prof. dr. Lou Boves

Professor, chair

 

Room: E 8.08
Tel.: +31 (0)24 3612902
E-mail: L.Boves@let.ru.nl

 

Publications:

Using sparse representations for exemplar based continuous digit recognition
J.F. Gemmeke, L. ten Bosch, L. Boves & B. Cranen (2009)
Proceedings of EUSIPCO 2009, Glasgow, Scotland, pp 1755-1759
Paper (pdf; 125335 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Using Temporal Information for Improving Articulatory-Acoustic Feature Classification
B. Schuppler, J.J.H.C. van Doremalen, O. Scharenborg, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2009)
Proceedings of IEEE ASRU Workshop, Merano, Italy, pp.70-75
Paper (pdf; 319252 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Functional Data Analysis as a Tool for Analyzing Speech Dynamics A Case Study on the French Word c’´etait
M. Gubian, F.T. Torreira, H. Strik & L. Boves (2009)
Proceedings of Interspeech, Brighton, England
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Learning to Rank QA data
S. Verberne, H. van Halteren, S. Raaijmakers, D. Theijssen & L. Boves (2009)
Proceedings of the Learning to Rank workshop at SIGIR 2009, pp. 41-48
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Novelty Detection as a Tool for Automatic Detection of Orthographic Transcription Errors
M. Gubian, B. Schuppler, J.J.H.C. van Doremalen, E. Sanders & L. Boves (2009)
Proceedings of the13-th International Conference on Speech and Computer SPECOM-2009
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Learning to Rank Answers to Why-Questions
S. Verberne, S. Raaijmakers, D. Theijssen & L. Boves (2009)
Proceedings of DIR 2009, pp. 34-41
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Features for automatic discourse analysis of paragraphs
D. Theijssen, H. van Halteren, S. Verberne & L. Boves (2009)
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, selected papers from the eighteenth CLIN meeting. pp. 53-68
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COMPARISON OF SENSOR CONFIGURATION IN TELE-HEALTH APPLICATIONS ON CLASSIFICATION OF BEHAVIOR
V.P. Beerepoot, L. Boves & N.Keijsers (2008)
procceedings of International Conference on Ambulatory Monitoring of Physical Activity and Movement, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, P 197
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Preparing a corpus of Dutch spontaneous dialogues for automatic phonetic analysis
B. Schuppler, M.E. Ernestus, O. Scharenborg & L. Boves (2008)
Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, pp.1638-1641
Paper (pdf; 172139 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Using Syntactic Information for Improving Why-Question Answering.
S. Verberne, L. Boves, N.H.J. Oostdijk & P.A.J.M. Coppen (2008)
Proceedings of COLING 2008
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Modelling Pronunciation Variation with Single-Path and Multi-Path Syllable Models: Issues to Consider
A. Hämäläinen, L. ten Bosch & L. Boves (2008)
Speech Communication, doi:10.1016/j.specom.2008.07.001, 2008
Abstract (html)
Evaluating paragraph retrieval for why-QA
S. Verberne, L. Boves, N.H.J. Oostdijk & P.A.J.M. Coppen (2008)
C. MacDonald et al. (Eds.): European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2008, LNCS 4956, p.p. 669-673, 2008
Paper (pdf; 93134 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Automatic phonetic transcription of large speech corpora.
C. Van Bael, L. Boves, H. van den Heuvel & H. Strik (2007)
Computer, Speech and Language, 21, pp. 652-668.
Paper (pdf; 3840402 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Evaluating deep syntactic parsing
D. Theijssen, S. Verberne, N.H.J. Oostdijk & L. Boves (2007)
Proceedings of the 17th meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 17), Leuven, Belgium, pp 115-130.
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Discourse-based answering of why-questions
S. Verberne, L. Boves, N.H.J. Oostdijk & P.A.J.M. Coppen (2007)
Traitement Automatique des Langues 2006 Volume 47 Numéro 2: Discours et document : traitements automatiques, p.p. 21-41
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Early Decision Making in Continuous Speech
O. Scharenborg, L. ten Bosch & L. Boves (2007)
In M. Grimm & K. Kroschel (Eds.), Robust Speech Recognition and Understanding, 333-350.
