Nikos Tsourakis

According to our database, Nikos Tsourakis authored at least 41 papers between 2003 and 2023.

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2023

Simple, Simpler and Beyond: A Fine-Tuning BERT-Based Approach to Enhance Sentence Complexity Assessment for Text Simplification.

Lucia Ormaechea Grijalba, Nikos Tsourakis, Didier Schwab, Pierrette Bouillon, Benjamin Lecouteux

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2023), 2023

2022

Using the LARA Little Prince to compare human and TTS audio quality.

Elham Akhlaghi, Ingibjörg Iðha Auðhunardóttir, Anna Baczkowska, Branislav Bédi, Hakeem Beedar, Harald Berthelsen, Cathy Chua, Catia Cucchiarini, Hanieh Habibi, Ivana Horváthová, Junta Ikeda, Christèle Maizonniaux, Neasa Ní Chiaráin, Chadi Raheb, Manny Rayner, John Sloan, Nikos Tsourakis, Chunlin Yao

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

2020

An Albanian Text-to-Speech System for the BabelDr Medical Speech Translator.

Nikos Tsourakis, Rovena Troqe, Johanna Gerlach, Pierrette Bouillon, Hervé Spechbach

Proceedings of the Digital Personalized Health and Medicine - Proceedings of MIE 2020, Medical Informatics Europe, Geneva, Switzerland, April 28, 2020

2019

Decentralising power: how we are trying to keep CALLector ethical.

Cathy Chua, Hanieh Habibi, Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis

CoRR, 2019

Alexa as a CALL platform for children: Where do we start?

Nikos Tsourakis, Manny Rayner, Hanieh Habibi, Pierre-Emmanuel Gallais, Cathy Chua, Matt Butterweck

CoRR, 2019

2018

Handling Ellipsis in a Spoken Medical Phraselator.

Manny Rayner, Johanna Gerlach, Pierrette Bouillon, Nikos Tsourakis, Hervé Spechbach

Proceedings of the Statistical Language and Speech Processing, 2018

A Robust Context-Dependent Speech-to-Speech Phraselator Toolkit for Alexa.

Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis, Jan Stanek

Proceedings of the Interspeech 2018, 2018

2017

Constructing Knowledge-Based Feedback in the Context of an Interactive Spoken CALL Application.

Nikos Tsourakis, Claudia Baur, Manny Rayner

Int. J. Comput. Assist. Lang. Learn. Teach., 2017

Menusigne: A Serious Game for Learning Sign Language Grammar.

Manny Rayner, Irene Strasly, Nikolaos Tsourakis, Johanna Gerlach, Pierrette Bouillon

Proceedings of the 7th ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2017

Lightweight Spoken Utterance Classification with CFG, tf-idf and Dynamic Programming.

Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis, Johanna Gerlach

Proceedings of the Statistical Language and Speech Processing, 2017

A Robust Medical Speech-to-Speech/Speech-to-Sign Phraselator.

Farhia Ahmed, Pierrette Bouillon, Chelle Destefano, Johanna Gerlach, Sonia Halimi, Angela Hooper, Manny Rayner, Hervé Spechbach, Irene Strasly, Nikos Tsourakis

Proceedings of the Interspeech 2017, 2017

2016

Rapid Construction of a Web-Enabled Medical Speech to Sign Language Translator Using Recorded Video.

Farhia Ahmed, Pierrette Bouillon, Chelle Destefano, Johanna Gerlach, Angela Hooper, Manny Rayner, Irene Strasly, Nikos Tsourakis, Catherine Weiss

Proceedings of the Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technology. Machine Learning and Big Data, 2016

An Open Web Platform for Rule-Based Speech-to-Sign Translation.

Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Sarah Ebling, Johanna Gerlach, Irene Strasly, Nikos Tsourakis

Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016

2015

Helping Domain Experts Build Speech Translation Systems.

Manny Rayner, Alejandro Armando, Pierrette Bouillon, Sarah Ebling, Johanna Gerlach, Sonia Halimi, Irene Strasly, Nikos Tsourakis

CoRR, 2015

Supervised learning of response grammars in a spoken call system.

Manny Rayner, Claudia Baur, Cathy Chua, Nikos Tsourakis

Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2015

An open platform that allows non-expert users to build and deploy speech-enabled online CALL courses.

Manny Rayner, Claudia Baur, Pierrette Bouillon, Cathy Chua, Nikos Tsourakis

Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2015

Helping non-expert users develop online spoken CALL courses.

Manny Rayner, Claudia Baur, Pierrette Bouillon, Cathy Chua, Nikos Tsourakis

Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2015

Helping Domain Experts Build Phrasal Speech Translation Systems.

