Yasuhiro Minami

Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Yasuhiro Minami: Preference-learning based Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Dialog Control. INTERSPEECH 2012

Toyomi Meguro, Yasuhiro Minami, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka: Wizard of Oz evaluation of listening-oriented dialogue control using POMDP. ASRU 2011: 318-323

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Noriaki Kawamae, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Yasuhiro Minami, Toyomi Meguro, Kohji Dohsaka, Hirohito Inagaki: Building a conversational model from two-tweets. ASRU 2011: 330-335

Hiroaki Sugiyama, Yasuhiro Minami: Information provision-timing control for informational assistance robot. HRI 2011: 259-260

Toyomi Meguro, Yasuhiro Minami, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka: Evaluation of Listening-Oriented Dialogue Control Rules Based on the Analysis of HMMs. INTERSPEECH 2011: 809-812

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Noriaki Kawamae, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Yasuhiro Minami, Toyomi Meguro, Kohji Dohsaka, Hirohito Inagaki: Unsupervised Clustering of Utterances Using Non-Parametric Bayesian Methods. INTERSPEECH 2011: 2081-2084

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Hitoshi Nishikawa, Kohji Dohsaka, Toyomi Meguro, Satoshi Takahashi, Gen-ichiro Kikui: Learning to Model Domain-Specific Utterance Sequences for Extractive Summarization of Contact Center Dialogues. COLING (Posters) 2010: 400-408

Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Kohji Dohsaka: Controlling Listening-oriented Dialogue using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes. COLING 2010: 761-769

Kazuo Aoyama, Shinji Watanabe, Hiroshi Sawada, Yasuhiro Minami, Naonori Ueda, Kazumi Saito: Fast similarity search on a large speech data set with neighborhood graph indexing. ICASSP 2010: 5358-5361

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Kohji Dohsaka, Toyomi Meguro: Issues in Predicting User Satisfaction Transitions in Dialogues: Individual Differences, Evaluation Criteria, and Prediction Models. IWSDS 2010: 48-60

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Kohji Dohsaka, Toyomi Meguro: Modeling User Satisfaction Transitions in Dialogues from Overall Ratings. SIGDIAL Conference 2010: 18-27

Kohji Dohsaka, Atsushi Kanemoto, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Eisaku Maeda: User-adaptive Coordination of Agent Communicative Behavior in Spoken Dialogue. SIGDIAL Conference 2010: 314-321

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Hitoshi Nishikawa, Kohji Dohsaka, Toyomi Meguro, Satoshi Kobashikawa, Hirokazu Masataki, Osamu Yoshioka, Satoshi Takahashi, Gen-ichiro Kikui: Improving hmm-based extractive summarization for multi-domain contact center dialogues. SLT 2010: 61-66

Yasuhiro Minami, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Toyomi Meguro, Eisaku Maeda: Trigram dialogue control using POMDPs. SLT 2010: 336-341

Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Hideki Isozaki: Analysis of Listening-Oriented Dialogue for Building Listening Agents. SIGDIAL Conference 2009: 124-127

Kohji Dohsaka, Ryota Asai, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Eisaku Maeda: Effects of Conversational Agents on Human Communication in Thought-Evoking Multi-Party Dialogues. SIGDIAL Conference 2009: 217-224

Minako Sawaki, Yasuhiro Minami, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Eisaku Maeda: "Who is this" quiz dialogue system and users' evaluation. SLT 2008: 149-152

Takaaki Hori, Chiori Hori, Yasuhiro Minami, Atsushi Nakamura: Efficient WFST-Based One-Pass Decoding With On-The-Fly Hypothesis Rescoring in Extremely Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 15(4): 1352-1365 (2007)

Yasuhiro Minami: Mixture Gaussian HMM-trajctory method using likelihood compensation. ASRU 2007: 296-299

Yasuhiro Minami, Minako Sawaki, Kohji Dohsaka, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kentaro Ishizuka, Hideki Isozaki, Tatsushi Matsubayashi, Masato Miyoshi, Atsushi Nakamura, Takanobu Oba, Hiroshi Sawada, Takeshi Yamada, Eisaku Maeda: The world of mushrooms: human-computer interaction prototype systems for ambient intelligence. ICMI 2007: 366-373

Parham Zolfaghari, Hiroko Kato, Yasuhiro Minami, Atsushi Nakamura, Shigeru Katagiri, Roy Patterson: Dynamic Assignment of Gaussian Components in Modelling Speech Spectra. VLSI Signal Processing 45(1-2): 7-19 (2006)

Shinji Watanabe, Yasuhiro Minami, Atsushi Nakamura, Naonori Ueda: Selection of Shared-State Hidden Markov Model Structure Using Bayesian Criterion. IEICE Transactions 88-D(1): 1-9 (2005)

Shinji Watanabe, Yasuhiro Minami, Atsushi Nakamura, Naonori Ueda: Variational bayesian estimation and clustering for speech recognition. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing 12(4): 365-381 (2004)