Paper (pdf; 206588 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Evaluating Discourse-based Answer Extraction for Why-Question Answering
S. Verberne, L. Boves, N.H.J. Oostdijk & P.A.J.M. Coppen (2007)
Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), Amsterdam, pp. 735-737
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Construction and Analysis of Multiple Paths in Syllable Models
A. Hämäläinen, L. ten Bosch & L. Boves (2007)
Proceedings of Interspeech, Antwerp, Belgium
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On the Utility of Syllable-Based Acoustic Models for Pronunciation Variation Modelling
A. Hämäläinen, L. Boves, J. de Veth & L. ten Bosch (2007)
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 46460, 11 pages, 2007
Abstract (html)
Modelling Pronunciation Variation Using Multi-Path HMMs for Syllables
A. Hämäläinen, L. ten Bosch & L. Boves (2007)
Proceedings of ICASSP, Honolulu, USA
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'Early recognition' of polysyllabic words in continuous speech
O. Scharenborg, L. ten Bosch & L. Boves (2007)
Computer Speech and Language, 21 (1), 54-71
Paper (pdf; 281991 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
A two-pass approach for handling out-of-vocabulary words in a large vocabulary recognition task
O. Scharenborg, S. Seneff & L. Boves (2007)
Computer Speech and Language, 21 (1), 206-218
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Exploring the use of linguistic analysis for answering why-questions
S. Verberne, L. Boves, N.H.J. Oostdijk & P.A.J.M. Coppen (2006)
Proceedings of the 16th meeting of Computational Linguistics n the Netherlands (CLIN 2005), Amsterdam, pp. 33-48
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Trajectory Clustering for Solving the Trajectory Folding Problem in Automatic Speech Recognition
Y. Han, J. de Veth & L. Boves (2006)
Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
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EM Algorithm with Split and Merge in Trajectory Clustering for Automatic Speech Recognition
Y. Han & L. Boves (2006)
Proceedings of International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP-2006), Singapore
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Syllable-Length Path Mixture Hidden Markov Models with Trajectory Clustering for Continuous Speech Recognition
Y. Han & L. Boves (2006)
Proceedings of INTERSPEECH-2006, Pittsburgh, USA
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Multi-Path Syllable Models Based on Phonetic Knowledge
A. Hämäläinen, L. ten Bosch & L. Boves (2006)
In: R. Aulanko, L. Wahlberg & M. Vainio (eds.), Proceedings of the Phonetics Symposium 2006, Publications of the Department of Speech Sciences, University of Helsinki, 57-66.
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FROM SPEECH SOUNDS TO SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION: ABOUT NEW APPROACHES TO IMPOSE STRUCTURE ON SPEECH DATA
L. ten Bosch, A. Hämäläinen, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2006)
Proceedings LabPhon 10, Paris, June 28-30, 2006
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ACOUSTIC SCORES AND SYMBOLIC MISMATCH PENALTIES IN PHONE LATTICES
L. ten Bosch, A. Hämäläinen, O. Scharenborg & L. Boves (2006)
Proceedings ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France
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Pronunciation Variant -Based Multi-Path HMMs for Syllables
A. Hämäläinen, L. ten Bosch & L. Boves (2006)
Proceedings of Interspeech, Pittsburgh, USA
Paper (pdf; 191686 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Automatic Phonetic Transcription of Large Speech Corpora: a Comparative Study
C. Van Bael, L. Boves, H. Strik & H. van den Heuvel (2006)
To appear in: Proceedings of Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh PA, USA.
Paper (pdf; 61664 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Data for question answering: the case of why
S. Verberne, L. Boves, N.H.J. Oostdijk & P.A.J.M. Coppen (2006)
Proceedings of the 5th edition of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), Genoa, Italy.
Paper (pdf; 106788 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Automatic Phonetic Transcription of Large Speech Corpora
C. Van Bael, L. Boves, H. van den Heuvel & H. Strik (2006)
Proceedings of Workshop on Annotation Science: State of the Art in Enhancing Automatic Linguistic Annotation, LREC, Genoa, Italy, pp. 4-11.
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A Unified Structure for Dutch Dialect Dictionary Data
F. de Vriend, L. Boves, H. van den Heuvel, R. van Hout, J. Kruijsen & J. Swanenberg (2006)
Proceedings of The fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), Genoa, Italy.
Paper (pdf; 1139714 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Whither Linguistic Interpretation of Acoustic Pronunciation Variation
A. Hämäläinen, Y. Han, L. Boves & L. ten Bosch (2006)
Proceedings of Speech Recognition and Intrinsic Variation Workshop, Toulouse, France
Paper (pdf; 208801 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Trajectory Clustering of Syllable-Length Acoustic Models for Continuous Speech Recognition
Y. Han, A. Hämäläinen & L. Boves (2006)
Proceedings of ICASSP, Toulouse, France
Paper (pdf; 146535 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Interactivity and Multimodality in the IMIX Demonstrator.
E.A. den Os & L. Boves (2005)
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Amsterdam July 6-8. CD-ROM, 4 pages.
Paper (pdf; 212949 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
User Behaviour in Multimodal Interaction.
