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Sameer R. Maskey                                                                                  
Education:

Ph.D, 2008, Columbia University (Computer Science)
M.S, 2005, Columbia University (Computer Science)
B.S. 2002, Bates College, (Math and Physics)

Info:

I recently graduated from Columbia University with PhD in Computer Science. I currently work as a Research Staff Member (Research Scientist) at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center on speech to speech translation. I started at Columbia University in the fall of 2002 working for Prof. Julia Hirschberg. I graduated from Bates College with B.S (Honors) in May of 2002 in Math and Physics.

Before I came to Maine I lived all my life in Kathmandu Nepal, where I was born and raised. I had not been exposed to computers much before I came to Bates. I used the internet for the first time in August of 1998 just before I left Nepal. It was definitely a unique experience that I remember to this day.

I have been doing research in speech and natural language processing for more many years now working at various labs in Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Auburn University, AT&T Shannon Labs, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Columbia University. I have worked on various topics such as Text-to-Speech synthesis (TTS), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), summarization, Question Answering (QA), multimodal intelligent agents, Machine Learning (ML), and information extraction.

At Columbia University, my primary focus was on Automatic Speech Summarization.

Publications:

2009

15) Maskey, S.R., Dakka, W., "Named Entity Network Using Wikipedia", Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK

14) Sarikaya, R., Maskey, S.R. , Zhang, R., Jan, E., Wang, D., Ramabhadran, B., Roukos, S., "Iterative Sentence-Pair Extraction from Quasi-Parallel Corpora for Machine Translation", Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK

13) Maskey, S.R., Sethy, A., "Resampling Auxiliary Data for Language Model Adaptation in Machine Translation for Speech ", ICASSP 2009, Taiwan pdflink

2007-2008


12) Maskey, S.R, Cmejrek, M., Zhou, B., Gao, Y., "Class based Named Entity Translation for Speech to Speech Translation System,", Spoken Language Technology, 2008, Goa, India pdflink

11) Maskey, S.R., Rosenberg, A., Hirschberg, J., "Intonational Phrases for Speech Summarization," Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia pdflink

10) Mari Ostendorf, Benoit Favre, Ralph Grishman, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Mary Harper, Dustin Hillard, Julia Hirschberg, Heng Ji, Jeremy G. Kahn, Yang Liu, Maskey S.R., Evegeny Matusov, Hermann Ney, Andrew Rosenberg, Elizabeth Shriberg, Weng Wang and Chuck Wooters. "Speech Segmentation and its Impact on Spoken Document Processing", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Spoken Language Technology, accepted..

Maskey, S.R., "Automatic Broadcast News Speech Summarization", PhD Thesis, Columbia University, New York, NY

2006

9) Maskey, S.R., Zhou, B., Gao, Y., "A Phrase-Level Machine Translation Approach for Disfluency Detection Using Weighted Finite State Transducers", Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA pdflink

8) Maskey, S.R. & Hirschberg, J. "Soundbite Detection in Broadcast News Domain", Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA pdflink

7) Maskey, S.R. & Hirschberg, J. "Summarizing Speech Without Text Using Hidden Markov Models", HLT-NAACL 2006 (short), New York, NY pdflink

2005

6) Maskey, S.R. & Hirschberg, J. "Comparing Lexial, Acoustic/Prosodic, Discourse and Structural Features for Speech Summarization", Eurospeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal pdflink

5) McKeown, K., Hirschberg, J., Galley, M., Maskey, S.R., “From Text to Speech Summarization”, ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, PA pdflink

2004

4) Maskey, S.R., Black, A.B., Tomokiyo, L.M., "Bootstrapping Phonetic Lexicon for New Languages", ICSLP 2004, South Korea. (best student paper nomination)pdflink

3) Maskey, S.R., Bacchiani, M., Roark, Brian., Sproat, R., "Improved Name Recognition using Meta-Data dependent Name Networks", ICASSP 2004, Montreal, Canada. pdflink

2) Thorisson, K., Benko, H., Abramov, D., Arnold, A., Maskey, S.R., Vaseekaran, A., "Constructionist Design Methodology for Interactive Intelligences", p 77-90, AI Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 4, Winter 2004.pdflink

2003

1) Maskey, S.R. & Hirschberg, J., "Automatic Summarization of Broadcast News using Structural Features", Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Switzerland.pdflink


Pending Patents

Bacchiani, M., Maskey, S.R., Roark, B., Sproat, R., "A System and Method Using Meta-Data for Spoken Dialog Systems"  U. S. Prov. Application No: 60/515,896. Filed for International Patent as well. Filed in Oct. 2003

Maskey, S.R., Zhou, B., Gao, Y., “Disfluency Detection for a Speech-to-Speech Translation System Using Phrase-level Machine Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers, Filed in August 2006