Manny Rayner, Alejandro Armando, Pierrette Bouillon, Sarah Ebling, Johanna Gerlach, Sonia Halimi, Irene Strasly, Nikos Tsourakis

Proceedings of the Future and Emergent Trends in Language Technology, 2015

2014

Using hand gestures to control mobile spoken dialogue systems.

Nikos Tsourakis

Univers. Access Inf. Soc., 2014

Formative feedback in an interactive spoken CALL system.

Nikos Tsourakis, Manny Rayner, Claudia Baur

Proceedings of the 4st Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, 2014

CALL-SLT lite: a minimal framework for building interactive speech-enabled CALL applications.

Manny Rayner, Claudia Baur, Nikos Tsourakis

Proceedings of the 4st Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, 2014

USING A SERIOUS GAME TO COLLECT A CHILD LEARNER SPEECH CORPUS.

Claudia Baur, Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014

2013

A speech-based internet game for beginner students of English.

Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis

Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2013

Methodological issues in evaluating a spoken CALL game: can crowdsourcing help us perform controlled experiments?

Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis

Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2013

2012

A Corpus for a Gesture-Controlled Mobile Spoken Dialogue System.

Nikos Tsourakis, Manny Rayner

Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2012

A Scalable Architecture For Web Deployment of Spoken Dialogue Systems.

Matthew Fuchs, Nikos Tsourakis, Manny Rayner

Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2012

2011

Evaluation of a mobile language learning system using language-neutral prompts.

Nikos Tsourakis, Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon

Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2011

For a fistful of dollars: using crowd-sourcing to evaluate a spoken language CALL application.

Manny Rayner, Ian Frank, Cathy Chua, Nikos Tsourakis, Pierrette Bouillon

Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2011

A student-centred evaluation of a web-based spoken translation game.

Pierrette Bouillon, Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis, Qinglu Zhang

Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2011

An ISO-Based Quality Model for Evaluating Mobile Medical Speech Translators.

Nikos Tsourakis, Paula Estrella

Proceedings of the Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, 2011

2010

Examining the Effects of Rephrasing User Input on Two Mobile Spoken Language Systems.

Nikos Tsourakis, Agnes Lisowska, Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon

Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2010

A Multilingual CALL Game Based on Speech Translation.

Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Nikos Tsourakis, Johanna Gerlach, Maria Georgescul, Yukie Nakao, Claudia Baur

Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2010

2008

Discriminative learning using linguistic features to rescore n-best speech hypotheses.

Maria Georgescul, Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Nikos Tsourakis

Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2008

Building Mobile Spoken Dialogue Applications Using Regulus.

Nikos Tsourakis, Maria Georgescul, Pierrette Bouillon, Manny Rayner

Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008

Developing Non-European Translation Pairs in a Medium-Vocabulary Medical Speech Translation System.

Pierrette Bouillon, Sonia Halimi, Yukie Nakao, Kyoko Kanzaki, Hitoshi Isahara, Nikos Tsourakis, Marianne Starlander, Beth Ann Hockey, Manny Rayner

Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008

Comparing two different bidirectional versions of the limited-domain medical spoken language translator MedSLT.

Marianne Starlander, Pierrette Bouillon, Glenn Flores, Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis

Proceedings of the 12th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 2008

The 2008 MedSLT System.

Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Jane Brotanek, Glenn Flores, Sonia Halimi, Beth Ann Hockey, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, Elisabeth Kron, Yukie Nakao, Marianne Santaholma, Marianne Starlander, Nikos Tsourakis

Proceedings of the workshop on Speech Processing for Safety Critical Translation and Pervasive Applications@COLING 2008, 2008

Many-to-Many Multilingual Medical Speech Translation on a PDA.

Kyoko Kanzaki, Yukie Nakao, Manny Rayner, Marianne Santaholma, Marianne Starlander, Nikos Tsourakis

Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Government and Commercial Uses of MT, 2008

2007

Degradation of speech recognition performance over lossy data networks.

Dimitris Pratsolis, Nikos Tsourakis, Vassilios Digalakis

Proceedings of the WMuNeP'07, 2007

A generic methodology of converting transliterated text to phonetic strings case study: greeklish.

Nikos Tsourakis, Vassilios Digalakis

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2007, 2007

2003

Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition in greek: corpus and an automatic dictation system.

Vassilios Digalakis, Dimitris Oikonomidis, Dimitris Pratsolis, Nikos Tsourakis, Christos Vosnidis, Nikos Chatzichrisafis, Vassilios Diakoloukas

Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003