E.A. den Os & L. Boves (2005)
Proceedings HCI-International, Volume 8 - Universal Access in HCI: Exploring New Dimensions of Diversity. Las Vegas, 22-27 July. CD-ROM, 10 pages.
Paper (pdf; 403789 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Conversational agent or direct manipulation in human-system interaction.
E.A. den Os, L. Boves, S. Rossignol, L. ten Bosch & L. Vuurpijl (2005)
Speech Communication, Vol. 47, pp. 194-207.
Paper (pdf; 266966 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Speech Trajectory Clustering for Improved Speech Recognition
Y. Han, J. de Veth & L. Boves (2005)
Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, Lisbon, Portugal
Paper (pdf; 119637 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Trajectory Clustering for Automatic Speech Recognition
Y. Han, J. de Veth & L. Boves (2005)
Proceedings of EUSIPCO, Antalya, Turkey
Paper (pdf; 147786 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Gender in everyday speech and language: A corpus-based study
D. Binnenpoorte, C. Van Bael, & L. Boves (2005)
Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal
Paper (pdf; 121733 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Syllable-Length Acoustic Units in Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition
A. Hämäläinen, L. Boves & J. de Veth (2005)
In: G. Kokkinakis, N. Fakotakis, E. Dermatas & R. Potapova (eds.), Proceedings of SPECOM 2005, 499-502.
Paper (pdf; 124691 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Additive background noise as a source of non-linear mismatch in the cepstral and log-energy domain
F. de Wet, J. de Veth, L. Boves & B. Cranen (2005)
Computer Speech and Language Volume 19, Issue 1 pp. 31-54, 2005
Paper (pdf; 277055 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Longer-Length Acoustic Units for Continuous Speech Recognition
A. Hämäläinen, J. de Veth & L. Boves (2005)
Proceedings of EUSIPCO, Antalya, Turkey
Paper (pdf; 95327 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Trajectory Clustering Using Longer Length Units for Automatic Speech Recognition
Y. Han, J. de Veth & L. Boves (2005)
Proceedings of IEEE BENELUX/DSP Valley Signal Processing Symposium (SPS-DARTS), Antwerp, Belgium, pp. 175-178
Paper (pdf; 86047 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Effective error recovery strategies for multimodal form-filling applications
J. Sturm & L. Boves (2005)
Speech Communication, Vol. 45 (2005), pp. 289-303
Paper (pdf; 270518 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Multiword Expressions in Spoken Language: an exploratory study on pronunciation variation
D. Binnenpoorte, C. Cucchiarini, L. Boves & H. Strik (2005)
Computer, Speech & Language 19(4), pp. 433-449.
Paper (pdf; 156805 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Predicting Word Correct Rate from Acoustic and Linguistic Confusability
A.G.G. Bouwman, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2004)
Proceedings of ICSLP 2004, Jeju, Korea
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Survey of spontaneous speech phenomena in a multimodal dialogue system and some implications for ASR
L. ten Bosch & L. Boves (2004)
Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing ICSLP, South Korea. CDROM.
Paper (pdf; 132774 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Efficient Assessment of ASR Systems by Using Subsets of a Test Database
A. B. Nagórski, L. Boves & H. Steeneken (2004)
Proceedings of IEEE Benelux SPS, Hilvarenbeek, the Netherlands, pp. 109-112, 2004
Paper (pdf; 66637 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Robust conversational system design.
L. Boves (2004)
ISCA/COST 278 Workshop on Robustness Issues in Conversational Interaction (CD-ROM), Norwich, 30-31 August 2004. Invited Paper.
Paper (pdf; 90975 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Natural multimodal interaction for design applications.
E. den Os & L. Boves (2004)
Proceedings eChallenges 2004, 27 - 29 October 2004, Vienna, Austria, pp. 1403-1410.
Paper (pdf; 166074 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Multimodal Interaction in Architectural Design Applications.
L. Boves, Neumann, A., Vuurpijl L., L. ten Bosch, Rossignol, S., Engel, R. & Pfleger, N. (2004)
Proceedings 8th ERCIM Workshop on "User Interfaces for All", 28-29 June 2004, Vienna, Austria.
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Using large multi-purpose corpora for specific research questions: discourse phenomena related to wh-questions in the Spoken Dutch Corpus
N.H.J. Oostdijk & L. Boves (2004)
In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Lisbon 26-28 May 2004, 997-1000.
'On-line Early Recognition' of Polysyllabic Words in Continuous Speech
O. Scharenborg, L. Boves & L. ten Bosch (2004)
Proceedings of the Tenth Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology 2004, Sydney, Australia
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Evaluation of formant-like features on an automatic vowel classification task
F. de Wet, K. Weber, L. Boves, B. Cranen, S. Bengio & H. Bourlard (2004)
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 116, No. 3, pp. 1781-1792
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Improving Automatic Phonetic Transcription of Spontaneous Speech through Variant-Based Pronunciation Variation Modelling
D. Binnenpoorte, C. Cucchiarini, H. Strik & L. Boves (2004)
Proceedings of LREC2004, Lisbon, Portugal
Paper (pdf; 66611 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Human-Factors issues in multimodal interaction in complex design tasks.
