dr. Henk van den Heuvel

Senior researcher

 

Room: E 8.05
Tel.: +31 (0)24 3611686
E-mail: H.v.d.Heuvel@let.ru.nl

 

Personal homepage of Henk van den Heuvel

 

Publications:

Fast and easy development of pronunciation lexicons for names.
H. van den Heuvel, J.P. Martens & N. Konings (2008)
Proceedings LangTech 2008, Feb., 2008, Rome
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Repetitor. Een uitspraakoefenprogramma in ontwikkeling.
A. Blom & H. van den Heuvel (2008)
DIXIT, 5(2), p.30.
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Dit is Autonomata Too.
H. van den Heuvel (2008)
DIXIT, 5(2), p.16.
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LC-STAR II: Starring more Lexica.
U. Ziegenhain, H. Fersoe, H. van den Heuvel & A. Moreno (2008)
Proceedings LREC2008, Marrakech Morroco.
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Validation of spoken language resources: an overview of basic aspects.
H. van den Heuvel, D.J. Iskra, E. Sanders & F. de Vriend (2008)
Journal of Language Resources & Evaluation, 42, pp. 41-73.
Abstract (html)
The Autonomata Spoken Names Corpus.
H. van den Heuvel, J.P. Martens, K. D'hanens & N. Konings (2008)
Proceedings LREC2008, Marrakech Morroco.
The IFADV corpus: A free dialog video corpus
R. van Son, W. Wesseling, E. Sanders & H. van den Heuvel (2008)
LREC 2008, Marrakech, Marocco
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G2P conversion of names. What can we do (better)?
H. van den Heuvel, & N. Konings (2007)
Proceedings Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, pp. 1773-1776.
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Validation of phonetic transcriptions in the context of automatic speech recognition.
C. Van Bael, H. van den Heuvel & H. Strik (2007)
Language Resources & Evaluation, 41, pp. 129-146.
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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.
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Validation of language resources in TC-STAR.
H. van den Heuvel & E. Sanders (2006)
Proceedings TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 165-170.
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Valid Validations: bare basics and proven procedures
H. van den Heuvel & E. Sanders (2006)
Proceedings Workshop "Quality assurance and quality measurement for language and speech resources", LREC 2006, Genova, Italy.
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Validation of third party Spoken and Written Language Resources Methods for performing Quick Quality Checks.
H. Fersoe, H. van den Heuvel & S. Olsen (2006)
Proceedings Workshop "Quality assurance and quality measurement for language and speech resources", LREC 2006, Genova, Italy.
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TC-STAR: Specifications of Language Resources and Evaluation for Speech Synthesis
A. Bonafonte, H. Hoege, I. Kiss, A. Moreno, U. Ziegenhain, H. van den Heuvel, H.U.Hain, X.S. Wang & M.N. Garcia, M.N. (2006)
Proceedings LREC 2006, Genova, Italy, pp. 311-314
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TC-STAR: New language resources for ASR and SLT purposes
H. van den Heuvel, K. Choukri, Chr. Gollan, A. Moreno & D. Mostefa (2006)
Proceedings LREC 2006, Genova, Italy, pp. 2570-2573.
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Development of a phoneme-to-phoneme (p2p) converter to improve the grapheme-to-phoneme (g2p) conversion of names.
Q. Yang, J.P. Martens, N. Konings & H. van den Heuvel (2006)
Proceedings LREC 2006, Genova, Italy, pp. 287-292.
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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.
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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.
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Intelligent Design.
H. van den Heuvel (2005)
DIXIT 3(3) p.9
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Europa!
H. van den Heuvel (2005)
DIXIT 3(2) p.16
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Bayes.
H. van den Heuvel (2004)
DIXIT 2(4) p.7
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Creation & Validation of Large Lexica for Speech-to-Speech Translation Purposes
H. Fersøe, E. Hartikainen, H. van den Heuvel, G. Maltese, A. Moreno, S. Shammass & U. Ziegenhain (2004)
Proceedings LREC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 1431-1434
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SLR Validation : Current Trends & Developments
H. van den Heuvel, D.J. Iskra, E. Sanders & F. de Vriend (2004)
Proceedings LREC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 571-574
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Collection of SLR in the Asian-Pacific area
A. Moreno, K. Choukri, P. Hall, H. van den Heuvel, E. Sanders, F. Senia & H. Tropf (2004)
Proceedings LREC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 101-104
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SALA II across the finish line : a large collection of mobile telephone speech databases from North & Latin America completed
H. van den Heuvel, P. Hall, H. Höge, A. Moreno, A. Rincon & F. Senia (2004)
Proceedings LREC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 97-100
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Investigating Speech Style Specific Pronunciation Variation in Large Spoken Language Corpora
C. Van Bael, H. van den Heuvel & H. Strik (2004)
