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Name: Mary P. Harper                                                           Revised: 9/16/2010

Email:

mharper@umd.edu, harper@purdue.edu

Web Page:

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mharper

Phone:

(443)799-3967

Address (IARPA):

TBD

Address (U MD):

Department of Computer Science

A.V. Williams Building, Room 3219

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

Education:

Degree

Date

School

Ph.D. in Computer Science

June 1990

Brown University (Completed 7/89)

(Thesis: The Representation of Noun Phrases in Logical Form)

Sc.M. in Computer Science

June 1986

Brown University

M.S. in Psychology

Feb. 1980

University of Massachusetts

(Thesis: The Influence of Encoding Context on the False Recognition Errors of Third Graders and Adults)

B.A. in Psychology

June 1976

Kent State University (Suma cum Laude)

(Honors Thesis: Recognition for Pictures of Faces as a Function of Levels of Processing Across Three Age Levels)

High School Diploma

June 1973

Copley High School, Copley OH

Honorary Society Memberships and Honors:

1.      Member of Pi Mu Epsilon and Psi Chi, Kent State University

2.      Distinguished Graduate in Psychology, Kent State University, 1976

3.      IBM Graduate Fellowship, 1986–1987

4.      Sigma Xi, 1986–present

5.      NSF Research Initiation Award, 1990–1992

6.      William H. Hayt Jr. Outstanding Teaching Award, Eta Kappa Nu, Beta Chapter, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, Spring 1995

7.      IEEE Computer Society Chapter Tutorials Program Speaker, 1997–2000.

8.      IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitors Program Speaker, 1997–2000.

9.      GM Technical Education Program Commendation for Outstanding Level of Instruction, Spring 1999.

10.  Award for Volunteer Service to the Engineering Alumni Association Board 1999–2002.

11.  IEEE Senior Member, August 10, 2002.


Editorial Boards:

1.      Journal of Negative Results in Speech and Audio Sciences, 2005

2.      IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, Associate Editor, 2005–2009

3.      Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/LiLT/index.html), 2007-present

Professional Society Committees:

1.      Member of the IASTED Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Expert System, 2000–2003 (involves planning publications and meetings)

2.      Member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Computational Linguistics North American Chapter, 1/2006–1/2008

3.      Member of the Nomination Committee of the Association for Computational Linguistics North American Chapter, 2009-2010

4.      Member of the Human Language Technology Board, 1/2007-9/2010

5.      Member of MLMI Standing Committee for the Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI), 2006-2008

6.      Guest member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC), 1/2007-9/2010

Professional Experience:

Oct. 2010–present

Program Manager, IARPA

Oct. 2008–Oct. 2010

Principal Research Scientist, Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, Johns Hopkins University

July 2008–Sept. 2010

Affiliate Research Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland

Jan. 2008–Oct. 2010

Affiliate Senior Research Scientist, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

Oct. 2007–present

Adjunct Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

Sept. 2006–present

Affiliate Research Professor, Computer Science, University of Maryland

May 2006–Sept. 30, 2008

Area Director at the Center for the Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland 

Oct. 2005–Sept. 30, 2008

Senior Research Scientist at the Center for the Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland 

Aug. 2004–Sept. 30, 2007

Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

March 2003–Sept. 30, 2005

Program Director for the Human Language and Communication Program in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems in the Directorate of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering of the National Science Foundation

Feb. 2003–Sept. 30, 2004

Program Director for the Integrated Media System Center, an Engineering Research Center, University of Southern California

July 2002–March 2003

Program Director of the Human Computer Interaction Program in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems in the Directorate of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering of the National Science Foundation

Aug. 1996–July 2004

Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

Aug. 1989–July 1996

Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

Mar. 1989–June 1989

Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, Northeastern University

Sept. 1983–Jan. 1989

Graduate Research or Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Brown University

June 1981–Aug. 1981

Instructor for Introductory Pascal course, Bridgewater State College

1979 & 1980 tax seasons

Tax Preparer at H&R Block, Attleboro, MA

Sept. 1976–June 1978

Graduate Research Assistant, Psychology Dept., University of Massachusetts

 

Consulting:

1.      1/1/2000 to 6/30/2000: Consulting with Alphatech, Inc. concerning the development of evaluation strategies for the DARPA SHIELD (Super Human Information Extraction and Link Discovery) program.

 

Clearances:

TS/SCI with life-style polygraph

 

Professional Societies:

American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Member

1986–1988,

1990–present

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Member

1986–present

 

Association for Computational Linguistics North American Chapter (NAACL)

Member

Executive Board

2000–present

2006–present

Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)

Member

Senior Member

1989–2002

2002–present

IEEE Computer Society

Member

1989–present

IEEE Signal Processing Society

Member

2000–present

The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED)

Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence

2000–2003

Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

Member

1992–2000

Sigma Xi

Member

1986–present

 

Research Grants and Contracts Received:

1.      National Science Foundation (NSF), “Shared-Packed Parse Forests and Logical Form,” NSF Research Initiation Award, IRI-9011179, 500-1285-2123, 9/15/90 to 10/1/93, $63,177, Principal Investigator.

2.      Purdue Research Foundation, “PARSEC: A Better Approach to Spoken Language Understanding,” Purdue Research Foundation Grant (David Ross), 690-1285-1774, 6/91 to 8/93, $18,750, Principal Investigator.

3.      GE Junior Faculty Grant, 700-1285-1612-05335, 10/91 to 9/94, $21,000, Principal Investigator.

4.      Purdue Research Foundation, “Spoken Language Constraint Parsing,” Purdue Research Foundation Summer Faculty Grant, 703-1071-0001, 6/1/92 to 7/31/92, $5,000, Principal Investigator.

5.      Intel Corporation, funding to write a report summarizing important research in natural language processing [9], 671-1285-2085, 6/93 to 12/93, $4,620, Principal Investigator.

6.      Intel Corporation, “Parallel Constraint Parsing,” computer equipment, 12/3/93, $45,566, Principal Investigator.

7.      Computing Research Association, CRA Distributed Mentor Program, funding for summer undergraduate research, no account number, 6/1/94 to 7/31/94, $5,000, Principal Investigator.

8.      General Motors Faculty Fellow, 700-1285-1167-05335, 6/1/94 to 5/30/95, $22,500, Principal Investigator.

9.      AT&T Foundation Special Purpose Grant, “Integrating Language Models with Speech Recognition,” 672-1285-1189, 10/94 to 9/95, $20,000, Principal Investigator.

10.  Purdue Research Foundation, “Integrating Language Models with Speech Recognition,” Purdue Research Foundation Summer Faculty Grant, 703-1071-0001, 6/1/95 to 7/31/95, $5,000, Principal Investigator.

11.  Purdue Research Foundation, “Constraint-Based Processing of Queries in Multiple Databases,” 690-1285-2441, 8/95 to 7/97, $20,400, Principal Investigator.

12.  Intel Corporation, “Constraint-Based Processing of Queries in Multiple Databases,” Natural Datatypes Committee, Intel Research Council, 671-1285-2517, 8/1/95 to 7/31/98, $126,000, Principal Investigator.

13.  National Science Foundation, “Experiments on Integrating Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing,” NSF CISE Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems, IRI-9704358, 500-1285-3145, 1/1/97 to 5/30/98, $50,000, Principal Investigator.

14.  National Science Foundation, “CISE Research Instrumentation: Storage and I/O Devices for the Support of Research in Imaging Systems, Networks, and Video and Speech Processing,” CDA 96-17388, 1/1/97 to 12/31/98, $236,627, (PI: E. J. Coyle), Co-Principal Investigator.

15.  Purdue Research Foundation, “A Multidisciplinary Approach to Speech Processing Research,” Purdue Research Foundation Special Incentive Research Grant, 6/1/97 to 5/31/98, $12,635, Principal Investigator.

16.  Dean of Engineering, “A Multidisciplinary Approach to Speech Processing Research,” 1997 to 1998, $34,985, (PI: L. H. Jamieson), Co-Principal Investigator.

17.  Purdue Research Foundation, “Integration of Natural Language with Speech Processing,” Purdue Research Foundation Special Incentive Research Grant, 1/1/98 to 12/31/99, $22,180, Principal Investigator.

18.  Intel Corporation, “Intel Equipment for Processing and Communication Intensive Tasks that Enable New Networked Video, Image, and Speech Applications,” Intel Corporation, 7/1/97 to 6/30/00, $598,000, (PI: E. J. Coyle), Co-Principal Investigator.

19.  Purdue Research Foundation, “Experiments on Integrating Speech and Natural Language Processing Using Corpora,” Purdue Research Foundation Special Incentive Research Grant, 8/10/98 to 8/09/00, $23,977, Principal Investigator.

20.  National Science Foundation , “Cross-Modal Analysis of Signal and Sense: Multimedia Corpora and Computational Tools for Gesture, Speech, and Gaze Research, NSF,” Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence (KDI) program, #9980054-BCS, 9/1/99 to 8/31/02, $2,536,054, (PI: F. Quek), Purdue subcontract, 500-1285-3589, $317,807, Principal Investigator on subcontract.

21.  Purdue Research Foundation, “Spoken Language Processing of Dialogs,” Purdue Research Foundation Special Incentive Research Grant, 6/1/01 to 5/31/03, $26,274, Principal Investigator.

22.  National Science Foundation (NSF), “IGERT Proposal: Innovation Realization Lab,” 8/00 to 7/05, $2,333,428, (PI: M. C. Thursby), Faculty Associate.

23.  National Science Foundation, “ANLP/NAACL Student Research Workshop,” NSF CISE, Human Computer Interaction 1/1/00 to 12/31/00, 0001350-IIS, $11,000, Principal Investigator.

24.  National Science Foundation, REU Supplement for “Cross-Modal Analysis of Signal and Sense: Multimedia Corpora and Computational Tools for Gesture, Speech, and Gaze Research, NSF,” 6/1/00 to 5/31/01, 0042265-BCS, $40,000 total, (PI: F. Quek), Purdue subcontract, $10,000, Principal Investigator on subcontract.

25.  Indiana University Radiology Assoc., Inc., 08/08/00, $22,701, 671 1285-3508, Principal Investigator.

26.  Ford Fund gift to Purdue University to fund a "Perception-Based Engineering Laboratory," 1/01 to 1/05, $3,500,000, Co-Principal Investigator.  Co-PIs from ME, ECE, AUS and Psychological Sciences at Purdue collaborated with Dan Hirleman (Head, ME), Bob Bernhard (Director, Herrick), Shari Rodriguez (ME Development), and Patricia Davies (ME, lead co-PI) on the proposal.  The funds were used to construct a new facility and purchase state-of-the art research equipment. The facility, which forms part of the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories, is shared by this interdisciplinary team of for both teaching and research.

27.  National Science Foundation, REU Supplement for “Cross-Modal Analysis of Signal and Sense: Multimedia Corpora and Computational Tools for Gesture, Speech, and Gaze Research, NSF,” 9/1/01 to 8/31/02, 0131999-BCS, $40,000 total, (PI: F. Quek), Purdue subcontract, $10,000, Principal Investigator on subcontract.