S. Rossignol, L. ten Bosch, L. Vuurpijl, A. Neumann, L. Boves, E. den Os & J. P. de Ruiter (2003)
Proceedings workshop on Human Computer Interaction Conference, Greece 2003.
Paper (pdf; 91140 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Towards Ambient Intelligence: Multimodal Computers that Understand Our Intentions
E. den Os & L. Boves (2003)
Proceedings eChallenges 2003, 22-24 October 2003, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy
Paper (pdf; 167116 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Modeling lexical stress in continuous speech recognition for Dutch
H. van den Heuvel, D. Kuijk & L. Boves (2003)
Speech Communication, 40(3), pp. 335-350
Abstract (html)
In Search of Optimal Data Selection for Training of Automatic Speech Recognition Systems
A. B. Nagórski, L. Boves & H. Steeneken (2003)
Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop 2003, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands
Paper (pdf; 108676 bytes) ;
‘Early Recognition’ of Words in Continuous Speech
O. Scharenborg, L. ten Bosch & L. Boves (2003)
Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands (CDROM)
Paper (pdf; 91093 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Bridging Automatic Speech Recognition and Psycholinguistics: Extending Shortlist to an End-to-End Model of Human Speech Recognition (L)
O. Scharenborg, L. ten Bosch, L. Boves & D. Norris (2003)
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114 (6), 3032-3035
Paper (pdf; 41748 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Spontaneous speech in the Spoken Dutch Corpus
L. Boves & N.H.J. Oostdijk (2003)
In: Proceedings ISCA & IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition (SSPR). 14-16 April, 2003.Tokyo, Japan
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Recognising 'Real-life' Speech with SpeM: A Speech-based Computational Model of Human Speech Recognition
O. Scharenborg, L. ten Bosch & L. Boves (2003)
Proceedings of Eurospeech, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 2285-2288
Paper (pdf; 64010 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
The impact of spectral and energy mismatch on the Aurora2 digit recognition task
F. de Wet, J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2003)
CDROM Proceedings of ICASSP, Hong Kong, China
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Experiences from the Spoken Dutch Corpus project
N.H.J. Oostdijk, W. Goedertier, F. Van Eynde, L. Boves, J.-P. Martens, M. Moortgat & H. Baayen (2002)
In: M. González Rodriguéz and C. Paz Suarez Araujo (eds.) LREC 2002 Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation 29-31 May 2002, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.Proceedings Vol. 1: 340-347.
The pedagogy-technology interface in Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training
A. Neri, C. Cucchiarini, H. Strik & L. Boves (2002)
Computer Assisted Language Learning, 15:5, pp. 441-467
Paper (pdf; 260780 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Quantitative assessment of second language learners' fluency: Comparisons between read and spontaneous speech
C. Cucchiarini, H. Strik & L. Boves (2002)
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 111 (6), pp. 2862-2873
Paper (pdf; 95232 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Pronunciation Variation Modelling in a Model of Human Word Recognition
O. Scharenborg & L. Boves (2002)
Proceedings of Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation, Estes Park, USA, pp. 65-70
Paper (pdf; 94595 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Accumulated Kullback divergence for analysis of ASR performance in the presence of noise
F. de Wet, J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2002)
Proceedings of ICSLP, Denver, USA, pp. 1069-1073
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Evaluation of formant-like features for ASR
K. Weber, F. de Wet, B. Cranen, L. Boves, S. Bengio & H. Boulard (2002)
Proceedings of ICSLP, Denver, USA, pp. 2101-2104
Paper (ps; 355847 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Optimal selection of speech data for Automatic Speech Recognition systems
A. B. Nagórski, L. Boves & H. Steeneken (2002)
Proceedings of ICSLP 2002, Denver, Colorado
Paper (pdf; 185158 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Implementing and evaluating a multimodal and multilingual tourist guide
L. Almeida, I. Amdal, N. Beires, M. Boualem, L. Boves, E. den Os, P. Filoche, R. Gomes, J.E. Knudsen, K. Kvale, J. Rugelbak, C. Tallec & N. Warakagoda (2002)
EURESCOM
Paper (pdf; 64804 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
MUST - Multimodal and multilingual services for small mobile terminals
L. Boves & E. den Os (2002)
EURESCOM
Paper (pdf; 1072154 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
The MUST guide to Paris
L. Almeida, I. Amdal, N. Beires, M. Boualem, L. Boves, E. den Os, P. Filoche, R. Gomes, J.E. Knudsen, K. Kvale, J. Rugelbak, C. Tallec & N. Warakagoda (2002)
ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop, Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments, June 17 - 19, 2002, Kloster Irsee, Germany
Paper (pdf; 80540 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Utterance Verification based on the Likelihood Distance to Alternative Paths
A.G.G. Bouwman & L. Boves (2002)
Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, Brno, Czech Republic, pp. 213-220
Paper (pdf; 138405 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
ASR in a Human Word Recognition Model: Generating Phonemic Input for Shortlist
O. Scharenborg, L. Boves & J. de Veth (2002)
Proceedings of ICSLP, Denver, USA, pp. 633-636
Paper (pdf; 67157 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Analysis of Disturbed Acoustic Features in terms of Emission Cost
L. van de Werff, J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2001)
Proceedings of the CRAC Workshop, Aalborg, Denmark, 2001 (no page numbers)
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Annotation in the SpeechDat projects
H. van den Heuvel, L. Boves, A. Moreno, M. Omologo, G. Richard & E. Sanders (2001)
International Journal of Speech Technology, 4, pp. 127-143.
