Publications

• Yik-Cheung Tam, Ian Lane and Tanja Schultz, "Rapid Unsupervised Topic Adaptation - A Latent Semantic Approach.", In The GALE Book, Part 3: Machine Translation from Speech, pp. 463-481 
• Stephen M. Chu, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Lidia Mangu, Qin Shi, Shilei Zhang, Yong Qin, Qin Jin, Ian Lane, and Yik-Cheung Tam, "Towards the State of the Art in Automatic Mandarin Broadcast Speech Transcription.", In The GALE Book, Part 3: Machine Translation from Speech, pp. 481-491 
• Roger Hsiao, Mark Fuhs, Yik-Cheung Tam, Qin Jin, Ian Lane, and Tanja Schultz, "The CMU-InterACT Mandarin Transcription System for GALE.", In The GALE Book, Part 3: Machine Translation from Speech, pp. 492-500 
• Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Ian Lane, Mark Fuhs, Mohamed Noamany, Yik-Cheung Tam, Qin Jin and Tanja Schultz, "CMU-InterACT 2008 Arabic Speech Recognition System for GALE.", In The GALE Book, Part 3: Machine Translation from Speech, pp. 530-535 
• Matthias Paulik, Ian Lane, Tanja Schultz, "Improving Machine Translation of Spoken Language.", In The GALE Book, Part 3: Machine Translation from Speech, pp. 565-575 
• Y. C. Tam, Ian Lane and T. Schultz, "Bilingual-LSA based adaptation for statistical machine translation.", Machine Translation, Springer Netherlands, Vol. 21, No. 4, December 2007, pp. 931-938 [pdf]
• Ian Lane, T. Kawahara, T. Matsui and S. Nakamura, "Out-of-Domain Utterance Detection using Classification Confidences of Multiple Topics.", IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing.  2007, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp 150-161.  [pdf]
• Ian Lane and T. Kawahara, "Verification of Speech Recognition Results Incorporating In-domain Confidence and Discourse Coherence Measures.", IEICE Trans. (Vol. E89-D, No 3).  March 2006, pp 931-938.  [pdf]
• Ian Lane, T. Kawahara, T. Matsui and S. Nakamura, "Dialogue Speech Recognition by Combining Hierarchical Topic Classification and Language Model Switching.", IEICE Trans. (Vol. E88-D, No 3).  March 2005, pp 446-454.  [pdf]

2010

• Z. Sun, A. Purohit, K. Yang, N. Pattan, D. Siewiorek, A. Smailagic, Ian Lane and P. Zhang, " VMA: An Inexpensive Indoor Acoustic Sensing Platform for In-home Patient Monitoring.", Poster Session, MobiSys, 2010 [poster]
• Ian Lane, Matthias Eck, Kay Rottmann and Alex Waibel, "Tools for Collecting Speech Corpora via Mechanical-Turk.", In Proc. Creating Speech and Language Data With Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, 2010 [pdf]

2009

• H. Al-Haj, R. Hsiao, Ian Lane and A. Waibel, "Pronunciation Modeling for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition.", In Proc. ASRU, pp. 525–528, 2009 [pdf][poster]
• Daniel Chung Yong Lim and Ian Lane, "Language identification for speech-to-speech translation.", In Proc. Interspeech, pp. 204-207, 2009 [pdf][poster]
• N. Bach, R. Hsiao, M. Eck, P. Charoenpornsawat, S. Vogel, T. Schultz, Ian Lane, A. Waibel and A. Black, "Incremental Adaptation of Speech-to-Speech Translation.", In Proc. HLT-NAACL, pp. 149–152, 2009 [pdf][poster]

2008

• Ian Lane and A. Waibel, "Class-Based Statistical Machine Translation for Field Maintainable Speech-to-Speech Translation.", In Proc. Interspeech, pp. 2362-2365, 2008. [pdf][slides]
• M. Paulik, S. Rao, Ian Lane, S. Vogel and T. Schultz, "Sentence Segmentation and Punctuation Recovery for Spoken Language Translation. ", In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp. 5105-5108, 2008. [pdf]

2007

• Ian Lane, A. Zollmann, T.-L. Nguyen, N. Bach, A. Venugopal, S. Vogel, K. Rottmann, Y. Zhang and A. Waibel, "The CMU-UKA Statistical Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT 2007.", In Proc. IWSLT, pp. 130-137, 2007. [pdf][slides]
• S. Rao, Ian Lane, and T. Schultz, "Improving Spoken Language Translation by Automatic Disfluency Removal: Evidence from Conversational Speech Transcripts.", In Proc. MT Summit XI, pp. 385-389, 2007. [pdf][slides]
• S. Rao, Ian Lane, and T. Schultz, "Optimizing Sentence Segmentation for Spoken Language Translation.", In Proc. Interspeech, pp. 2845-2848, 2007. [pdf][poster]
• N. Bach, M. Noamany, Ian Lane, and T. Schultz, "Handling OOV Words In Arabic ASR Via Flexible Morphological Constraints.", In Proc. Interspeech, pp. 2373-2376, 2007. [pdf][poster]
• Y. Tam, Ian Lane, and T. Schultz, "Bilingual-LSA Based LM Adaptation for Spoken Language Translation", In Proc. ACL, pp. 520-527 2007. [pdf][slides]
• B. Zhao, N. Bach, Ian Lane, and S. Vogel, "A Log-Linear Block Transliteration Model based on Bi-Stream HMMs", In Proc. HLT, pp. 364-371, 2007.[pdf]