28.  National Science Foundation, REU Supplement for “Cross-Modal Analysis of Signal and Sense: Multimedia Corpora and Computational Tools for Gesture, Speech, and Gaze Research, NSF,” 9/1/02 to 8/31/03, 0228215-BCS, $50,000 total, (PI: F. Quek), Purdue subcontract, $10,000, Principal Investigator on subcontract.

29.  National Science Foundation, “IPA Assignment,” (Program Director in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems in the Directorate of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering of the National Science Foundation), 7/1/2002 to 6/30/2005, $481,677, Principal Investigator.

30.  National Science Foundation, “Hierarchal Perceptual Organization with the Center-Surround Algorithm,” CISE, IIS, RCV, 9/03 to 8/06, $500,000, (PI: J.M. Siskind), unpaid consultant due to NSF COI.

31.  Xerox Corp., “A Structural Approach to Document Browsing and Management,” 7/30/2003 to 7/29/2005, $40,000, (PI: C.A. Bouman), Co-Principal Investigator.

32.  ARDA VACE II, “From Video to Information: Cross-Modal Analysis of Planning Meetings,” 10/15/2003 to 9/30/2007, $1,599,996, (PI: Francis Quek), Co-Principal Investigator, #MDA904-03-C-1788.

33.  “Parsing Speech,” 2005 Summer Workshop, the Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, (Team Leader: M. P. Harper), see http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2005/groups/eventdetect/.

34.  DARPA GALE, “NIGHTINGALE: Novel Information Gathering and Harvesting Techniques for INtelligence in Global Autonomous Language Environments,” (PI: David Israel, SRI), $493,861.

35.  CASL TTO, “Language Identification,” 12/1/2005-9/30/2006, (PI: Mary Harper).

36.  CASL TTO, “Google Voice,” 10/1/2006-9/30/2007, (PI: Mary Harper).

37.  National Science Foundation, Workshop Proposal on Strategic Planning for an Academic/Industry Center for Language Technologies, (PI: Mary Harper), $22,500.

38.  National Science Foundation, RI: Collaborative Research: Landmark-based Robust Speech Recognition Using Prosody-Guided Models of Speech Variability, (PI: Carol Espy-Wilson, Co-PI: Mary Harper), $514,275.

 

Serial Journal Publications:

1.      M. Daehler and M. P. O'Connor (now Harper), “Recognition Memory for Objects in Very Young Children: The Effects of Shape and Label Similarity on Preference for Novel Stimuli,” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 306-321, April 1980.

2.      M. P. O'Connor-Harper and M. Daehler, “The Influence of Encoding Context on the False Recognition Errors of Children and Adults,” Journal of General Psychology, Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 57-68, July 1982.

3.      M. P. Harper, “Ambiguous Noun Phrases in Logical Form,” Computational Linguistics, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 419-465, December 1992.

4.      S. Potisuk, J. Gandour, and M. P. Harper, “F0 Correlates of Stress in Thai,” Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, Vol. 17, No. 2, Fall 1994, pp. 1-27.

5.      C. D. Mitchell, M. P. Harper, and L. H. Jamieson, “Comments on ‘Reducing Computation in HMM Evaluation,’” IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 542-543, October 1994.

6.      M. P. Harper, “Storing Logical Form in a Shared-Packed Forest,” Computational Linguistics, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 649-660, December 1994.

7.      C. D. Mitchell, M. P. Harper, L. H. Jamieson, and R. A. Helzerman, “A Parallel Implementation of a Hidden Markov Model with Duration Modeling for Speech Recognition,” Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 43-57, January 1995.

8.      C. D. Mitchell, M. P. Harper, and L. H. Jamieson, “On the Complexity of Explicit Duration HMMs,” IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 213-217, May 1995.

9.      H. Chao and M. P. Harper, “Minimizing Redundant Dependencies and Interprocessor Synchronization,” International Journal of Parallel Programming, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 245-262, June 1995.

10.  M. P. Harper and R. A. Helzerman, “Managing Multiple Knowledge Sources in Constraint-Based Parsing of Spoken Language,” Fundamenta Informaticae, Special Issue on “Context: Theory and Practice,” Vol. 23, No. 2-4, pp. 303-353, June-August 1995.

11.  M. P. Harper and R. A. Helzerman, “Extensions to Constraint Dependency Parsing for Spoken Language Processing,” Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 187-234, July 1995.

12.  M. P. Harper, R. A. Helzerman, C. B. Zoltowski, B. L. Yeo, Y. Chan, T. Stewart, and B. L. Pellom, “Implementation Issues in the Development of the PARSEC Parser,” SOFTWARE - Practice and Experience, Vol. 25, No. 8, pp. 831-862, August 1995.

13.  H. Chao and M. P. Harper, “A Tight Lower Bound for Optimal Bin Packing,” Operations Research Letters, Vol. 18, pp. 133-138, October 1995.

14.  H. Chao and M. P. Harper, “An Efficient Lower Bound Algorithm for Channel Routing,” INTEGRATION: the VLSI journal, Vol. 20, pp. 193-209, March 1996.

15.  S. Potisuk, J. Gandour, and M. P. Harper, “Acoustic Correlates of Stress in Thai,” Phonetica, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 200-220, September 1996.

16.  R. A. Helzerman and M. P. Harper, “MUSE CSP: An Extension to the Constraint Satisfaction Problem,” Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 5, pp. 239-288, November 1996.

17.  S. Potisuk, J. Gandour, and M. P. Harper, “Contextual Variations in Trisyllabic Sequences of Thai Tones,” Phonetica, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 22-42, 1997.

18.  S. Potisuk, J. Gandour, and M. P. Harper, “Vowel Length and Stress in Thai,” Acta Linguistica Hufniensa, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 39-62, 1998.

19.  S. Potisuk, M. P. Harper, and J. T. Gandour, “The Classification of Thai Tones in Connected Speech using the Analysis by Synthesis Method,” IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 91-102, January 1999.

20.  A. M. Surprenant, S. L. Hura, M. P. Harper, L. H. Jamieson, G. Long, S. M. Thede, A. Rout, T.-H. Hsueh, S. A. Hockema, M. T. Johnson, P. Srinivasan, C. M. White, and  J. B. Laflen, “Familiarity and Pronouncibility of Nouns and Names,” Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 638-649, December 1999.

21.  Y. Liu, M. P. Harper, M. T. Johnson, and L. H. Jamieson, “The Effect of Pruning and Compression on Graphical Representations of the Output of a Speech Recognizer,” Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 329-356, October 2003.

22.  Y. Liu, N. Chawla, M. P. Harper, E. Shriberg, and A. Stolcke, “A Study in Machine Learning from Imbalanced Data for Sentence Boundary Detection in Speech,” Computer Speech and Language, vol. 20, pp. 468-494, October 2006.

23.  Y. Liu, E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, D. Hillard, M. Ostendorf, and M.P. Harper, “Enriching Speech Recognition with Automatic Detection of Sentence Boundaries and Disfluencies,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol.14, no. 5, pp 1526-1540, September, 2006.

24.  W. Wang, I. Pollak, T.-S. Wong, C.A. Bouman, M.P. Harper, and J. M. Siskind , “Hierarchical Stochastic Image Grammars for Classification and Segmentation,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, issue 10, pp. 3033-3052, July, 2006.

25.  J. M. Siskind, J. Sherman, Jr, I. Pollak, M. P. Harper, C. A. Bouman, "Spatial Random Tree Grammars for Modeling Hierarchal Structure in Images with Regions of Arbitrary Shape," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 29,  no. 9,  pp. 1504-1519,  Sept.,  2007.

26.  M. Ostendorf, B. Favre, R. Grishman, D. Hakkani-Tur, M. Harper, D. Hillard, J. Hirschberg, H. Ji, J. G. Kahn, Y. Liu, S. Maskey, E. Matusov, H. Ney, A. Rosenberg, E. Shriberg, W. Wang, and C. Wooters, “Speech Segmentation and its Impact on Spoken Document Processing,”  Signal Processing Magazine, 2008.

27.  L. Chen and M. P. Harper, “Utilizing Gestures to Improve Sentence Boundary Detection,” to appear in Multimedia Tools and Applications.

 

Conference Proceedings and Presentations:

1.      M. P. Harper and E. Charniak, “Time and Tense in English,” Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, New York, NY, July 1986, pp. 3-9.

2.      M. P. Harper, “Representing Pronouns in Logical Form: Computational Constraints and Linguistic Evidence,” Proceedings of the Seventh National Meeting of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, St. Paul, MN, August 1988, pp. 712-717.

3.      M. P. Harper, “Designer Definites in Logical Form,” Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1990, pp. 62-69.

4.      R. A. Helzerman and M. P. Harper, “Log Time Parsing on the MasPar MP-1,” Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, IL, Vol. 2, August 1992, pp. 209-217.

5.      R. A. Helzerman, M. P. Harper, and C. B. Zoltowski, “Parallel Parsing of Spoken Language,” Proceedings of Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, McLean, VA, October 1992, pp. 528-530.

6.      C. B. Zoltowski, M. P. Harper, L. H. Jamieson, and R. A. Helzerman, “PARSEC: A Constraint-Based Framework for Spoken Language Understanding,” Proceedings of the 1992 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 1992, pp. 249-252.

7.      M. P. Harper, L. H. Jamieson, C. B. Zoltowski, and R. A. Helzerman, “Semantics and Constraint Parsing of Word Graphs,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Minneapolis, MN, April 1993, pp. 63-66.

8.      C. D. Mitchell, R. A. Helzerman, L. H. Jamieson, and M. P. Harper, “A Parallel Implementation of a Hidden Markov Model with Duration Modeling for Speech Recognition,” Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Programming, Irving, TX, December 1993, pp. 298-306.

9.      S. Potisuk, J. T. Gandour, and M. P. Harper, “F0 Correlates of Stress in Thai,” The 4th International Conference on Southeast Asian Linguistics, May 1994.

10.  R. A. Helzerman and M. P. Harper, “An Approach to Multiply Segmented Constraint Satisfaction Problems,” Proceedings of the 12th National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, August 1994, pp. 350-355.

11.  M. P. Harper, L. H. Jamieson, C. D. Mitchell, G. Ying, S. Potisuk, P. N. Srinivasan, R. Chen, C. B. Zoltowski, L. L. McPheters, B. Pellom, and R. A. Helzerman, “Integrating Language Models with Speech Recognition,” Proceedings of the 1994 American Association for Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Integration the of Natural Language and Speech Processing, Seattle, WA, August 1994, pp. 139-146.

12.  H. Chao and M. P. Harper, “Minimizing Redundant Dependencies and Interprocessor Synchronization,” Proceedings of the Sixth IASTED-ISMM International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Washington, DC, October 1994, pp. 294-298.

13.  M. J. Rowland, B. Perazich, R. A. Helzerman, M. P. Harper, J. P. Robertson, G. D. Rogers, J. R. Johoski, E. Toepke, and H. Rosario, “Parsing using the PARSEC Vector Processing Chip,” Proceedings of the Sixth IASTED-ISMM International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Washington, DC, October 1994, pp. 414-418.

