William J. Byrne

John Dines, Hui Liang, Lakshmi Saheer, Matthew Gibson, William Byrne, Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Mirjam Wester, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo: Personalising speech-to-speech translation: Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis. Computer Speech & Language 27(2): 420-437 (2013)

Adrià de Gispert, Graeme W. Blackwood, Gonzalo Iglesias, William Byrne: N-gram posterior probability confidence measures for statistical machine translation: an empirical study. Machine Translation 27(2): 85-114 (2013)

Matt Shannon, Heiga Zen, William Byrne: Autoregressive Models for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 21(3): 587-597 (2013)

Juan Pino, Aurelien Waite, William Byrne: Simple and Efficient Model Filtering in Statistical Machine Translation. Prague Bull. Math. Linguistics 98: 5-24 (2012)

Kei Hashimoto, Junichi Yamagishi, William Byrne, Simon King, Keiichi Tokuda: Impacts of machine translation and speech synthesis on speech-to-speech translation. Speech Communication 54(7): 857-866 (2012)

William Byrne, Russell Beale, Richard Clay: Suburban Birmingham: designing accessible cultural history using multi-touch tables. BCS HCI 2012: 21-28

Gonzalo Iglesias, Cyril Allauzen, William Byrne, Adrià de Gispert, Michael Riley: Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Representations. EMNLP 2011: 1373-1383

Kei Hashimoto, Junichi Yamagishi, William J. Byrne, Simon King, Keiichi Tokuda: An analysis of machine translation and speech synthesis in speech-to-speech translation system. ICASSP 2011: 5108-5111

Chris P. Bowers, William Byrne, Benjamin R. Cowan, Chris Creed, Robert J. Hendley, Russell Beale: Choosing your Moment: Interruptions in Multimedia Annotation. INTERACT (2) 2011: 438-453

Matt Shannon, Heiga Zen, William J. Byrne: The Effect of Using Normalized Models in Statistical Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2011: 121-124

Adrià de Gispert, Gonzalo Iglesias, Graeme W. Blackwood, Eduardo Rodríguez Banga, William Byrne: Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation with Weighted Finite-State Transducers and Shallow-n Grammars. Computational Linguistics 36(3): 505-533 (2010)

Graeme W. Blackwood, Adrià de Gispert, William J. Byrne: Efficient Path Counting Transducers for Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding of Statistical Machine Translation Lattices. ACL (Short Papers) 2010: 27-32

Mikko Kurimo, William Byrne, John Dines, Philip N. Garner, Matthew Gibson, Yong Guan, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Simon King, Hui Liang, Keiichiro Oura, Lakshmi Saheer, Matt Shannon, Sayaki Shiota, Jilei Tian: Personalising Speech-To-Speech Translation in the EMIME Project. ACL (System Demonstrations) 2010: 48-53

Graeme W. Blackwood, Adrià de Gispert, William Byrne: Fluency Constraints for Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding of Statistical Machine Translation Lattices. COLING 2010: 71-79

Adrià de Gispert, Juan Pino, William J. Byrne: Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation Grammars Extracted from Alignment Posterior Probabilities. EMNLP 2010: 545-554

Matthew Gibson, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo, William Byrne: Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis using two-pass decision tree construction. ICASSP 2010: 4642-4645

Matt Shannon, William Byrne: Autoregressive clustering for HMM speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2010: 829-832

Gonzalo Iglesias, Adrià de Gispert, Eduardo Rodríguez Banga, William Byrne: El Sistema HiFST Aplicado a la Tarea de Castellano-Inglés del Europarl. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 43: 207-214 (2009)

Mikko Kurimo, Sami Virpioja, Ville T. Turunen, Graeme W. Blackwood, William Byrne: Overview and Results of Morpho Challenge 2009. CLEF (1) 2009: 578-597

Gonzalo Iglesias, Adrià de Gispert, Eduardo Rodríguez Banga, William J. Byrne: Rule Filtering by Pattern for Efficient Hierarchical Translation. EACL 2009: 380-388

Matt Shannon, William Byrne: Autoregressive HMMs for speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2009: 400-403