Abstract (html)
Using Information on Lexical Stress for Utterance Verification
A.G.G. Bouwman & L. Boves (2001)
Proceedings of ITRW on Prosody in ASRU, Red Bank, 2001, pp. 29-34
Paper (pdf; 50914 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
A comparison of LPC and FFT-based acoustic features for noise robust ASR
F. de Wet, B. Cranen, J. de Veth & L. Boves (2001)
Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, pp. 865-868.
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Noise Reduction for Noise Robust Feature Extraction for Distributed Speech Recognition
B.Noe, J.Sienel, D.Jouvet, L.Mauuary, L. Boves, J. de Veth & F. de Wet (2001)
Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, pp. 433-436.
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Feature Vector Selection to Improve ASR Robustness in Noisy Conditions
J. de Veth, L.Mauuary, B.Noe, F. de Wet, J.Sienel, L. Boves & D.Jouvet (2001)
Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, pp. 201-204.
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Acoustic Backing-off as an Implementation of Missing Feature Theory
J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2001)
Speech Communication, 34 (3), pp 247 - 265.
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Acoustic Features and a Distance Measure that Reduce the Impact of Training-Test Mismatch in ASR
J. de Veth, F. de Wet, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2001)
Speech Communication, 34 (1-2), pp 57 - 74.
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Acoustic Features and Distance Measure to Reduce the Vulnerability of ASR Performance due to the Presence of a Communication Channel and/or Background Noise
J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2001)
In: Robustness in Language and Speech Technology, J.-C. Junqua and G. van Noord (Eds.), Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 9 - 45.
Paper (ps; 851791 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Business Listings in Automatic Directory Assistance
O. Scharenborg, J. Sturm & L. Boves (2001)
Proceedings Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, pp. 2381-2384.
Paper (pdf; 60477 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Using Discriminative principles for recognising City Names
A.G.G. Bouwman & L. Boves (2001)
Proc. ITRW on Adaptation Methods for Speech Recognition, Sophia-Antipolis, France, 2001, pp. 109-112
Paper (pdf; 60014 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Effects of OOV rates on Keyphrase Rejection Schemes
A.G.G. Bouwman, J. Sturm & L. Boves (2001)
Proc. Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, 2001, pp. 2585-2588
Paper (pdf; 37405 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Pronunciation Evaluation in Read and Spontaneous Speech: a Comparison between Human Ratings and Automatic Scores
C. Cucchiarini, H. Strik, D. Binnenpoorte & L. Boves (2000)
Proceedings of New Sounds 2000, Fourth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second-Language Speech, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Different aspects of expert pronunciation quality ratings and their relation to scores produced by speech recognition algorithms
C. Cucchiarini, H. Strik & L. Boves (2000)
Speech Communication, 30 (2-3), pp. 109-119
Paper (pdf; 115972 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Quantitative assessment of second language learners' fluency by means of automatic speech recognition technology
C. Cucchiarini, H. Strik & L. Boves (2000)
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 107 (2), pp. 989-999
Paper (pdf; 86035 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
On model quality and evaluation in speaker verification
J.W. Koolwaaij, L. Boves, H. Jongebloed & E.A. den Os (2000)
Proceedings International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 3759-3762
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An overview of the CAVE project research activities in speaker verification
F. Bimbot, M. Blomberg, L. Boves, D. Genoud, H.-P. Hutter, C. Jaboulet, J.W. Koolwaaij, J. Lindberg & J.-B. Pierrot (2000)
Speech Communication, Vol.31, Number 2-3, pp. 158-180
Abstract (html)
Local normalization and delayed decision making in speaker detection and tracking
J.W. Koolwaaij & L. Boves (2000)
Special Issue of Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal on the NIST Speaker Recognition Workshop, Volume 10, Number 1-3, pp. 113-132
Abstract (html)
Comparing acoustic features for robust ASR in fixed and cellular network applications
F. de Wet, B. Cranen, J. de Veth & L. Boves (2000)
Proceedings International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 1415-1418.
