Appendix 5
James R. Glass
Website:
Personal: http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrg
Lab: http://www.sls.csail.mit.edu/
Short biography:
James R. Glass obtained his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, and 1988, respectively. After starting in the Speech
Communication group at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, he has worked since 1989 at the
Laboratory for Computer Science, now the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(CSAIL). Currently, he is a Principal Research Scientist at CSAIL where he heads the Spoken
Language Systems Group. He is also a Lecturer in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and
Technology. His primary research interests are in the area of speech communication and human-computer
interaction, centered on automatic speech recognition and spoken language understanding. He has lectured,
taught courses, supervised students, and published extensively in these areas. He is currently a Senior
Member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech and Language Technical
Committee, and has been an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing.
Selected Publications:
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Park and J. Glass, "Unsupervised Pattern Discovery in Speech," Proc. IEEE Trans. Audio,
Speech, and Language, 16(1), 186-197, 2008.
H.-A. Chang and J. Glass, "Hierarchical Large-Margin Gaussian Mixture Models For Phonetic
Classification," Proc. IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop,
272-275, Kyoto, 2007.
J. Ming, T. Hazen, J. Glass, and D. Reynolds, "Robust Speaker Recognition in Unknown Noisy
Conditions," Proc. IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language, 15(5), 1711-1723, 2007.
J. Glass, T. Hazen, S. Cyphers, I. Malioutov, D. Huynh, and R. Barzilay, "Recent Progress in
the MIT Spoken Lecture Processing Project," Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing,
2553-2556, Antwerp, 2007.
P. Hsu and J. Glass, "Style & Topic Language Model Adaptation Using HMM-LDA," Proc.
EMNLP, 373-381, Sydney, 2006.
J. Glass, E. Weinstein, S. Cyphers, J. Polifroni, G. Chung, and M. Nakano, "A Framework for
Developing Conversational User Interfaces," Proc. Intl. Conf. on Computer-Aided Design of
User Interfaces, 354-365, Madeira, 2004.
K. Livescu and J. Glass, "Feature-based Pronunciation Modeling for Speech Recognition,"
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Proc. Human Language Technology NAACL, 81-84, Boston, 2004.
J. Glass, "A Probabilistic Framework for Segment-Based Speech Recognition," Computer,
Speech, and Language, 17, 137-152, 2003.
I. Bazzi and J. Glass, "Modeling Out-of-Vocabulary Words for Robust Speech Recognition,"
Proc. ICSLP, I401-404, Beijing, China, 2000.
V. Zue and J. Glass, "Conversational Interfaces: Advances and Challenges," Proceedings of the
IEEE, 88(8), 1166-1180, 2000.
V. Zue, S. Seneff, J. Glass, J. Polifroni, C. Pao, T. Hazen, and L. Hetherington, "Jupiter: A
Telephone-Based Conversational Interface for Weather Information," Proc. IEEE Trans.
Speech and Audio, 8(1), 85-96, 2000.
Possible Lecture Topics:
1) Fundamentals of Speech Recognition
2) Conversational Interfaces
3) Unsupervised Learning for Spoken Language Applications