Fadi Biadsy
Candidacy Exam Paper List
September 24th, 2008. 3:00pm -- Passed
Slides

Automatic Language Identification

1. T. J. Hazen and V. W. Zue
   Automatic language identification using a segment-based approach
   Eurospeech '93, vol. 2, Sept. 1993 [pdf]
    
2. Marc A. Zissman
   Comparison of Four Approaches to Automatic Language Identification of Telephone Speech
   lEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING, VOL. 4, NO. 1, JANUARY 1996 [pdf]
    
3. Ramus, F., & Mehler, J.
   Language identification with suprasegmental cues: A study based on speech resynthesis.
   Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 105(1), 512-521. © 1999 Acoustical Society of America [pdf]
    
4. Katrin Kirchhoff and Sonia Parandekar
   Multi-Stream Statistical N-Gram Modeling With Application To Automatic Language Identification
   Eurospeech 2001 [pdf]
    
5. Torres-Carrasquillo, P.A. Reynolds, D.A. Deller, J.R., Jr.
   Language identification using Gaussian mixture model tokenization
   Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2002. Proceedings. (ICASSP '02). IEEE [pdf]
    
6. Martine Adda-Decker et al
   Phonetic knowledge, phonotactics and perceptual validation for automatic language identification
   ICPhS, 2003. [pdf]
    
7. Jean-Luc Rouas
   Modeling Long and Short-Term Prosody for Language Identification
   Interspeech 2005 [pdf]
    
8. Ekaterina Timoshenko, Harald Hoge
   Using Speech Rhythm for Acoustic Language Identification
   Interspeech 2007 [pdf]
    
9. Bo Yin, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Fang Chen
   Hierarchical Language Identification based on Automatic Language Clustering
   Interspeech 2007 [pdf]
    

Arabic Dialect Modeling and Analysis

1. Background: Franck Ramus
   Acoustic correlates of linguistic rhythm: Perspectives
   Speech Prosody 2002 [pdf]
    
2. M. Barkat, J. Ohala, F. Pellegrino
   Prosody as a Distinctive Feature for the Discrimination of Arabic Dialects
   Eurospeech '99 [pdf]
    
3. Kenneth de Jong and Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh
   Stress, duration, and intonation in Arabic word-level prosody
   Journal of Phonetics (1999) 27, 3d22 [pdf]
    
4. Rym Hamdi, M. Barkat-Defradas E. Ferragne and F. Pellegrino
   Speech timing and rhythmic structure in Arabic dialects: A comparison of two approaches
   Interspeech 2004 [pdf]
    
5. K. Kirchhoff and D. Vergyri
   Cross-Dialectal Acoustic Data Sharing for Arabic Speech Recognition
   ICASSP 2004 [pdf]
    
6. D. Vergyri, K. Kirchhoff, R. Gadde, A. Stolcke, J. Zheng
   Development of a Conversational Telephone Speech Recognizer for Levantine Arabic
   Interspeech 2005 [pdf]
    
7. Rym Hamdi, Salem Ghazali & Melissa Barkat-Defradas
   Syllable Structure in Spoken Arabic: a comparative investigation
   Interspeech 2005 [pdf]
    
8. Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow
   MAGEAD: A Morphological Analyzer and Generator for the Arabic Dialects
   Coling-ACL 2006 [pdf]
    
9. Hellmuth, S. & El Zarka, Dina
   Variation in phonetic realization or in phonological categories? Intonational pitch accents in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and Egyptian Formal Arabic
   Proceedings of 16th ICPhS, Germany (2007) [pdf]