14.  C. D. Mitchell, M. P. Harper, and L. H. Jamieson, “Using Explicit Segmentation to Improve HMM Phone Recognition,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Detroit, MI, May 1995, pp. 229-232.

15.  S. Potisuk, M. P. Harper, and J. T. Gandour, “Speaker-Independent Automatic Classification of Thai Tones in Connected Speech by Analysis-Synthesis Method,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Detroit, MI, May 1995, pp. 632-635.

16.  J. T. Gandour, S. Potisuk, and M. P. Harper, “Effects of Stress on Vowel Length in Thai,” Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Language and Linguistics: Pan-Asiatic Linguistics, Vol. 1: Language Description, Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand, January 1996, pp. 95-103.

17.  S. Potisuk and M. P. Harper, “CDG: An Alternative Formalism for Parsing Written and Spoken Thai,” Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Language and Linguistics: Pan-Asiatic Linguistics, Vol 4:  Language and Related Sciences, Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand,  January 1996,  pp. 1177-1196.

18.  C. D. Mitchell, M. P. Harper, and L. H. Jamieson, “Stochastic Observation Hidden Markov Models,” Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 1996, pp. II-617-II-620.

19.  S. Potisuk, M. P. Harper, and J. T. Gandour, “Using Stress to Disambiguate Spoken Thai Sentences Containing Syntactic Ambiguity,” Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Philadelphia, PA, October 1996, Vol. 2, pp. 805-808.

20.  C. M. White, M. P. Harper, T. Lane, and R. A. Helzerman, “Inductive Learning of Abstract Role Values Derived from a Constraint Dependency Grammar,” Proceedings of the Automata Induction, Grammatical Inference, and Language Acquisition Workshop, at the Fourteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, July 12, 1997, (see http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/pdupont/pdupont/mlworkshop.html).

21.  S. M. Thede and M. P. Harper, “Analysis of Unknown Lexical Items using Morphological and Syntactic Information with the TIMIT Corpus,” Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, August 1997, Beijing and Hong Kong, pp. 261-272.

22.  M. P. Harper and L. H. Jamieson, “Experiments In Integrating Speech Recognition And Natural Language Processing,” NSF Interactive Systems Grantees Workshop, August 1997, (see http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/nsf/isgw97/index.html).

23.  L. H. Jamieson, E. J. Coyle, M. P. Harper, E. J. Delp, and P. Davies, “Integrating Engineering Design, Signal Processing, and Community Service in the EPICS Program,” Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Seattle, WA, May 12-15, 1998, pp. 1897-900.

24.  A. M. Surprenant, S. L. Hura, M. P. Harper, L. H. Jamieson, G. Long, S. M. Thede, A. Rout, T.-H. Hsueh, S. A. Hockema, M. T. Johnson, J. B. Laflen, P. Srinivasan, C. M. White, “Familiarity and Pronouncibility of Nouns and Names: The Purdue Proper Name Database,” 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting Acoustical Society of America, Seattle WA, June 20-26, 1998, pp. 2007-2008.

25.  M. T. Johnson, M. P. Harper, and L. H. Jamieson, “Interfacing Acoustic Models with Natural Language Processing Systems,” Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney Australia, November 30-December 4, 1998, pp. 2419-2422.

26.  M. P. Harper, M. T. Johnson, L. H. Jamieson, S. A. Hockema, C. M. White, “Interfacing a CDG Parser with an HMM Word Recognizer Using Word Graphs,” Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Phoenix Arizona, March 1999, pp. 733-736.

27.  S. M. Thede and M. P. Harper, “A Second-Order Hidden Markov Model for Part-of-Speech Tagging,” Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics,  Baltimore MD, June 1999, pp. 175-182.

28.  M. P. Harper, C. M. White, R. A. Helzerman, and S.A. Hockema, “Faster MUSE CSP Arc Consistency Algorithms,” Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference for Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Honolulu Hawaii, August 1999, 294-127, 6 pages.

29.  M. P. Harper, S.A. Hockema, and C. M. White, “Enhanced Constraint Dependency Grammar Parsers,” Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference for Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing,  Honolulu, Hawaii, August 1999, 294-128, 7 pages.

30.  M. T. Johnson and M. P. Harper, “Near Minimal Weighted Word Graphs for Post-processing Speech,” Proceedings of the 1999 International Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, December, 1999, Keystone, CO, (proceedings on line at http://asru99.research.att.com/asru99_index.shtml).

31.  M. P. Harper, C. M. White, W. Wang, M. T. Johnson, and R. A. Helzerman, “The Effectiveness of Corpus-Induced Dependency Grammars for Post-processing Speech,” Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics, ANLP-NAACL-2000, pp. 102-109.

32.  W. Wang, J. Auer, R. Parasuraman, I. Zubarev, D. Brandyberry, and M. P. Harper, “A Question Answering System Developed as a Project in a Natural Language Processing Course,” Proceedings of the Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems, at ANLP-NAACL-2000, 28-35.

33.  F. Quek, R. Bryll, M. P. Harper, L. Chen, and L. Ramig, “Audio and Vision-Based Evaluation of Parkinson's Disease from Discourse Video,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium of Bio-Informatics and Bio-Engineering, BIBE 2001, Bethesda, MA, November 4-6, 2001, pp. 245-252.

34.  M. P. Harper, W. Wang, and C. M. White, “Approaches for Learning Constraint Dependency Grammar from Corpora,” Workshop on Grammar and NLP, University du Quebec, Montreal, October 13-14, 2001, (see http://www.asymmetryproject.uqam.ca/program_pg.html).

35.  F. Quek, R. Bryll, D. McNeill, and M. Harper, Gestural Origo and Loci-Transitions in Natural Discourse Segmentation,” Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Cues in Communication, Kauai Marriot, Hawaii, December 9, 2001.

36.  F. Quek, R. Bryll, M. Harper, L. Chen, and L. Ramig, “Speech and Gesture Analysis for Evaluation of Progress in LSVT Treatment in Parkinson’s Disease,” Proceedings of the Eleventh Biennial Conference on Motor Speech: Motor Speech Disorders, Williamsburg, VA, March 14-17, 2002.

37.  W. Wang, Y. Liu, and M. P. Harper, “Rescoring Effectiveness of Language Models Using Different Levels of Knowledge and Their Integration,” Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. I, Orlando FL, 2002, pp. 785-788.

38.  W. Wang and M. P. Harper, “The SuperARV Language Model: Investigating the Effectiveness of Tightly Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources in Language Modeling,” Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2002, pp. 238-247.

39.  F. Quek, M. P. Harper, Y. Haciahmetoglu, L. Chen, and L. Ramig, “Speech Pauses and Gestural Holds in Parkinson’s Disease,” Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, September 2002, Denver CO, pp. 2485-2488.

40.  F. Quek, D. McNeill, R. Bryll, and M. Harper, “Gesture Spatialization in Natural Discourse Segmentation,” Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, September 2002, Denver CO, pp. 189-192.

41.  L. Chen, M. P. Harper, and F. Quek, “Gesture During Speech Repairs,” Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, October 14-16, 2002, Pittsburgh PA, pp. 155-160.

42.  I. Pollak, J.M. Siskind, M.P. Harper, and C.A. Bouman. Multiscale Random Tree Models. IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference, January 21-24, 2003, Santa Clara, CA.

43.  W. Wang, M. P. Harper, and A. Stolcke, “The Robustness of an Almost-Parsing Language Model Given Errorful Training Data,” in the Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. I, Hong Kong, April 6-12, 2003, pp. 240-243.

44.  I. Pollak, J. M. Siskind, M. P. Harper, and C. A. Bouman, “Modeling and Estimation of Spatial Random Trees with Application to Image Classification” in the Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. III, Hong Kong, April 6-12, 2003, 305-308.

45.  M. P. Harper, “Merit-Based Funding at the National Science Foundation,” in the 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, April 8-May 2, 2003, Nashville, Tennessee, p. 2316.

46.  I. Pollak, J.M. Siskind, M.P. Harper, and C.A. Bouman, “Parameter Estimation for Spatial Random Trees Using the EM Algorithm,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Barcelona Spain, September 2003, pp. 257-260.

47.  J.M. Siskind, I. Pollak, M.P. Harper, C.A. Bouman, “Stochastic Grammars for Images on Arbitrary Graphs,” IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, St. Louis, Missouri, September 28-October 1, 2003.

48.  W. Wang and M. P. Harper, “Language Modeling Using a Statistical Dependency Grammar Parser,” 2003 International Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, , St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Island, November 30 - December 4, 2003.

49.  B. Bitlis, X. Feng, J. L. Harris, I. Pollak, C. A. Bouman, M. P. Harper, J. P. Allebach. “A Hierarchical Document Description and Comparison Method,” in the Proceedings of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology IS&T Archiving Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 20-23, 2004.

50.  I. Pollak, J.M. Siskind, M.P. Harper, and C.A. Bouman.  Modeling of Images with Spatial Random Trees.  Proceedings of the SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, May 3-5, 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah.

51.  W. Wang, A. Stolcke, and M.P. Harper, “The Use of a Linguistically Motivated Language Model in Conversational Speech Recognition,” Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 17-21, Montreal, Canada.

52.  L. Chen, E. Maia, Y. Liu, and M. P. Harper, “Evaluating Factors Impacting Forced Alignment in a Multimodal Corpus,” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, May 26-28, 2004, Lisbon Portugal.

53.  W. Wang and M.P. Harper, “A Statistical Constraint Dependency Grammar (CDG) Parser,” Proceedings of the ACL-2004 Workshop on Incremental Parsing--Bringing Engineering and Cognition Together, Barcelona Spain, 2004.

54.  Y. Liu, A. Stolcke, E. Shriberg, M. P. Harper, “Comparing and Combining Generative and Posterior Probability Models: Some Advances in Sentence Boundary Detection in Speech,” Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Barcelona Spain, 2004.

55.  Y. Liu, A. Stolcke, E. Shriberg, and M. P. Harper, "Using Machine Learning to Cope with Imbalanced Classes in Natural Speech: Evidence from Sentence Boundary and Disfluency Detection", in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju, South Korea, October 5-8, 2004.

56.  Y. Liu, A. Stolcke, E. Shriberg, D. Hillard, M. Ostendorf, B. Peskin, and M. P. Harper, "The ICSI-SRI-UW Metadata Extraction System", in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju, South Korea, October 5-8, 2004.

57.  L. Chen, Y. Liu, M. P. Harper, and E. S. Shriberg, “Multimodal Model Integration for Sentence Unit Detection,” in the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, State College, PA, October 13-15 2004.

58.  Y. Liu, E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, B. Peskin, and M. Harper, “The ICSI/SRI/UW RT04 Structural Metadata Extraction System”, EARS RT-04 Workshop, New York, November 2004.

59.  Y. Liu, E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, B. Peskin, J. Ang, D. Hillard, M. Ostendorf, M. Tomalin, P. Woodland, and M. Harper, “Structural Metadata research in the EARs Program,” in the Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, March 18-23, 2005, Philadelphia PA.

