Use of higher level linguistic structure in acoustic modeling for speech recognition. - Izhak Shafran; Mari Ostendorf (ICASSP, 2000)

Robust speech detection and segmentation for real-time ASR applications. - Izhak Shafran; Richard Rose (ICASSP (1), 2003)

Acoustic model clustering based on syllable structure. - Izhak Shafran; Mari Ostendorf (Comput. Speech Lang., 2003)

Task-specific minimum Bayes-risk decoding using learned edit distance. - Izhak Shafran; William Byrne (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

A Comparison of Classifiers for Detecting Emotion from Speech. - Izhak Shafran; Mehryar Mohri (ICASSP (1), 2005)

Accent detection and speech recognition for Shanghai-accented Mandarin. - Yanli Zheng; Richard Sproat; Liang Gu; Izhak Shafran; Haolang Zhou; Yi Su; Daniel Jurafsky; Rebecca Starr; Su-Youn Yoon (INTERSPEECH, 2005)

Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Robot-Assisted Surgical Motions. - Henry C. Lin 001; Izhak Shafran; Todd E. Murphy; Allison M. Okamura; David D. Yuh; Gregory D. Hager (MICCAI, 2005)

PCFGs with Syntactic and Prosodic Indicators of Speech Repairs. - John Hale; Izhak Shafran; Lisa Yung; Bonnie J. Dorr; Mary P. Harper; Anna Krasnyanskaya; Matthew Lease; Yang Liu 004; Brian Roark; Matthew G. Snover; Robin Stewart (ACL, 2006)

Overview of the CLEF-2006 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track. - Douglas W. Oard; Jianqiang Wang 002; Gareth J. F. Jones; Ryen W. White; Pavel Pecina; Dagobert Soergel; Xiaoli Huang; Izhak Shafran (CLEF, 2006)

Corrective Models for Speech Recognition of Inflected Languages. - Izhak Shafran; Keith B. Hall (EMNLP, 2006)

Reranking for Sentence Boundary Detection in Conversational Speech. - Brian Roark; Yang Liu 004; Mary P. Harper; Robin Stewart; Matthew Lease; Matthew G. Snover; Izhak Shafran; Bonnie J. Dorr; John Hale; Anna Krasnyanskaya; Lisa Yung (ICASSP (1), 2006)

Discriminative Classifiers for Language Recognition. - Christopher White; Izhak Shafran; Jean-Luc Gauvain (ICASSP (1), 2006)

SParseval: Evaluation Metrics for Parsing Speech. - Brian Roark; Mary P. Harper; Eugene Charniak; Bonnie J. Dorr; Mark Johnson 001; Jeremy G. Kahn; Yang Liu 004; Mari Ostendorf; John Hale; Anna Krasnyanskaya; Matthew Lease; Izhak Shafran; et al. (LREC, 2006)

Exploiting prosody for PCFGs with latent annotations. - Markus Dreyer; Izhak Shafran (INTERSPEECH, 2007)

The SRI/OGI 2006 spoken term detection system. - Dimitra Vergyri; Izhak Shafran; Andreas Stolcke; Venkata Ramana Rao Gadde; Murat Akbacak; Brian Roark; Wen Wang 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2007)

Multi-stream Fusion for Speaker Classification. - Izhak Shafran (Speaker Classification (1), 2007)

Discriminative n-gram language modeling for Turkish. - Ebru Arisoy; Brian Roark; Izhak Shafran; Murat Saraclar (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

Classifying clear and conversational speech based on acoustic features. - Akiko Amano-Kusumoto; John-Paul Hosom; Izhak Shafran (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

Syntactic and sub-lexical features for Turkish discriminative language models. - Ebru Arisoy; Murat Saraclar; Brian Roark; Izhak Shafran (ICASSP, 2010)

Discriminatively estimated joint acoustic, duration, and language model for speech recognition. - Maider Lehr; Izhak Shafran (ICASSP, 2010)

Lexicographic Semirings for Exact Automata Encoding of Sequence Models. - Brian Roark; Richard Sproat; Izhak Shafran (ACL (2), 2011)

Efficient determinization of tagged word lattices using categorial and lexicographic semirings. - Izhak Shafran; Richard Sproat; Mahsa Yarmohammadi; Brian Roark (ASRU, 2011)

Supervised and unsupervised feature selection for inferring social nature of telephone conversations from their content. - Anthony P. Stark; Izhak Shafran; Jeffrey A. Kaye (ASRU, 2011)