Adrià de Gispert, Sami Virpioja, Mikko Kurimo, William J. Byrne: Minimum Bayes Risk Combination of Translation Hypotheses from Alternative Morphological Decompositions. HLT-NAACL (Short Papers) 2009: 73-76

Jamie Brunning, Adrià de Gispert, William J. Byrne: Context-Dependent Alignment Models for Statistical Machine Translation. HLT-NAACL 2009: 110-118

Gonzalo Iglesias, Adrià de Gispert, Eduardo Rodríguez Banga, William J. Byrne: Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers. HLT-NAACL 2009: 433-441

Yonggang Deng, William J. Byrne: HMM Word and Phrase Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 16(3): 494-507 (2008)

Graeme W. Blackwood, Adrià de Gispert, William Byrne: Phrasal Segmentation Models for Statistical Machine Translation. COLING (Posters) 2008: 19-22

Graeme W. Blackwood, Adrià de Gispert, Jamie Brunning, William Byrne: Large-Scale Statistical Machine Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers. FSMNLP 2008: 39-49

Fred Morris, Barbara Bullock, William Byrne: The academic computers for TERPS (ACT) program at the University of Maryland College Park. SIGUCCS 2008: 325-326

Veera Venkataramani, Shantanu Chakrabartty, William Byrne: Ginisupport vector machines for segmental minimum Bayes risk decoding of continuous speech. Computer Speech & Language 21(3): 423-442 (2007)

Yonggang Deng, Shankar Kumar, William Byrne: Segmentation and alignment of parallel text for statistical machine translation. Natural Language Engineering 13(3): 235-260 (2007)

Xunying Liu, William J. Byrne, Mark J. F. Gales, Adrià de Gispert, Marcus Tomalin, Philip C. Woodland, Kai Yu: Discriminative language model adaptation for Mandarin broadcast speech transcription and translation. ASRU 2007: 153-158

Hujun Yin, Peter Tiño, Emilio Corchado, William Byrne, Xin Yao (Eds.): Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2007, 8th International Conference, Birmingham, UK, December 16-19, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4881, Springer 2007, isbn 978-3-540-77225-5

William Byrne: Minimum Bayes Risk Estimation and Decoding in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition. IEICE Transactions 89-D(3): 900-907 (2006)

Jing Li, Thomas Zheng, William Byrne, Daniel Jurafsky: A Dialectal Chinese Speech Recognition Framework. J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 21(1): 106-115 (2006)

Shankar Kumar, Yonggang Deng, William Byrne: A weighted finite state transducer translation template model for statistical machine translation. Natural Language Engineering 12(1): 35-75 (2006)

Vlasios Doumpiotis, William Byrne: Lattice segmentation and minimum Bayes risk discriminative training for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. Speech Communication 48(2): 142-160 (2006)

Vaibhava Goel, Shankar Kumar, William Byrne: Corrections to "Segmental minimum Bayes-risk decoding for automatic speech recognition". IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 14(1): 356-357 (2006)

Yonggang Deng, William J. Byrne: MTTK: An Alignment Toolkit for Statistical Machine Translation. HLT-NAACL 2006

Asela Gunawardana, William Byrne: Convergence Theorems for Generalized Alternating Minimization Procedures. Journal of Machine Learning Research 6: 2049-2073 (2005)

Eric Fosler-Lussier, William Byrne, Daniel Jurafsky: Editorial. Speech Communication 46(2): 117-118 (2005)

Stavros Tsakalidis, Vlasios Doumpiotis, William J. Byrne: Discriminative linear transforms for feature normalization and speaker adaptation in HMM estimation. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing 13(3): 367-376 (2005)

Josef Psutka, Pavel Ircing, Josef V. Psutka, Jan Hajic, William J. Byrne, Jirí Mírovský: Automatic transcription of Czech, Russian, and Slovak spontaneous speech in the MALACH project. INTERSPEECH 2005: 1349-1352

Yonggang Deng, William J. Byrne: HMM Word and Phrase Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation. HLT/EMNLP 2005

