Jeremy G. Kahn

Also published as: Jeremy Kahn


2006

pdf
SParseval: Evaluation Metrics for Parsing Speech
Brian Roark | Mary Harper | Eugene Charniak | Bonnie Dorr | Mark Johnson | Jeremy Kahn | Yang Liu | Mari Ostendorf | John Hale | Anna Krasnyanskaya | Matthew Lease | Izhak Shafran | Matthew Snover | Robin Stewart | Lisa Yung
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)

While both spoken and written language processing stand to benefit from parsing, the standard Parseval metrics (Black et al., 1991) and their canonical implementation (Sekine and Collins, 1997) are only useful for text. The Parseval metrics are undefined when the words input to the parser do not match the words in the gold standard parse tree exactly, and word errors are unavoidable with automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To fill this gap, we have developed a publicly available tool for scoring parses that implements a variety of metrics which can handle mismatches in words and segmentations, including: alignment-based bracket evaluation, alignment-based dependency evaluation, and a dependency evaluation that does not require alignment. We describe the different metrics, how to use the tool, and the outcome of an extensive set of experiments on the sensitivity.

2005

pdf
Effective Use of Prosody in Parsing Conversational Speech
Jeremy G. Kahn | Matthew Lease | Eugene Charniak | Mark Johnson | Mari Ostendorf
Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2004

pdf
Parsing Conversational Speech Using Enhanced Segmentation
Jeremy G. Kahn | Mari Ostendorf | Ciprian Chelba
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004: Short Papers