Discriminatively estimated discrete, parametric and smoothed-discrete duration models for speech recognition. - Maider Lehr; Izhak Shafran (ICASSP, 2011)

Learning a Discriminative Weighted Finite-State Transducer for Speech Recognition. - Maider Lehr; Izhak Shafran (IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2011)

Semi-supervised discriminative language modeling for Turkish ASR. - Arda Çelebi; Hasim Sak; Erinç Dikici; Murat Saraclar; Maider Lehr; Emily Tucker Prud'hommeaux; Puyang Xu; Nathan Glenn; Damianos G. Karakos; Sanjeev Khudanpur; Brian Roark; Kenji Sagae; et al. (ICASSP, 2012)

Hallucinated n-best lists for discriminative language modeling. - Kenji Sagae; Maider Lehr; Emily Tucker Prud'hommeaux; Puyang Xu; Nathan Glenn; Damianos G. Karakos; Sanjeev Khudanpur; Brian Roark; Murat Saraclar; Izhak Shafran; Daniel M. Bikel; Chris Callison-Burch; et al. (ICASSP, 2012)

Continuous space discriminative language modeling. - Puyang Xu; Sanjeev Khudanpur; Maider Lehr; Emily Tucker Prud'hommeaux; Nathan Glenn; Damianos G. Karakos; Brian Roark; Kenji Sagae; Murat Saraclar; Izhak Shafran; Daniel M. Bikel; Chris Callison-Burch; et al. (ICASSP, 2012)

Deriving conversation-based features from unlabeled speech for discriminative language modeling. - Damianos G. Karakos; Brian Roark; Izhak Shafran; Kenji Sagae; Maider Lehr; Emily Tucker Prud'hommeaux; Puyang Xu; Nathan Glenn; Sanjeev Khudanpur; Murat Saraclar; Daniel M. Bikel; Mark Dredze; et al. (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Fully Automated Neuropsychological Assessment for Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment. - Maider Lehr; Emily Tucker Prud'hommeaux; Izhak Shafran; Brian Roark (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Interspeech Pathology Challenge: Investigations into Speaker and Sentence Specific Effects. - Anthony P. Stark; Alireza Bayestehtashk; Meysam Asgari; Izhak Shafran (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Hallucinating system outputs for discriminative language modeling. - Brian Roark; Arda Çelebi; Erinç Dikici; Sanjeev Khudanpur; Maider Lehr; Emily Prud'hommeaux; Kenji Sagae; Murat Saraclar; Izhak Shafran; Puyang Xu (MLSLP, 2012)

Hello, Who is Calling?: Can Words Reveal the Social Nature of Conversations? - Anthony P. Stark; Izhak Shafran; Jeffrey A. Kaye (HLT-NAACL, 2012)

Robust detection of voiced segments in samples of everyday conversations using unsupervised HMMS. - Meysam Asgari; Izhak Shafran; Alireza Bayestehtashk (SLT, 2012)

Discriminative Language Modeling With Linguistic and Statistically Derived Features. - Ebru Arisoy; Murat Saraclar; Brian Roark; Izhak Shafran (IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2012)

Adaptive H-Extrema for Automatic Immunogold Particle Detection. - Guillaume Thibault; Kristiina Iljin; Christopher Arthur; Izhak Shafran; Joe W. Gray (CIARP (2), 2013)

Parsimonious multivariate copula model for density estimation. - Alireza Bayestehtashk; Izhak Shafran (ICASSP, 2013)

Robust and accurate features for detecting and diagnosing autism spectrum disorders. - Meysam Asgari; Alireza Bayestehtashk; Izhak Shafran (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

Improving the accuracy and the robustness of harmonic model for pitch estimation. - Meysam Asgari; Izhak Shafran (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

Visual hull reconstruction for automated primate behavior observation. - Nastaran Ghadar; Xikang Zhang; Kang Li; Deniz Erdogmus; Guillaume Thibault; Alireza Bayestehtashk; Izhak Shafran; Kris Coleman; Kathleen A. Grant (MLSP, 2013)

Discriminative Joint Modeling of Lexical Variation and Acoustic Confusion for Automated Narrative Retelling Assessment. - Maider Lehr; Izhak Shafran; Emily Tucker Prud'hommeaux; Brian Roark (HLT-NAACL, 2013)

Inferring functional connectivity in MRI using Bayesian network structure learning with a modified PC algorithm. - Swathi P. Iyer; Izhak Shafran; David S. Grayson; Kathleen M. Gates; Joel T. Nigg; Damien A. Fair (NeuroImage, 2013)