Shankar Kumar, William J. Byrne: Local Phrase Reordering Models for Statistical Machine Translation. HLT/EMNLP 2005

Vaibhava Goel, Shankar Kumar, William Byrne: Segmental minimum Bayes-risk decoding for automatic speech recognition. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing 12(3): 234-249 (2004)

William Byrne, David S. Doermann, Martin Franz, Samuel Gustman, Jan Hajic, Douglas W. Oard, Michael Picheny, Josef Psutka, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Dagobert Soergel, Todd Ward, Wei-Jing Zhu: Automatic recognition of spontaneous speech for access to multilingual oral history archives. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing 12(4): 420-435 (2004)

Vlasios Doumpiotis, William Byrne: Pinched lattice minimum Bayes risk discriminative training for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. INTERSPEECH 2004

Izhak Shafran, William Byrne: Task-specific minimum Bayes-risk decoding using learned edit distance. INTERSPEECH 2004

Josef Psutka, Pavel Ircing, Jan Hajic, Vlasta Radová, Josef V. Psutka, William J. Byrne, Samuel Gustman: Issues in Annotation of the Czech Spontaneous Speech Corpus in the MALACH project. LREC 2004

Shankar Kumar, William J. Byrne: Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation. HLT-NAACL 2004: 169-176

Vlasios Doumpiotis, Stavros Tsakalidis, William J. Byrne: Lattice segmentation and minimum Bayes risk discriminative training. INTERSPEECH 2003

Josef Psutka, Pavel Ircing, Josef V. Psutka, Vlasta Radová, William J. Byrne, Jan Hajic, Jirí Mírovský, Samuel Gustman: Large vocabulary ASR for spontaneous czech in the MALACH project. INTERSPEECH 2003

Okan Kolak, William J. Byrne, Philip Resnik: A Generative Probabilistic OCR Model for NLP Applications. HLT-NAACL 2003

Shankar Kumar, William J. Byrne: A Weighted Finite State Transducer Implementation of the Alignment Template Model for Statistical Machine Translation. HLT-NAACL 2003

Douglas W. Oard, David S. Doermann, Bonnie J. Dorr, Daqing He, Philip Resnik, Amy Weinberg, William J. Byrne, Sanjeev Khudanpur, David Yarowsky, Anton Leuski, Philipp Koehn, Kevin Knight: Desparately Seeking Cebuano. HLT-NAACL 2003

Josef Psutka, Pavel Ircing, Josef V. Psutka, Vlasta Radová, William J. Byrne, Veera Venkataramani, Jan Hajic, Samuel Gustman: Towards Automatic Transcription of Spontaneous Czech Speech in the MALACH Project. TSD 2003: 214-219

Josef Psutka, Ilja Iljuchin, Pavel Ircing, Josef V. Psutka, Václav Trejbal, William J. Byrne, Jan Hajic, Samuel Gustman: Building LVCSR System for Transcription of Spontaneously Pronounced Russian Testimonies in the MALACH Project: Initial Steps and First Results. TSD 2003: 327-332

Thomas Fang Zheng, Zhanjiang Song, Pascale Fung, William J. Byrne: Mandarin Pronunciation Modeling Based on CASS Corpus. J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 17(3): 249-263 (2002)

Shankar Kumar, William Byrne: Risk based lattice cutting for segmental minimum Bayes-risk decoding. INTERSPEECH 2002

Stavros Tsakalidis, Vlasios Doumpiotis, William Byrne: Discriminative linear transforms for feature normalization and speaker adaptation in HMM estimation. INTERSPEECH 2002

Thomas Fang Zheng, Zhanjiang Song, Pascale Fung, William Byrne: Reducing pronunciation lexicon confusion and using more data without phonetic transcription for pronunciation modeling. INTERSPEECH 2002

Samuel Gustman, Dagobert Soergel, Douglas W. Oard, William J. Byrne, Michael Picheny, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Douglas Greenberg: Supporting access to large digital oral history archives. JCDL 2002: 18-27