Paper (ps; 289148 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Connected Digit Recognition with Class Specific Word Models
O. Scharenborg, A.G.G. Bouwman & L. Boves (2000)
COST249 Workshop on Voice Operated Telecom Services, Ghent, Belgium, pp. 71-74
Paper (pdf; 54410 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Towards an Automatic Oral Proficiency Test for Dutch as a Second Language: Automatic Pronunciation Assessment in Read and Spontaneous Speech
C. Cucchiarini, H. Strik, D. Binnenpoorte & L. Boves (2000)
Proceedings of Instil 2000
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SLR Validation: Present State of Affairs and Prospects.
H. van den Heuvel, L. Boves, K. Choukri, S.M.A. Goddijn & E. Sanders (2000)
Proceedings LREC 2000, Athens, Greece, Vol. I, pp. 435-440
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Impact of speaking style and speaking task on acoustic models
J. Sturm, H. Kamperman, L. Boves & E.A. den Os (2000)
Proceedings ICSLP2000, Beijing, China
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Weighting Phone Confidence Measures for Automatic Speech Recognition
A.G.G. Bouwman, L. Boves & J. Koolwaaij (2000)
COST249 Workshop on Voice Operated Telecom Services, Ghent, Belgium, pp. 59-62
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Incorporating Confidence Measures in the Dutch Train Timetable Information System Developed in the Arise Project
A.G.G. Bouwman, J. Sturm & L. Boves (1999)
Proceedings International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Phoenix, USA, Vol. 1, pp. 493-496
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On decision making in forensic casework
J.W. Koolwaaij & L. Boves (1999)
Forensic Linguistics, the International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, Vol. 6, Number 2, pp. 242-264.
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On the Use of Automatic Speaker Verification Systems in Forensic Casework
J.W. Koolwaaij & L. Boves (1999)
Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication, Washington, USA, pp. 224-229
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Applications of Speech Technology: Designing for Usability
L. Boves & E.A. den Os (1999)
IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Keystone, Co, 11-15 December 1999
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An overview of the Picasso project research activities in speaker verification for telephone applications
F. Bimbot, M. Blomberg, L. Boves, G. Chollet, C. Jaboulet, B. Jacob, J. Kharroubi, J.W. Koolwaaij, J. Lindberg, J. Mariethoz, C. Mokbel & H. Mokbel (1999)
Proceedings Eurospeech'99, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. 5, pp. 1963-1966
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Natural Interfaces with Speech Technology
L. Boves & E.A. den Os (1999)
Proceedings Symposium "Human Interfacing", 20 May 1999, Eindhoven University of Technology, pp. 16-27.
Acoustic pre-processing for optimal effectivity of Missing Feature Theory
J. de Veth, B. Cranen, F. de Wet & L. Boves (1999)
Proceedings Eurospeech'99, Budapest, HUNGARY, 1999, pp. 65-68.
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Acoustic backing-off as an implementation of Missing Feature Theory
J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (1999)
PP-TST report, document no. 81, 1999
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Missing Feature Theory in ASR: Make sure you miss the right type of features
J. de Veth, F. de Wet, B. Cranen & L. Boves (1999)
Proceedings Workshop on Robust Methods for ASR in Adverse Conditions, Tampere, FINLAND, 1999, pp. 231-234.
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Using likelihood ratios to perform utterance verification in automatic pronunciation assessment.
F. de Wet, C. Cucchiarini, H. Strik & L. Boves (1999)
Proceedings Eurospeech'99, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. 1, pp. 173-176
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Dialogue management in the Dutch Arise train timetable information system
J. Sturm, E.A. den Os & L. Boves (1999)
Proceedings Eurospeech '99, Budapest, Hungary
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Issues in spoken dialogue systems: experiences from the Dutch Arise train timetable information system.
J. Sturm, E.A. den Os & L. Boves (1999)
Proceedings ESCA Workshop on Interactive dialogue in multi-modal systems, Kloster Irsee, Germany, p.1-4.
