Udhyakumar (Udhay) Nallasamy PhD Student InterACT Labs Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Office 207, InterACT Labs 407, S Craig Street Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Tel (Office): (412) 268-4582 Email: udhay AT cmu DOT edu

I am a PhD candidate in the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
I am adviced by Dr. Tanja Schultz and we try to wreck a nice beach!
I currently work on the GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploitation) project as part of the Rosetta speech team, which also includes researchers from IBM Research and Columbia University.

Research Interests

• Speech recognition
• Spoken dialog systems
• Statistical speech synthesis and voice conversion

Publications

Book Chapters

• Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Mohamed Noamany, Thomas Schaaf, Mark Fuhs and Tanja Schultz, CMU/InterACT Arabic Speech Recognition System for GALE, To appear in GALE Book, 2009.
• Madelaine Plauche, Ozgur Cetin and Udhyakumar Nallasamy, How to build a spoken dialog system with limited (or no) language resources, AI in ICT4D, ICFAI University Press, India, 2008.

Journals

• Madelaine Plauche and Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Speech recognition for equitable access to information technology, International Journal of Information Technologies and International Development (ITID), Vol 4, Issue 1, MIT Press, USA, 2007.

Conferences

• Alan W Black, Gopala Anumanchipalli, John Kominek, Brian Langner, Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Kishore Prahallad, Long Qin, and Arthur Toth, CMU Blizzard 2009: A statistical parametric synthesis approach, Blizzard Challenge Workshop 2009, Edinburgh, UK, 2009.
• Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Alan W Black, Tanja Schultz, Robert Frederking and Jerry Weltman, Speech Translation for Triage of Emergency Phone calls in Minority Languages, Speech Translation for Medical and Other Safety-Critical Applications (SLT4MED), International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Manchester, England, 2008.
• Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Alan W Black, Tanja Schultz and Robert Frederking, NineOneOne: Recognizing and classifying speech for handling minority language emergency calls, International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marrakech, Morocco, 2008.
• Srinivasan C. Janarthanam, Sethu Ramalingam and Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Named Entity Transliteration for Cross-Language Information Retrieval using Compressed Word Format mapping algorithm, Improving Non-English Web Searching (iNews), CIKM Conference Workshop, Nappa Valley, USA, 2008.
• Ozgur Cetin, Udhyakumar Nallasamy and Madelaine Plauche, Unsupervised adaptive speech technology for limited resource languages: A case study for Tamil, International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced languages (SLTU), Hanoi, Vietnam, 2008.
• Srinivasan C. Janarthanam, Udhyakumar Nallasamy, C. S. Kumar and Loganathan R., Robust dependency parser for natural language dialog systems in Tamil, Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI), Hyderabad, India, 2007.
• Madelaine Plauche, Ozgur Cetin and Udhyakumar Nallasamy, How to build a spoken dialog system with limited (or no) language resources, AI in ICT for Development Workshop, International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI), Hyderabad, India, 2007.
• Madelaine Plauche, Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Chuck Wooters, Divya Ramachandran and Joyojeet Pal, Speech Recognition for Illiterate access to Information and Technology, International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD), Berkeley, USA, 2006.
• Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Swaminathan R and Ramakrishnan S. K., Multilingual Speech Recognition for Information Retrieval in Indian Context, Student Research Workshop, HLT/NAACL, Boston, USA, 2004.
• Udhyakumar Nallasamy, C. S. Kumar, Srinivasan R. and Swaminathan R., Decision tree learning for automatic grapheme to phoneme conversion for Tamil, Speech and Computer (SPECOM), St.Petersburgh, Russia, 2004.
• C. S. Kumar, Shunmugom V., Udhyakumar Nallsamy and Srinivasan R., Automatic grapheme to phoneme converter for Tamil using rules, International Conference On Speech and Language Technology (ICSLT-O-COCOSDA), New Delhi, India, 2004.