Douglas W. Oard, Dina Demner-Fushman, Jan Hajic, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Samuel Gustman, William J. Byrne, Dagobert Soergel, Bonnie J. Dorr, Philip Resnik, Michael Picheny: Cross-Language Access to Recorded Speech in the MALACH Project. TSD 2002: 57-64

Josef Psutka, Pavel Ircing, Josef V. Psutka, Vlasta Radová, William J. Byrne, Jan Hajic, Samuel Gustman, Bhuvana Ramabhadran: Automatic Transcription of Czech Language Oral History in the MALACH Project: Resources and Initial Experiments. TSD 2002: 253-260

Asela Gunawardana, William Byrne: Discounted likelihood linear regression for rapid speaker adaptation. Computer Speech & Language 15(1): 15-38 (2001)

Thomas Fang Zheng, Zhanjiang Song, Pascale Fung, William Byrne: Modeling pronunciation variation using context-dependent weighting and b/s refined acoustic modeling. INTERSPEECH 2001: 57-60

Pavel Ircing, Pavel Krbec, Jan Hajic, Josef Psutka, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Frederick Jelinek, William Byrne: On large vocabulary continuous speech recognition of highly inflectional language - czech. INTERSPEECH 2001: 487-490

Asela Gunawardana, William Byrne: Discriminative speaker adaptation with conditional maximum likelihood linear regression. INTERSPEECH 2001: 1203-1206

Vaibhava Goel, Shankar Kumar, William Byrne: Confidence based lattice segmentation and minimum Bayes-risk decoding. INTERSPEECH 2001: 2569-2572

Vaibhava Goel, William J. Byrne: Minimum Bayes-risk automatic speech recognition. Computer Speech & Language 14(2): 115-135 (2000)

William Byrne, Asela Gunawardana: Comments on "Efficient training algorithms for HMMs using incremental estimation". IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing 8(6): 751-754 (2000)

Vaibhava Goel, Shankar Kumar, William Byrne: Segmental minimum Bayes-risk ASR voting strategies. INTERSPEECH 2000: 139-142

Aijun Li, Fang Zheng, William Byrne, Pascale Fung, Terri Kamm, Yi Liu, Zhanjiang Song, Umar Ruhi, Veera Venkataramani, Xiaoxia Chen: CASS: a phonetically transcribed corpus of mandarin spontaneous speech. INTERSPEECH 2000: 485-488

Dimitra Vergyri, Stavros Tsakalidis, William Byrne: Minimum risk acoustic clustering for multilingual acoustic model combination. INTERSPEECH 2000: 873-876

William J. Byrne, Jan Hajic, Pavel Krbec, Pavel Ircing, Josef Psutka: Morpheme Based Language Models for Speech Recognition of Czech. TSD 2000: 211-216

Michael Riley, William Byrne, Michael Finke, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Andrej Ljolje, John W. McDonough, Harriet J. Nock, Murat Saraclar, Charles Wooters, George Zavaliagkos: Stochastic pronunciation modelling from hand-labelled phonetic corpora. Speech Communication 29(2-4): 209-224 (1999)

William Byrne, Asela Gunawardana: Discounted likelihood linear regression for rapid adaptation. EUROSPEECH 1999

Vaibhava Goel, William Byrne: Task dependent loss functions in speech recognition: a* search over recognition lattices. EUROSPEECH 1999

John W. McDonough, William Byrne: Single-pass adapted training with all-pass transforms. EUROSPEECH 1999

William J. Byrne, Jan Hajic, Pavel Ircing, Frederick Jelinek, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Jerome McDonough, N. Peterek, Josef Psutka: Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition for Read and Broadcast Czech. TSD 1999: 235-240

John W. McDonough, William Byrne, Xiaoqiang Luo: Speaker normalization with all-pass transforms. ICSLP 1998

Stephen J. Young, Philip C. Woodland, William J. Byrne: Spontaneous speech recognition for the credit card corpus using the HTK toolkit. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing 2(4): 615-621 (1994)

William J. Byrne: Survivability of financial networks - a Canadian model. ICCC 1988: 99-103

William J. Byrne: Financial Services Networking-Electronic Payments - A Canadian Perspective. ICCC 1986: 136-141