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LTI Tech Reports and Dissertations

2013 (3)	2012 (17)	2011 (21)	2010 (18)	2009 (18)	2008 (13)	2007 (17)	2006 (11)
2005 (9)	2004 (8)	2003 (7)	2002 (4)	2001 (3)	2000 (4)	1999 (1)	1998 (2)

2013 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-13-004 Dissertation	Multi-Domain Learning: Analysis, and Methods for Multi-Attribute Domains Mahesh Joshi
CMU-LTI-13-003 Dissertation	Efficient and Effective Large-scale Search Anagha Kulkarni
CMU-LTI-13-001 Dissertation	Toward a Phish Free World: A Feature-type-aware Cascaded Learning Framework for Phish Detection Guang Xiang
2012 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-13-002 Dissertation	Modeling and Solving Term Mismatch for Full-Text Retrieval Le Zhao
CMU-LTI-12-017 Tech Report	Noisemes: Manual Annotation of Environmental Noise in Audio Streams Susanne Burger, Qin Jin, Peter F. Schulam, Florian Metze
CMU-LTI-12-016 Dissertation	Interpretation of User Comments for Detection of Malicious Websites Mehrbod Sharifi
CMU-LTI-12-014 Dissertation	Discriminative Feature-Rich Modeling for Syntax-Based Machine Translation Kevin Gimpel
CMU-LTI-12-013 Dissertation	Minimizing The Costs in Generalized Interactive Annotation Learning Shilpa Arora
CMU-LTI-12-012 Dissertation	Multi-Task Active Learning Abhay Harpale
CMU-LTI-12-011 Dissertation	Scalable Methods for Graph-Based Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning Frank Lin
CMU-LTI-12-010 Dissertation	Efficient Random Walk Inference with Knowledge Bases Ni Lao
CMU-LTI-12-009 Dissertation	The Geometry of Constrained Structured Prediction: Applications to Inference and Learning of Natural Language Syntax Andre F. T. Martins
CMU-LTI-12-008 Dissertation	Computational Modeling of Immune Signals Ravi Starzl
CMU-LTI-12-007 Dissertation	Semi-Supervised and Latent-Variable Models of Natural Language Semantics Dipanjan Das
CMU-LTI-12-006 Dissertation	Detecting Translational Equivalences in Comparable Corpora Sanjika Hewavitharana
CMU-LTI-12-005 Dissertation	Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning for Speech Processing Manas Pathak
CMU-LTI-12-004 Dissertation	Modeling Relevance in Statistical Machine Translation: Scoring Alignment, Context, and Annotations of Translation Instances Aaron Phillips
CMU-LTI-12-003 Dissertation	Detecting Off-Task Speech Wei Chen
CMU-LTI-12-002 Dissertation	Generalized Discriminative Training for Speech Recognition Wend-Huu (Roger) Hsiao
CMU-LTI-12-001 Dissertation	Dependency Structures for Statistical Machine Translation Nguyen Bach
2011 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-11-020 Dissertation	Active Learning and Crowdsourcing for Machine Translation in Low Resource Scenarios Vamshi Ambati
CMU-LTI-11-019 Dissertation	Statistical Source Expansion for Question Answering Nico Schlaefer
CMU-LTI-11-018 Dissertation	Personalized Concept Hierarchy Construction Grace Hui Yang
CMU-LTI-11-015 Tech Report	Predicting Responses and Discovering Social Factors in Scientific Literature Dani Yogatama, Michael Heilman, Brendan O'Connor, Chris Dyer, Bryan R. Routledge, Noah A. Smith
CMU-LTI-11-014 Dissertation	Leveraging Collection Structure in Information Retrieval With Applications to Search in Conversational Jonathan Elsas
CMU-LTI-11-012 Tech Report	Recall-Oriented Learning for Named Entity Recognition in Wikipedia Behrang Mohit, Nathan Schneider, Rishav Bhowmick, Kemal Oflazer, Noah A. Smith
