Kornel Laskowski

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Kornel Laskowski and Tanja Schultz (2008), Detection of Laughter-in-Interaction in Multichannel Close-Talk Microphone Recordings of Meetings. To appear at the 5th Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI2008), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 08-10 September.

Mattias Heldner, Jens Edlund, and Kornel Laskowski (2008), Prosodic Features in the Vicinity of Pauses, Gaps, and Overlaps. To appear at the 10th Nordic Conference on Prosody, Helsinki, Finland, 04-06 August.

Jens Edlund, Mattias Heldner, and Kornel Laskowski (2008), Prosodic Features of Very Short Utterances in Dialogue. To appear at the 10th Nordic Conference on Prosody, Helsinki, Finland, 04-06 August.

Kornel Laskowski, Matthias Wölfel, Mattias Heldner, and Jens Edlund (2008), Computing the Fundamental Frequency Variation Spectrum in Conversational Spoken Dialogue Systems. To appear at the 155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 5th EAA Forum Acusticum, and 9th SFA Congrés Français d'Acoustique (Acoustics2008), Paris, France, 29 June - 04 July.

Kornel Laskowski, Mari Ostendorf, and Tanja Schultz (2008), Modeling Vocal Interaction for Text-Independent Participant Characterization in Multi-Party Conversation. To appear at the 9th ISCA/ACL SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Columbus OH, USA, 19-20 June.

Kornel Laskowski, Mattias Heldner, and Jens Edlund (2008), The Fundamental Frequency Variation Spectrum. To appear at the 21st Swedish Phonetics Conference (Fonetik 2008), Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-13 June.

Susanne Burger, Kornel Laskowski, and Matthias Wölfel (2008), A Comparative Cross-Domain Study of the Occurrence of Laughter in Meeting and Seminar Corpora. To appear at the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2008), Marrakech, Morocco, 28-30 May.

Kornel Laskowski, Jens Edlund, and Mattias Heldner (2008), Learning Prosodic Sequences Using the Fundamental Frequency Variation Spectrum. In proceedings of the 4th ISCA International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2008), Campinas, Brazil, 06-09 May. [poster]

Kornel Laskowski, Jens Edlund, and Mattias Heldner (2008), An Instantaneous Vector Representation of Delta Pitch for Speaker-Change Prediction in Conversational Dialogue Systems. In proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2008), Las Vegas NV, USA, 30 March - 04 April, pp5041-5044. [poster]

Kornel Laskowski and Tanja Schultz (2007), A Supervised Factorial Acoustic Model for Simultaneous Multiparticipant Vocal Activity Detection in Close-Talk Microphone Recordings of Meetings. LTI Technical Report CMU-LTI-07-017, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA, 21 December.

Kornel Laskowski and Susanne Burger (2007), Annotation Guide for Laughter in Multi-Party Conversation. LTI Technical Report CMU-LTI-07-013, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA, 11 December.

Kornel Laskowski, Christian Fügen, and Tanja Schultz (2007), Simultaneous Multispeaker Segmentation for Automatic Meeting Recognition. In proceedings of the 15th EURASIP European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2007), Poznań, Poland, 03-07 September, pp1294-1298. [slides]

Kornel Laskowski, Mari Ostendorf, and Tanja Schultz (2007), Modeling Vocal Interaction for Text-Independent Classification of Conversation Type. In proceedings of the 8th ISCA/ACL SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Antwerpen, Belgium, 01-02 September, pp194-201. [slides]

Kornel Laskowski and Susanne Burger (2007), Analysis of the Occurrence of Laughter in Meetings. In proceedings of the 10th ISCA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH2007), Antwerpen, Belgium, 27-31 August, pp1258-1261. [slides]

Kornel Laskowski and Susanne Burger (2007), On the Correlation between Perceptual and Contextual Aspects of Laughter in Meetings. In proceedings of the Workshop on the Phonetics of Laughter at the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2007), Saarbrücken, Germany, 04-05 August, pp55-60. [slides]

Kornel Laskowski and Tanja Schultz (2007), Modeling Vocal Interaction for Segmentation in Meeting Recognition. In Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (A. Popescu-Belis, S. Renals, and H. Bourlard, eds.), Springer Berlin/Heidelberg (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4892), pp259-270. Presented at the 4th Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI2007), Brno, Czech Republic, 28-30 June.