Detecting Health Related Discussions in Everyday Telephone Conversations for Studying Medical Events in the Lives of Older Adults. - Golnar Sheikhshab; Izhak Shafran; Jeffrey A. Kaye (BioNLP@ACL, 2014)

Detecting vocalizations of individual monkeys in social groups. - Alireza Bayestehtashk; Izhak Shafran; Kristine Coleman; Nicola Robertson (EMBC, 2014)

Automatic measurement of affective valence and arousal in speech. - Meysam Asgari; Géza Kiss; Jan P. H. van Santen; Izhak Shafran; Xubo Song (ICASSP, 2014)

Discriminative pronunciation modeling for dialectal speech recognition. - Maider Lehr; Kyle Gorman; Izhak Shafran (INTERSPEECH, 2014)

Inferring social contexts from audio recordings using deep neural networks. - Meysam Asgari; Izhak Shafran; Alireza Bayestehtashk (MLSP, 2014)

Inferring clinical depression from speech and spoken utterances. - Meysam Asgari; Izhak Shafran; Lisa B. Sheeber (MLSP, 2014)

Applications of Lexicographic Semirings to Problems in Speech and Language Processing. - Richard Sproat; Mahsa Yarmohammadi; Izhak Shafran; Brian Roark (Comput. Linguistics, 2014)

Inferring social nature of conversations from words: Experiments on a corpus of everyday telephone conversations. - Anthony P. Stark; Izhak Shafran; Jeffrey A. Kaye (Comput. Speech Lang., 2014)

Efficient and accurate multivariate class conditional densities using copula. - Alireza Bayestehtashk; Izhak Shafran (ICASSP, 2015)

Context dependent phone models for LSTM RNN acoustic modelling. - Andrew W. Senior; Hasim Sak; Izhak Shafran (ICASSP, 2015)

Fully automated assessment of the severity of Parkinson's disease from speech. - Alireza Bayestehtashk; Meysam Asgari; Izhak Shafran; James McNames (Comput. Speech Lang., 2015)

Robust speech recognition using multivariate copula models. - Alireza Bayestehtashk; Izhak Shafran; Amir Babaeian (ICASSP, 2016)

Reducing the Computational Complexity of Multimicrophone Acoustic Models with Integrated Feature Extraction. - Tara N. Sainath; Arun Narayanan; Ron J. Weiss; Ehsan Variani; Kevin W. Wilson; Michiel Bacchiani; Izhak Shafran (INTERSPEECH, 2016)

Complex Linear Projection (CLP): A Discriminative Approach to Joint Feature Extraction and Acoustic Modeling. - Ehsan Variani; Tara N. Sainath; Izhak Shafran; Michiel Bacchiani (INTERSPEECH, 2016)

Fuzzy Statistical Matrices for Cell Classification. - Guillaume Thibault; Izhak Shafran (CoRR, 2016)

Raw Multichannel Processing Using Deep Neural Networks. - Tara N. Sainath; Ron J. Weiss; Kevin W. Wilson; Arun Narayanan; Michiel Bacchiani; Bo Li 028; Ehsan Variani; Izhak Shafran; Andrew W. Senior; Kean K. Chin; Ananya Misra; Chanwoo Kim 001 (New Era for Robust Speech Recognition, Exploiting Deep Learning, 2017)

Adaptive Multichannel Dereverberation for Automatic Speech Recognition. - Joe Caroselli; Izhak Shafran; Arun Narayanan; Richard Rose (INTERSPEECH, 2017)

Acoustic Modeling for Google Home. - Bo Li 028; Tara N. Sainath; Arun Narayanan; Joe Caroselli; Michiel Bacchiani; Ananya Misra; Izhak Shafran; Hasim Sak; Golan Pundak; Kean K. Chin; Khe Chai Sim; Ron J. Weiss; et al. (INTERSPEECH, 2017)

Multichannel Signal Processing With Deep Neural Networks for Automatic Speech Recognition. - Tara N. Sainath; Ron J. Weiss; Kevin W. Wilson; Bo Li 028; Arun Narayanan; Ehsan Variani; Michiel Bacchiani; Izhak Shafran; Andrew W. Senior; Kean K. Chin; Ananya Misra; Chanwoo Kim 001 (IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2017)

Complex Evolution Recurrent Neural Networks (ceRNNs). - Izhak Shafran; Tom Bagby; R. J. Skerry-Ryan (ICASSP, 2018)