CMU-LTI-11-011 Tech Report	METEOR-Tuned Phrase-Based SMT: CMU French-English and Haitian-English Systems for WMT 2011 Michael Denkowski, Alon Lavie
CMU-LTI-11-008 Dissertation	Federated Search for Heterogeneous Environments Jaime Arguello
CMU-LTI-11-007 Dissertation	Learning Multiple-Nonterminal Synchronous Grammars for Statistical Machine Translation Andreas Zollmann
CMU-LTI-11-006 Dissertation	Quantitative Modeling of the Neural Representation of Nouns and Phrases Kai-min Kevin Chang
CMU-LTI-11-005 Tech Report	Predicting FED Action From Text Tal Stramer, Bryan R. Routledge, Noah A. Smith
CMU-LTI-11-004 Dissertation	Automatic Factual Question Generation from Text Michael Heilman
CMU-LTI-11-003 Dissertation	A Framework for Evaluation and Optimization of Relevance and Novelty-based Retrieval Abhimanyu Lad
CMU-LTI-11-002 Dissertation	Chunk alignment for Corpus-Based Machine Translation Jae Dong Kim
CMU-LTI-11-001 Dissertation	Predicting, Detecting and Explaining the Occurrence of Vocal Activity in Multi-Party Conversation Kornel Laskowski
CMU-LTI-10-021 Dissertation	Learning Cellular Sorting Pathways Using Protein Interactions and Sequence Motifs Tien-Ho Lin
CMU-LTI-10-020 Dissertation	Coping with Data-sparsity in Example-based Machine Translation Rashmi Gangadharaiah
CMU-LTI-10-019 Dissertation	An Architecture for Scalable, Universal Speech Recognition David Huggins-Daines
CMU-LTI-10-018 Dissertation	Modeling Content and Users: Structured Probabilistic Representation and Scalable Online Inference Algorithms Amr Ahmed
CMU-LTI-017 Tech Report	Ancestry.com Online Forum Test Collection Jonathan Elsas
CMU-LTI-01-010 Tech Report	Parallelization Strategies for a Dynamic Lexical Tree Decoder Matthias Vogelgesang, Florian Metze
2010 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-10-017 Dissertation	Signal Processing for Robust Speech Recognition Motivated by Auditory Processing Chanwoo Kim
CMU-LTI-10-016 Dissertation	Extracting and Using Implicit Supervision to Automatically Improve Meeting-Understanding Satanjeev Banerjee
CMU-LTI-10-015 Dissertation	Long Term Activity Analysis in Surveillance Video Archives Ming-Yu Chen
CMU-LTI-10-014 Dissertation	Automatic Building of Synthetic Voices from Audio Books Kishore Prahallad
CMU-LTI-10-012 Dissertation	Retrieval using Document Structure and Annotations Paul Ogilvie
CMU-LTI-10-011 Dissertation	Machine Learning Methods for Personalized Email Prioritization Shinjae Yoo
CMU-LTI-10-010 Tech Report	ASR System Combination Techniques, Tools and Experiments Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Ian Lane, Florian Metze
CMU-LTI-10-009 Tech Report	Evaluating Translations Produced by Amazon Mechanical Turk Matthias Eck, Ian Lane, Alex Waibel
CMU-LTI-10-008 Tech Report	Softmax-Margin Training for Structured Log-Linear Models Kevin Gimpel, Noah A. Smith
CMU-LTI-10-007 Dissertation	Data-driven Natural Language Generation: Making Machines Talk Like Humans Using Natural Corpora Brian Langner
CMU-LTI-10-006 Dissertation	Robust Long Range Iris Recognition from Video Using Super Resolution Yung-Hui Li
CMU-LTI-10-005 Dissertation	Mixed-Initiative Clustering Yi-Fen Huang
CMU-LTI-10-004 Dissertation	Single-channel Speech Separation Based on Instantaneous Frequency Lingyun Gu
CMU-LTI-10-003 Dissertation	Textual Inference for Retrieving Labeled Object Descriptions Alicia Tribble