Proceedings of Interspeech-ICSLP 2004, Jeju, Korea
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On the Usefulness of Large Spoken Language Corpora for Linguistic Research
C. Van Bael, H. Strik & H. van den Heuvel (2004)
Proceedings of LREC, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 2135-2138
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Quality Control of Language Resources at ELRA
H. van den Heuvel, K. Choukri, H. Höge, B. Maegaard, J. Odijk & V. Mapelli (2003)
Proceedings Eurospeech, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 1541-1544
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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
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Validation of Phonetic Transcriptions Based on Recognition Performance
C. Van Bael, D. Binnenpoorte, H. Strik & H. van den Heuvel (2003)
Proceedings of Eurospeech, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 1545-1548
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Application-oriented validation of phonetic transcriptions: preliminary results
C. Van Bael, H. Strik & H. van den Heuvel (2003)
Proceedings of 15th ICPhS, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1161-1164
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SpeechDat across all America: SALA II
A. Moreno, O. Gedge, H. van den Heuvel, H. Hömlge, S. Horbach, P. Martin, E. Pinto, A. Rincon, F. Senia & R. Sukkar (2002)
Proceedings LREC'2002, Las Palmas, pp. 16-20.
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SPEECON - Speech Databases for Consumer Devices: Database Specification and Validation
D.J. Iskra, B. Grosskopf, K. Marasek, H. van den Heuvel, F. Diehl & A. Kiessling (2002)
Proceedings LREC'2002, Las Palmas, pp. 329-333.
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Give me a bug: a framework for a bug report service
H. van den Heuvel, H. Höge & K. Choukri (2002)
Proceedings LREC'2002, Las Palmas, pp. 569-572.
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R was eens? Over verdwijning, verkwijning en verschijning van de r
H. van den Heuvel & C. Cucchiarini (2002)
Onze Taal, 71ste jaargang no. 4, april 2002, pp. 94-95.
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r-deletion in Dutch. Rumours or reality
H. van den Heuvel & C. Cucchiarini (2001)
Velde, H. Van de, Hout, R. van (eds) (2001) 'r-atics: Sociolinguistic, phonetic and phonological characteristics of /r/. Etudes & Travaux - ILVP/ULB. No 4. Brussels. pp. 185-198.
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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.
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Speaker Recruitment for Speech Databases
E. Sanders & H. van den Heuvel (2001)
Proceedings PRASA 2001, Franschhoek, South Africa, pp. 109-114.
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The IFA Corpus: a Phonemically Segmented Dutch "Open Source" Speech Database
R.J.J.H. van Son, D. Binnenpoorte, H. van den Heuvel & L.C.W. Pols (2001)
Proceedings EUROSPEECH 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 3, pp. 2051-2054.
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SpeechDat-E: Five Eastern European Speech Databases for Voice-Operated Teleservices Completed
H. van den Heuvel, J. Boudy, Z. Bakcsi, J. Cernocky, V. Galunov, J. Kochanina, W. Majewski, P. Pollak, M. Rusko, J. Sadowski, P. Staroniew & H.S. Tropf (2001)
Proceedings EUROSPEECH 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 3, pp. 2059-2062.
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The Art of Validation
H. van den Heuvel (2000)
The ELRA Newsletter, Vol. 5(4), pp. 4-6.
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The use of lexica in text-to-speech systems.
S. Quazza & H. van den Heuvel (2000)
F. Van Eynde, D. Gibbon: Lexicon development for speech and language processing. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London, pp. 207-233.
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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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SALA: SpeechDat across Latin America. Results of the First Phase.
A. Moreno, R. Comeyne, K. Haslam, H. van den Heuvel, H. Hoege, S. Horbach & G. Micca (2000)
Proceedings LREC 2000, Athens, Greece, Vol. II, pp. 877-882
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SLR validation: evaluation of the SpeechDat approach
H. van den Heuvel (2000)
Proceedings LREC 2000 Satelite workshop XLDB - Very large Telephone Speech Databases, 29 May 2000, Athens, Greece, pp. 40-45
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SpeechDat(E) - Eastern European Telephone Speech Databases.
P. Pollak, J. Cernocky, J. Boudy, K. Choukri, H. van den Heuvel, K. Vicsi, A. Virag, R.Siemund, W. Majewski, J. Sadowksi, P. Staroniewicz, H. Tropf, J. Kochanina & A. Ostrouch (2000)
Proceedings LREC 2000 Satelite workshop XLDB - Very large Telephone Speech Databases, 29 May 2000, Athens, Greece, pp. 20-25
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Building Speech Databases for Cellular Networks
E. Sanders, H. van den Heuvel & K. Choukri (1999)
Proceedings EUROSPEECH 1999, Budapest, Hungary
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Speechdat multilingual speech databases for teleservices: across the finish line.
H. Hoege, C. Draxler, H. van den Heuvel, F.T. Johansen, E. Sanders & H.S. Tropf (1999)