Improvements to harmonic model for extracting better speech features in clinical applications. - Meysam Asgari; Izhak Shafran (Comput. Speech Lang., 2018)

Extracting Symptoms and their Status from Clinical Conversations. - Nan Du 002; Kai Chen 010; Anjuli Kannan; Linh Tran; Yuhui Chen; Izhak Shafran (ACL (1), 2019)

Learning to Infer Entities, Properties and their Relations from Clinical Conversations. - Nan Du 002; Mingqiu Wang; Linh Tran; Gang Lee; Izhak Shafran (EMNLP/IJCNLP (1), 2019)

Joint Speech Recognition and Speaker Diarization via Sequence Transduction. - Laurent El Shafey; Hagen Soltau; Izhak Shafran (INTERSPEECH, 2019)

Audio De-identification - a New Entity Recognition Task. - Ido Cohn; Itay Laish; Genady Beryozkin; Gang Li; Izhak Shafran; Idan Szpektor; Tzvika Hartman; Avinatan Hassidim; Yossi Matias (NAACL-HLT (2), 2019)

Learning to Infer Entities, Properties and their Relations from Clinical Conversations. - Nan Du 002; Mingqiu Wang; Linh Tran; Gang Li; Izhak Shafran (CoRR, 2019)

The Medical Scribe: Corpus Development and Model Performance Analyses. - Izhak Shafran; Nan Du 002; Linh Tran; Amanda Perry; Lauren Keyes; Mark Knichel; Ashley Domin; Lei Huang; Yuhui Chen; Gang Li; Mingqiu Wang; Laurent El Shafey; et al. (LREC, 2020)

Google COVID-19 Search Trends Symptoms Dataset: Anonymization Process Description (version 1.0). - Shailesh Bavadekar; Andrew M. Dai; John Davis; Damien Desfontaines; Ilya Eckstein; Katie Everett; Alex Fabrikant; Gerardo Flores; Evgeniy Gabrilovich; Krishna Gadepalli; Shane Glass; Rayman Huang; et al. (CoRR, 2020)

Word-Level Confidence Estimation for RNN Transducers. - Mingqiu Wang; Hagen Soltau; Laurent El Shafey; Izhak Shafran (ASRU, 2021)

Understanding Medical Conversations: Rich Transcription, Confidence Scores & Information Extraction. - Hagen Soltau; Mingqiu Wang; Izhak Shafran; Laurent El Shafey (Interspeech, 2021)

R2D2: Relational Text Decoding with Transformers. - Aryan Arbabi; Mingqiu Wang; Laurent El Shafey; Nan Du 002; Izhak Shafran (CoRR, 2021)

Knowledge-grounded Dialog State Tracking. - Dian Yu; Mingqiu Wang; Yuan Cao 007; Laurent El Shafey; Izhak Shafran; Hagen Soltau (EMNLP (Findings), 2022)

RNN Transducers for Named Entity Recognition with constraints on alignment for understanding medical conversations. - Hagen Soltau; Izhak Shafran; Mingqiu Wang; Laurent El Shafey (INTERSPEECH, 2022)

Unsupervised Slot Schema Induction for Task-oriented Dialog. - Dian Yu; Mingqiu Wang; Yuan Cao 007; Izhak Shafran; Laurent El Shafey; Hagen Soltau (NAACL-HLT, 2022)

Description-Driven Task-Oriented Dialog Modeling. - Jeffrey Zhao; Raghav Gupta; Yuan Cao 007; Dian Yu; Mingqiu Wang; Harrison Lee 001; Abhinav Rastogi; Izhak Shafran; Yonghui Wu (CoRR, 2022)

RNN Transducers for Nested Named Entity Recognition with constraints on alignment for long sequences. - Hagen Soltau; Izhak Shafran; Mingqiu Wang; Laurent El Shafey (CoRR, 2022)

Detecting Speech Abnormalities With a Perceiver-Based Sequence Classifier that Leverages a Universal Speech Model. - Hagen Soltau; Izhak Shafran; Alex Ottenwess; Joseph R. Duffy; Rene L. Utianski; Leland R. Barnard; John L. Stricker; Daniela A. Wiepert; David T. Jones; Hugo Botha (ASRU, 2023)

SLM: Bridge the Thin Gap Between Speech and Text Foundation Models. - Mingqiu Wang; Wei Han 002; Izhak Shafran; Zelin Wu; Chung-Cheng Chiu; Yuan Cao 007; Nanxin Chen; Yu Zhang 033; Hagen Soltau; Paul K. Rubenstein; Lukas Zilka; Dian Yu; et al. (ASRU, 2023)