Takaaki Hori, Chiori Hori, Yasuhiro Minami: Fast on-the-fly composition for weighted finite-state transducers in 1.8 million-word vocabulary continuous speech recognition. INTERSPEECH 2004

Kentaro Ishizuka, Noboru Miyazaki, Tomohiro Nakatani, Yasuhiro Minami: Improvement in robustness of speech feature extraction method using sub-band based periodicity and aperiodicity decomposition. INTERSPEECH 2004

Yasuhiro Minami, Erik McDermott, Atsushi Nakamura, Shigeru Katagiri: A theoretical analysis of speech recognition based on feature trajectory models. INTERSPEECH 2004

Takaaki Hori, Chiori Hori, Yasuhiro Minami: Speech summarization using weighted finite-state transducers. INTERSPEECH 2003

Yasuhiro Minami, Erik McDermott, Atsushi Nakamura, Shigeru Katagiri: A recognition method with parametric trajectory synthesized using direct relations between static and dynamic feature vector time series. ICASSP 2002: 957-960

Toshio Irino, Yasuhiro Minami, Tomohiro Nakatani, Minoru Tsuzaki, H. Tagawa: Evaluation of a speech recognition / generation method based on HMM and straight. INTERSPEECH 2002

Shinji Watanabe, Yasuhiro Minami, Atsushi Nakamura, Naonori Ueda: Constructing shared-state hidden Markov models based on a Bayesian approach. INTERSPEECH 2002

Shinji Watanabe, Yasuhiro Minami, Atsushi Nakamura, Naonori Ueda: Application of Variational Bayesian Approach to Speech Recognition. NIPS 2002: 1237-1244

Daniel Willett, Erik McDermott, Yasuhiro Minami, Shigeru Katagiri: Time and memory efficient viterbi decoding for LVCSR using a precompiled search network. INTERSPEECH 2001: 847-850

Mikio Nakano, Yasuhiro Minami, Stephanie Seneff, Timothy J. Hazen, D. Scott Cyphers, James R. Glass, Joseph Polifroni, Victor Zue: Mokusei: a telephone-based Japanese conversational system in the weather domain. INTERSPEECH 2001: 1331-1334

Etienne Bauche, Bojana Gajic, Yasuhiro Minami, Tatsuo Matsuoka, Sadaoki Furui: Connected digit recognition in spontaneous speech. EUROSPEECH 1997

Yasuhiro Minami, Sadaoki Furui: Improved extended HMM composition by incorporating power variance. ICSLP 1996

Osamu Yoshioka, Yasuhiro Minami, Kiyohiro Shikano: A Speech Dialogue System with Multimodal Interface for Telephone Directory Assistance. IEICE Transactions 78-D(6): 616-621 (1995)

Satoshi Takahashi, Yasuhiro Minami, Kiyohiro Shikano: An HMM State Duration Control Algorithm Applied to Large-Vocabulary Spontaneous Speech Recognition. IEICE Transactions 78-D(6): 648-653 (1995)

Yasuhiro Minami, Kiyohiro Shikano, Satoshi Takahashi, Tomokazu Yamada, Osamu Yoshioka, Sadaoki Furui: Large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition algorithm applied to a multi-modal telephone directory assistance system. Speech Communication 15(3-4): 301-310 (1994)

Satoshi Takahashi, Yasuhiro Minami, Kiyohiro Shikano: An HMM duration control algorithm with a low computational cost. ICSLP 1994

Osamu Yoshioka, Yasuhiro Minami, Kiyohiro Shikano: A multi-modal dialogue system for telephone directory assistance. ICSLP 1994

Yasuhiro Minami, Kiyohiro Shikano, Osamu Yoshioka, Satoshi Takahashi, Tomokazu Yamada, Sadaoki Furui: A Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Algorithm and its Application to a Multi-Modal Telephone Directory Assistance System. HLT 1994

Franck Martin, Kiyohiro Shikano, Yasuhiro Minami: Recognition of noisy speech by composition of hidden Markov models. EUROSPEECH 1993

Yasuhiro Minami, Kiyohiro Shikano, Tomokazu Yamada, Tatsuo Matsuoka: Very-large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition algorithm for telephone directory assistance. EUROSPEECH 1993

Yasuhiro Minami, Tatsuo Matsuoka, Kiyohiro Shikano: Phoneme HMM evaluation algorithm without phoneme labeling. ICSLP 1992

Yasuhiro Minami, Hidefumi Sawai, Masanori Miyatake: Large-vocabulary spoken word recognition using time-delay neural network phoneme spotting and predictive lr-parsing. Systems and Computers in Japan 22(1): 99-108 (1991)

Yasuhiro Minami, Toshiyuki Hanazawa, Hitoshi Iwamida, Erik McDermott, Kiyohiro Shikano, Shigeru Katagiri, Masaona Kagawa: On the robustness of HMM and ANN speech recognition algorithms. ICSLP 1990