Publications

• A. Sankar,F. Weng, Z. Rivlin, A. Stolcke and R. Gadde, "Development of SRI's 1997 Broadcast News Transcription System," Proceedings of the 1997 DARPA Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop , pp. 91--96, February, 1998.

• A. Sankar, "Experiments with a Gaussian Merging-Splitting Algorithm for HMM Training for Speech Recognition," Proceedings of the 1997 DARPA Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop , pp. 99--104, February, 1998.

• F. Weng, A. Stolcke and A. Sankar, "New Developments in Lattice-Based Search Strategies in SRI's Hub4 System," Proceedings of the 1997 DARPA Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop , pp. 138--143, February, 1998.

• Z. Rivlin and A. Sankar and H. Bratt, "HMM state clustering across allophone class boundaries," Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology , pp. 127--130, September, 1997.

• L. Heck and A. Sankar, "Acoustic Clustering and Adaptation for Robust Speech Recognition," Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology , pp. 1867--1870, September, 1997.

• A. Sankar, L. Heck and A. Stolcke, "Acoustic Modeling for the SRI Hub4 Partitioned Evaluation Continuous Speech Recognition System," Proceedings of the DARPA Speech Recognition Workshop, Chantilly, VA , pp 127--132, 1997.

• F. Weng, A. Stolcke and A. Sankar, "Hub-4 Language Modeling using Domain Interpolation and Data Clustering," Proceedings of the DARPA Speech Recognition Workshop, Chantilly, VA , pp 147--151, 1997.

• A. Sankar, and C.-H. Lee, "A Maximum-Likelihood Approach to Stochastic Matching for Robust Speech Recognition," IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing , vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 190--202, May, 1996.

• A. Sankar, L. Neumeyer, and M. Weintraub, "An Experimental Study of Acoustic Adaptation Algorithms," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing , pp. II-713--II-716, 1996.

• V. Abrash, A. Sankar, H. Franco, and M. Cohen, "Speaker Adaptation Using Non-Linear Transformations of HMM Parameters," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing , pp. II-729--II-732, 1996.

• A. Sankar, A. Stolcke, T. Chung, L. Neumeyer, M. Weintraub, H. Franco and F. Beaufays, "Noise-resistant Feature Extraction and Model Training for Robust Speech Recognition," Proceedings of the DARPA CSR Workshop, Ardenhouse, NY, pp. 117--122, 1996.

• A. Sankar, F. Beaufays, and V. Digalakis, "Training Data Clustering for Improved Speech Recognition," Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, pp. 502--505, September, 1995.

• L. Neumeyer, A. Sankar, and V. Digalakis, "Comparison of Supervised and Unsupervised Adaptation Techniques," Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, pp. 1127--1130, September, 1995.

• V. Abrash, H. Franco, A. Sankar, and M. Cohen, "Connectionist Speaker Normalization and Adaptation," Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, pp. 2183--2186, September, 1995.

• A. Sankar, and C.-H. Lee, "Robust Speech Recognition Based On Stochastic Matching," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing , pp. 121--124, 1995.

• V. Digalakis, M. Weintraub, A. Sankar, H. Franco, L. Neumeyer, and H. Murveit, "Continuous Speech Dictation on ARPA's North American Business News Domain," Proceedings of the Spoken Language Systems Technology Workshop , pp. 88--93, January, 1995.

• A. Sankar, and C.-H. Lee, "Stochastic Matching for Robust Speech Recognition," IEEE Signal Processing Letters , vol. 1, no. 8, pp. 124--125, August, 1994.

• A. Gorin, S. Levinson, and A. Sankar, "An Experiment in Spoken Language Acquisition," IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing , vol.2, no. 1, pp. 224--240, January, 1994.

• A. Sankar and A. Gorin, "Adaptive Language Acquisition in a Multi-Sensory Device," Artificial Neural Networks for Speech and Vision , ed. R. Mammone, Chapman & Hall, pp. 324--356, 1994.

• A. Sankar and R. Mammone, "Growing and Pruning Neural Tree Networks," IEEE Transactions on Computers , vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 291--299, March, 1993.

• A. Sankar and A. Gorin, "Visual Focus of Attention in Adaptive Language Acquisition," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing , pp. I-621--I-624, 1993.

• A. Gorin, A. Sankar, and L.G. Miller, "Network Structure, Generalization and Adaptive Language Acquisition," (abstract), in Proceedings of the 1993 Snowbird Neural Network Workshop.

• A. Sankar, "Neural Networks," Computational Methods of Signal Recovery and Recognition , ed. R. Mammone, Wiley, 1992, Chapter 11.

• A. Sankar, "Neural Tree Networks," Computational Methods of Signal Recovery and Recognition , ed. R. Mammone, Wiley, 1992, Chapter 12.

• A. Sankar and R. Mammone, "Speaker Independent Vowel Recognition using Neural Tree Networks," Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks , Seattle, 1991, pp. II-809--II-814.

• A. Sankar and R. Mammone, "Optimal Pruning of Neural Tree Networks for Improved Generalization," Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks , Seattle, 1991, pp. II-219--II-224.

• A. Sankar and R. Mammone, "Improving Learning Rate of Neural Tree Networks using Thermal Perceptrons," Proceedings of the 1991 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing , ed. B.H. Juang, S.Y. Kung and C.A. Kamm, pp. 90--100.

• A. Sankar and R. Mammone, "Combining Neural Networks and Decision Trees," in the Proceedings of SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing , Orlando, April, 1991.

• A. Sankar and R. Mammone, "Neural Tree Networks," Neural Networks: Theory and Applications , ed. R. Mammone and Y. Zeevi, Academic Press, 1991, pp. 281--302.

• A. Sankar and R. Mammone, "A Fast Learning Algorithm for Tree Neural Networks," Proceedings of the 1990 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems , Princeton, March, 1990, pp. 638--642.

• A. Sankar and R. Mammone, "Tree Structured Neural Networks," CAIP Technical Report No. CAIP-TR-122 , Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity, Rutgers University, May, 1990.

• A. Sankar and R. Mammone, "A New Fast Learning Algorithm for Multilayer Feedforward Neural Networks Using the L1 Norm of the Error," CAIP Technical Report No. CAIP-TR-115 , Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity, Rutgers University, March, 1990.