Proceedings EUROSPEECH'99, Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 Sep. 1999, Vol. 6, pp. 2699-2702.
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The SpeechDat-Car multilingual speech databases for in-car applications: Some first validation results.
H. van den Heuvel, J. Boudy, R. Comeyne, S. Euler, A. Moreno & G. Richard (1999)
Proceedings EUROSPEECH'99, Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 Sep. 1999, Vol.5, pp. 2279-2282.
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/r/-deletion in Dutch: more experimental evidence.
C. Cucchiarini & H. van den Heuvel (1999)
Proceedings ICPhS 1999, Vol. 3, pp. 1673-1676.
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SpeechDat-Car: Towards a collection of speech databases for automotive environments.
H. van den Heuvel, A. Bonafonte, J. Boudy, S. Dufour, Ph. Lockwood, A. Moreno & G. Richard (1999)
Proceedings of the Nokia-COST249 Workshop on Robust Methods for Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions, Tampere, Finland, 25-26 May 1999, pp. 135-138.
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Speechdat-car: speech databases for voice driven teleservices and control of in-car applications.
M. Sala, F. Sanchez, H. Wengelnik, H. van den Heuvel, A. Moreno, E. Deregibus, G. Richard & E. le Chevalier (1999)
Proceedings EAEC'99, Barcelona, Spain
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Postvocalic /r/-deletion in standard Dutch: how phonological research can profit from ASR technology
C. Cucchiarini & H. van den Heuvel (1998)
Proceedings International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol. 5, pp. 1759-1763
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The SPEECHDAT(E) project: Creating speech databases for eastern European languages.
H. van den Heuvel, V. Galounov & H. Tropf (1998)
European Languages, 26 May, Granada, Spain. (No page numbering)
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SpeechDat Experiences in creating Large Multilingual Speech Databases for Teleservices
Chr. Draxler, H. van den Heuvel & H. Tropf (1998)
Proceedings LREC98, 28-30 May 1998, Granada, Spain, Vol. I, pp 361-366.
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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.
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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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Sprekend jezelf. Een verslag van twee onderzoeken naar sprekerkenmerken.
H. van den Heuvel & J. Kraayeveld (1997)
Gramma/TTT, 6, pp 41-52.
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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.
/r/-deletion in Standard Dutch.
C. Cucchiarini & H. van den Heuvel (1996)
Proceedings Dept. of Language and Speech 1995, 19, 59-65.
Speaker variability in the coarticulation of /a,i,u/.
H. van den Heuvel, B. Cranen & A.C.M. Rietveld (1996)
Speech Communication, 18, 113-130.
Speaker variability in acoustic properties of Dutch phoneme realisations.
H. van den Heuvel (1996)
Dissertation. University of Nijmegen.
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The ONOMASTICA interlanguage pronunciation lexicon.
H. van den Heuvel & (1995)
In: Proceedings EUROSPEECH-95, Madrid, Spain, Vol. I, 829-832.
Speaker characteristics in the coarticulation of three Dutch vowels /a,i,u/.
H. van den Heuvel, B. Cranen & A.C.M. Rietveld (1995)
13 - 19 August 1995, Vol. II, 742-745.
Pronunciation of foreign names by Dutch grapheme-to-phoneme conversion rules
H. van den Heuvel (1995)
In: Proceedings Dept. of Language and Speech 1994, 18, 99-105.
Methodological aspects of segment- and speaker-related variability
H. van den Heuvel, A.C.M. Rietveld & B. Cranen (1994)
In: Journal of Phonetics, 22(4), 386-406.
On obligatory and optional rules for segmental durations.
H. van den Heuvel (1994)
In: Proceedings Dept. of Language and Speech 1992-3, 16/17, 71-76.
Speaker-variability in spectral bands of Dutch vowel segments.
H. van den Heuvel, B. Cranen & A.C.M. Rietveld (1993)
In: Proceedings EUROSPEECH 93, 21-23 september 1993, Berlin, Vol. I, 635-638.
Speaker related variability in cepstral representations of Dutch speech segments.
H. van den Heuvel & A.C.M. Rietveld (1992)
(ICSLP 92), Banff, Canada, Vol. 2, 1581-1584.
Speaker dependent length of speech segments as a function of speech rate.
H. van den Heuvel, B. Cranen & A.C.M. Rietveld (1992)
In: Proceedings of the CLS Ph.D. Conference 1992, 15-24.
Also prevocalic /r/ lengthens /a,i,u/ in Dutch,
H. van den Heuvel (1992)
In: Proceedings Dept. of Language and Speech 1991, 15, 63-66.
Proceedings of the Department of Language and Speech, 15 (1991).
P. de Haan, H. van den Heuvel & A.C.M. Rietveld (1992)
Internal publication, KUN.
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Speaker-related variabilities in the durations of Dutch speech segments,
H. van den Heuvel, B. Cranen & A.C.M. Rietveld (1991)
In: Proceedings EUROSPEECH 91, Genua, 24-26 September, 1991, 1, 251-254.
Inter- and intra-speaker variability in Dutch speech segments: towards an analysis framework.
H. van den Heuvel, B. Cranen & A.C.M. Rietveld (1990)
technology, edited by Laver, J., Jack, M, Gardiner, A. Edinburgh, 26-28 June, 1990, 198-203.
Some notes on the use of computer aided instruction
H. van den Heuvel & B. Cranen (1988)
In: Proceedings Dept. of Language and Speech, 12, 91-98.