John Makhoul

Affiliations:
  • Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, USA


According to our database1, John Makhoul authored at least 150 papers between 1971 and 2020.

Collaborative distances:
  • Dijkstra number2 of four.
  • Erdős number3 of four.

Awards

IEEE Fellow

IEEE Fellow 1980, "For contributions to the theory of linear prediction and its applications to spectral estimation, speech analysis, and data compression.".

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Bibliography

2020
The 2019 BBN Cross-lingual Information Retrieval System.
Proceedings of the workshop on Cross-Language Search and Summarization of Text and Speech, 2020

What Set of Documents to Present to an Analyst?
Proceedings of the workshop on Cross-Language Search and Summarization of Text and Speech, 2020

Reformulating Information Retrieval from Speech and Text as a Detection Problem.
Proceedings of the workshop on Cross-Language Search and Summarization of Text and Speech, 2020

2019
Neural-Network Lexical Translation for Cross-lingual IR from Text and Speech.
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2019

2018
Individual Ship Detection Using Underwater Acoustics.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2018

2016
A 50-Year Retrospective on Speech and Language Processing.
Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2016

2015
Statistical Machine Translation Features with Multitask Tensor Networks.
Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, 2015

2014
Anticipatory translation model adaptation for bilingual conversations.
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Papers, 2014

Towards Automatically Building Tutor Models Using Multiple Behavior Demonstrations.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Tutoring Systems - 12th International Conference, 2014

The 2013 BBN Vietnamese telephone speech keyword spotting system.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

Normalizationofphonetic keyword search scores.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

Comparison of Algorithms for Automatically Building Example-Tracing Tutor Models.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2014

Fast and Robust Neural Network Joint Models for Statistical Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014

2013
Systematic Comparison of Professional and Crowdsourced Reference Translations for Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2013

Score normalization and system combination for improved keyword spotting.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 2013

2012
Methods for integrating rule-based and statistical systems for Arabic to English machine translation.
Mach. Transl., 2012

Machine Translation of Arabic Dialects.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2012

2010
Decision Trees for Lexical Smoothing in Statistical Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR, 2010

2009
Lexical and phonetic modeling for Arabic automatic speech recognition.
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

2007
Integrating Speech Recognition and Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007

Language Model Adaptation in Machine Translation from Speech.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007

2006
Advances in transcription of broadcast news and conversational telephone speech within the combined EARS BBN/LIMSI system.
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2006

Analysis of the errors produced by the 2004 BBN speech recognition system in the DARPA EARS evaluations.
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2006

Speech Processing at BBN.
IEEE Ann. Hist. Comput., 2006

Information Extraction from speech.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2006

Morphological Decomposition for Arabic Broadcast News Transcription.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2006

A Study of Translation Edit Rate with Targeted Human Annotation.
Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers, 2006

2005
The BBN RT04 English broadcast news transcription system.
Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

The effects of speech recognition and punctuation on information extraction performance.
Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

Recent progress in Arabic broadcast news transcription at BBN.
Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

2004
Using quick transcriptions to improve conversational speech models.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004

Speech recognition in multiple languages and domains: the 2003 BBN/LIMSI EARS system.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2004

2003
Design and evaluation of a limited two-way speech translator.
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

2002
Progress in transcription of Broadcast News using Byblos.
Speech Commun., 2002

Design for a speech-to-speech translator for field use.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

Automatic transcription of courtroom speech.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

Japanese broadcast news transcription.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

Modeling frequent allophones in Japanese speech recognition.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

A scalable architecture for Directory Assistance automation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2002

Audio Indexing of Arabic broadcast news.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2002

Getting real about speech: overdue or overhyped?
Proceedings of the Extended abstracts of the 2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2002

2001
Multilingual Machine Printed OCR.
Int. J. Pattern Recognit. Artif. Intell., 2001

Videotext OCR Using Hidden Markov Models.
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2001), 2001

2000
Speech and language technologies for audio indexing and retrieval.
Proc. IEEE, 2000

Integrated Technologies for Indexing Spoken Language.
Commun. ACM, 2000

1999
An Omnifont Open-Vocabulary OCR System for English and Arabic.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 1999

