Klaus Zechner - RankMe

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Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2024	—	`—`	Automatic Summarization of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains Klaus Zechner
2021	—	`conf`	A Good Start is Half the Battle Won: Unsupervised Pre-training for Low Resource Children's Speech Recognition for an Interactive Reading Companion. AIED (1) Abhinav Misra, Anastassia Loukina, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Binod Gyawali, Klaus Zechner
2020	A	`conf`	Do Face Masks Introduce Bias in Speech Technologies? The Case of Automated Scoring of Speaking Proficiency. INTERSPEECH Anastassia Loukina, Keelan Evanini, Matthew Mulholland, Ian Blood, Klaus Zechner
2020	J	`jnl`	Do face masks introduce bias in speech technologies? The case of automated scoring of speaking proficiency. CoRR Anastassia Loukina, Keelan Evanini, Matthew Mulholland, Ian Blood, Klaus Zechner
2020	A	`conf`	Targeted Content Feedback in Spoken Language Learning and Assessment. INTERSPEECH Xinhao Wang, Klaus Zechner, Christopher Hamill
2019	A	`conf`	Automated Estimation of Oral Reading Fluency During Summer Camp e-Book Reading with MyTurnToRead. INTERSPEECH Anastassia Loukina, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Patrick L. Lange, Yao Qian, Binod Gyawali, Nitin Madnani, Abhinav Misra, Klaus Zechner, Zuowei Wang, John Sabatini
2019	A	`conf`	Automatic Detection of Off-Topic Spoken Responses Using Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. INTERSPEECH Xinhao Wang, Su-Youn Yoon, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner, Yao Qian
2019	A	`conf`	Development of Robust Automated Scoring Models Using Adversarial Input for Oral Proficiency Assessment. INTERSPEECH Su-Youn Yoon, Chong Min Lee, Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini
2019	—	`conf`	The many dimensions of algorithmic fairness in educational applications. BEA@ACL Anastassia Loukina, Nitin Madnani, Klaus Zechner
2019	—	`conf`	Toward Automated Content Feedback Generation for Non-native Spontaneous Speech. BEA@ACL Su-Youn Yoon, Ching-Ni Hsieh, Klaus Zechner, Matthew Mulholland, Yuan Wang, Nitin Madnani
2019	C	`conf`	Using Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Automatically Detect Plagiarized Spoken Responses. ASRU Xinhao Wang, Keelan Evanini, Yao Qian, Klaus Zechner
2018	—	`conf`	Atypical Inputs in Educational Applications. NAACL-HLT (3) Su-Youn Yoon, Aoife Cahill, Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, Brian Riordan, Nitin Madnani
2018	—	`conf`	Discourse Modeling of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech Using the Rhetorical Structure Theory Framework. SLT Xinhao Wang, Binod Gyawali, James V. Bruno, Hillary R. Molloy, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
2018	—	`conf`	Using exemplar responses for training and evaluating automated speech scoring systems. BEA@NAACL-HLT Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, James V. Bruno, Beata Beigman Klebanov
2017	J	`jnl`	Combining human and automated scores for the improved assessment of non-native speech. Speech Commun. Su-Youn Yoon, Klaus Zechner
2017	J	`jnl`	Comparative evaluation of automated scoring of syntactic competence of non-native speakers. Comput. Hum. Behav. Klaus Zechner, Su-Youn Yoon, Suma Bhat, Chee Wee Leong
2017	—	`conf`	Discourse Annotation of Non-native Spontaneous Spoken Responses Using the Rhetorical Structure Theory Framework. ACL (2) Xinhao Wang, James V. Bruno, Hillary Molloy, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
2017	—	`conf`	Modeling Discourse Coherence for the Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Spoken Responses. SLaTE Xinhao Wang, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner, Matthew Mulholland
2016	Misc	`conf`	Exploring deep learning architectures for automatically grading non-native spontaneous speech. ICASSP Jidong Tao, Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan, Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner
2015	A	`conf`	Expert and crowdsourced annotation of pronunciation errors for automatic scoring systems. INTERSPEECH Anastassia Loukina, Melissa Lopez, Keelan Evanini, David Suendermann-Oeft, Klaus Zechner
2015	—	`conf`	Feature selection for automated speech scoring. BEA@NAACL-HLT Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, Lei Chen, Michael Heilman
2015	A	`conf`	Pronunciation accuracy and intelligibility of non-native speech. INTERSPEECH Anastassia Loukina, Melissa Lopez, Keelan Evanini, David Suendermann-Oeft, Alexei V. Ivanov, Klaus Zechner
2015	A	`conf`	Using F0 contours to assess nativeness in a sentence repeat task. INTERSPEECH Min Ma, Keelan Evanini, Anastassia Loukina, Xinhao Wang, Klaus Zechner
2015	C	`conf`	Using bidirectional lstm recurrent neural networks to learn high-level abstractions of sequential features for automated scoring of non-native spontaneous speech. ASRU Zhou Yu, Vikram Ramanarayanan, David Suendermann-Oeft, Xinhao Wang, Klaus Zechner, Lei Chen, Jidong Tao, Aliaksei Ivanou, Yao Qian
2014	—	`conf`	Automated scoring of speaking items in an assessment for teachers of English as a Foreign Language. BEA@ACL Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, Su-Youn Yoon, Lawrence Davis, Xinhao Wang, Lei Chen, Chong Min Lee, Chee Wee Leong
2014	—	`conf`	Automatic evaluation of spoken summaries: the case of language assessment. BEA@ACL Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, Lei Chen
2013	—	`conf`	Applying rhythm metrics to non-native spontaneous speech. SLaTE Catherine Lai, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
