Fast Generation of Abstracts from General Domain Text Corpora by Extracting Relevant Sentences. - Klaus Zechner (COLING, 1996)

High Performance Segmentation of Spontaneous Speech Using Part of Speech and Trigger Word Information. - Marsal Gavaldà; Klaus Zechner; Gregory Aist (ANLP, 1997)

Automatic Construction of Frame Representations for Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains. - Klaus Zechner (COLING-ACL, 1998)

Using Chunk Based Partial Parsing of Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains for Reducing Word Error Rate in Speech Recognition. - Klaus Zechner; Alex Waibel (COLING-ACL, 1998)

A discourse coding scheme for conversational Spanish. - Lori S. Levin; Ann E. Thymé-Gobbel; Alon Lavie; Klaus Ries 001; Klaus Zechner (ICSLP, 1998)

Minimizing Word Error Rate in Textual Summaries of Spoken Language. - Klaus Zechner; Alex Waibel (ANLP, 2000)

DIASUMM: Flexible Summarization of Spontaneous Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains. - Klaus Zechner; Alex Waibel (COLING, 2000)

Advances in automatic meeting record creation and access. - Alex Waibel; Michael Bett; Florian Metze; Klaus Ries 001; Thomas Schaaf; Tanja Schultz; Hagen Soltau; Hua Yu 008; Klaus Zechner (ICASSP, 2001)

Automatic Generation of Concise Summaries of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains. - Klaus Zechner (SIGIR, 2001)

Automatic Summarization of Open-Domain Multiparty Dialogues in Diverse Genres. - Klaus Zechner (Comput. Linguistics, 2002)

Spoken language condensation in the 21st century. - Klaus Zechner (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Efficient Optimization for Bilingual Sentence Alignment Based on Linear Regression. - Bing Zhao 005; Klaus Zechner; Stephan Vogel; Alex Waibel (ParallelTexts@NAACL-HLT, 2003)

Towards Automatic Scoring of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech. - Klaus Zechner; Isaac Bejar (HLT-NAACL, 2006)

SpeechraterTM: a construct-driven approach to scoring spontaneous non-native speech. - Klaus Zechner; Derrick Higgins; Xiaoming Xi (SLaTE, 2007)

Automatic Scoring of Children's Read-Aloud Text Passages and Word Lists. - Klaus Zechner; John Sabatini 001; Lei Chen 004 (BEA@NAACL, 2009)

Adapting the acoustic model of a speech recognizer for varied proficiency non-native spontaneous speech using read speech with language-specific pronunciation difficulty. - Klaus Zechner; Derrick Higgins; René Lawless; Yoko Futagi; Sarah Ohls; George Ivanov (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

Improved pronunciation features for construct-driven assessment of non-native spontaneous speech. - Lei Chen 004; Klaus Zechner; Xiaoming Xi (HLT-NAACL, 2009)

What did they actually say? agreement and disagreement among transcribers of non-native spontaneous speech responses in an English proficiency test. - Klaus Zechner (SLaTE, 2009)

Automatic scoring of non-native spontaneous speech in tests of spoken English. - Klaus Zechner; Derrick Higgins; Xiaoming Xi; David M. Williamson (Speech Commun., 2009)

Predicting word accuracy for the automatic speech recognition of non-native speech. - Su-Youn Yoon; Lei Chen 004; Klaus Zechner (INTERSPEECH, 2010)

Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for Transcription of Non-Native Speech. - Keelan Evanini; Derrick Higgins; Klaus Zechner (Mturk@HLT-NAACL, 2010)

Computing and Evaluating Syntactic Complexity Features for Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Non-Native Speech. - Miao Chen; Klaus Zechner (ACL, 2011)

Evaluating prosodic features for automated scoring of non-native read speech. - Klaus Zechner; Xiaoming Xi; Lei Chen 004 (ASRU, 2011)

