Publications

• Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, " Investigations of Issues for Using Multiple Acoustic Models to Improve Continuous Speech Recognition", Proc. of ICSLP 2006.
• Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "A New Data Selection Principle for Semi-Supervised Incremental Learning", Proc. of ICPR 2006.
• Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "A New Data Selection Approach for Semi-Supervised Acoustic Modeling", Proc. of ICASSP 2006.
• Rong Zhang, Ziad Al Bawab, Arthur Chan, Ananlada Chotimongkol, David Huggins-Daines, and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "Investigations on Ensemble Based Semi-Supervised Acoustic Model Training", Proc. of Eurospeech 2005.
• Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "Apply N-Best List Re-Ranking to Acoustic Model Combinations of Boosting Training", Proc. of ICSLP 2004.
• Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "A Frame Level Boosting Training Scheme for Acoustic Modeling", Proc. of ICSLP 2004.
• Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "Optimizing Boosting with Discriminative Criteria", Proc. of ICSLP 2004.
• Satanjeev Banerjee, Jason Cohen, Thomas Quisel, Arthur Chan, Yash Patodia, Ziad Al Bawab, Rong Zhang, Alan Black, Richard Stern, Roni Rosenfeld, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Paul Rybski, and Manuela Veloso, "Creating Multi-Modal, User-Centric Records of Meetings with the Carnegie Mellon Meeting Recorder Architecture", Proc. of ICASSP 2004 Meeting Recognition Workshop.
• Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "Comparative Study of Boosting and Non-Boosting Training for Constructing Ensembles of Acoustic Models", Proc. of Eurospeech 2003.
• Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "Improving the Performance of an LVCSR System through Ensembles of Acoustic Models", Proc. of ICASSP 2003.
• Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "Improve Latent Semantic Analysis based Language Model by Integrating Multiple Level Knowledge", Proc. of ICSLP 2002.
• Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "A Large Scale Clustering Scheme for Kernel K-Means", Proc. of ICPR 2002.
• Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "Word Level Confidence Annotation using Combinations of Features", Proc. of EuroSpeech 2001.
• Paul Carpenter, Chun Jin, Daniel Wilson, Rong Zhang, Dan Bohus and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "Is This Conversation on Track?", Proc. of EuroSpeech 2001.
• Yanyan Zhang and Rong Zhang, “A New Consonant/Vowel Cutting and Consonant Classification Method Based on Temporal Parameters”, (in Chinese), Proc. of NCMMSC 1996.
• Rong Zhang, Zhaoxiong Chen and Heyan Huang, “An Improved Multi-Section Quantization Model with Application to Chinese Digits Recognition”, Proc. of ICSP 1996.
  

Presentations & Talks

• "Investigations of Data Selection Criteria for Light-Supervised Acoustic Model Training", DARPA GALE PI Meeting, Oct. 2006.
• "Investigations of Boosting Algorithm in Acoustic Modeling", DARPA GALE Project Meeting, Dec. 2005.
• "Detect Speech from Echo and Silence", IBM Intern Summary Talk, Aug. 2005.
• "Word Level Confidence Annotation for the CMU Communicator System", DARPA Communicator Project Meeting, June 2001.

Thesis Proposals

• "Improving the Performance of LVCSR Using Ensemble of Acoustic Models", 2005.