2013	—	`conf`	Automated Content Scoring of Spoken Responses in an Assessment for Teachers of English. BEA@NAACL-HLT Klaus Zechner, Xinhao Wang
2013	—	`conf`	Automated content scoring of spoken responses containing multiple parts with factual information. SLaTE Wenting Xiong, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner, Lei Chen
2013	—	`conf`	Coherence Modeling for the Automated Assessment of Spontaneous Spoken Responses. HLT-NAACL Xinhao Wang, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
2013	—	`conf`	Prompt-based Content Scoring for Automated Spoken Language Assessment. BEA@NAACL-HLT Keelan Evanini, Shasha Xie, Klaus Zechner
2012	—	`conf`	Exploring Content Features for Automated Speech Scoring. HLT-NAACL Shasha Xie, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
2012	—	`conf`	Using an Ontology for Improved Automated Content Scoring of Spontaneous Non-Native Speech. BEA@NAACL-HLT Miao Chen, Klaus Zechner
2012	—	`conf`	Using automatic speech recognition to assess the reading proficiency of a diverse sample of middle school students. WOCCI Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, Cara Laitusis
2012	—	`conf`	Vocabulary Profile as a Measure of Vocabulary Sophistication. BEA@NAACL-HLT Su-Youn Yoon, Suma Bhat, Klaus Zechner
2011	J	`jnl`	A three-stage approach to the automated scoring of spontaneous spoken responses. Comput. Speech Lang. Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi, Klaus Zechner, David M. Williamson
2011	A	`conf`	Applying Rhythm Features to Automatically Assess Non-Native Speech. INTERSPEECH Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner
2011	A*	`conf`	Computing and Evaluating Syntactic Complexity Features for Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Non-Native Speech. ACL Miao Chen, Klaus Zechner
2011	C	`conf`	Evaluating prosodic features for automated scoring of non-native read speech. ASRU Klaus Zechner, Xiaoming Xi, Lei Chen
2011	—	`conf`	Non-scorable Response Detection for Automated Speaking Proficiency Assessment. BEA@ACL Su-Youn Yoon, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
2011	A	`conf`	Using Crowdsourcing to Provide Prosodic Annotations for Non-Native Speech. INTERSPEECH Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
2010	A	`conf`	Predicting word accuracy for the automatic speech recognition of non-native speech. INTERSPEECH Su-Youn Yoon, Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner
2010	—	`conf`	Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for Transcription of Non-Native Speech. Mturk@HLT-NAACL Keelan Evanini, Derrick Higgins, Klaus Zechner
2009	A	`conf`	Adapting the acoustic model of a speech recognizer for varied proficiency non-native spontaneous speech using read speech with language-specific pronunciation difficulty. INTERSPEECH Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, René Lawless, Yoko Futagi, Sarah Ohls, George Ivanov
2009	—	`conf`	Automatic Scoring of Children's Read-Aloud Text Passages and Word Lists. BEA@NAACL Klaus Zechner, John Sabatini, Lei Chen
2009	J	`jnl`	Automatic scoring of non-native spontaneous speech in tests of spoken English. Speech Commun. Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi, David M. Williamson
2009	—	`conf`	Improved pronunciation features for construct-driven assessment of non-native spontaneous speech. HLT-NAACL Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner, Xiaoming Xi
2009	—	`conf`	What did they actually say? agreement and disagreement among transcribers of non-native spontaneous speech responses in an English proficiency test. SLaTE Klaus Zechner
2007	—	`conf`	Speechrater SLaTE Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi
2006	—	`conf`	Towards Automatic Scoring of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech. HLT-NAACL Klaus Zechner, Isaac Bejar
2003	—	`conf`	Efficient Optimization for Bilingual Sentence Alignment Based on Linear Regression. ParallelTexts@NAACL-HLT Bing Zhao, Klaus Zechner, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel
2003	A	`conf`	Spoken language condensation in the 21st century. INTERSPEECH Klaus Zechner
2002	J	`jnl`	Automatic Summarization of Open-Domain Multiparty Dialogues in Diverse Genres. Comput. Linguistics Klaus Zechner
2001	Misc	`conf`	Advances in automatic meeting record creation and access. ICASSP Alex Waibel, Michael Bett, Florian Metze, Klaus Ries, Thomas Schaaf, Tanja Schultz, Hagen Soltau, Hua Yu, Klaus Zechner
2001	A*	`conf`	Automatic Generation of Concise Summaries of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains. SIGIR Klaus Zechner
2000	B	`conf`	DIASUMM: Flexible Summarization of Spontaneous Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains. COLING Klaus Zechner, Alex Waibel
2000	—	`conf`	Minimizing Word Error Rate in Textual Summaries of Spoken Language. ANLP Klaus Zechner, Alex Waibel
1998	—	`conf`	A discourse coding scheme for conversational Spanish. ICSLP Lori S. Levin, Ann E. Thymé-Gobbel, Alon Lavie, Klaus Ries, Klaus Zechner
1998	—	`conf`	Automatic Construction of Frame Representations for Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains. COLING-ACL Klaus Zechner
1998	—	`conf`	Using Chunk Based Partial Parsing of Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains for Reducing Word Error Rate in Speech Recognition. COLING-ACL Klaus Zechner, Alex Waibel
1997	—	`conf`	High Performance Segmentation of Spontaneous Speech Using Part of Speech and Trigger Word Information. ANLP Marsal Gavaldà, Klaus Zechner, Gregory Aist
1996	B	`conf`	Fast Generation of Abstracts from General Domain Text Corpora by Extracting Relevant Sentences. COLING Klaus Zechner