Non-scorable Response Detection for Automated Speaking Proficiency Assessment. - Su-Youn Yoon; Keelan Evanini; Klaus Zechner (BEA@ACL, 2011)

Applying Rhythm Features to Automatically Assess Non-Native Speech. - Lei Chen 004; Klaus Zechner (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

Using Crowdsourcing to Provide Prosodic Annotations for Non-Native Speech. - Keelan Evanini; Klaus Zechner (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

A three-stage approach to the automated scoring of spontaneous spoken responses. - Derrick Higgins; Xiaoming Xi; Klaus Zechner; David M. Williamson (Comput. Speech Lang., 2011)

Using an Ontology for Improved Automated Content Scoring of Spontaneous Non-Native Speech. - Miao Chen; Klaus Zechner (BEA@NAACL-HLT, 2012)

Vocabulary Profile as a Measure of Vocabulary Sophistication. - Su-Youn Yoon; Suma Bhat; Klaus Zechner (BEA@NAACL-HLT, 2012)

Exploring Content Features for Automated Speech Scoring. - Shasha Xie; Keelan Evanini; Klaus Zechner (HLT-NAACL, 2012)

Using automatic speech recognition to assess the reading proficiency of a diverse sample of middle school students. - Klaus Zechner; Keelan Evanini; Cara Laitusis (WOCCI, 2012)

Prompt-based Content Scoring for Automated Spoken Language Assessment. - Keelan Evanini; Shasha Xie; Klaus Zechner (BEA@NAACL-HLT, 2013)

Automated Content Scoring of Spoken Responses in an Assessment for Teachers of English. - Klaus Zechner; Xinhao Wang (BEA@NAACL-HLT, 2013)

Coherence Modeling for the Automated Assessment of Spontaneous Spoken Responses. - Xinhao Wang; Keelan Evanini; Klaus Zechner (HLT-NAACL, 2013)

Applying rhythm metrics to non-native spontaneous speech. - Catherine Lai; Keelan Evanini; Klaus Zechner (SLaTE, 2013)

Automated content scoring of spoken responses containing multiple parts with factual information. - Wenting Xiong; Keelan Evanini; Klaus Zechner; Lei Chen 004 (SLaTE, 2013)

Automatic evaluation of spoken summaries: the case of language assessment. - Anastassia Loukina; Klaus Zechner; Lei Chen 004 (BEA@ACL, 2014)

Automated scoring of speaking items in an assessment for teachers of English as a Foreign Language. - Klaus Zechner; Keelan Evanini; Su-Youn Yoon; Lawrence Davis; Xinhao Wang; Lei Chen 004; Chong Min Lee; Chee Wee Leong (BEA@ACL, 2014)

Using bidirectional lstm recurrent neural networks to learn high-level abstractions of sequential features for automated scoring of non-native spontaneous speech. - Zhou Yu 005; Vikram Ramanarayanan; David Suendermann-Oeft; Xinhao Wang; Klaus Zechner; Lei Chen 004; Jidong Tao; Aliaksei Ivanou; Yao Qian (ASRU, 2015)

Feature selection for automated speech scoring. - Anastassia Loukina; Klaus Zechner; Lei Chen 004; Michael Heilman (BEA@NAACL-HLT, 2015)

Pronunciation accuracy and intelligibility of non-native speech. - Anastassia Loukina; Melissa Lopez; Keelan Evanini; David Suendermann-Oeft; Alexei V. Ivanov; Klaus Zechner (INTERSPEECH, 2015)

Expert and crowdsourced annotation of pronunciation errors for automatic scoring systems. - Anastassia Loukina; Melissa Lopez; Keelan Evanini; David Suendermann-Oeft; Klaus Zechner (INTERSPEECH, 2015)

Using F0 contours to assess nativeness in a sentence repeat task. - Min Ma; Keelan Evanini; Anastassia Loukina; Xinhao Wang; Klaus Zechner (INTERSPEECH, 2015)