Rough'n'Ready: A Meeting Recorder and Browser.
ACM Comput. Surv., 1999

Further advances in transcription of broadcast news.
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

Toward realtime transcription of broadcast news.
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

Robust OCR of Degraded Documents.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 1999

Advances in the BBN BYBLOS OCR System.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 1999

1998
A Script-Independent Methodology For Optical Character Recognition.
Pattern Recognit., 1998

What Size Test Set Gives Good Error Rate Estimates?.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 1998

1997
A maximum likelihood model for topic classification of broadcast news.
Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

Advances in transcription of broadcast news.
Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

Omnifont and Unlimited-Vocabulary OCR for English and Arabic.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR '97), 1997

Hidden understanding models for statistical sentence understanding.
Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1997

Speaker adaptive training: a maximum likelihood approach to speaker normalization.
Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1997

1996
Language understanding using hidden understanding models.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

A compact model for speaker-adaptive training.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

Language-independent OCR using a continuous speech recognition system.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1996

Multi-font recognition of printed Arabic using the BBN BYBLOS speech recognition system.
Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1996

Language-Independent and Segmentation-Free Techniques for Optical Character Recognition.
Proceedings of the Document Analysis Systems II, 1996

1995
Adaptation algorithms for large scale HMM recognizers.
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

Batch, incremental and instantaneous adaptation techniques for speech recognition.
Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Acoustics, 1995

1994
A hybrid segmental neural net/hidden Markov model system for continuous speech recognition.
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 1994

Hierarchical Mixtures of Experts Methodology Applied to Continuous Speech Recognition.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7, 1994

On Using Written Language Training Data for Spoken Language Modeling.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology, 1994

On-Line Cursive Handwriting Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models and Statistical Grammars.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology, 1994

Usable, Real-Time, Interactive Spoken Language Systems.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology, 1994

On-line cursive handwriting recognition using speech recognition methods.
Proceedings of ICASSP '94: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1994

Comparative experiments on large vocabulary speech recognition.
Proceedings of ICASSP '94: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1994

Adaptation to new microphones using tied-mixture normalization.
Proceedings of ICASSP '94: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1994

1993
A Hybrid Continuous Speech Recognition System Using Segmental Neural Nets with Hidden Markov Models.
Int. J. Pattern Recognit. Artif. Intell., 1993

Segmental Neural Net Optimization for Continuous Speech Recognition.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 6, 1993

Elliptical basis functions for segment modeling.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1993

The BBN/HARC spoken language understanding system.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1993

1992
A Hybrid Neural Net System for State-of-the-Art Continuous Speech Recognition.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 5, [NIPS Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, November 30, 1992

Robust Continuous Speech Recognition.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Harriman, 1992

Development of a Spoken Language System.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Harriman, 1992

BBN BYBLOS and HARC February 1992 ATIS Benchmark Results.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Harriman, 1992

Improving State-of-the-Art Continuous Speech Recognition Systems Using the N-Best Paradigm with Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Harriman, 1992

BBN Real-Time Speech Recognition Demonstrations.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Harriman, 1992

Design and performance of HARC, the BBN spoken language understanding system.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1992

New uses for the N-Best sentence hypotheses within the BYBLOS speech recognition system.
Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1992

Speech recognition using segmental neural nets.
Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1992

1991
On the peaks of causal signals with a given average delay.
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 1991

On matching correlation sequences by parametric spectral models.
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 1991

Partitioning capabilities of two-layer neural networks.
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 1991

A geometric characterization of positive definite sequences and of the Fourier transform.
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 1991

Toeplitz determinants and positive semidefiniteness.
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 1991

Discrete all-pole modeling.
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 1991

BYBLOS Speech Recognition Benchmark Results.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language, 1991

Continuous Speech Recognition Using Segmental Neural Nets.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language, 1991

BBN HARC and DELPHI Results on the ATIS Benchmarks - February 1991.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language, 1991

Where's the peak? [causal signal with average delay].
Proceedings of the 1991 International Conference on Acoustics, 1991

