Some Publications

The following are only the publications for which I had led the effort.

Books or book chapters

Newman. J and Venkataraman, A. (1999) Historical Chinese Phonology. A compendium of Beijing and Cantonese pronunciations of characters and their derivations from Middle Chinese" Lincom, Munich.

Venkataraman, A. and J. D. Patrick (1997) Linguistic similarity measures using the Minimum Message Length Principle. In R. D. Blench and M. Spriggs (Eds.), Archaeology and language I: Theoretical and methodological orientations, pp. 260-277. London: Routledge.

Venkataraman, A. (1997) An information theoretic approach to language relatedness. Doctoral dissertation. Massey University, Palmerston North.

Venkataraman, A., J. Newman, and J. D. Patrick (1997). A complexity measure for diachronic Chinese phonology. in John Coleman Ed. Computational Phonology, Association for Computational Linguistics, Somerset, N.J. 1-9

Journal articles

Venkataraman, A. (2001) A Statistical Model for Word Discovery in Transcribed Speech, Computational Linguistics, 27(3), 352-372, Sep. 2001.

Venkataraman, A., P. Andreae and J. D. Patrick. (1998). A beam search algorithm for PFSA inference. Pattern Analysis and Applications, v.1, no. 3, 121-129.

Venkataraman, A. (1997) A database for historical Chinese phonology, Dhumbadji!, 3(2), 81-86.

Venkataraman, A. (1997) The ancient Katapayadi formula and the modern hashing technique. IEEE annals for the history of computing, 19(4), 59-64. PDF version)

Venkataraman, A. and S. V. Raman (1995). Towards active help for Unix - HCI issues. New Zealand Journal of Computing, 6(1b), 377-385.

Conference proceedings

Venkataraman, A, A. Stolcke, W. Wang, D. Vergyri, V. R. R. Gadde and J. Zheng (2005). SRI's 2004 Broadcast news speech to text system.. EARS RT04 workshop, Palisades, Nov 2004.

Venkataraman, A, A. Stolcke, W. Wang, D. Vergyri, V. R. R. Gadde and J. Zheng (2004). An efficient repair procedure for Quick Transcriptions.. In Proc. ICSLP 2004, Cheju, Korea.

Venkataraman, A., H. Franco and Greg Myers (2003). An architecture for rapid retrieval of structured information using speech with application to spoken address recognition.. in Proceedings of Automatic Speech Recognition Workshop, ASRU-2003, St. Thomas.

Venkataraman, A. and W. Wang (2003). Techniques for effective vocabulary selection.. in Proceedings of Eurospeech'03, Geneva, 2003.

Venkataraman, A., L. Ferrer, A. Stolcke and E. Shriberg (2003). Training a Prosody based dialog act tagger. Proceedings of ICASSP'03, Hong Kong, 2003 (The conference that never was).

Venkataraman, A., A. Stolcke and E. Shriberg (2002). Automatic Dialog Act Labeling With Minimal Supervision.. in Proceedings of the 9th Australian Speech Science and Technology Conference, Melbourne, 2002.

Venkataraman, A. (2001) A procedure for unsupervised lexicon learning, in Brodley, C and Danyluk A. ed. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML-01, pp. 569--576, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.

Venkataraman, A. and C. H. E. Phillips (1996). A triphasic approach to providing help for Unix. In Proceedings of the 13th annual conference, Uniforum NZ '96, (no page numbers), Rotorua, NZ.

Venkataraman, A. and S. V. Raman. (1995). The kinds of errors Unix users make. In Proceedings of the 12th annual conference, Uniforum NZ '95, (No page numbers), Masterton, NZ.

Venkataraman, A., and J. D. Patrick (1995). An application of the MML technique in historical linguistics. In Proceedings of the RSC-95 conference, pp. 223-233, Waikato University, Hamilton, NZ.

Venkataraman, A. (1994). Limited internalisation - The key to Unix expertise. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference, Uniforum NZ '94, (no page numbers), Rotorua, NZ.

Technical Reports

Venkataraman, A., and J. D. Patrick. (1997). Coding Probablisitic Finite State Automata. In Tech Report 3/97, Massey University Information Systems Department, Palmerston North, NZ.

Venkataraman, A., and J. D. Patrick. (1997). A heuristic using cross-entropy for learning PFSA. In Tech Report 1/97, Massey University Information Systems Department, Palmerston North, NZ.

Miscellaneous publications

Venkataraman, A. (1999) "The Troublesome Toilet Seat: Up or Down?", Proposed venue: Undecided.

Venkataraman, A. (1999) "No information can be conveyed using certain events: The case of the clever widows of Fornicalia and the Stobon Oracle", proposed venue: Undecided.

Venkataraman, A. (1998) Is learning Unix worth the time? High Technology Careers, 15(2w), p.26.

Venkataraman, A. (1997) Unix will survive, but in what form? Analysis, Computer World, Oct 19, 1997.

Venkataraman, A. (1997) Future still holds a place for Unix. Infotech weekly, Monday Nov 10, 1997

Venkataraman, A. (1994) Allegiance to Dijkstra's prime directive - A pre-requisite for software developers. In Quickface, official newsletter of the New Zealand Computer Society, September.

Other products

Venkataraman, A. (1996). Hello Unix\n - An introduction to the OS. Tutorial notes for the 13th annual conference Uniforum NZ '96, Masterton, NZ.

Venkataraman, A. (1994). Advanced Unix - Tricks and Treats. Tutorial notes for the 12th annual conference Uniforum NZ '96, Reprinted 1997, Masterton, NZ. Includes "How to write a non-trivial client-server system in /bin/sh simply"