Kornel Laskowski and Tanja Schultz (2007), A Geometric Interpretation of Non-Target-Normalized Maximum Cross-channel Correlation for Vocal Activity Detection in Meetings. In proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT2007); Companion Volume, Short Papers, Rochester NY, USA, 22-27 April, pp89-92. [poster]

Christian Fügen, Shajith Ikbal, Florian Kraft, Kenichi Kumatani, Kornel Laskowski, John McDonough, Mari Ostendorf, Sebastian Stüker, and Matthias Wölfel (2006), The ISL RT-06S Speech-to-Text System. In Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (S. Renals, S. Bengio, and J. Fiscus, eds.), Springer Berlin/Heidelberg (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4299), pp407-418. Presented at the 3rd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI2006), Washington DC, USA, 01-03 May. [SpringerLink]

Kornel Laskowski (2006), Vocal Interaction in Multiparty Conversation (PhD thesis proposal). Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA, 09 November. [slides; audio: NFA, NFB, NFC, NFD, NFE, FF]

Anton Batliner, Stefan Steidl, Björn Schuller, Dino Seppi, Kornel Laskowski, Thurid Vogt, Laurence Devillers, Laurence Vidrascu, Noam Amir, Loic Kessous, Vered Aharonson (2006), Combining Efforts for Improving Automatic Classification of Emotional User States. In proceedings of the 5th Slovenian and 1st International Language Technologies Conference (IS-LTC 2006), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 09-10 October.

Daniel Neiberg, Kjell Elenius, and Kornel Laskowski (2006), Emotion Recognition in Spontaneous Speech Using GMMs. In proceedings of the 9th ISCA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH2006), Pittsburgh PA, USA, 17-21 September, pp809-812.

Christian Fügen, Matthias Wölfel, John W. McDonnough, Shajith Ikbal, Florian Kraft, Kornel Laskowski, Mari Ostendorf, Sebastian Stüker, and Kenichi Kumatani (2006), Advances in Lecture Recognition: The ISL RT-06S Evaluation System. In proceedings of the 9th ISCA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH2006), Pittsburgh PA, USA, 17-21 September, pp1229-1232.

Daniel Neiberg, Kjell Elenius, Inger Karlsson, and Kornel Laskowski (2006), Emotion Recognition in Spontaneous Speech. In proceedings of the 19th Swedish Phonetics Conference (Fonetik 2006), Lund, Sweden, 07-09 June, pp101-104.

Kornel Laskowski and Susanne Burger (2006), Annotation and Analysis of Emotionally Relevant Behavior in the ISL Meeting Corpus. In proceedings of the 5th ELRA International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2006), Genoa, Italy, 24-26 May. [slides] [pilot work]

Kornel Laskowski and Tanja Schultz (2006), Unsupervised Learning of Overlapped Speech Model Parameters for Multichannel Speech Activity Detection in Meetings. In proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006), Toulouse, France, 14-19 May, pp993-996. [poster: p1, p2]

Kornel Laskowski, Qin Jin, and Tanja Schultz (2004), Crosscorrelation-based Multispeaker Speech Activity Detection. In proceedings of the 8th ISCA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH2004), Jeju Island, South Korea, 04-08 October, pp973-976. [poster]

Florian Metze, Qin Jin, Christian Fügen, Kornel Laskowski, Yue Pan, and Tanja Schultz (2004), Issues in Meeting Transcription - The ISL Meeting Transcription System. In proceedings of the 8th ISCA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH2004), Jeju Island, South Korea, 04-08 October, pp1709-1712.

Qin Jin, Kornel Laskowski, Tanja Schultz, and Alex Waibel (2004), Speaker Segmentation and Clustering in Meetings. In proceedings of the NIST RT-04 Spring Meeting Recognition Evaluation Workshop at the 29th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2004), Montreal, Canada, 17 May.

Tanja Schultz, Qin Jin, Kornel Laskowski, Alicia Tribble, and Alex Waibel (2002), Improvements in Non-verbal Cue Identification Using Multilingual Phone Strings. In proceedings of the Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation: Algorithms and Systems at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2002), Philadelphia PA, USA, 07-12 July, pp101-108.

Alon Lavie, Florian Metze, Roldano Cattoni, Erica Constantini, et al (2002), A Multi-Perspective Evaluation of the NESPOLE! Speech-to-Speech Translation System. In proceedings of the Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation: Algorithms and Systems at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2002), Philadelphia PA, USA, 07-12 July, pp121-128.

Tanja Schultz, Qin Jin, Kornel Laskowski, Alicia Tribble, and Alex Waibel (2002), Speaker, Accent, and Language Identification using Multilingual Phone Strings. In proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Human Language Technology Research (HLT2002) San Diego CA, USA.

Florian Metze, John McDonough, Hagen Soltau, Alex Waibel, Alon Lavie, Susanne Burger, Chad Langley, Kornel Laskowski, Lori Levin, Tanja Schultz, Fabio Pianesi, Roldano Cattoni, Gianni Lazzari, Nadia Mana and Emanuele Pianta. The NESPOLE! Speech-to-Speech Translation System. In proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Human Language Technology Research (HLT2002) San Diego CA, USA.

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