Journals --- Pending

Jorge Silva and Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "On the Minimum Probability of Error Signal Representation: Revisited," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2009.

Jorge Silva and Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "Divergence Estimation based on Data-Dependent Partitions," submitted to Annals of Statistics, 2009.

Jorge Silva and Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "Discriminative Wavelet Packet Filter Bank Selection for Pattern Recognition," accepted for publications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2009.

Journals

Jorge Silva and Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "Upper Bound Kullback-Leibler Divergence for Transient Hidden Markov Models," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56, no 9, pp:4176-4188, September, 2008,.[Abstract, pdf]

Ciprian Chelba, Jorge Silva and Alex Acero, “Soft Indexing of Speech Content for Search in Spoken Documents,” Elsevier Computer Speech and Language, vol. 21, issue 3, pp. 458-478, July 2007. [Abstract , pdf]

Jorge Silva and Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "Average Divergence Distance as a Statistical Discrimination Measure for Hidden Markov Models," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 14, issue 3, pp. 890-906, May 2006.[Abstract , pdf]

N.B. Yoma, C. Molina, J. Silva, and C. Busso, "Modeling, Estimating and Compensating low-bit rate Coding Distortion in Speech Recognition, " IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol 14, issue 1, pp:223-231, January 2006. [Abstract , pdf]

N.B. Yoma, J. Silva, C. Busso, and I. Brito, "Compensating Additive Noise and CS-CELP distortion in speech recognition using stochastic weighted Viterbi algorithm", IEE Electronic Letters, Vol 39, No 4, February 2003.[pdf]

N.B. Yoma, and J. Silva, "MAP Speaker Adaptation of State Duration Distribution for Speech Recognition". IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 10, No 7, pp. 443-450, October 2002. [Abstract, pdf]

Selected Congress

J. Silva and S. Narayanan, "Minimum Probability of Error Signal Representation," in IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2007.[pdf]

J. Silva and S. Narayanan, "Universal Consistency of Data-Driven Partitions for Divergence Estimation," in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Nice, France, 2007. [pdf]

J. Silva and S. Narayanan, "Optimal Wavelet Packets Decomposition based on a Rate-Distortion Optimality Criterion," in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP, Hawaii, USA, 2007. [pdf]

J. Silva, V. Rangarajan, V. Rozgic and S. Narayanan, "Information Theoretic Analysis of Direct Articulatory Measurements for Phonetic Discrimination," in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP, Hawaii, USA, 2007. [pdf]

J. Silva and S. Narayanan, "Upper Bound Kullback-Leibler Divergence for Hidden Markov Models with Application as Discrimination Measure for Speech Recognition," in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seattle, WA 2006. [pdf]

J. Silva, C. Chelba and A. Acero, “Integration of Metadata in Spoken Document Search Using Position Specific Posterior Lattices,” accepted in IEEE International Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Aruba, 2006. [pdf]

J. Silva, C. Chelba and A. Acero, “Pruning Analysis of the Position Specific Posterior Lattices for Spoken Document Search,” in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP, Toulose, France, 2006. [pdf]

J. Tepperman, J. Silva, A. Kazemzadeh, H. You, S. Lee, A. Alwan, and S. Narayanan,"Pronunciation verification of children’s speech for automatic literacy assessment", in Proc. of InterSpeech ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006.[pdf]

J. Tepperman, J. Silva, A. Sethy, and S. Narayanan. "Robust recognition and assessment of non-native speech variability". in Proc. of Int. Conference on Intelligent Syst. and Comp.: Theory And Applications, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 2006.[pdf]

J. Silva and S. Narayanan, "A Statistical Discrimination Measure for Hidden Markov Models based on Divergence," in Proc. of InterSpeech ICSLP, Jeju, Korea, 2004. [pdf]

N.B. Yoma, I. Brito, and J. Silva, "Language Model Accuracy and Uncertainty in Noise Canceling in the Stochastic Weighted Viterbi Algorithm". in Proc. Eurospeech 2003. [Abstract]

N.B. Yoma and J. Silva, "Speaker Adaptation of Output Probabilities and State Duration Distribution for Speech Recognition". in Proc. Eurospeech 2001.

Technical Reports

Jorge Silva and Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "Minimum Probability of Error Signal Representation based on a Rate-Distortion Optimality Criterion," Techical Report, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, September, 2006.[pdf]

J. Silva, C. Chelba and A. Acero, “Position Specific Posterior Lattices for Spoken Document Search,” Internal report, Microsoft Research Group, Microsoft Corporation, August 2005.

J. Silva, C. Chelba and A. Acero, “Similarity Measures between Top-k list with Different lengths,” Internal report, Microsoft Research Group, Microsoft Corporation, August 2005.

Authors and Affiliations

Shrikanth S. Narayanan: Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, Linguistics and Computer Science, University of Southern California.

Nestor Becerra Yoma: Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Chile.

Ciprian Chelba: Research Scientist with Google, Kirkland, WA, USA.

Viktor Rozgic: Ph. D student at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California.

Vivek Rangarajan: Ph. D student at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California.

Carlos Busso: Ph. D student at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California.

Joseph Tepperman: Ph. D student at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California.

Abe Kazemzadeh: Ph. D student at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California.

Carlos Molina: Researcher at the Speech Processing and Transmission Laboratory, University of Chile.

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