Improving native language (L1) identifation with better VAD and TDNN trained separately on native and non-native English corpora. - Yao Qian; Keelan Evanini; Patrick L. Lange; Robert A. Pugh; Rutuja Ubale; Frank K. Soong (ASRU, 2017)

A Report on the 2017 Native Language Identification Shared Task. - Shervin Malmasi; Keelan Evanini; Aoife Cahill; Joel R. Tetreault; Robert A. Pugh; Christopher Hamill; Diane Napolitano; Yao Qian (BEA@EMNLP, 2017)

Improving Sub-Phone Modeling for Better Native Language Identification with Non-Native English Speech. - Yao Qian; Keelan Evanini; Xinhao Wang; David Suendermann-Oeft; Robert A. Pugh; Patrick L. Lange; Hillary R. Molloy; Frank K. Soong (INTERSPEECH, 2017)

Improvements to an Automated Content Scoring System for Spoken CALL Responses: the ETS Submission to the Second Spoken CALL Shared Task. - Keelan Evanini; Matthew Mulholland; Rutuja Ubale; Yao Qian; Robert A. Pugh; Vikram Ramanarayanan; Aoife Cahill (INTERSPEECH, 2018)

Neural Approaches to Automated Speech Scoring of Monologue and Dialogue Responses. - Yao Qian; Patrick L. Lange; Keelan Evanini; Robert A. Pugh; Rutuja Ubale; Matthew Mulholland; Xinhao Wang (ICASSP, 2019)