CMU-LTI-10-002 Dissertation	Proactive Learning: Towards Learning with Multiple Imperfect Predictors Pinar Donmez
CMU-LTI-10-001 Tech Report	SEMAFOR 1.0: A Probabilistic Frame-Semantic Parser Dipanjan Das, Desai Cheny, Nathan SchneideR, Noah A. Smith
CMU-LTI-09-020 Dissertation	Language-Independent Class Instance Extraction Using the Web Richard Wang
CMU-LTI-01-013 Tech Report	Visualizing Topical Quotations Over Time to Understand News Discourse Nathan Schneider, Rebecca Hwa, Philip Gianfortoni, Dipanjan Das, Michael Heilman, Alan W. Black, Frederick L. Crabbe, Noah A. Smith
2009 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-09-019 Dissertation	Linguistic and Semantic Passage Retrieval Strategies for Question Answering Matthew Bilotti
CMU-LTI-09-018 Tech Report	Power Iteration Clustering Frank Lin, William W. Cohen
CMU-LTI-09-017 Tech Report	Semi-Supervised Classification of Network Data Using Very Few Labels Frank Lin, William W. Cohen
CMU-LTI-09-016 Dissertation	Rapid Unsupervised Topic Adaptation - A Latent Semantic Approach Yik-Cheung (Wilson) Tam
CMU-LTI-09-015 Tech Report	Unsupervised Estimation of Classification and Regression Error Rates Pinar Donmez, Guy Lebanon, Krishnakumar Balasubramanian
CMU-LTI-09-014 Dissertation	Multimedia Technologies for Landmark-Based Vehicle Navigation Wen Wu
CMU-LTI-09-013 Tech Report	Question Generation via Overgenerating Transformations and Ranking Michael Heilman, Noah A. Smith
CMU-LTI-09-010-a Dissertation	Preference Grammars and Decoding Algorithms for Probabilistic Synchronous Context Free Grammar Ashish Venugopal
CMU-LTI-09-010 Dissertation	Federated Ontology Search Jeffrey Micher
CMU-LTI-09-009 Dissertation	Structured Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation Ying Zhang
CMU-LTI-09-008 Dissertation	Multiagent Social Learning in Large Repeated Games Hyaejin (Jean) Oh
CMU-LTI-09-007 Dissertation	A General Framework for Classifier Adaptation and its Applications in Multimedia Jun Yang
CMU-LTI-09-006 Dissertation	TTS From Zero: Building Synthetic Voices for New Languages John Kominek
CMU-LTI-09-005 Tech Report	Modeling Content from Human-Verified Blacklists for Accurate Zero-Hour Phish Detection Guang Xiang, Bryan A. Pendleton, Jason Hong
CMU-LTI-09-004 Dissertation	Adaptive Graph Walk Based Similarity Measures in Entity-Relation Graphs Einat Minkov
CMU-LTI-09-003 Dissertation	Paramor: From Paradigm Structure to Natural Language Morphology Induction Christian Monson
CMU-LTI-09-002 Dissertation	Using Articulatory Position Data to Improve Voice Transformation Arthur Toth
CMU-LTI-09-001 Dissertation	Genre Oriented Summarization Jade Goldstein Stewart
2008 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-08-012 Dissertation	Automatic Speech Recognition on Vibrocervigraphic and Electromygraphic Signals Szu-Chen Stan Jou
CMU-LTI-08-011-T Tech Report	Automatically Generating Reading Comprehension Look-Back Strategy Questions from Expository Texts Donna Gates
CMU-LTI-08-011 Dissertation	Flexible Turn-Taking for Spoken Dialog Systems Antoine Raux
CMU-LTI-08-010 Dissertation	Robust Model Estimation Methods for Information Retrieval Kevyn Collins-Thompson
CMU-LTI-08-009 Tech Report	Products of Weighted Logic Problems Shay B. Cohen, Robert J. Simmons, Noah A. Smith
CMU-LTI-08-008 Dissertation	Identifying Ideological Prespectives in Text and Video Wei-Hao Lin
