Seiichi NAKAGAWA


Risk-Based Semi-Supervised Discriminative Language Modeling for Broadcast Transcription
Akio KOBAYASHI  Takahiro OKU  Toru IMAI  Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2012/11/01
Vol. E95-D  No. 11  pp. 2674-2681
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
discriminative trainingsemi-supervised traininglanguage modelingBayes risk minimization
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Class-Based N-Gram Language Model for New Words Using Out-of-Vocabulary to In-Vocabulary Similarity
Welly NAPTALI  Masatoshi TSUCHIYA  Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2012/09/01
Vol. E95-D  No. 9  pp. 2308-2317
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
out-of-vocabularyclass-based n-gramlanguage modeladjusted perplexityspeech recognition
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Hidden Conditional Neural Fields for Continuous Phoneme Speech Recognition
Yasuhisa FUJII  Kazumasa YAMAMOTO  Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2012/08/01
Vol. E95-D  No. 8  pp. 2094-2104
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
hidden conditional neural fieldshidden conditional random fieldshidden Markov modelspeech recognitiondeep learning
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Improving the Readability of ASR Results for Lectures Using Multiple Hypotheses and Sentence-Level Knowledge
Yasuhisa FUJII  Kazumasa YAMAMOTO  Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2012/04/01
Vol. E95-D  No. 4  pp. 1101-1111
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
improving readability of ASR resultsconfusion networkautomatic speech recognitionclassroom lecture speechsentence-level knowledge
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Distant-Talking Speech Recognition Based on Spectral Subtraction by Multi-Channel LMS Algorithm
Longbiao WANG  Norihide KITAOKA  Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2011/03/01
Vol. E94-D  No. 3  pp. 659-667
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
distant-talking speech recognitionblind dereverberationmulti-channel least mean squaresspectral subtractioncepstral mean normalization
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Distant Speech Recognition Using a Microphone Array Network
Alberto Yoshihiro NAKANO  Seiichi NAKAGAWA  Kazumasa YAMAMOTO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2010/09/01
Vol. E93-D  No. 9  pp. 2451-2462
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Processing Natural Speech Variability for Improved Verbal Human-Computer Interaction)
Category: Microphone Array
Keyword: 
distant speech recognitionmicrophone array networkGMM-based CMNspeaker's position and orientation estimation
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Speaker Recognition by Combining MFCC and Phase Information in Noisy Conditions
Longbiao WANG  Kazue MINAMI  Kazumasa YAMAMOTO  Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2010/09/01
Vol. E93-D  No. 9  pp. 2397-2406
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Processing Natural Speech Variability for Improved Verbal Human-Computer Interaction)
Category: Speaker Recognition
Keyword: 
speaker identificationphase informationMFCCnoisy environmentGMM
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Evaluation of Combinational Use of Discriminant Analysis-Based Acoustic Feature Transformation and Discriminative Training
Makoto SAKAI  Norihide KITAOKA  Yuya HATTORI  Seiichi NAKAGAWA  Kazuya TAKEDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2010/02/01
Vol. E93-D  No. 2  pp. 395-398
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
speech recognitionfeature extractiondiscriminative training
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Noisy Speech Recognition Based on Integration/Selection of Multiple Noise Suppression Methods Using Noise GMMs
Norihide KITAOKA  Souta HAMAGUCHI  Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2008/03/01
Vol. E91-D  No. 3  pp. 411-421
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Robust Speech Processing in Realistic Environments)
Category: Noisy Speech Recognition
Keyword: 
noisy speech recognitionnoise suppression method selectionCENSREC-1
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Robust Speech Recognition by Combining Short-Term and Long-Term Spectrum Based Position-Dependent CMN with Conventional CMN
Longbiao WANG  Seiichi NAKAGAWA  Norihide KITAOKA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2008/03/01
Vol. E91-D  No. 3  pp. 457-466
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Robust Speech Processing in Realistic Environments)
Category: ASR under Reverberant Conditions
Keyword: 
robust speech recognitiondistant-talking environmentCMNlong-term spectrum
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Linear Discriminant Analysis Using a Generalized Mean of Class Covariances and Its Application to Speech Recognition
Makoto SAKAI  Norihide KITAOKA  Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2008/03/01
Vol. E91-D  No. 3  pp. 478-487
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Robust Speech Processing in Realistic Environments)
Category: Feature Extraction
Keyword: 
speech recognitionfeature extractionmultidimensional signal processing
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A Machine Learning Approach for an Indonesian-English Cross Language Question Answering System
Ayu PURWARIANTI  Masatoshi TSUCHIYA  Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2007/11/01
Vol. E90-D  No. 11  pp. 1841-1852
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Natural Language Processing
Keyword: 
Cross Language Question AnsweringIndonesian-English CLQAlimited resource languagemachine learning
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Text-Independent/Text-Prompted Speaker Recognition by Combining Speaker-Specific GMM with Speaker Adapted Syllable-Based HMM