60.  W. Wang, I. Pollak, C.A. Bouman, and M.P. Harper, “Classification of Images Using Spatial Random Trees,”  in Proceedings of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, June 17-20 2005, Bordeaux, France.

61.  Y. Liu, E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, and M. Harper, “Using Conditional Random Fields For Sentence Boundary Detection In Speech,” in the Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Ann Arbor MI, June 2005.

62.  L. Chen, R. Travis, F. Parrill, X. Han, J. Tu, Z. Huang, I. Kimbara, H. Welji, M. Harper, F. Quek, D. McNeill, S. Duncan, R. Tuttle, and T. Huang, “VACE Multimodal Meeting Corpus,” Proceedings  of MLMI 2005 Workshop, Edinburgh, July 2005.

63.  Z. Huang and M. Harper, “Speech Activity Detection on Multichannels of Meeting Recordings,” Proceedings  of  MLMI 2005 Workshop, Edinburgh, July 2005.

64.  W. Wang, I. Pollak, M.P. Harper, and C.A. Bouman, “Spatial Random Trees with Applications to Image Classification,” in Proceedings of the Conference on Mathematical Methods in Pattern and Image Analysis, SPIE Optics & Photonics 2005 Symposium, 31 July-4 August 2005, San Diego, CA.

65.  Y. Liu, E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, and M. Harper, “Comparing HMM, Maximum Entropy, and Conditional Random Fields for Disfluency Detection”, in the Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2005, Lisbon Spain, September 2005.

66.  W. Wang, T.-S. Wong, I. Pollak, C.A. Bouman, and M. P. Harper, “Modeling Hierarchical Structure of Images with Stochastic Grammars,” in Computational Imaging IV, Proceedings of SPIE, Volume EI114, the Conference on Computational Imaging, IS&T/SPIE 18th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, January 15-19, 2006, San Jose.

67.  B. Roark, Y. Liu, M. Harper, R. Stewart, M. Lease, M. Snover, I. Shafran, B. Dorr, J. Hale, A. Krasnyanskaya, and L. Yung, “Reranking for Sentence Boundary Detection in Conversational Speech,”  in the Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 15-19, 2006.

68.  Z. Huang, L. Chen, and M. P. Harper, “An open source prosodic feature extraction tool,” in the Proceedings of Language Resource and Evaluation Conference, Genoa, Italy, May  24-26, 2006.

69.  B. Roark, M. P. Harper, E. Charniak, B. Dorr, M. Johnson, J. Kahn, Y. Liu, M. Ostendorf, J. Hale, A. Krasnyanskaya, M. Lease, I. Shafran, M. Snover, R. Stewart, L.Yung, “SParseval: Evaluation Metrics for Parsing Speech,” in the Proceedings of Language Resource and Evaluation Conference, Genoa, Italy, May 24-26, 2006.

70.  A. Bies, S. Strassel, H. Lee, K. Maeda, S. Kulick, Y. Liu, M. Harper, M. Lease, “Linguistic Resources for Speech Parsing,” in the Proceedings of Language Resource and Evaluation Conference, Genoa, Italy, May 24-26, 2006.

71.  L. Chen, M. P. Harper, A. Franklin, R. T. Travis, I. Kimbara, Z. Huang, and F. Quek, “A Multimodal Analysis of Floor Control in Meetings,” in the Proceedings  of MLMI 2006 Workshop, Washington DC.

72.  J. Hale, I. Shafran, L. Yung, B. Dorr, M. Harper, A. Krasnyanskaya, M. Lease, Y. Liu, B. Roark, M. Snover, and R. Stewart, “PCFGs with Syntactic and Prosodic Indicators of Speech Repairs,” Joint Meeting of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (Coling/ACL), Sydney, Australia, July 2006.

73.  L. Chen, M. P. Harper, and Z. Huang, “Using Maximum Entropy (ME) Model to Incorporate Gesture Cues for SU Detection,” in the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Banff Canada, November 2-4, 2006.

74.  D. Hillard, Z. Huang, H. Ji, R. Grishman, D. Hakkani-Tur, M. Harper, M. Ostendorf, W. Wang, “Impact of Automatic Comma Prediction on POS/Name Tagging of Speech,” in the Proceedings of the First Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), Aruba, December 10-13, 2006.

75.  W. Wang, Z. Huang, and M. Harper, “Semi-supervised Learning for Part-of-Speech Tagging of Mandarin Transcribed Speech,” in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Hawaii, 2007.

76.  D. Filimonov and M. P. Harper, “Recovery of Empty Nodes in Parse Structures,” Gale PI Meeting, March 2007.

77.  Z. Huang, M. P. Harper, and W. Wang. “Semi-supervised Learning of POS Tagging and Parsing for Mandarin Transcribed Speech,” Gale PI Meeting, March 2007.

78.  D. Hillard, Z. Huang, H. Ji, R. Grishman, D. Hakkani-Tur, M. P. Harper, M. Ostendorf, and W. Wang. “Impact of Automatic Comma Prediction on POS/Name Tagging of Speech,” Gale PI Meeting, March 2007.

79.  D. Filimonov and M. P. Harper, “Recovery of Empty Nodes in Parse Structures,” in the Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Prague, Czech Republic, June 28-30, 2007.

80.  Z. Huang, M. P. Harper, and W. Wang,  Mandarin Part-of-Speech Tagging and Discriminative Reranking,  in the Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Prague, Czech Republic, June 28-30, 2007.

81.  M. Harper, A. Acero, S. Bangalore, J. Carbonell, J. Cohen, B. Cuthill, C. Espy-Wilson, C. Fellbaum, J. Garofolo, C.-H. Lee, J. Lester, Andrew McCallum, Nelson Morgan, M. Picheney, J. Picone, L. Ramshaw, J. Reynar, H. Shemtov, and C. Voss, “Report on the NSF-sponsored Human Language Technology Workshop on Industrial Centers,”  in Proceedings of the  Machine Translation Summit XI, Coppenhagen, September 10-14, 2007.  (invited)

82.  D. Hillard, M. Hwang, M. Harper, and M. Ostendorf, “Parsing-based Objective Functions for Speech Recognition in Translation Applications,” in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas NV, March 30-April 4, 2008.

83.  S. Yaman, G. Tur, D. Vergyri, D. Hakkani-Tur, M. Harper and W. Wang, Anchored Speech Recognition for Question Answering,” in Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers, Boulder CO, June 2009, pp. 265-268.

84.  Z. Huang, V. Eidelman, and M. P. Harper, “Improving Simple Bigram HMM Part-of-Speech Tagger by Latent Annotation and Self-Training,” in Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers, Boulder CO, June 2009, pp. 213-216.

85.  Z. Huang and M. Harper, “Self-Training PCFG Grammars with Latent Annotations Across Languages,  in Proceedings of EMNLP 2009: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language, August 6-7, 2009, Suntec Singapore.

86.  D. Filimonov and M. Harper, “A Joint Language Model With Fine-grain Syntactic Tags,” in Proceedings of EMNLP 2009: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language, August 6-7, 2009, Suntec Singapore.

87.  A. Meyers, M. Kosaka, H. Ji, N. Xue, M. Harper, A. Sun, W. Xu and S. Liao, “Transducing Logical Relations from Automatic and Manual GLARF,” in Proceedings of The Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW III), August 6-7, 2009, Suntec Singapore.

88.   K. Parton, K. R. McKeown, R. Coyne, M. T. Diab, R. Grishman, D. Hakkani-Tür, M. Harper, H. Ji, W. Y. Ma, A. Meyers, S. Stolbach, A. Sun, G. Tur, W. Xu and S. Yaman, “Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task,” in Proceedings of The Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, August 2-7, 2009, Suntec Singapore.

89.  S. Yaman, D. Hakkani-Tur, G. Tur, Ralph Grishman, M. Harper, K. R. McKeown, A. Meyers, K. Sharma, “Classification-Based Strategies for Combining Multiple 5-W Question Answering Systems,” in Proceedings of Interspeech, September 6-10, 2009, Brighton, UK.

90.  D. Filimonov and M. Harper, “Measuring Tagging Performance of a Joint Language Model,” in Proceedings of Interspeech, September 6-10, 2009, Brighton, UK.

91.  L. Chen and M. P. Harper, “Multimodal Floor Control Shift Detection,” in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2009, Cambridge, MA, (Best Paper).

92.  Z. Huang and M. P. Harper, “Appropriately Handled Prosodic Breaks Help PCFG Parsing,” in the Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010, Los Angeles, CA.

93.  M. R. Gormley, A. Gerber, M. Harper, M. Dredze, “Non-Expert Correction of Automatically Generated Relation Annotations,” in Proceedings on the Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data With Mechanical Turk at NAACL-HLT, 2010, Los Angeles, CA.

94.  Zhongqiang Huang, Mary Harper, and Slav Petrov, “Self-training with Products of Latent Variable Grammars”, to appear in Proceedings of EMNLP 2010: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language, 2010, Boston MA.

95.  Vlad Eidelman, Zhongqiang Huang, and Mary Harper, “Lessons Learned in Part-of-Speech Tagging of Conversational Speech”, to appear in Proceedings of EMNLP 2010: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language, 2010, Boston MA.

Book Chapters and Book Reviews:

1.      M. P. Harper and V. P. Harper, “Speech Recognition,” Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, Berkshire Publishing Group, 2004 (0-9743091-2-5).

2.      M. P. Harper, Review of “Introducing Speech and Language Processing,” by John Coleman, Computational Linguistics, 32(1), 2006.

3.      Mary P. Harper and Michael Maxwell, “Spoken Language Characterization,” in Jacob Benesty, M. Mohan Sondhi, Yiteng (Arden) Huang (eds.), Springer Handbook on Speech Processing and Speech Communication, 2008.

4.      David McNeill, Susan Duncan, Amy Franklin,  James Goss, Irene Kimbara, Fey Parrill, Haleema Welji, Lei Chen, Mary Harper, and Francis Quek, “Mind-Merging,” in Morsella, E. (ed.), Expressing Oneself / Expressing One's Self: Communication, Language, Cognition, and Identity, London: Taylor and Francic, December 2009.

5.      M. P. Harper and W. Wang, “Constraint Dependency Grammars: Insights from Parsing and Language Modeling,” in S. Bangalore, A. Joshi (eds.), Complexity of Lexical Descriptions and its Relevance to Natural Language Processing: A Supertagging Approach, MIT Press, 2010.

6.      M. P. Harper and Z. Huang, “Chinese Statistical Parsing,” in J. Olive (ed.), Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation, Springer, New York, NY, to appear.

7.       M. Ostendorf, B. Favre, R. Grishman, D. Hakkani-Tur, M. Harper, D. Hillard, J. Hirschberg, H. Ji, J. G. Kahn, Y. Liu, S. Maskey, E. Matusov, H. Ney, A. Rosenberg, E. Shriberg, W. Wang, and C. Wooters, “Speech Segmentation and its Impact on Spoken Document Processing,” in J. Olive (ed.), Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation, Springer, New York, NY, to appear.