Automatic modeling for adding new words to a large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition system.
Proceedings of the 1991 International Conference on Acoustics, 1991

1990
Volume of the space of positive definite sequences.
IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., 1990

Spoken Language Systems.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Hidden Valley, 1990

Developing an Evaluation Methodology for Spoken Language Systems.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Hidden Valley, 1990

A new error criterion for posterior probability estimation with neural nets.
Proceedings of the IJCNN 1990, 1990

Discriminant analysis and supervised vector quantization for continuous speech recognition.
Proceedings of the 1990 International Conference on Acoustics, 1990

Automatic detection of new words in a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system.
Proceedings of the 1990 International Conference on Acoustics, 1990

1989
The BBN BYBLOS Continuous Speech Recognition System.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Philadelphia, 1989

Research in Continuous Speech Recognition.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Cape Cod, 1989

White Paper on Spoken Language Systems.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Cape Cod, 1989

Speaker Adaptation from Limited Training in the BBN BYBLOS Speech Recognition System.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Philadelphia, 1989

Improved HMM Models for High Performance Speech Recognition.
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Cape Cod, 1989

Robust smoothing methods for discrete hidden Markov models.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1989

Classification capabilities of two-layer neural nets.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1989

Iterative normalization for speaker-adaptive training in continuous speech recognition.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1989

Discrete pole-zero modeling and applications.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1989

1988
Volume of the space of autocorrelation sequences.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1988

Continuous speech recognition results of the BYBLOS system on the DARPA 1000-word resource management database.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1988

Improved speaker adaptation using text dependent spectral mappings.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1988

1987
Discrete all-pole modeling for voiced speech.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1987

BYBLOS: The BBN continuous speech recognition system.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1987

1986
Time-scale modification in medium to low rate speech coding.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1986

The role of word-dependent coarticulatory effects in a phoneme-based speech recognition system.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1986

1985
On the autocorrelation of finite-length sequences.
IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., 1985

Author's reply to "Comments and corrections to 'on the eigenvectors of symmetric Toeplitz matrices' ".
IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., 1985

Vector quantization in speech coding.
Proc. IEEE, 1985

Context-dependent modeling for acoustic-phonetic recognition of continuous speech.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1985

1984
Improved hidden Markov modeling of phonemes for continuous speech recognition.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1984

1983
A segment vocoder at 150 b/s.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1983

1982
Variable Frame Rate Transmission: A Review of Methodology and Application to Narrow-Band LPC Speech Coding.
IEEE Trans. Commun., 1982

Segment quantization for very-low-rate speech coding.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1982

A variable-order Markov chain for coding of speech spectra.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1982

1981
Time and frequency domain noise shaping in speech coding.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1981

Stability analysis of APC systems.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1981

1980
Speech-quality optimization of 16 kb/s adaptive predictive coders.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1980

Baseband LPC coders for speech transmission over 9.6 kb/s noisy channels.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1980

A preliminary design of a phonetic vocoder based on a diphone model.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1980

An embedded-code multirate speech transform coder.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1980

1979
Voice-excited LPC coders for 9.6 kbps speech transmission.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1979

Diphone synthesis for phonetic vocoding.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1979

High-frequency regeneration in speech coding systems.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1979

Narrowband LPC speech transmission over noisy channels.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1979

Enhancement of speech corrupted by acoustic noise.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1979

1978
Objective speech quality evaluation of narrowband LPC vocoders.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1978

A mixed-source model for speech compression and synthesis.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1978

Adaptive lattice methods for linear prediction.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1978

High quality adaptive predictive coding of speech.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1978

1976
Towards perceptually consistent measures of spectral distance.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1976

A framework for the objective evaluation of vocoder speech quality.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1976

LPCW: An LPC vocoder with linear predictive spectral warping.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1976

New lattice methods for linear prediction.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1976

Methods for nonlinear spectral distortion of speech signals.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1976

1974
Mechanical Inference Problems in Continuous Speech Understanding.
Artif. Intell., 1974

1971
Speaker Adaptation in a Limited Speech Recognition System.
IEEE Trans. Computers, 1971


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