CMU-LTI-08-007 Dissertation	Modeling Intention in E-mail Victor R. Carvalho
CMU-LTI-08-006 Dissertation	Learning of Protein Interaction Networks Yanjun Qi
CMU-LTI-08-005 Tech Report	SOUR CREAM: Toward Semantic Processing of Recipes Dan Tasse, Noah A. Smith
CMU-LTI-08-004 Tech Report	Learning to Extract Gene-Protein Names from Weakly-Labeled Text Richard Wang, Anthony Tomasic, Robert E. Frederking, Isaac Simmons, William W. Cohen
CMU-LTI-08-003 Tech Report	The Multi-Rank Bootstrap Algorithm: Semi-Supervised Political Blog Classification and Ranking Using Semi-Supervised Link Classification Frank Lin, William W. Cohen
CMU-LTI-08-002 Tech Report	Learning to Walk Text Networks Einat Minkov, William W. Cohen
CMU-LTI-08-001 Dissertation	Learning the Structure of Task-Oriented Conversations from the Corpus of In-Domain Dialogs Ananlada Chotimongkol
2007 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-07-017-T Tech Report	A Supervised Acoustic Model for Simultaneous Multiparticipant Vocal Activity Detection in Close-Talk Microphone Recordings of Meetings Kornel Laskowski, Tanja Schultz
CMU-LTI-07-017 Dissertation	Probabilistic Approaches for Answer Selection in Multilingual Question Answering Jeongwoo Ko
CMU-LTI-07-016 Dissertation	Making an Effective Use of Speech Data for Acoustic Modeling Rong Zhang
CMU-LTI-07-015 Tech Report	Combining Personalized Agents to Improve Content-Based Recommendations Jason M. Adams, Paul N. Bennett, Anthony Tomasic
CMU-LTI-07-014 Tech Report	A Dual-Use Speech CAPTCHA: Aiding Visually Impaired Web Users While Providing Transcriptions of Audio Streams Andrew Schlaikjer
CMU-LTI-07-013 Tech Report	Annotation Guide for Laughter in Multi-Party Conversation Kornel Laskowski, Susanne Burger, Timothy Notari
CMU-LTI-07-012 Dissertation	Statistical Alignment Models for Translational Equivalence Bing Zhao
CMU-LTI-07-011 Dissertation	Structure Learning with Large Sparse Undirected Graphs and its Applications Fan Li
CMU-LTI-07-010 Dissertation	Information Eliciation in Scheduling Problem Ulas Bardak
CMU-LTI-07-009 Tech Report	Text-to-speech in Vocabulary Acquisition and Student Knowledge Models: a Classroom Study Using the REAP Intelligent Tutoring System Carol Sisson
CMU-LTI-07-008 Dissertation	Automatic Improvement of Machine Translation Systems Ariadna Font-Llitjos
CMU-LTI-07-007 Dissertation	Conditional Graphical Models for Protein Structure Prediction Yan Liu
CMU-LTI-07-006 Dissertation	Machine Listening for Context-Aware Computing Robert Malkin
CMU-LTI-07-005 Tech Report	Recommending Recipients in the Enron E-mail Corpus Vitor R. Carvalho, William W. Cohen
CMU-LTI-07-004 Dissertation	Application of Language Technologies in Biology: Feature Extraction and Modeling for Transmembrane Helix Prediction Madhavi Ganapathiraju
CMU-LTI-07-003 Dissertation	Full-Text Federated Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks Jie Lu
CMU-LTI-07-001 Dissertation	Robust Speaker Recognition Qin Jin
2006 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-06-010-T Tech Report	Suffix Array and its Applications in Empirical Natural Language Processing Joy Ying Zhang
CMU-LTI-06-010 Dissertation	Improving User Interaction with Spoken Dialog Systems via Shaping Stefanie Tomko
CMU-LTI-06-009 Dissertation	Optimizing Multiple Continuous Queries Chun Jin