 

Patents submitted:

1.      Filed a preliminary patent application “The SuperARV Language Model,” Purdue ID: P-02056

 

Invited Presentations:

1.      “Time and Tense in English,” Artificial Intelligence Society of New England, Brandeis University, October 1985.

2.      “A Model of Verb Phrase Ellipsis,” Artificial Intelligence Society of New England, Yale University, December 1987.

3.      “Representing Pronouns and Definite Noun Phrases in Logical Form: Computational Constraints and Linguistic Evidence,” Computer Science Department, University of Connecticut, February 1988.

4.      “Representing Pronouns and Definite Noun Phrases in Logical Form: Computational Constraints and Linguistic Evidence,” BBN Laboratories, Boston, MA, September 1988.

5.      “The Representation of Pronouns and Definite Noun Phrases in Logical Form,” School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, January 1989.

6.      “The Representation of Pronouns and Definite Noun Phrases in Logical Form,” Computer Science Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI, January 1989.

7.      “The Representation of Pronouns and Definite Noun Phrases in Logical Form,” Computer Science Department, Northeastern University, Boston MA, February 1989.

8.      “The Representation of Pronouns and Definite Noun Phrases in Logical Form,” Cognitive Systems, Boston MA, February 1989.

9.      “The Representation of Pronouns and Definite Noun Phrases in Logical Form,” Computer Science Department, Ohio State University, Columbus OH, March 1989.

10.  “The Representation of Pronouns and Definite Noun Phrases in Logical Form,” The State University at Buffalo, Buffalo NY, March 1989.

11.  “The Representation of Pronouns and Definite Noun Phrases in Logical Form,” Computer Science Department, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH, March 1989.

12.  “Parallel Constraint Parsing of Natural Language,” Computer Science Department, Kent State University, Kent OH, November 1992.

13.  “A Survey of Emerging NLP Technologies,” Invited presentation to the research council of Intel Corporation, presented by my student Randall A. Helzerman, August 1994.

14.  “Integrating Speech and Natural Language Processing,” a one day tutorial presented to the IEEE Montreal Computer Society Chapter as a part of the IEEE Computer Society's Chapter Tutorial Program, May 15, 1998.

15.  “Rapid Grammar Prototyping Using Constraint Dependency Grammars,” an invited talk presented at Intel on February 16, 1999.

16.  “Rapid Grammar Prototyping Using Constraint Dependency Grammars,” an invited talk presented at Vanderbilt University on March 4, 1999.

17.  “Integrating Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing,” an invited talk presented at Vanderbilt University on March 4, 1999.

18.  “Integrating Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing,” an invited talk presented at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth Texas on November 19, 1999.

19.  “Spoken Language Processing Research in ECE at Purdue,” an invited talk at the KDI workshop, Wright State University, January 22, 2000.

20.  “Integrating Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing,” an invited talk presented at the University of Nevada at Reno on March 30, 2000.

21.  “Gesture and Speech in Dialog Transcription,” presented at the KDI Gesture, Speech, and Gaze Workshop, July 14-15, 2001.

22.  “Praat Tutorial,” presented at the KDI Gesture, Speech, and Gaze Workshop, July 14-15, 2001.

23.   “NSF and Speech Synthesis,” presented at the IEEE 2002 Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Santa Monica CA, September 11-13, 2002.

24.  “NSF Funding in Human Language and Communication,” presented at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, October 16, 2002.

25.  “NSF Funding in Multimodal Communication,” presented at the IEEE Fourth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Pittsburgh PA, October 14-16, 2002.

26.  “Multimodal Systems,” Keynote at the Workshop on Perceptive Social Agents, University of California, San Diego, 9-10 January 2003.

27.  “NSF Funding in Human Language and Communication,” 2nd Annual Research Symposium of the Human Language Technology Research Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, March 10 and 11, 2003.

28.  “Multimodal Language Understanding,” Invited talk presented in the Computer Science Department, Georgetown University, March 21, 2003.

29.  “Merit-Based Funding at the National Science Foundation,” presented at the 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nashville, Tennessee, May 1, 2003.

30.  “The Agony and Ecstasy of Multidisciplinary Research in Speech,” presented at the NSF Symposium on Next Generation ASR, Atlanta Georgia, October 7-8, 2003.

31.  In panel on “New Ways of Thinking about Speech Recognition,” at the NSF Symposium on Next Generation ASR, Atlanta Georgia, October 7-8, 2003.

32.  “NSF and Multimodal Funding,” presented in “Panel: Funding for Multimodal Interface Research,” at the Fifth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Vancouver Canada, November 5-7, 2003.

33.  “Human Language and Communication,” presented in the “Government Perspectives on the State of Speech Recognition,” at the Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Island, November 30 - December 4, 2003.

34.  “CDG-based Language Models,” Invited talk presented at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, January 7, 2004.

35.  “Terascale Linguistics and Human Language Processing Trends,” Boston LSA Town-Hall-style Meeting: Terascale Linguistics Initiative, January 8, 2004.

36.  “LREC Panel: Strategic Directions of National and International Research Funding,” Lisbon Portugal, May 28, 2004.

37.  “CDG-based Language Models,” Plenary Lecture presented at the CLSP 2004 Workshop at Johns Hopkins University, July 7, 2004.

38.  “Whither Error Analysis,” presented in “Panel: Error Analysis in Empirical NLP”, at the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Barcelona Spain, July 26, 2004.

39.  “Multimodal Language Understanding,” Invited talk presented in the UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of Maryland, December 8, 2004.

40.  “Multimodal Language Understanding,” Invited talk presented in the Joint Computer Science Department and Center for Computational Biomedicine Imaging and Modeling Colloquium, Rutgers University, December 17, 2004.

41.  “CDG-based Language Models,” Invited talk presented at Virgina Tech (Northern Virginia campus), April 2005.

42.  “Multimodal Language Understanding,” Invited talk presented at Virgina Tech (main campus), May 12, 2005.

43.  “CDG-based Language Models,” Streamsage, September 13, 2006.

44.  Multimodality and Floor Control,” Invited talk presented at MITRE, May 21, 2007.

45.  “Mandarin Parsing and Language Models,” Invited talk presented in the UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of Maryland, October 10, 2007.

46.  “Mandarin Parsing and Language Models,” Invited talk presented at R6-4 research seminar series, Fort Meade, November 7, 2007.

47.  “Chinese and English Parsing  and Tagging with Less Supervised Data,” Invited talk presented at Army Research Lab, June 11, 2010.

 

Quoted in:

1.      Discover “Who Needs Berlitz”, pp. 56-67, November 1999.

2.      NSF Press Release, “Behind the Blockbusters--Special Effects Tool Locks Characters onto Film,” http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr0380.htm

3.      ACM Technews, “Behind the Blockbusters--Special Effects Tool Locks Characters onto Film,” Volume 5, Issue 528, Monday, August 4, 2003

4.      Carnegie Mellon Press Release, December 3, 2002, http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases02/021203_porta.html

5.      The SuperARV LM has been highlighted in Josh Goodman’s tutorial recently given at HLT/NAACL (see announcement at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/hlt-naacl03/tutorials-details.html and the tutorial slides at http://research.microsoft.com/~joshuago/naacl03tutorial-v4.ppt ).

 

Technical Reports:

1.      M. P. Harper, Time and Tense in English, Technical Report #CS-86-14, Brown University, 1986, 46 pages.

2.      M. P. Harper, The Representation of Noun Phrases in Logical Form, Technical Report #CS-89-46, Brown University, 1989, 216 pages.

3.      M. P. Harper, R. A. Helzerman, and C. B. Zoltowski, Constraint Parsing: A Powerful Framework for Text-based and Spoken Language Processing, Technical Report TR-EE-91-34, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1991, 34 pages.

4.      H. Chao, M. P. Harper, and R. Quong, A Tighter Lower Bound for 1-D Bin-Packing, Technical Report TR-EE-93-27, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 11993, 31 pages

5.      M. P. Harper and R. A. Helzerman, PARSEC: A Constraint-Based Parser for Spoken Language Processing, Technical Report TR-EE-93-28, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1993, 64 pages.

6.      M. P. Harper, Storing Logical Form in a Shared-Packed Forest, Technical Report TR-EE-94-6, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1994, 19 pages.

7.      R. A. Helzerman and M. P. Harper, MUSE CSP: An Extension to the Constraint Satisfaction Problem, Technical Report TR-EE-94-8, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1994, 23 pages.

8.      M. P. Harper and R. A. Helzerman, Managing Multiple Knowledge Sources in Constraint-Based Parsing of Spoken Language, Technical Report TR-EE-94-16, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1994, 55 pages.

9.      R. A. Helzerman and M. P. Harper, Commercial Applications of Natural Language Processing: A Survey of Emerging Technologies, final report prepared for Intel, 1994, 22 pages.

10.  C. D. Mitchell, L. H. Jamieson, M. P. Harper, and R. A. Helzerman, Implementing a Hidden Markov Model with Duration Modeling on the MasPar MP-1, TR-EE-94-21, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1994, 23 pages.

11.  H. Chao and M. P. Harper, Scheduling a Superscalar Pipelined Processor Without Hardware Interlocks, TR-EE-94-29, School of Electrical Engineering Purdue University 1994, 19 pages.

12.  H. Chao and M. P. Harper, A Difficult Channel Routing Generator, TR-EE95-1, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1995, 12 pages.

13.  H. Chao and M. P. Harper, An Efficient Lower Bound Algorithm for Channel Routing, TR-EE-95-3, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1995, 21 pages.

14.  H. Chao, M. P. Harper, and R. Quong, A Tighter Lower Bound for Optimal Bin Packing, Technical Report TR-EE-95-15, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1995, 14 pages.

15.  M. P. Harper, C. M. White, R. A. Helzerman, and S. A. Hockema, Faster MUSE CSP Arc Consistency Algorithms, Technical Report TR-EE-97-14, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1997, 19 pages.

16.  W. Wang and M. P. Harper, Investigating Probabilistic Constraint Dependency Grammars in Language Modeling, Technical Report TR-EE-2001-04, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 2001, 134 pages.

17.  I. Pollak, J.M. Siskind, M.P. Harper, C.A. Bouman, Spatial Random Trees and the Center-Surround Algorithm, Technical Report TR-EE-2003-03, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 2003, 39 pages. (http://www.purdue.edu/ECE/Research/TR/2003).

18.  M. Harper, B. Dorr, J. Hale, B. Roark, I. Shafran, M. Lease, Y. Liu, M. Snover, L. Yung, R. Stewart, and A. Krasnyanskaya, 2005 Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop Final Report on Parsing and Spoken Structural Event Detection, November 2005, 116 pages.  (http://bbwww.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2005/groups/eventdetect/documents/finalreport.pdf).

19.  M. Harper and M. Maxwell, Language Identification, TTO304, Center for the Advanced Study of Language, September 2006.

20.  M. Harper and M. Maxwell, Language Identification (LID) Recommendations, TTO304, Center for the Advanced Study of Language, October 2006.