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Acoustic characteristics of lexical stress in continuous telephone speech
D. van Kuijk & L. Boves (1999)
Speech Communication, 27, pp. 95-111
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Automatic Speech Recognition in Adverse Acoustic Conditions
F. de Wet, J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (1999)
Proceedings of the CLS opening Academic Year 1999/2000, pp. 1-15
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Evaluation of the Dutch Train Timetable Information System developed in the Arise project
A. A. Sanderman, J. Sturm, E. A. den Os, L. Boves & A. H. M. Cremers (1998)
Proceedings of the 4th IEEE workshop on Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications
Abstract (html)
Quantitative assessment of second language learners' fluency: an automatic approach
C. Cucchiarini, H. Strik & L. Boves (1998)
Proceedings International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol. 6, pp. 2619-2623
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Assessment of Dutch pronunciation by means of automatic speech recognition technology: Automatic pronunciation grading for Dutch
C. Cucchiarini, H. Strik, F. de Wet & L. Boves (1998)
Proceedings International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol. 5, pp. 1739-1742
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Automatic pronunciation grading for Dutch
C. Cucchiarini, H. Strik & L. Boves (1998)
Proceedings ESCA workshop Speech Technology and Language Learning, Marholmen
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Channel normalization techniques for automatic speech recognition over the telephone
J. de Veth & L. Boves (1998)
Speech Communication 25 (1998), pp. 149-164.
Abstract (html)
Acoustic backing-off in the local distance computation for robust automatic speech recognition
J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (1998)
Proceedings International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol. 4, pp. 1427-1430
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Effectiveness of phase-corrected RASTA for continuous speech recognition
J. de Veth & L. Boves (1998)
Proceedings International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol. 3, pp. 963-966
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A new procedure for classifying speakers in Speaker Verification Systems
J.W. Koolwaaij & L. Boves (1997)
Proceedings of EUROSPEECH '97, Rhodes, Vol.5, pp. 2355-2358
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On the independence of digits in connected digit strings
J.W. Koolwaaij & L. Boves (1997)
Proceedings EUROSPEECH '97, Rhodes, Vol.5, pp. 2351-2354
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Field test of a calling card service based on speaker verification and automatic speech recognition
E.A. den Os, L. Boves, D. James, R. Winski & K. Fridh (1997)
Proceedings EUROSPEECH '97, Rhodes, Vol.4, pp. 1839-1843
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Speaker verification with GSM coded telephone speech
M.G. Kuitert & L. Boves (1997)
Proceedings EUROSPEECH 1997, Rhodes, Vol.2, pp. 975-978
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Automatic evaluation of Dutch pronunciation by using speech recognition technology
C. Cucchiarini, H. Strik & L. Boves (1997)
Proceedings IEEE workshop ASRU, Santa Barbara, pp. 622-629, 1997
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Using speech recognition technology to assess of foreign speakers' pronunciation of Dutch
C. Cucchiarini, H. Strik & L. Boves (1997)
Proceedings New Sounds '97, Klagenfurt, pp. 61-68, 1997
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Automatic assessment of foreign speakers' pronunciation of Dutch
C. Cucchiarini, H. Strik & L. Boves (1997)
Proceedings Eurospeech '97, pp. 713-716
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Phase-corrected RASTA for automatic speech recognition over the phone
J. de Veth & L. Boves (1997)
Proceedings ICASSP-97, Muenchen, Germany, April 21-24, pp. 1239-1242, 1997
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Channel normalisation using phase-corrected RASTA
J. de Veth & L. Boves (1997)
Proceedings of the ESCA-NATO Workshop on Robust Speech Recognition for Unknown Communication Channels, Pont-a-Mousson, France, April 17-18, 1997, pp. 119-122.
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A spoken dialog system for the Dutch public transport information service.
H. Strik, A.J.M. Russel, H. van den Heuvel, C. Cucchiarini & L. Boves (1997)
Int. Journal of Speech Technology, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 119-129.
Abstract (html)
Localizing a spoken dialog system for train timetable information.
H. Strik, A.J.M. Russel, H. van den Heuvel, C. Cucchiarini & L. Boves (1997)
Paper for the COST249 meeting in Rome, February 17-18 1997.
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A spoken dialogue system for public transport information.
H. Strik, A.J.M. Russel, H. van den Heuvel, C. Cucchiarini & L. Boves (1996)
Proceedings of the Department of Language & Speech, Vol. 19, pp. 129-142, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1996.
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Localizing an automatic inquiry system for public transport information.
H. Strik, A.J.M. Russel, H. van den Heuvel, C. Cucchiarini & L. Boves (1996)
(ICSLP'96), Vol. 2, pp. 853-856, October 3-6, Philadelphia, USA
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Using lexical stress in continuous speech recognition for Dutch.
D. van Kuijk, H. van den Heuvel & L. Boves (1996)
Proceedings ICSLP-96, Philadelphia, USA, Vol. IV, 1736-1739.
