Computer Speech & Language, Volume 12

Volume 12, Number 1, January 1998

• Mauro Cettolo, Anna Corazza, Renato de Mori:
  Language portability of a speech understanding system. 1-21
  
• Johan A. du Preez:
  Efficient training of high-order hidden Markov models using first-order representations. 23-39
  
• Tomoko Matsui, Sadaoki Furui:
  N-Best-based unsupervised speaker adaptation for speech recognition. 41-50
  
• Jacob Goldberger, David Burshtein:
  Scaled random trajectory segment models. 51-73
  

Volume 12, Number 2, April 1998

• M. J. F. Gales:
  Maximum likelihood linear transformations for HMM-based speech recognition. 75-98
  
• Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black:
  Assigning phrase breaks from part-of-speech sequences. 99-117
  
• Paul C. Bagshaw:
  Phonemic transcription by analogy in text-to-speech synthesis: Novel word pronunciation and lexicon compression. 119-142
  

Volume 12, Number 3, June 1998

• Kees van Deemter:
  A blackboard model of accenting. 143-164
  
• Wei-Wen Hung, Hsiao-Chuan Wang:
  Improvement of noisy speech recognition using a proportional alignment decoding algorithm in the training phase. 165-192
  
• Antonio Castellanos, Enrique Vidal, Miguel Angel Varó, José Oncina:
  Language understanding and subsequential transducer learning. 193-228
  
• Toshiaki Fukada, Kuldip K. Paliwal, Yoshinori Sagisaka:
  Model parameter estimation for mixture density polynomial segment models. 229-246
  

Volume 12, Number 4, October 1998

• Robert J. Gaizauskas:
  Evaluation in language and speech technology. 249-262
  
• S. J. Young, L. L. Chase:
  Speech recognition evaluation: a review of the U.S. CSR and LVCSR programmes^, . 263-279
  
• Lynette Hirschman:
  The Evolution of evaluation: Lessons from the Message Understanding Conferences. 281-305
  
• Joseph-Jean Mariani:
  Some evaluation-based language engineering actions for French. 307-316
  
• Marilyn A. Walker, Diane J. Litman, Candace A. Kamm, Alicia Abella:
  Evaluating spoken dialogue agents with PARADISE: Two case studies. 317-347
  
• Chris Mellish, R. Dale:
  Evaluation in the context of natural language generation. 349-373
  
• S. J. Cox, P. W. Linford, W. B. Hill, R. D. Johnston:
  Towards speech recognizer assessment using a human reference standard. 375-391
  
• F. Yvon, Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Christophe d'Alessandro, Véronique Aubergé, M. Bagein, Gérard Bailly, F. Béchet, S. Foukia, J.-F. Goldman, E. Keller, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy, V. Pagel, F. Sannier, J. Véronis, B. Zellner:
  Objective evaluation of grapheme to phoneme conversion for text-to-speech synthesis in French. 393-410
  
• Stephan Oepen, Dan Flickinger:
  Towards systematic grammar profiling.Test suite technology 10 years after. 411-435
  
• Gerit P. Sonntag, Thomas Portele:
  PURR - A method for prosody evaluation and investigation. 437-451
  
• Adam Kilgarriff:
  Gold standard datasets for evaluating word sense disambiguation programs. 453-472