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LTI Dissertations by Year

2012 (6) 2011 (12) 2010 (13) 2009 (13) 2008 (7) 2007 (11) 2006 (7)
2005 (7) 2004 (2) 2002 (4) 2001 (2) 2000 (4) 1999 (1) 1998 (1) 1997 (3)

2012 [top]

Computational Modeling of Immune Signals
Ravi Starzl
CMU-LTI-12-008

Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning for Speech Processing
Manas A. Pathak
CMU-LTI-12-005

Modeling Relevance in Statistical Machine Translation: Scoring Alignment, Context, and Annotations of Translation Instances
Aaron Phillips
CMU-LTI-12-004

Detecting Off-Task Speech
Wei Chen
CMU-LTI-12-003

Generalized Discriminative Training for Speech Recognition
Roger Hsiao
CMU-LTI-12-002

Dependency Structures for Statistical Machine Translation
Nguyen Bach
CMU-LTI-12-001

2011 [top]

Active Learning and Crowdsourcing for Machine Translation in Low Resource Scenarios
Vamshi Ambati
CMU-LTI-11-020

Personalized Concept Hierarchy Construction
Hui Yang
CMU-LTI-11-018

Federated Search for Heterogeneous Environments
Jaime Arguello
CMU-LTI-11-008

Quantitative Modeling of the Neural Representation of Nouns and Phrases
Kai-Min Chang
CMU-LTI-11-006

Automatic Factual Question Generation from Text
Michael Heilman
CMU-LTI-11-004

A Framework for Evaluation and Optimization of Relevance and Novelty-based Retrieval
Abhimanyu Lad
CMU-LTI-11-003

Chunk alignment for Corpus-Based Machine Translation
Jae Dong Kim
CMU-LTI-11-002

Predicting, Detecting and Explaining the Occurrence of Vocal Activity in Multi-Party Conversation
Kornel Laskowski
CMU-LTI-11-001

Learning Cellular Sorting Pathways Using Protein Interactions and Sequence Motifs
Tien-Ho Lin
CMU-LTI-10-021

Coping with Data-sparsity in Example-based Machine Translation
Rashmi Gangadharaiah
CMU-LTI-10-020

An Architecture for Scalable, Universal Speech Recognition
David Huggins-Daines
CMU-LTI-10-019

Modeling Content and Users: Structured Probabilistic Representation and Scalable Online Inference Algorithms
Amr Ahmed
CMU-LTI-10-018

2010 [top]

Signal Processing for Robust Speech Recognition Motivated by Auditory Processing
Chanwoo Kim
CMU-LTI-10-017

Extracting and Using Implicit Supervision to Automatically Improve Meeting-Understanding
Satanjeev Banerjee
CMU-LTI-10-016

Long Term Activity Analysis in Surveillance Video Archives
Ming-Yu Chen
CMU-LTI-10-015

Automatic Building of Synthetic Voices from Audio Books
Kishore Prahallad
CMU-LTI-10-014

Retrieval using Document Structure and Annotations
Paul Ogilvie
CMU-LTI-10-012

Machine Learning Methods for Personalized Email Prioritization
Shinjae Yoo
CMU-LTI-10-011

Data-driven Natural Language Generation: Making Machines Talk Like Humans Using Natural Corpora
Brian Langner
CMU-LTI-10-007

Robust Long Range Iris Recognition from Video Using Super Resolution
Yung-Hui Li
CMU-LTI-10-006

Mixed-Initiative Clustering
Yi-Fen Huang
CMU-LTI-10-005

Single-channel Speech Separation Based on Instantaneous Frequency
Lingyun Gu
CMU-LTI-10-004

Textual Inference for Retrieving Labeled Object Descriptions
Alicia Tribble
CMU-LTI-10-003

Proactive Learning: Towards Learning with Multiple Imperfect Predictors
Pinar Donmez
CMU-LTI-10-002

Language-Independent Class Instance Extraction Using the Web
Richard Wang
CMU-LTI-09-020

2009 [top]

Linguistic and Semantic Passage Retrieval Strategies for Question Answering
Matthew Bilotti
CMU-LTI-09-019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2008 [top]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2007 [top]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2006 [top]

Improving User Interaction with Spoken Dialog Systems via Shaping
Stefanie Tomko
CMU-LTI-06-0101

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

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

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

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

A Multi-Strategy Approach for Parsing of Grammatical Relations in Transcripts of Parent-Child Dialogs
Kenji Sagae
CMU-LTI-06-003

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

2005 [top]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2004 [top]

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

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

2002 [top]

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

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

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

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

2001 [top]

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

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

2000 [top]

Helping Children Learn Vocabulary During Computer-Assisted Oral Reading
Gregory Aist
CMU-LTI-01-167

Word and Compound Clustering for Natural Language Processing
Akira Ushioda
CMU-LTI-01-165

Growing Semantic Grammars
Marsal Gavalda
CMU-LTI-01-165-a

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

1999 [top]

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

1998 [top]

Grammar Inference and Statistical Machine Translation
Ye Yi Wang
CMU-LTI-89-160

1997 [top]

Robust Interactive Dialogue Interpretation
Carolyn Penstein Rosé
CMU-LTI-97-151

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

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

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