| Senior researcher
Personal homepage of Henk van den Heuvel |
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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 |
| Paper (pdf; 87612 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Repetitor. Een uitspraakoefenprogramma in ontwikkeling. |
| A. Blom & H. van den Heuvel (2008) |
| DIXIT, 5(2), p.30. |
| Paper (pdf; 173532 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Dit is Autonomata Too. |
| H. van den Heuvel (2008) |
| DIXIT, 5(2), p.16. |
| Paper (pdf; 64543 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| LC-STAR II: Starring more Lexica. |
| U. Ziegenhain, H. Fersoe, H. van den Heuvel & A. Moreno (2008) |
| Proceedings LREC2008, Marrakech Morroco. |
| Paper (pdf; 173743 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (pdf; 1421267 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| G2P conversion of names. What can we do (better)? |
| H. van den Heuvel, & N. Konings (2007) |
| Proceedings Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, pp. 1773-1776. |
| Paper (pdf; 85721 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (pdf; 90793 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) |
| 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. |
| Paper (pdf; 226920 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (pdf; 82406 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (pdf; 56488 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (pdf; 322272 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (pdf; 316695 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (pdf; 444706 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) |
| 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. |
| Paper (pdf; 114738 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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) |
| Intelligent Design. |
| H. van den Heuvel (2005) |
| DIXIT 3(3) p.9 |
| Paper (pdf; 45344 bytes) ; |
| Europa! |
| H. van den Heuvel (2005) |
| DIXIT 3(2) p.16 |
| Paper (pdf; 23213 bytes) ; |
| Bayes. |
| H. van den Heuvel (2004) |
| DIXIT 2(4) p.7 |
| Paper (pdf; 38901 bytes) ; |
| 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 |
| Paper (pdf; 106753 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (pdf; 54613 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (pdf; 172356 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (pdf; 114054 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (pdf; 139112 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (pdf; 84276 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (pdf; 50445 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) |
| 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 |
| Paper (pdf; 51819 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (pdf; 81832 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (ps; 392768 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (pdf; 126881 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (ps; 309218 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (ps; 149481 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (ps; 489654 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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) |
| Speaker Recruitment for Speech Databases |
| E. Sanders & H. van den Heuvel (2001) |
| Proceedings PRASA 2001, Franschhoek, South Africa, pp. 109-114. |
| Paper (pdf; 59574 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (ps; 416827 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (ps; 383600 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| The Art of Validation |
| H. van den Heuvel (2000) |
| The ELRA Newsletter, Vol. 5(4), pp. 4-6. |
| Paper (pdf; 55557 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (ps; 384346 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (ps; 559465 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (ps; 458327 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (pdf; 225526 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Building Speech Databases for Cellular Networks |
| E. Sanders, H. van den Heuvel & K. Choukri (1999) |
| Proceedings EUROSPEECH 1999, Budapest, Hungary |
| Paper (pdf; 44207 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (ps; 367538 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (ps; 312135 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| /r/-deletion in Dutch: more experimental evidence. |
| C. Cucchiarini & H. van den Heuvel (1999) |
| Proceedings ICPhS 1999, Vol. 3, pp. 1673-1676. |
| Paper (ps; 467296 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (ps; 308052 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (ps; 588984 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (ps; 368156 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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) |
| Paper (ps; 228533 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (ps; 415262 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (ps; 526415 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Sprekend jezelf. Een verslag van twee onderzoeken naar sprekerkenmerken. |
| H. van den Heuvel & J. Kraayeveld (1997) |
| Gramma/TTT, 6, pp 41-52. |
| Paper (ps; 457192 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (ps; 645474 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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 |
| Paper (pdf; 45316 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| 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. |
| Paper (ps; 2319613 bytes) ; |
| 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. |
| Abstract (html) |
| 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. |