Comparison of channel normalisation techniques for automatic speech recognition over the phone
J. de Veth & L. Boves (1996)
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP96), Vol. 4, pp. 2332-2335, Philadelphia, October 3-6, 1996
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Channel normalisation by using RASTA filtering and the dynamic cepstrum for automatic speech recognition over the phone
P. Boda, J. de Veth & L. Boves (1996)
Proceedings ESCA Workshop on the Auditory Basis of Speech Perception, Keele University (UK), July 15-19, 1996, pp. 317-320
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Downtrend in F0 and Psb.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1995)
In: Journal of Phonetics, Vol. 23, pp. 203-220.
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The effect of intonation contours on the acceptability of treated stutterers? speech.
, Konst, E., L. Boves & A.C.M. Rietveld (1994)
Proceedings First World Congress on Fluency Disorders, Munich, pp. 432-435.
A physiological model of intonation.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1994)
Vol. 16/17, pp. 96-105.
Paper (ps; 359519 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Automatic estimation of voice source parameters.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1994)
(ICSLP-94), Yokohama, Japan, pp. 155-158.
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Fitting a LF-model to inverse filter signals.
H. Strik, B. Cranen & L. Boves (1993)
technology" (EUROSPEECH-93), Berlin, Vol.1, pp. 103-106.
Paper (ps; 173038 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Control of fundamental frequency, intensity and voice quality in speech.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1992)
In: Journal of Phonetics 20, pp. 15-25.
On the relation between voice source parameters and prosodic features in connected speech.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1992)
In: Speech Communication 11, pp. 167-174.
Paper (ps; 95156 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Comparing methods for automatic extraction of voice source parameters from continuous speech.
H. Strik, J. Jansen & L. Boves (1992)
In: Proceedings ICSLP-92, Banff, Vol. 1, pp. 121-124.
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A dynamic programming algorithm for time-aligning and averaging physiological signals related to speech.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1991)
In: Journal of Phonetics 19, pp. 367-378.
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On the relation between voice source characteristics and prosody.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1991)
In: Proceedings EUROSPEECH 91, Genova, Vol. 3, pp. 1145-1148.
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Optimizing lexical fast search in a large vocabulary isolated word speech recognition system.
H. Drexler, R. Roddeman, L. Boves & H. Strik (1991)
In: Proceedings EUROSPEECH 91, Genova, Vol. 3, pp. 1401-1404.
Abstract (html)
Extraction of control parameters for the voice source in a text-to-speech system.
J. de Veth, B. Cranen, H. Strik & L. Boves (1990)
pp. 301-304.
Abstract (html)
The fundamental frequency - subglottal pressure ratio.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1989)
In: Proceedings Eurospeech 89, Paris, Vol. Two, pp. 425-428.
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Averaging physiological signals with the use of a DTW algorithm.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1988)
In: Proceedings SPEECH'88, 7th FASE Symposium, Edinburgh, Book 3, pp. 883-890.
Abstract (html)
Simultaneous control of fundamental frequency and intensity in speech.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1988)
In: Proceedings SPEECH'88, 7th FASE Symposium, Edinburgh, Book 3, pp. 1115-1121.
Abstract (html)
The fundamental frequency-subglottal pressure ratio in speech.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1988)
In: J. of the Acous. Soc. of America 84(S1), S82(A).
Abstract (html)
Control of fundamental frequency and intensity in running speech.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1988)
In: J. of the Acous. Soc. of America 84(S1), S82(A).
Abstract (html)
Data processing of physiological signals related to speech.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1988)
In: AFN-Proceedings, University of Nijmegen, Vol. 12, pp. 41-55.
Abstract (html)
Regulation of intensity and pitch in chest voice.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1987)
In: Proceedings 11th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Tallinn, Vol. VI, pp. 32-35.
Abstract (html)
Physiological bases of Fo and intensity control in speech.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1987)
and Biology Society, Vol. 1, pp. 0050-0051.
Abstract (html)
Fundamental frequency and intensity control in speech.
H. Strik & L. Boves (1987)
In: J. of the Acous. Soc. of America 82(S1), S17(A).
Stylization of pitch contours.
L. Boves & A.C.M. Rietveld (1978)
In: Proceedings of the Department of Language and Speech 2, Nijmegen: K.U. Nijmegen, pp. 23-40.
Spreken en verstaan. Een inleiding tot de experimentele fonetiek. [Bespreking van: Nooteboom, S.G. & Cohen, A., Bespreking van : Nooteboom S.G. & Cohen, A. Spreken en verstaan. Een inleiding tot de experimentele fonetiek.
L. Boves & A.C.M. Rietveld (1977)
Uitg.: v. Gorkum, Assen/Amsterdam (1977)].Forum der Letteren, 18, 45-49.