Sadaoki Furui

Also published as: S. Furui


2011

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Data-intensive approaches for ASR
Sadaoki Furui
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Keynotes

2010

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Optimizing Question Answering Accuracy by Maximizing Log-Likelihood
Matthias H. Heie | Edward W. D. Whittaker | Sadaoki Furui
Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Conference Short Papers

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Jointly Optimizing a Two-Step Conditional Random Field Model for Machine Transliteration and Its Fast Decoding Algorithm
Dong Yang | Paul Dixon | Sadaoki Furui
Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Conference Short Papers

2009

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Discriminative Lexicon Adaptation for Improved Character Accuracy - A New Direction in Chinese Language Modeling
Yi-cheng Pan | Lin-shan Lee | Sadaoki Furui
Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP

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Combining a Two-step Conditional Random Field Model and a Joint Source Channel Model for Machine Transliteration
Dong Yang | Paul Dixon | Yi-Cheng Pan | Tasuku Oonishi | Masanobu Nakamura | Sadaoki Furui
Proceedings of the 2009 Named Entities Workshop: Shared Task on Transliteration (NEWS 2009)

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Automatic Chinese Abbreviation Generation Using Conditional Random Field
Dong Yang | Yi-cheng Pan | Sadaoki Furui
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers

2008

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Thai Broadcast News Corpus Construction and Evaluation
Markpong Jongtaveesataporn | Chai Wutiwiwatchai | Koji Iwano | Sadaoki Furui
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)

Large speech and text corpora are crucial to the development of a state-of-the-art speech recognition system. This paper reports on the construction and evaluation of the first Thai broadcast news speech and text corpora. Specifications and conventions used in the transcription process are described in the paper. The speech corpus contains about 17 hours of speech data while the text corpus was transcribed from around 35 hours of television broadcast news. The characteristics of the corpus were analyzed and shown in the paper. The speech corpus was split according to the evaluation focus condition used in the DARPA Hub-4 evaluation. An 18K-word Thai speech recognition system was setup to test with this speech corpus as a preliminary experiment. Acoustic model adaptations were performed to improve the system performance. The best system yielded a word error rate of about 20% for clean and planned speech, and below 30% for the overall condition.

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Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT
Johanna D. Moore | Simone Teufel | James Allan | Sadaoki Furui
Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT

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Collecting a Why-Question Corpus for Development and Evaluation of an Automatic QA-System
Joanna Mrozinski | Edward Whittaker | Sadaoki Furui
Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT

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Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Short Papers
Johanna D. Moore | Simone Teufel | James Allan | Sadaoki Furui
Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Short Papers

2006

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Class Model Adaptation for Speech Summarisation
Pierre Chatain | Edward Whittaker | Joanna Mrozinski | Sadaoki Furui
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers

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Factoid Question Answering with Web, Mobile and Speech Interfaces
E.W.D. Whittaker | J. Mrozinski | S. Furui
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Demonstrations

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Monolingual Web-based Factoid Question Answering in Chinese, Swedish, English and Japanese
E.W.D. Whittaker | J. Hamonic | D. Yang | T. Klingberg | S. Furui
Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Question Answering - MLQA ‘06

2004

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Hybrid Statistical and Structural Semantic Modeling for Thai Multi-Stage Spoken Language Understanding
Chai Wutiwiwatchai | Sadaoki Furui
Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2004 Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational Systems and Higher Level Linguistic Information for Speech Processing

2000

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Spontaneous Speech Corpus of Japanese
Kikuo Maekawa | Hanae Koiso | Sadaoki Furui | Hitoshi Isahara
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’00)

1999

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Automatic Speech Recognition and Its Application to Information Extraction
Sadaoki Furui
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1994

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A Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Algorithm and Its Application to a Multi-Modal Telephone Directory Assistance System
Yasuhiro Minami | Kiyohiro Shikano | Osamu Yoshioka | Satoshi Takahashi | Tomokazu Yamada | Sadaoki Furui
Human Language Technology: Proceedings of a Workshop held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, March 8-11, 1994

1992

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Recent Topics in Speech Recognition Research at NTT Laboratories
Sadaoki Furui | Kiyohiro Shikano | Shoichi Matsunaga | Tatsuo Matsuoka | Satoshi Takahashi | Tomokazu Yamada
Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Harriman, New York, February 23-26, 1992