21.  M. Harper et al., An Analysis of Factors Impacting Speech Search Quality and Recommendation,TTO 312, , Center for the Advanced Study of Language, October 2007.

 

Ph.D. Thesis Supervision Completed:

Heng-Yi Chao

May 1995

Finding a Tighter Lower Bound for Optimization Problems with Capacity and/or Precedence Constraints (conference proceedings [12], journal [9,13,14])

Lei Chen

August 2008

Incorporating Nonverbal Features into Multimodal Models of Human-to-Human Communication (conference proceedings [33,36,39,41,52,57,62,68,71,73,91], journal [27])

Yang Liu

December 2004

Structural Event Detection for Rich Transcription of Speech (co-directed with Elizabeth Shriberg) (conference proceedings [37,52,54,55,56,57,58,59,61,65,67,69,70,72], journal [21,22,24], magazine[26])

Carl D. Mitchell

May 1995

Improving Hidden Markov Models for Speech Recognition (co-directed with Leah Jamieson) (conference proceedings [8,11,14,18], journal [5,7,8])

Siripong Potisuk

December 1995

Prosodic Disambiguation in Automatic Speech Understanding of Thai, (co-directed with Jack Gandour) (conference proceedings [9,11,15,16,17,19], journal [4,15,17,18,19])

Scott Thede

December 1999

Parsing and Tagging Sentences Containing Lexically Ambiguous And Unknown Tokens, (conference proceedings [21,24,27], journal [20])

Wen Wang

December 2003

Statistical Parsing and Language Modeling Based on Constraint Dependency Grammar, (conference proceedings [31,32,34,37,38,43,48,51,53,74,75,76,78,80,83], book chapter [4],magazine[26])

Christopher M. White

May 2001

Rapid Grammar Development and Parsing: Constraint Dependency Grammars with Abstract Role Values, (conference proceedings [20,24,26,28,29,31,34], journal [20])

 

Master’s Thesis Supervision Completed:

Randall A. Helzerman

August 1993

PARSEC: A Framework for Parallel Natural Language Understanding (conference proceedings [4,5,6,7,8,10,11,13,20,28,31], journal [7,10,11,12,16])

Eduardo Maia

May 2005

Finding Consensus in Probabilistic Parsing (conference proceedings [52])

Christopher White

August 1995

Converting Context-Free Grammars to Constraint Dependency Grammars (conference proceedings [20,24,26,28,29,31,34], journal [20])

 

Masters andPh.D. Thesis Students Currently Being Supervised:

1.      Zhongqiang Huang            (Ph.D.)             (conference proceedings [62,63,68,71,73,74,75,77,78,80,84,85,92])

2.      Denis Filimonov    (Ph.D.)             (conference proceedings [76,79,86,90])

3.      Vladimir Eidelman (Ph.D.)             (conference proceedings [84])

 

Membership on Other Ph.D. Committees:

1.      Edward Bronson, "On Techniques for the Evaluation and Simulation of Parallel Computer Algorithms and Architectures for Speech Understanding," Leah H. Jamieson (advisor), May 1991.

2.      Myong Kang, "Optimization and Parallelization of Database Queries," Hank Dietz (advisor), August 1991.

3.      Robert L. Cromwell, "TYRO - A Robot Vision System That Can Learn from Observations of Its Environment," Avi Kak (advisor), May 1992.

4.      Terence J. Parr, "Obtaining Practical Variants of LL(k) and LR(k) for k>1 by Splitting the Atomic k-tuple," Hank Dietz (advisor), August 1993.

5.      Yun-Sun Kang, "Knowledge Base Acquisition for a Japanese Language Intelligent Tutoring System," Anthony A. Maciejewski (advisor), May 1994.

6.      Eng-Siong Tan, "Programming Plan Abstraction: A Cognitively Motivated Approach to Program Understanding Using Dependence Analysis," Hank Dietz (advisor), May 1994.

7.      Lynne L. Grewe, "Interactive Learning of a Multiple Attribute Hash Table for Fast 3D Object Recognition," Avi Kak (advisor), August 1994.

8.      Juiyao Pan, "Design of a Large-Scale Expert System Using Fuzzy Logic for Uncertainty Reasoning and Its Application to Vision-based Mobile Robot Navigation," Avi Kak (advisor), May 1996.

9.      Ruxin Chen, "Speech Recognition Using Statistical Models and Recurrent Neural Networks," Leah H. Jamieson (advisor), August 1996.

10.  Donalee H. Attardo, "Lexicographic Acquisition: A Theoretical and Computational Study in Linguistic Heuristics, Victor Raskin (advisor), December 1996.

11.  Pramila Srinivasan, "Speech and Wideband Audio Compression Using Filter Banks and Wavelets," Leah H. Jamieson (advisor), May 1997.

12.  Goangshiuan Shawn Ying, "Automatic Measurement and Representation of Prosodic Features," Leah H. Jamieson (advisor), May 1998.

13.  Min Meng, "Vision-Guided Mobile Robot Navigation Using Neural Networks and Topological Models of the Environment," Avi Kak (advisor), December 1998.

14.  Shu-Ching Chen, "A Spatio-temporal Semantic Model for Multimedia Presentation, Multimedia Searching, and Multimedia Browsing," R. L. Kashyap (advisor), December 1998.

15.  Zhaohui Kevin Li, "Multimedia Modeling, Indexing and Presentation in Distributed Networked Environments," A. Ghafoor (advisor), August 1998.

16.  Mei-Ling Shyu, "A Probabilistic Network-Based Mechanism for Multimedia  Database Searching and Data Warehousing," R. L. Kashyap (advisor), August 1999.

17.  Chi-Ren Shyu, "A Physician-in-the-loop Content-Based Image Retrieval System for Medical Image Databases," Avi Kak (advisor), August 1999.

18.  Michael T. Johnson, "Incorporating Prosodic Information and Language Structure into Speech Recognition Systems," Leah H. Jamieson (advisor), August 2000.

19.  Terran Lane, "Machine Learning Techniques for the Computer Security Domain of Anomaly Detection," Carla Brodley (advisor), August 2000.

20.  Andrew H. Jones, “TLAB, Task Learning Architecture Using Behaviors, and Its Application to a Mobile Agent,” Avi C. Kak (advisor), August 2002.

21.  James B. D. Joshi, “A Generalized Temporal Role Based Access Control Model for Developing Secure Systems,” Arif Ghafoor (advisor), August 2003.

22.  Robert Bryll, “A Robust Agent-based Gesture Tracking System,” Wright State University, Francis Quek (advisor), December 2003.

23.  Widodo Sulistyono, “Deadlock Avoidance in Automated Manufacturing Systems with Unreliable Resource and Flexible Process Sequencing,” Industrial Engineering, Mark Lawley (advisor), December 2004.

24.  Eugene Lin, “Video and Image Watermark Synchronization,” Edward Delp (advisor), May 2005.

25.  Basit Shafiq, “Access Control Management and Security in Multi-Domain Collaborative Environments,” Arif Ghafoor (advisor), May 2006.

26.  Sungwook Yoon, “Learning Control Knowledge for AI Planning Domain,”Robert Givan (advisor), August, 2006.

27.  Richard L. Kennell, “A Practical Method for Authentication of Remote Computer Systems,” Leah Jamieson (advisor), May 2008.

28.  Scott Olsson, “Combining Evidence from Unconstrained Spoken Term Frequency Estimation for Improved Speech Retrieval,” Doug Oard (advisor) December 2008.

 

Membership on Other Masters Committees:

1.      Kei Leung, "The Nihango Tutorial System for Learning Technical Japanese," Anthony A. Maciejewski (advisor), May 1990.

2.      Mei Zhang, "A Knowledge Based Education System for "C" Programming," David G. Meyer (advisor), May 1991.

3.      Peter V. Henstock, "Applications in Computer Aided Language Learning for the Student and Instructor," Kazumi Hatasa (advisor), May 1995.

4.      Timothy I. Mattox, "Synchronous Aggregate Communication Architecture for MIMD Parallel Processing," Hank Dietz (advisor), August 1997.

5.      Timothy M. Stough, "Image Feature Reduction through Spoiling: Its Application to Multiple Matched Filters for Focus of Attention," Carla Brodley (advisor), August 1997.

6.      Carol Chia-Hua Lin, "Constructive Induction through Mining Association Rules," Carla Brodley (advisor), August 1998.

7.      Mark Flick, "Multiclass Classification Using Two Class Classifiers", Carla Brodley (advisor), December 1999.

8.      Yuanhui Zhou, "A Lazy-Eager Approach to Reducing the Computational Cost and Storage Requirement of Lazy Learning," Carla Brodley (advisor), May 2000.

9.      John E. Auer, "Agent-based Prediction of Customer Requirements for Distributed Stream Service Systems," Shimon Y. Nof (advisor), May 2000.

10.  Mark Randall Olin, “Scalable Re-coding of Compressed Image Data Using Hierarchical Wavelet Domain Tiling,” Charles Bouman (advisor), December 2002.

11.  Jacob L. Harris, “A Hierarchical Document Description and Comparison Method,” Ilya Pollak (advisor), August 2003.

12.  Shedrick B. Bessent, “Comparative Performance Study of Blind Signal Separation Algorithms on Speech,” Mark Bell (advisor), August 2003.

 

Graduate Research Project Supervision Completed:

1.      R. A. Helzerman, "Constraint Processing," EE 697 Project, 3 credit hours, Summer 1990.

2.      S. Chatterjee, "Accident Report Parses," EE 696 Project, 3 credit hours, Fall 1994.

3.      S. Chatterjee, "Accident Report Parses," EE 696 Project, 3 credit hours, Spring 1995.

4.      B. Xu, "Adv. EE Projects," EE 696 Project, 1 credit hour, Summer 1995.

5.      A.M. Edelman, "Printer Enhancements," EE 696 Project, 3 credit hours, Fall 1995.

6.      S. Panchapagesan, "Object Loader (Bit fields Extension and Data Initialization)," EE695 Advanced Intern Project, 1 credit hour, Summer 2000.

7.      R. Page, “EE696: Speech Recognition Project,” Fall 2000.

 

Undergraduate Research Project Supervision Completed (* see vita section):

1.      S. K. Donoho, "Topics in AI Research," EE 495/496 Project, 2 credit hours, Summer 1990.

2.      Y. Chan, "PARSEC Windows," EE 495 Project, 1 credit hour, Spring 1991, (*journal [12]).

3.      G. S. Kardaras, "Constraints in PARSEC," EE 495 Project, 3 credit hours, Spring 1991.

4.      B. L. Yeo, "PARSEC Constraints," EE 495 Project, 2 credit hours, Spring 1991, (*journal [12]).

5.      N. D. Knoth, "Natural Language Processing in AI," EE 496 Project, 3 credit hours, Fall 1991.

6.      E. P. Bender, "AI Learning Systems," EE 496 Project, 3 credit hours, Spring 1992.

7.      I. Tusneem, "Natural Language Processing," EE 496 Project, 1 credit hour, Spring 1992.

8.      Y. Gonzalez, "Speech Recognition," EE 495 Project, 2 credit hours, Spring 1993.

9.      T. J. Stewart, "Constraint Parsing," EE 495 Project, 3 credit hours, Spring 1993, (*journal [12]).

10.  T. R. Johoski, "PARSEC Chip Design," EE 495 Project, 1 credit hour, Spring1993, (*conference [13]).

11.  J. P. Robertson, "PARSEC Chip Ver.," EE 495 Project, 5 credit hours, Spring 1993, (*conference [13]).

12.  G. D. Rogers, "PARSEC Chip Design," EE 495 Project, 1 credit hour, Spring, 1993, (*conference [13]).

13.  M. K. McKenna, "CTT Design", EE 495 Project, 2 credit hours, Fall 1993

14.  B. L. Pellom, "Natural Language Parsing I," EE 495 Project, 6 credit hours, Fall 1993, (*journal[12], conference [11]).