2006

• M. Eck, Ian Lane, N. Bach, S. Hewavitharana, M. Kolss, B. Zhao, A. Hildebrand, S. Vogel, and A. Waibel, "The UKA/CMU statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2006.", In Proc. IWSLT, pp. 130-137, 2006. [pdf][slides]

2005

• Ian Lane and T. Kawahara. "Utterance verification incorporating in-domain confidence and discourse coherence measures.", In Proc. Interspeech, pp.421-424, 2005. [pdf][slides]
• Ian Lane and T. Kawahara. "Incorporating dialogue context and topic clustering in out-of-domain detection.", In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.1, pp.1045-1048, 2005. [pdf][poster]

2004

• Ian Lane, T. Kawahara, T. Matsui, and S. Nakamura. "Topic classification and verification modeling for out-of-domain utterance detection.", In Proc. Interspeech, pp.2197-2200, 2004. [pdf]
• S. Ueno, Ian Lane, and T. Kawahara. "Example-based training of dialogue planning incorporating user and situation models.", In Proc. Interspeech, pp.2837-2840, 2004. [pdf]
• Ian Lane, S. Ueno and T. Kawahara. "Cooperative dialogue planning with user and situation models via example-based training.", In Proc. MMSS, pp.93-102, 2004. [pdf]
• Ian Lane, T. Kawahara, T. Matsui and S. Nakamura. "Out-of-domain detection based on confidence measures from multiple topic classification.", In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.1, pp.757-760, 2004. [pdf]

2003

• Ian Lane, T. Matsui, S. Nakamura, and T. Kawahara. "Hierarchical topic classification for dialog speech recognition based on language model switching.", In Proc. EUROSPEECH, pp.429-432, 2003. [pdf]
• Ian Lane, T. Kawahara, and T. Matsui. "Language model switching based on topic detection for dialog speech recognition.", In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, Vol.1, pp.616-619, 2003. [pdf]

• B. Zhao, N. Bach, Ian Lane, and S. Vogel. "A Log-linear Block Transliteration Model based on Bi-Stream HMMs.", CMU-LTI-06-007, Technical Report 2006 Fall [pdf]
• Ian Lane and T. Kawahara. "Detection of speech recognition errors using in-domain confidence and discourse coherence measures." 日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集, 2-1-10, 秋季 2005. [pdf][slides]
• Ian Lane, and Tatsuya Kawahara. "Out-of-domain detection incorporating dialogue context and topic clustering." 電子情報通信学会技術研究報告, SP2004-130, NLC2004-90 (SLP-54-50), 2005. [pdf][slides]
• Ian Lane, T. Kawahara, and S. Nakamura. "Effect of dialogue context and topic clustering on out-of-domain detection." 日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集, 2-5-1, 春季 2005. [pdf][slides]
• Ian Lane, Tatsuya Kawahara, and Satoshi Nakamura. Out-of-domain detection incorporating dialogue context and topic clustering." 電子情報通信学会技術研究報告, SP2004-130, NLC2004-90 (SLP-54-50), 2004. [text]
• Ian Lane, T. Kawahara, T. Matsui, and S. Nakamura. "Out-of-domain utterance detection in dialogue via speech-to-speech translation." 日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集, 3-1-23, 秋季 2004.
• Ian Lane, T. Kawahara, T. Matsui, and S. Nakamura. "Investigation of classification modeling for out-of-domain utterance detection." 日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集, 3-8-2, 春季 2004.
• Ian Lane, T. Kawahara, T. Matsui, and S. Nakamura. "Out-of-domain utterance detection based on confidence measures from multiple topic classification." 電子情報通信学会技術研究報告, SP2003-159, NLC2003-96 (SLP-49-47), 2003. [text]
• Ian Lane, T. Kawahara, T. Matsui, and S. Nakamura. "Out-of-domain detection based on verification for multi-domain dialogue speech." 日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集, 2-6-8, 秋季 2003.
• Ian Lane, T. Kawahara, T. Matsui, and S. Nakamura. "Language model switching based on topic detection for dialog speech recognition." 日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集, 3-4-6, 春季 2003.
• Julius Book Rev-3.2, 2002. [pdf]

• Ian Lane, Tatsuta Kawahara, Tomoko Matsui, and Satoshi Nakamura, "A Speech Recognition Framework Combining Hierarchical Topic Detection and Topic- Dependent Language Modeling.", Japanese Patent JP2004198597, Initial Filing Date: Dec., 2002. 
• Ian Lane, Tatsuta Kawahara, Tomoko Matsui, and Satoshi Nakamura, "Training Device for Domain Verifier, Domain Verifying Device for Input Data, and Computer Program, Japanese Patent JP2005164836.", Initial Filing Date: Jan., 2003. 
• Ian Lane, and Tatsuta Kawahara, "Method to Assess Recognition Confidence Incorporating Measures of In-Domain Confidence and Discourse Coherence.", Japanese Patent, preliminary application: Mar., 2005. 
• Ian Lane, Alex Waibel, "System and Methods for Maintaining Speech-to-Speech Translation in the Field.", International patent, preliminary application: Feb., 2008. [pdf]

• LDC2007E23: "CMU Web-data collection for language model training and adaptation (Mandarin)"
• LDC2007E21: "CMU/InterACT MSA Al-jazeera/Akhbar/Akhbar-ElYoum LM data"
• LDC2007E25: "CMU/InterACT MSA Al-jazeera BC audio/transcripts"