CMU-LTI-06-008 Dissertation	Probabilistic Models for Combining Diverse Knowledge Sources in Multimedia Retrieval Rong Yan
CMU-LTI-06-007 Tech Report	A Log-linear Block Transliteration Model based on Bi-Stream HMMs Bing Zhao, Nguyen Bach, Ian Lane, Stephan Vogel
CMU-LTI-06-006 Dissertation	A Probabilistic Framework for Multi-Task Learning Jian Zhang
CMU-LTI-06-005 Tech Report	ARGUS: Efficient Scalable Continuous Query Optimization for Large-Volume Data Streams Chun Jin, Jaime Carbonell
CMU-LTI-06-004 Dissertation	Federated Search of Text Search Engines in Uncooperative Environments Luo Si
CMU-LTI-06-003 Dissertation	A Multi-Strategy Approach for Parsing of Grammatical Relations in Transcripts of Parent-Child Dialogs Kenji Sagae
CMU-LTI-06-002 Tech Report	Notes on Single-Pass Online Learning Algorithms Vitor R. Carvalho, William W. Cohen
CMU-LTI-06-001 Dissertation	Multilingual Named Entity Extraction and Translation from Text and Speech Fei Huang
2005 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-05-197 Tech Report	Full-Text Federated Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks Jie Lu
CMU-LTI-05-195 Dissertation	Bayesian Graphical Models for Adaptive Filtering Yi Zhang
CMU-LTI-05-194 Dissertation	Learning Transfer Rules for Machine Translation with Limited Data Kathrina Probst
CMU-LTI-05-193 Tech Report	Dynamic Machine Translation Evaluation Methods: Algorithmic Analysis and Generalization Lucian Vlad Lita
CMU-LTI-05-192 Dissertation	Semi-Supervised Learning with Graphs Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu
CMU-LTI-05-191-a Dissertation	Logic-Based Natural Language Understanding in Intelligent Tutoring Systems Octav Popescu
CMU-LTI-05-191 Dissertation	Learning to Extract Entities from Labeled and Unlabeled Text Rosemary Jones
CMU-LTI-05-190 Dissertation	Recognizing Sloppy Speech Hua Yu
CMU-LTI-05-189 Dissertation	Riemannian Geometry and Statistical Machine Learning Guy Lebanon
2004 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-04-188 Tech Report	Gazetteers, Word Net, Encyclopedias, and The Web: Analyzing Question Answering Resources Warren A. Hunt, Lucian Vlad Lita, Eric Nyberg
CMU-LTI-04-186 Tech Report	Integrating Tools for the Creation of Speech-Enabled Tutors Jonathan Brown
CMU-LTI-04-185 Tech Report	Speech Graffiti: Assessing the User Experience Stefanie Tomko
CMU-LTI-04-184 Dissertation	Domain Action Classification and Argument Parsing for Interlingua-Based Spoken Language Translation Chad Langley
CMU-LTI-04-183 Dissertation	Statistical Approach toward Automatic Title Generation Rong Jin
CMU-LTI-04-182 Tech Report	Speech Recognition Technology Applied for English Education in Korea Jong-Hyun Lee
CMU-LTI-04-181 Tech Report	ARGUS: Combining Rete and DBMS for Continuous Profile Matching on Large-Volume Data Streams Chun Jin
CMU-LTI-04-180 Tech Report	Novelty Detection with Nearest Neighbor, Support Vector Machines, and Kernel Regression Jian Zhang
2003 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-03-179 Tech Report	FLOOD: A Planning Framework for Reasoning with Linguistic Data Curtis Huttenhower
CMU-LTI-03-178 Tech Report	Cross-lingual Event Tracking Nianli Ma, Yiming Yang, Monica Rogati
CMU-LTI-03-177-a Tech Report	Ukernal: A Unification Kernal Benjamin Han, Alon Lavie
CMU-LTI-03-177 Tech Report	CMU ARCTIC Databases for Speech Synthesis John Kominek, Alan Black