15.  T. R. Johoski, "Comparator Design," EE 496 Project, 1 credit hour, Fall 1993, (*conference [13]).

16.  G. D. Rogers, "Comparator Design," EE 496 Project, 1 credit hour, Fall 1993, (*conference [13]).

17.  H. Rosario, "PARSEC Chip Ver.," EE 496 Project, 1 credit hour, Fall 1993, (*conference [13]).

18.  M. K. McKenna, "PARSEC Efficiency," EE 495 Project, 3 credit hours, Spring 1994.

19.  H. Rosario, "C Programming of PARSEC," EE 495 Project, 1 credit hour, Spring 1994.

20.  E. R. Toepke, "PARSEC System Management," EE 495 Project, 3 credit hours, Spring 1994, (*conference [13]).

21.  B. L. Pellom, "PARSEC Efficiency," EE 496 Project, 1 credit hour, Spring 1994, (*journal[12], conference [11]).

22.  L. D. Chen, "PARSEC Programming," EE 495 Project, 1 credit hour, Fall 1994.

23.  S. R. Petkar, "Speech Processing," EE 495 Project, 2 credit hours, Fall 1994.

24.  H. Rosario, "PARSEC and Spanish," EE 495 Project, 1 credit hour, Fall 1994.

25.  E. R. Toepke, "Language Chip Development," EE 495 Project, 2 credit hours, Fall 1994, (*conference [13]).

26.  H. Fahmi, "PARSEC Parsing," EE 495 Project, 3 credit hours, Spring 1995.

27.  H. Rosario, "PARSEC Parsing," EE 495 Project, 1 credit hour, Spring 1995.

28.  C-C. Cheng, "Selected Topics in EE," EE 495 Project, 3 credit hours, Fall 1995.

29.  Asli Kumcu, "Parsing Sentence Templates," EE 495 Project, 1 credit hour, Spring 1997.

30.  J. Brandon Laflen, "Speech Processing Project," EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours, Fall 1997, (*journal[20], conference [24]).

31.  J. Brandon Laflen, "Speech Processing Project," EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours, Spring 1998, (*journal[20], conference [24]).

32.  R. Cauley, "Name Recognition Experiments," EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours, Fall 1999.

33.  R. Cauley, "Name Recognition Experiments," EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours, Spring 2000.

34.  R. Cauley, "Name Recognition Experiments," EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours, Fall 2000.

35.  E. Maia, Multimodal Language Understanding, EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours, Fall 2002, (*conference [52]).

36.  J.Chotani, Multimodal Language Understanding, EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours, Fall 2002.

37.  E. Maia, Multimodal Language Understanding, EE495/496 Project, 3 credit hours, Spring 2003, (*conference [52]).

 

Courses Developed:

1.      EE373 Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence, revised course in Fall 1990.

2.      EE468 Introduction to Compilers and Translation Engineering, developed lecture notes, a project methodology, and course webpage.

3.      EE469 Operating Systems Engineering, converted to a 4 credit course with a laboratory component in Spring 1995.

4.      EE669 Natural Language Processing, initially developed course in Spring 1990, revised course in Fall 2001.

5.      EE608 Computational Models and Methods, developed lecture notes, a homework problem database, and course webpage.

 

Courses In Charge Of:

1.      EE373 Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence, Fall 1990–Spring 1999.

2.      EE468 Introduction to Compilers and Translation Engineering Fall 2000–Spring 2003.

3.      EE608 Computational Models and Methods Fall 2000–Fall 2005.

4.      EE669 Natural Language Processing, Spring 1990–Fall 2006.

 

Courses Taught:

1.      EE368 Data Structures

2.      EE373 Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence

3.      EE468 Introduction to Compilers and Translation Engineering

4.      EE469 Operating Systems Engineering

5.      EE570 Programming Techniques for Artificial Intelligence

6.      EE608 Computational Models and Methods

7.      EE668 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

8.      EE669 Natural Language Processing

9.      EPICS: Engineering Projects in Community Service (Advised the Speech-Language and Audiology Clinics Team for two semesters)

 

School Committee Activities:

 

Center for the Advanced Study of Language at University of Maryland:

Research Coordinating Committee

Member

February 2006–September 2008

Directors Council

Member

September 2006–Septembe 2008

Merit Evaluation Committee

Member

May 2007

 

Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue:

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Self-Study Committee

Member

Report completed March 2006

Computer Engineering Area Committee

Member

Aug. 31, 1989–Sept. 30, 2007

Communications and Signal Processing Area Committee

Member

Aug. 31, 1995– Sept. 30, 2007

Curriculum Committee

(Subcommittees: Student survey, C course recommendations, Communications specialist job description)

Member

Aug. 1993–May 1996

Faculty Search Committee

Member

Aug. 2000–July 2001

Graduate Committee

Member

Aug. 2001–May 2002

Primary Committee

Member

Aug. 15, 2004– Sept. 30, 2007

QE Committee

Member

Aug. 31, 1994–Aug. 30, 1996, Aug. 31, 1998–Aug. 30, 2000

Social Committee

Member

Chairman

Aug. 31, 1990–Aug. 30, 1992

Aug. 31, 1991–Aug. 30, 1992

Speech Group (a Multi-disciplinary research group)

Organizer

Aug. 31, 1994–May 2002

Undergraduate Academic Counseling in Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering

Advisor

Aug. 31, 1990–May 2002

 

Computer Science at Brown University:

Artificial Intelligence Lunch-Time Seminar Series

Organizer

1985–1988

Graduate Committee

Student Representative

1985–1987

Graduate Orientation Committee

Member

1984–1985

 

Engineering-Wide Committee Activities:

Academic Personnel Grievance Committee

Member

Aug. 31, 1994–Summer 1995

Women Faculty Engineering Committee (WFEC)

Member

June, 1999– Sept. 30, 2007

Engineering Alumni Association Board

Member

May, 1999–May, 2002

 

Other Activities at Purdue University:

Intel Corporation, Purdue Electrical Engineering Industrial Institute

EE Faculty Liaison

Aug. 31, 1989–May 2002

Phi Sigma Rho (Women’s Engineering Sorority)

Faculty Advisor

Aug. 31, 1993–Aug. 30, 1999

 

Purdue Electrical Engineering Industrial Institute (PEEII) Workshop Activities:

1.      M. P. Harper, “Logical Form, Pronouns, and Computer Models of Language,” presented at the Purdue Electrical Engineering Industrial Institute Fall Workshop, October 1989.

2.      M. P. Harper, “Parallelizing Natural Language Processing,” presented at the Purdue Electrical Engineering Industrial Institute Fall Workshop, November 1990.

3.      R. A. Helzerman and M. P. Harper, “Parallelizing Constraint Propagation for Natural Language Processing,” November 1990 (student received Best Student Presentation Award for talk).

4.      R. A. Helzerman, C. B. Zoltowski, and M. P. Harper, “PARSEC: The Next Generation,” a poster presented at the Purdue Electrical Engineering Industrial Institute Fall Workshop, October 1991 (received best poster award).

5.      R. A. Helzerman, H. Rosario, and M. P. Harper, “PARSEC: A Framework for Spoken Language Understanding,” a poster presented at the Purdue Electrical Engineering Industrial Institute Workshop, April 1993 (received best poster award).

6.      M. P. Harper, “Learning Grammars for Natural Language Applications,” presented at the Purdue Electrical Engineering Industrial Institute Workshop, March 29, 1996.

7.      M. P. Harper and H. G. Dietz, Co-session chairs for Computing Systems Session, “Engineering for an Information Age,” Purdue Electrical Engineering Industrial Institute Workshop, April 20-21, 1998.

8.      M. P. Harper, “Gesture and Speech in Dialog Transcription,” presented at the Purdue Electrical Engineering Industrial Institute Workshop, March 9, 2001.

 

Outreach Presentations:

1.      M. P. Harper, “Spoken Language Understanding,” presented at the Society of Women Engineers' Summer Program for High School Women, ESCaPEs, Purdue University, June 1991.

2.      M. P. Harper, “Language Processing in Electrical Engineering,” presented to a group of young women attending ScienceScape `92, Purdue University, June 1992.

3.      L. H. Jamieson, M. P. Harper, C. D. Mitchell, G. Ying, S. Potisuk, L. McPheters, and C. B. Zoltowski, “Talking to Computers and Computers That Talk Back,” presented to junior high-school girls attending Expanding your Horizons in Science and Mathematics, Purdue University, May 1993.

4.      M. P. Harper, L. H. Jamieson, A. C. Kak, and A. A. Maciejewski, “Intelligent Machines: What Can They Do for You?” presented in the President's Council “Back to Class” program, November 1993.

5.      L. H. Jamieson, M. P. Harper, C. D. Mitchell, G. Ying, S. Potisuk, R. Chen, P. Srinivasan, E. Toepke, and B. Pellom, “Talking to Computers and Computers That Talk Back,” presented to junior high-school girls attending Expanding your Horizons in Science and Mathematics, Purdue University, February 1994.

6.      M. P. Harper, “Personal and Professional Development,” presented to the “Mentees and Mentors” program of the Women in Engineering at Purdue University, March 1994.

7.      M. P. Harper,  “A Career in Electrical and Computer Engineering,” Career Day presentation on Electrical Engineering, Harrison High School, West Lafayette, IN, April 1994.

8.      M. P. Harper, “Career Planning,” presented to the Graduate “Mentees and Mentors” program of the Women in Engineering at Purdue University, September 1994.

9.      L. H. Jamieson, M. P. Harper, C. D. Mitchell, G. Ying, S. Potisuk, R. Chen, P. Srinivasan, “Taking to Computers and Computers That Talk Back,” presented to junior high-school girls attending Expanding your Horizons in Science and Mathematics, Purdue University, April 1995.

10.  M. P. Harper, “Graduate Study in Engineering,” presented to the Engineering students in the MARC/AIM Summer Research Program at Purdue University, July 1995.

11.  L. H. Jamieson, M. P. Harper, G. Ying, R. Chen, and P. Srinivasan, “Talking to Computers and Computers That Talk Back,” presented to junior high-school girls attending Expanding your Horizons in Science and Mathematics, Purdue University, April 27, 1996.