Exploring deep learning architectures for automatically grading non-native spontaneous speech. - Jidong Tao; Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan; Lei Chen 004; Klaus Zechner (ICASSP, 2016)

Discourse Annotation of Non-native Spontaneous Spoken Responses Using the Rhetorical Structure Theory Framework. - Xinhao Wang; James V. Bruno; Hillary Molloy; Keelan Evanini; Klaus Zechner (ACL (2), 2017)

Modeling Discourse Coherence for the Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Spoken Responses. - Xinhao Wang; Keelan Evanini; Klaus Zechner; Matthew Mulholland (SLaTE, 2017)

Comparative evaluation of automated scoring of syntactic competence of non-native speakers. - Klaus Zechner; Su-Youn Yoon; Suma Bhat; Chee Wee Leong (Comput. Hum. Behav., 2017)

Combining human and automated scores for the improved assessment of non-native speech. - Su-Youn Yoon; Klaus Zechner (Speech Commun., 2017)

Using exemplar responses for training and evaluating automated speech scoring systems. - Anastassia Loukina; Klaus Zechner; James V. Bruno; Beata Beigman Klebanov (BEA@NAACL-HLT, 2018)

Atypical Inputs in Educational Applications. - Su-Youn Yoon; Aoife Cahill; Anastassia Loukina; Klaus Zechner; Brian Riordan 001; Nitin Madnani (NAACL-HLT (3), 2018)

Discourse Modeling of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech Using the Rhetorical Structure Theory Framework. - Xinhao Wang; Binod Gyawali; James V. Bruno; Hillary R. Molloy; Keelan Evanini; Klaus Zechner (SLT, 2018)

Using Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Automatically Detect Plagiarized Spoken Responses. - Xinhao Wang; Keelan Evanini; Yao Qian; Klaus Zechner (ASRU, 2019)

The many dimensions of algorithmic fairness in educational applications. - Anastassia Loukina; Nitin Madnani; Klaus Zechner (BEA@ACL, 2019)

Toward Automated Content Feedback Generation for Non-native Spontaneous Speech. - Su-Youn Yoon; Ching-Ni Hsieh; Klaus Zechner; Matthew Mulholland; Yuan Wang; Nitin Madnani (BEA@ACL, 2019)

Automated Estimation of Oral Reading Fluency During Summer Camp e-Book Reading with MyTurnToRead. - Anastassia Loukina; Beata Beigman Klebanov; Patrick L. Lange; Yao Qian; Binod Gyawali; Nitin Madnani; Abhinav Misra; Klaus Zechner; Zuowei Wang; John Sabatini 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2019)

Automatic Detection of Off-Topic Spoken Responses Using Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. - Xinhao Wang; Su-Youn Yoon; Keelan Evanini; Klaus Zechner; Yao Qian (INTERSPEECH, 2019)

Development of Robust Automated Scoring Models Using Adversarial Input for Oral Proficiency Assessment. - Su-Youn Yoon; Chong Min Lee; Klaus Zechner; Keelan Evanini (INTERSPEECH, 2019)

Do Face Masks Introduce Bias in Speech Technologies? The Case of Automated Scoring of Speaking Proficiency. - Anastassia Loukina; Keelan Evanini; Matthew Mulholland; Ian Blood; Klaus Zechner (INTERSPEECH, 2020)

Targeted Content Feedback in Spoken Language Learning and Assessment. - Xinhao Wang; Klaus Zechner; Christopher Hamill (INTERSPEECH, 2020)

A Good Start is Half the Battle Won: Unsupervised Pre-training for Low Resource Children's Speech Recognition for an Interactive Reading Companion. - Abhinav Misra; Anastassia Loukina; Beata Beigman Klebanov; Binod Gyawali; Klaus Zechner (AIED (1), 2021)

Automatic Summarization of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains - Klaus Zechner (2024)