LTI Dissertations

2009

CMU-LTI-09-016
Rapid Unsupervised Topic Adaptation - A Latent Semantic Approach
Abstract:
Yik-Cheung (Wilson) Tam

CMU-LTI-09-014
Multimedia Technologies for Landmark-Based Vehicle Navigation
Abstract:
Wu Wen

CMU-LTI-09-010
Federated Ontology Search
Abstract:
Vasco Pedro

CMU-LTI-09-010-a*
Preference Grammars and Decoding Algorithms for Probabilistic Synchronous Context Free Grammar
Abstract:
Ashish Venugopal

CMU-LTI-09-009
Structured Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Abstract:
Ying Zhang

CMU-LTI-09-008
Multiagent Social Learning in Large Repeated Games
Abstract:
Hyaejin (Jean) Oh

CMU-LTI-09-007
A General Framework for Classifier Adaptation and its Applications in Multimedia
Abstract:
Jun Yang

CMU-LTI-09-006
TTS From Zero: Building Synthetic Voices for New Languages
Abstract:
John Kominek

CMU-LTI-09-004
Adaptive Graph Walk Based Similarity Measures in Entity-Relation Graphs
Abstract:
Einat Minkov

CMU-LTI-09-003
Paramor: From Paradigm Structure to Natural Language Morphology Induction
Abstract:
Christian Monson

CMU-LTI-09-002
Using Articulatory Position Data to Improve Voice Transformation
Abstract:
Arthur Toth

CMU-LTI-09-001
Genre Oriented Summarization
Abstract:
Jade Goldstein Stewart

2008

CMU-LTI-08-012
Automatic Speech Recognition on Vibrocervigraphic and Electromygraphic Signals
Abstract:
Szu-Chen Stan Jou

CMU-LTI-08-011
Flexible Turn-Taking for Spoken Dialog Systems
Abstract:
Antoine Raux

CMU-LTI-08-010
Robust Model Estimation Methods for Information Retrieval
Abstract:
Kevyn Collins-Thompson

CMU-LTI-08-008
Identifying Ideological Prespectives in Text and Video
Abstract:
Wei-Hao Lin

CMU-LTI-08-007
Modeling Intention in E-mail
Abstract:
Vitor Carvalho

CMU-LTI-08-006
Learning of Protein Interaction Networks
Abstract:
Yanjun Qi

CMU-LTI-08-001
Learning the Structure of Task-Oriented Conversations from the Corpus of In-Domain Dialogs
Abstract:
Ananlada Chotimongkol

2007

CMU-LTI-07-017
Probabilistic Approaches for Answer Selection in Multilingual Question Answering
Abstract:
Jeongwoo Ko

CMU-LTI-07-016
Making an Effective Use of Speech Data for Acoustic Modeling
Abstract:
Rong Zhang

CMU-LTI-07-012
Statistical Alignment Models for Translational Equivalence
Abstract:
Bing Zhao

CMU-LTI-07-011
Structure Learning with Large Sparse Undirected Graphs and its Applications
Abstract:
Fan Li

CMU-LTI-07-010
Information Eliciation in Scheduling Problem
Abstract:
Ulas Bardak

CMU-LTI-07-008
Automatic Improvement of Machine Translation Systems
Abstract:
Ariadna Font Llitjos

CMU-LTI-07-007
Conditional Graphical Models for Protein Structure Prediction
Abstract:
Yan Liu

CMU-LTI-07-006
Machine Listening for Context-Aware Computing
Abstract:
Robert Malkin

CMU-LTI-07-004
Application of Language Technologies in Biology: Feature Extraction and Modeling for Transmembrane Helix Prediction
Abstract:
Madhavi Ganapathiraju

CMU-LTI-07-003
Full-Text Federated Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Abstract:
Jie Lu

CMU-LTI-07-001
Robust Speaker Recognition
Abstract:
Qin Jin

2006

CMU-LTI-06-011
Improving User Interaction with Spoken Dialog Systems via Shaping
Abstract:
Stefanie Tomko

CMU-LTI-06-009
Optimizing Multiple Continuous Queries
Abstract:
Chun Jin

CMU-LTI-06-008
Probabilistic Models for Combining Diverse Knowledge Sources in Multimedia Retrieval
Abstract:
Rong Yan

CMU-LTI-06-006
A Probabilistic Framework for Multi-Task Learning
Abstract:
Jian Zhang

CMU-LTI-06-004
Federated Search of Text Search Engines
in Uncooperative Environments
Abstract:
Luo Si

CMU-LTI-06-001
Multilingual Named Entity Extraction and Translation from Text and Speech
Abstract:
Fei Huang

2005

CMU-LTI-05-195
Bayesian Graphical Models for Adaptive Filtering
Abstract:
Yi Zhang

CMU-LTI-05-194
Learning Transfer Rules for Machine Translation with Limited Data
Abstract:
Katharina Probst

CMU-LTI-05-192
Semi-Supervised Learning with Graphs
Abstract:
Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu

CMU-LTI-05-191
Logic-Based Natural Language Understanding in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Abstract:
Octav Popescu

CMU-LTI-05-191
Learning to Extract Entities from Labeled and Unlabeled Text
Abstract:
Rosie Jones

CMU-LTI-05-190
Recognizing Sloppy Speech
Abstract:
Hua Yu

CMU-LTI-05-189
Riemannian Geometry and Statistical Machine Learning
Abstract:
Guy Lebanon

2004

CMU-LTI-04-184
Domain Action Classification and Argument Parsing for Interlingua-Based Spoken Language Translation
Abstract:
Chad Langley

CMU-LTI-04-183
Statistical Approach toward Automatic Title Generation
Abstract:
Rong Jin

2002

CMU-LTI-02-173
Risk Minimization and Language Modeling in Text Retrieval
Abstract:
Cheng Xiang Zhai

CMU-LTI-02-172
High-Performance Multi-Pass Unification Parsing
Abstract:
Paul Placeway

CMU-LTI-02-171
Guarded Constraints in Natural Language Processing
Abstract:
Kathy Baker

CMU-LTI-02-170
Recognizing Non-Native Speech: Characterizing and Adapting to Non-Native Usage in Speech Recognition
Abstract:
Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo

2001

CMU-LTI-01-168
Automatic Summarization of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains
Abstract:
Klaus Zechner

CMU-LTI-01-166
A Constraint-Based Model of Mixed-Initiative Dialogue for Information-Seeking Interactions
Yan Qu

2000

CMU-LTI-00-167
Helping Children Learn Vocabulary During Computer-Assisted Oral Reading
Abstract:
Gregory Aist

CMU-LTI-00-165
Word and Compound Clustering for Natural Language Processing
Abstract:
Akira Ushioda

CMU-LTI-00-165-a*
Growing Semantic Grammars
Abstract:
Marsal Gavalda

CMU-LTI-00-164
The Algebraic Structure of Attributed Type Signatures
Abstract:
Gerald Penn

1999

Detecting Verbal and Non-verbal Cues in the Communicaton of Emotions
Thomas Polzin

1998

CMU-LTI-98-160
Grammar Inference and Statistical Machine Translation
Abstract:
Ye Yi Wang

1997

CMU-LTI-97-151
Robust Interactive Dialogue Interpretation
Abstract:
Carolyn Penstein Rose

CMU-LTI-97-149
Hunter-Gatherer: Applying Constraint Satisfaction, Branch-and-Bound and Solution Synthesis to Computational Semantics
Abstract:
Stephen Beale

CMU-LTI-97-148
Otological-Semantic Framework for Text Analysis
Abstract:
Boyan Onyshkevych

* Duplicate numbers due to clerical errors