MUX-PLMs: Data Multiplexing for High-throughput Language Models. - Vishvak Murahari; Ameet Deshpande; Carlos E. Jimenez; Izhak Shafran; Mingqiu Wang; Yuan Cao 007; Karthik Narasimhan (EMNLP (Findings), 2023)

AnyTOD: A Programmable Task-Oriented Dialog System. - Jeffrey Zhao; Yuan Cao 007; Raghav Gupta; Harrison Lee 001; Abhinav Rastogi; Mingqiu Wang; Hagen Soltau; Izhak Shafran; Yonghui Wu (EMNLP, 2023)

ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models. - Shunyu Yao; Jeffrey Zhao; Dian Yu; Nan Du 002; Izhak Shafran; Karthik R. Narasimhan; Yuan Cao 007 (ICLR, 2023)

Speech Aware Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC11). - Hagen Soltau; Izhak Shafran; Mingqiu Wang; Abhinav Rastogi; Jeffrey Zhao; Ye Jia; Wei Han 002; Yuan Cao 007; Aramys Miranda (INTERSPEECH, 2023)

Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models. - Shunyu Yao; Dian Yu; Jeffrey Zhao; Izhak Shafran; Tom Griffiths 001; Yuan Cao 007; Karthik Narasimhan (NeurIPS, 2023)

MUX-PLMs: Pre-training Language Models with Data Multiplexing. - Vishvak Murahari; Ameet Deshpande; Carlos E. Jimenez; Izhak Shafran; Mingqiu Wang; Yuan Cao 007; Karthik Narasimhan (RepL4NLP@ACL, 2023)

Speech-to-Text Adapter and Speech-to-Entity Retriever Augmented LLMs for Speech Understanding. - Mingqiu Wang; Izhak Shafran; Hagen Soltau; Wei Han 002; Yuan Cao 007; Dian Yu; Laurent El Shafey (CoRR, 2023)

Efficient Adapters for Giant Speech Models. - Nanxin Chen; Izhak Shafran; Yu Zhang 033; Chung-Cheng Chiu; Hagen Soltau; James Qin; Yonghui Wu (CoRR, 2023)

SLM: Bridge the thin gap between speech and text foundation models. - Mingqiu Wang; Wei Han 002; Izhak Shafran; Zelin Wu; Chung-Cheng Chiu; Yuan Cao 007; Yongqiang Wang; Nanxin Chen; Yu Zhang 033; Hagen Soltau; Paul K. Rubenstein; Lukas Zilka; et al. (CoRR, 2023)

Retrieval Augmented End-to-End Spoken Dialog Models. - Mingqiu Wang; Izhak Shafran; Hagen Soltau; Wei Han 002; Yuan Cao 007; Dian Yu; Laurent El Shafey (ICASSP, 2024)

RoboVQA: Multimodal Long-Horizon Reasoning for Robotics. - Pierre Sermanet; Tianli Ding; Jeffrey Zhao; Fei Xia 002; Debidatta Dwibedi; Keerthana Gopalakrishnan; Christine Chan; Gabriel Dulac-Arnold; Sharath Maddineni; Nikhil J. Joshi; Pete Florence; Wei Han 002; et al. (ICRA, 2024)

Learning to Learn Faster from Human Feedback with Language Model Predictive Control. - Jacky Liang; Fei Xia 002; Wenhao Yu 003; Andy Zeng 001; Maria Attarian; Maria Bauzá Villalonga; Matthew Bennice; Alex Bewley; Adil Dostmohamed; Chuyuan Fu; Nimrod Gileadi; Marissa Giustina; et al. (Robotics: Science and Systems, 2024)

Learning to Learn Faster from Human Feedback with Language Model Predictive Control. - Jacky Liang; Fei Xia 002; Wenhao Yu 003; Andy Zeng 001; Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas; Maria Attarian; Maria Bauzá 001; Matthew Bennice; Alex Bewley; Adil Dostmohamed; Chuyuan Kelly Fu; Nimrod Gileadi; et al. (CoRR, 2024)

Knowledge Graph Reasoning with Self-supervised Reinforcement Learning. - Ying Ma; Owen Burns; Mingqiu Wang; Gang Li; Nan Du 002; Laurent El Shafey; Liqiang Wang; Izhak Shafran; Hagen Soltau (CoRR, 2024)