CMU-LTI-03-176 Tech Report	A Prototype of an English-Polish Machine Translation System Anna Kupsc, Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg
CMU-LTI-03-175 Tech Report	Improving Speech Recognizer Performance in a Dialog System Using N-best Hypotheses Reranking Ananlada Chotimongkol
CMU-LTI-03-174 Tech Report	Maximal Lattice Overlap in Example-Based Machine Translation Rebecca Hutchinson, Paul N. Bennett, Jaime Carbonell, Peter Jansen, Ralf Brown
2002 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-02-173 Dissertation	Risk Minimization and Language Modeling in Text Retrieval ChengXiang Zhai
CMU-LTI-02-172 Dissertation	High-Performance Multi-Pass Unification Parsing Paul Placeway
CMU-LTI-02-171 Dissertation	Guarded Constraints in Natural Language Processing Kathy Baker
CMU-LTI-02-170 Dissertation	Recognizing Non-Native Speech: Characterizing and Adapting to Non-Native Usage in Speech Recognition Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo
2001 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-01-169 Tech Report	Improving Pronunciation Accuracy of Proper Names with Language Origin Classes Ariadna Font-Llitjos
CMU-LTI-01-168 Dissertation	Automatic Summarization of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains Klaus Zechner
CMU-LTI-01-166 Dissertation	A Constraint-Based Model of Mixed-Initiative Dialogue for Information-Seeking Interactions Yan Qu
2000 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-01-167 Dissertation	Helping Children Learn Vocabulary During Computer-Assisted Oral Reading Gregory Aist
CMU-LTI-01-165-a Dissertation	Growing Semantic Grammars Marsal Gavalda
CMU-LTI-01-165 Dissertation	Word and Compound Clustering for Natural Language Processing Akira Ushioda
CMU-LTI-00-164 Dissertation	The Algebraic Structure of Attributed Type Signatures Gerald Penn
1999 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-99-xxx Dissertation	Detecting Verbal and Non-verbal Cues in the Communicaton of Emotions Thomas Polzin
1998 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-98-MEMO Tech Report	CMU Two-party and Three-party Spontaneous Speech Data Collection - Travel Domain Sondra Ahlen, Anuj Vaidya
CMU-LTI-98-160 Dissertation	Grammar Inference and Statistical Machine Translation Ye Yi Wang
1997 [top]
Report ID Type	Report Title Authors
CMU-LTI-97-155 Tech Report	Hypothesis Driven Lexical Adaptation for Transcribing Multilingual Broadcast News Petra Geutner, Michael Finke, Peter Scheytt
CMU-LTI-97-154 Tech Report	Speech Recognition on Serbo-Croatian Dictation and Broadcast News Data Peter Scheytt, Michael Finke, Petra Geutner
CMU-LTI-97-153 Tech Report	Data Collection Scenarios for C-Star Travel Domain Sondra Ahlen, Brian Connelly, Michelle Corkadel, Rob Malkin, Anuj Vaidya, Rodolfo Vega
CMU-LTI-97-152 Tech Report	Issues in Generating Turkish from Interlingua Dilek Zeynep Hakkani, Gorham Tur, Kemal Oflazer, Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg, Kemal Oflazer
CMU-LTI-97-151 Dissertation	Robust Interactive Dialogue Interpretation Carolyn Penstein Rose
CMU-LTI-97-150 Tech Report	Vocal Tract Length Normalization for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Puming Zhan, Alex Waibel
CMU-LTI-97-149 Dissertation	Hunter-Gatherer: Applying Constraint Satisfaction, Branch-and-Bound and Solution Synthesis to Computational Semantics Stephen Beale
CMU-LTI-97-148 Dissertation	Otological-Semantic Framework for Text Analysis Boyan Onyshkevych