOR: Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-speech Translator", ICASSP-2006, Toulouse, France, 2006.

R. Sarikaya, H-K. J. Kuo, Y. Gao, "Impact of Using Web Based Language Modeling on Speech Understanding", IEEE ASRU 2005, St. Thomas Puerto Rico, December 2005.

R. Sarikaya, H-K. J. Kuo V. Goel, and Y. Gao,"Exploiting Unlabeled Data Using Multiple Classifiers for Improved Natural Language Call-Routing ", Interspeech 2005, Lisbon Portugal, September 2005.

R. Sarikaya, Agustin Gravano and Yuqing Gao, "Rapid Language Model Development Using External Resources for New Spoken Dialog Domains", ICASSP-2005, Philadelphia, PA March 2005.

R. Sarikaya, Y. Gao, and P. Virga, "Fast Semi-Automatic Semantic Annotation for Spoken Dialog Systems", ICSLP-2004, Jeju Island, South Korea, October 2004.

R. Sarikaya, G. Saon and M. Picheny, "Fractional Fourier Transform Based Features for Speech Recognition", ICASSP-2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 2004.

R. Sarikaya, Y. Gao and M. Picheny, "A comparison of Rule-Based and Statistical Methods for Semantic Language Modeling and Confidence Measurement", HLT-NAACL-2004, Boston MA, May 2004.

R. Sarikaya, Y. Gao, M. Picheny and Hakan Erdogan, "Semantic Confidence Measurement for Spoken Dialog Systems", IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Process., July 2005.

R. Sarikaya, Y. Gao, and M. Picheny, "Word Level Confidence Measures Using Semantic Features", ICASSP-2003, Hong Kong, May 2003.

H. Erdogan, R. Sarikaya, Y. Gao, and Michael Picheny "Incorporating Semantic Knowledge into Language Modeling for Spoken Dialog Systems", Computer Speech & Language Journal, July 20045

H. Erdogan, R. Sarikaya, and Y. Gao, "Semantic Language Models for Spoken Dialog Systems", ICSLP-2002, Denver, CO, September 2002.

Yuqing Gao, B. Zhou, Z. Diao, J. Sorensen, H. Erdogan, R. Sarikaya, F. Liu, M. Picheny , "A Trainable Approach for Multi-Lingual Speech-to-Speech Translation System", HLT-2002, San Diego, CA, March 2002.

R. Sarikaya, Y. Gao, H. Erdogan and M. Picheny, "Turn-Based Language Modeling for Spoken Dialog Systems", ICASSP-2002, Orlando FL, May 2002..

B. Kingsbury, G. Saon, L. Mangu, M. Padmanabhan, and R. Sarikaya, "Robust Speech Recognition in Noisy Environments: The 2001 IBM Spine Evaluation System", ICASSP-2002, Orlando FL, May 2002.

U. Yapanel, J.H.L. Hansen, R. Sarikaya and B.L. Pellom, " Robust Digit Recognition in Noise: an Evaluation Using the AURORA Corpus", Eurospeech '2001, Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001.

R. Sarikaya and J. H. L. Hansen , "Analysis of the Root-Cepstrum for Acoustic Modeling and Fast Decoding", Eurospeech '2001, Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001.

J. H. L. Hansen, R. Sarikaya , U. Yapanel and B.L. Pellom, "Robust Speech Recognition in Noise: An Evaluation Using SPINE Corpus", Eurospeech '2001, Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001.

B.L. Pellom, R. Sarikaya and J. H. L. Hansen , "Fast Likelihood Computation in Nearest-Neighbor Based Search for Continuous Speech Recognition", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol 8, no 8, pp. 221-224, August, 2001.

R. Sarikaya and J. H. L. Hansen , "Improved Jacobian Adaptation for Fast Acoustic Model Adaptation for Noisy Speech Recognition", International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP`2000), Beijing, China, vol. 3, pp. 702-705, October 2000.

J. H. L. Hansen, B. Zhou, and R. Sarikaya , "One Small Step for Man: Audio Stream Phrase Recognition for a National Gallery of Spoken Word: A first Step", International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP`2000), Beijing, China, vol. 3, pp. 1089-1092, October 2000.

R. Sarikaya and J. H. L. Hansen , "PCA-PMC: A Novel Use of a priori Knowledge for Fast Parallel Model Combination", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'2000), Istanbul, Turkey, vol. 2, pp. 1113-1116, June, 2000.

R. Sarikaya and J. H. L. Hansen,, "Auditory Masking Threshold Estimation for Broadband Noise Sources with Application to Speech Enhancement ", Eurospeech-99 , Budapest, Hungary, v. 6, pp. 2571-2574, September, 1999.

R. Sarikaya and J. H. L. Hansen, "High Resolution Speech Feature Parametrization for Monophone Based Stressed Speech Recognition", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 182-186, July, 2000

R. Sarikaya and J. H. L. Hansen , "Robust Speech Activity Detection in the Presence of Noise", International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'98), Sydney, Australia, vol.4, pp. 1455-1458, November 1998.

R. Sarikaya, B.L. Pellom, and J.H.L. Hansen, "Wavelet Packet Transform Features with Application to Speaker Identification",, IEEE Nordic Signal Processing Symposium (NORSIG'98), Vigso, Denmark, pp. 81-84, June, 1998.

R. Sarikaya and J.N. Gowdy, "Subband Based Classification of Speech Under Stress", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'98), Seattle, WA, vol. 1, pp. 569-572, May, 1998.

R. Sarikaya and J.N. Gowdy, "Wavelet Based Analysis of Speech Under Stress", IEEE Southeastcon, Blacksburg, Virginia, vol.1, pp. 92-96, April, 1997.