12.  M. P. Harper, “Gesture and Speech in Dialog Transcription,” presented at the SWE Women in Engineering Career Day, April 9, 2001.

13.  M.P. Harper, “The Challenging (and Fun) World of Computer Engineering,” presented to the Freshman Engineering Class, Fall 2001.

14.  M.P. Harper, “The Challenging (and Fun) World of Computer Engineering,” presented to the Freshman Engineering Class, Spring 2002.

 

Conference Program Committees and Panels:

1.      Member of the program committee for the Second IASTED/ISMM International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems and Applications, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development and the International Society for Mini and Microcomputers, August 1995, Stanford, CA.

2.      Member of the program committee for the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference for Artificial Intelligence, August 1996, Portland, OR.

3.      Member of the program committee for the 1998 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, December 7-9, 1998, Los Angeles CA.

4.      Member of the Panel for the 1998 SIGART/Doctoral Consortium, AAAI, Madison Wisconsin.

5.      Member of the Program Committee and Panel for the 1999 SIGART/Doctoral Consortium, AAAI, Orlando Florida.

6.      Member of the subcommittee for “Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing” for NAACL-2000 (the 1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), April 2000, Seattle WA.

7.      Faculty Advisor for the ANLP-NAACL-2000 (Applied Natural Language Processing and North American Association for Computational Linguistics) Student Research Workshop, April 2000, Seattle WA.

8.      Member of the program committee for “Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems,” at ANLP-NAACL-2000 (Applied Natural Language Processing and North American Association for Computational Linguistics), May 4, 2000, Seattle WA.

9.      Member of the Program Committee for the 2000 SIGART/Doctoral Consortium, AAAI.

10.  International Program Committee (IPC) for the Third IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC'2000), July 24-26, 2000, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

11.  Member of the Program Committee for the 2001 SIGART/Doctoral Consortium, AAAI.

12.  International Program Committee (IPC) for IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC'2002), July 17-19, 2002, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

13.  Paper Mentor for ACL-2002 (Association for Computational Linguistics).

14.  Program Committee of the Fifth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI-PUI'03), November 5-7, 2003, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

15.  Technical Program Co-Chair for the Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), University Park, PA, October 13-15, 2004.

16.  Member of the Panel for the ACL04 student session (Association for Computational Linguistics), Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26, 2004.

17.  Reviewing committee for the Statistical NLP area of ACL-2004 (Association for Computational Linguistics) to be held in Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26, 2004.

18.  2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Area Chair and Program Committee, July 25-26, 2004, Barcelona, Spain.

19.  Organizing Committee for HLT 2005.

20.  Technical Committee for the IEEE workshop Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding to be held Nov 27-Dec 1 2005 in Cancun, Mexico.

21.  Program Committee for the AAAI Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding to be held July 9, 2005 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

22.  Paper Mentor for ACL-2005 (Association for Computational Linguistics).

23.  Workshop Committee for ACL-2005

24.  Program Committee for the AAAI Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding to be held in conjunction with The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence - AAAI 2005, July 9, 2005, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

25.  Area coordinator for Interspeech’2005

26.  Program Committee for the 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

27.  Program Committee for HLT/EMNLP 2005

28.  Best Paper Award Committee for International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), October 4-6, 2005, Trento, Italy

29.  Technical Committee for EEE/ACL workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), Aruba, December 10-13, 2006

30.  Program Committee for the 3rd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI), 2006

31.  Program committee member for AAAI-06 for natural language processing, July 16–20, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts

32.  Speech Technical Committee Member for ICASSP, Speech and Spoken Language Processing area, 2006

33.  Program Committee for the area of "Machine Learning Methods" for COLING-ACL 2006.

34.  Interspeech'2006 Scientific Review Committee.

35.  Program Committee for CSLP06 Constraints and Language Processing, 2006.

36.  Scientific Committee for the first International Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) 2006

37.  MLMI Standing Committee for the Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI)

38.  Speech Technical Committee Member for ICASSP, Speech and Spoken Language Processing area, 2007.

39.  Program committee member for AAAI-07 for natural language processing, July 22-26, 2007, Vancouver, Canada.

40.  Speech Technical Committee Member for ICASSP, Speech and Spoken Language Processing area, 2008.

41.  Program Committee for TeachCL 2008.

42.  Technical Program Co-chair for NAACL HLT, 2010.

 

Conference Session Chairman:

1.      “Parsers and Compilers” session at the 21st International Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, IL, August 1992.

2.      “Architectures III” session at the 1994 American Association for Artificial Intelligence Workshop on the Integration of Natural Language and Speech Processing, Speech Processing, Seattle, WA, August 1994.

3.      “Natural Language Processing” session at the IASTED International Conference for Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 1999.

4.      Session chair at the 1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Seattle WA, May 3, 2000.

5.      Session Chair for the Novel Approaches Research session, DARPA Ears Mid-Year Workshop, January 21-23, 2003.

6.      Session Chair for Session 7A on Language Modeling, 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, July 26, 2004.

7.      Session Chair for Session SLP-L9 Spoken Language Identification, 2006 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 18, 2006.

8.      Session Chair for O28-SE “ASR, Tools and Evaluation,” 2006 Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC), May 25, 2006.

9.      Session Chair for MP2 “Spoken Language Understanding,” IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, December 11, 2006.

10.  Session Chair for Session 11c: Phonetics and Phonology, Joint  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL), June 30, 2007.

 

Activities as a Referee:

 

Proposal Reviews, Panels, and Site Visits:

1.      Ad hoc Reviews for National Science Foundation proposals from 1989 - present

2.      National Science Foundation panel member, CISE Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems, 1992.

3.      National Science Foundation panel member, CISE Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems, 1995.

4.      National Science Foundation panel member, CISE Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems, 1996.

5.      National Science Foundation site visitor, CISE Minority Institutions Infrastructure Program, 1998.

6.      National Science Foundation panel member, CISE Information and Intelligent Systems, 1998.

7.      National Science Foundation panel member, CISE Information and Intelligent Systems, 2001 (2 times).

8.      National Science Foundation, Integrated Media System Center, Engineering Research Center, University of Southern California, June 2003.

9.      Multidisciplinary Research Program of the URI (MURI), Johns Hopkins University, 2003.

10.  Reviewer for DARPA IPTO BAA 02-21.

11.  Reviewer for ITIC REFLEX BAA-04-01-FH.

12.  National Science Foundation, Integrated Media System Center, Engineering Research Center, University of Southern California, June 2004.

13.  National Science Foundation, Large ITR MALACH site visit, CISE Information and Intelligent Systems, June 2004.

14.  National Science Foundation panel member, CISE Information and Intelligent Systems, 2006.

15.  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2007.

16.  Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA), 2008.

17.  National Science Foundation panel member, CISE Information and Intelligent Systems, 2009.

 

Foundation Activities:

1.      Assessed a candidate for the MacArthur Fellows program, 2003.

 

International Dissertation Review:

1.      External Reviewer for Ingo Schröder’s Dissertation, Natural Language Parsing of Graded Constraints, University of Hamburg, April 2002.

 

Books Reviewed:

1.      Natural Language Understanding by James Allen for The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., 1993.

2.      Crafting a Compiler by Charles N. Fischer, Ron K. Cytron, and Richard J. LeBlanc, Jr. for The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., 1995.

3.      Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments, Kluwer, 2005.

4.      iNEER Special Volume for 2004, http://www.ineer.org/iNEERPapers/2003VOLBOARDOFEDITORS4-2-03.htm

5.      Book proposal for Multilingual Speech Processing by Tanja Schultz and Katrin Kirchhoff, Elsevier (Academic Press), May 2004.

 

Journal Reviews:

1.      Communications of the ACM, special section dealing with Multimodal Interfaces that Flex, Adapt, and Persist, 2003.

2.      Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Special issue on resource management and parallel and distributed systems, 1994.

3.      Computational Linguistics

4.      IEE Proceedings - Computers and Digital Techniques

5.      IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing

6.      IEEE Computer, Special issue on interactive natural language processing, 1996.

7.      IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Special Issue on Data and Knowledge Management in Multimedia Systems, 1998.

8.      IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

9.      IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Translation

10.  IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

11.  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

12.  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

13.  Journal of AI research

14.  EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing

15.  INTEGRATION: the VLSI journal

16.  Machine Learning, special issue on Grammar Induction, 1992

17.  Machine Learning

18.  Speech Communication

19.  Special issue of the Springer "Language Resources and Evaluation" (LRE) journal for papers presented at the SIGdial'05 Workshop held in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2005.  (reviews in April 2006)

 

Conference, Workshop, and Paper Contest Reviews:

1.      The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 1989.

2.      The International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1992.

3.      The International Parallel Processing Symposium, 1992.

4.      The International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1993.

5.      The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 1993.

6.      The American Association for Artificial Intelligence Workshop on the Integration of Natural Language and Speech Processing, Seattle, WA, 1994.

7.      The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1994.

8.      Member of a panel of judges for the 1993-1994 IEEE Region 4 Student Paper Contest, March 1994.

9.      The International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1995.

10.  The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 1995.

11.  The International Parallel Processing Symposium, 1995.

12.  The Second IASTED/ISMM International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems and Applications, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development and the International Society for Mini and Microcomputers, August 1995, Stanford, California.

13.  The Annual American Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference, Portland, OR, August 1996.

14.  1998 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Los Angeles CA, December 7-9, 1998.

15.  ANLP-NAACL-2000 (Applied Natural Language Processing and North American Association for Computational Linguistics), Seattle WA, April 2000.

16.  Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems, at ANLP-NAACL-2000 (Applied Natural Language Processing and North American Association for Computational Linguistics), Seattle WA, May 4, 2000.

17.  ANLP-NAACL-2000 (Applied Natural Language Processing and North American Association for Computational Linguistics) Student Research Workshop, Seattle WA, April 2000.

18.  IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC'2000), July 24-26, 2000 in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

19.  The Sixth IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC'2002), July 17-19, 2002 in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

20.  The Eleventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-2003), Budapest, Hungary, April 12-17, 2003.

21.  The Seventh IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC’2003), July 14-16, 2003, in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

22.  The Fifth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI-PUI'03), November 5-7, 2003, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

23.  HLT-NAACL04 student session, May 4, 2004, Boston MA.

24.  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, July 25-26, 2004, Barcelona, Spain.

25.  ACL04 student session, Association for Computational Linguistics) Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26, 2004.

26.  Statistical NLP area of ACL-2004 (Association for Computational Linguistics) Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26, 2004.

27.  HLT/EMNLP 2005, Vancouver, Canada, October 6-8, 2005.

28.  HLT/NAACL, 2006.

29.  COLING-ACL, 2006.

30.  HLT/NAACL 2007, in the NLP for spoken language track.

31.  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2007

32.  ASRU 2007.

33.  MLMI 2007

34.  Interspeech, 2008

35.  Coling, 2008

36.  ICASSP, 2009

37.  HLT/NAACL 2009

38.  Interspeech, 2009

39.  NAACL 2010

40.  Speech Prosody 2010

41.  ICASSP 2010