Seiichi NAKAGAWA  Wei ZHANG  Mitsuo TAKAHASHI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2006/03/01
Vol. E89-D  No. 3  pp. 1058-1065
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Statistical Modeling for Speech Processing)
Category: Speaker Recognition
Keyword: 
speaker identificationGMMHMMtext verification
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An Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation Method for Lecture-Style Spontaneous Speech Recognition Using Multiple Recognition Systems
Seiichi NAKAGAWA  Tomohiro WATANABE  Hiromitsu NISHIZAKI  Takehito UTSURO 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2005/03/01
Vol. E88-D  No. 3  pp. 463-471
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Corpus-Based Speech Technologies)
Category: Spoken Language Systems
Keyword: 
spontaneous speech recognitionunsupervised speaker adaptationconfidence measuremultiple LVCSR models
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Improving Keyword Recognition of Spoken Queries by Combining Multiple Speech Recognizer's Outputs for Speech-driven WEB Retrieval Task
Masahiko MATSUSHITA  Hiromitsu NISHIZAKI  Takehito UTSURO  Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2005/03/01
Vol. E88-D  No. 3  pp. 472-480
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Corpus-Based Speech Technologies)
Category: Spoken Language Systems
Keyword: 
speech recognitionmachine learningmultiple LVCSR modelsWEB retrieval
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A Statistical Method of Evaluating Pronunciation Proficiency for English Words Spoken by Japanese
Seiichi NAKAGAWA  Naoki NAKAMURA  Kazumasa MORI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2004/07/01
Vol. E87-D  No. 7  pp. 1917-1922
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
CALLevaluation of pronunciation proficiencyEnglish learningspeech recognition
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Continuous Speech Recognition Using an On-Line Speaker Adaptation Method Based on Automatic Speaker Clustering
Wei ZHANG  Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2003/03/01
Vol. E86-D  No. 3  pp. 464-473
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Speech Information Processing)
Category: Speech and Speaker Recognition
Keyword: 
speaker adaptationspeech recognitionspeaker clusteringMLLRMAP
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A Survey on Automatic Speech Recognition
Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2002/03/01
Vol. E85-D  No. 3  pp. 465-486
Type of Manuscript: INVITED SURVEY PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
speech recognitionacoustic modelHMMlanguage modelngram
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Text-Independent Speaker Identification Utilizing Likelihood Normalization Technique
Konstantin P. MARKOV  Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 1997/05/20
Vol. E80-D  No. 5  pp. 585-593
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech Processing and Acoustics
Keyword: 
speaker identificationlikelihood normalizationframe level processing
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Succeeding Word Prediction for Speech Recognition Based on Stochastic Language Model
Min ZHOU  Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 1996/04/20
Vol. E79-D  No. 4  pp. 333-342
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech Processing and Acoustics
Keyword: 
stochastic language modelbigramtrigramHMMbigram-HMMcontext-free grammarentropyperplexityprediction rate
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A Comparative Study of Output Probability Functions in HMMs
Seiichi NAKAGAWA  Li ZHAO  Hideyuki SUZUKI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 1995/06/20
Vol. E78-D  No. 6  pp. 669-675
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Spoken Language Processing)
Category: 
Keyword: 
HMMRBF-based HMMVQ-distortion based HMMoutput probability functionspeaker-independentspoken digit recognition
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Relationship among Recognition Rate, Rejection Rate and False Alarm Rate in a Spoken Word Recognition System
Atsuhiko KAI  Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 1995/06/20
Vol. E78-D  No. 6  pp. 698-704
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Spoken Language Processing)
Category: 
Keyword: 
speech recognitionunknown word processingsimulationrejection rate
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A Spoken Dialog System with Verification and Clarification Queries
Mikio YAMAMOTO  Satoshi KOBAYASHI  Yuji MORIYA  Seiichi NAKAGAWA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 1993/01/20
Vol. E76-D  No. 1  pp. 84-94
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Speech and Discourse Processing in Dialogue Systems)
Category: 
Keyword: 
natural language processingspeech recognitiondialog systemverificationclarification
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Comparison of Language Models by Context-Free Grammar, Bigram and Quasi/Simplified-Trigram
Seiichi NAKAGAWA  Isao MURASE 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 1991/07/20
Vol. E74-A  No. 7  pp. 1897-1905
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Continuous Speech Recognition and Understanding)
Category: Language Modeling
Keyword: 
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Comparison of Syntax-0riented Spoken Japanese Understanding System with Semantic-Oriented System
Seiichi NAKAGAWA  Yoshimitsu HIRATA  Isao MURASE  Tomohiro TANOUE 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 1991/07/20
Vol. E74-A  No. 7  pp. 1854-1862
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Continuous Speech Recognition and Understanding)
Category: Speech Understanding
Keyword: 
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