Klaus Zechner

According to our database, Klaus Zechner authored at least 61 papers between 1996 and 2024.

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2024

Automatic Summarization of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains

Klaus Zechner

PhD thesis, 2024

2021

A Good Start is Half the Battle Won: Unsupervised Pre-training for Low Resource Children's Speech Recognition for an Interactive Reading Companion.

Abhinav Misra, Anastassia Loukina, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Binod Gyawali, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 22nd International Conference, 2021

2020

Targeted Content Feedback in Spoken Language Learning and Assessment.

Xinhao Wang, Klaus Zechner, Christopher Hamill

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2020

Do Face Masks Introduce Bias in Speech Technologies? The Case of Automated Scoring of Speaking Proficiency.

Anastassia Loukina, Keelan Evanini, Matthew Mulholland, Ian Blood, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2020

2019

Development of Robust Automated Scoring Models Using Adversarial Input for Oral Proficiency Assessment.

Su-Youn Yoon, Chong Min Lee, Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2019

Automatic Detection of Off-Topic Spoken Responses Using Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

Xinhao Wang, Su-Youn Yoon, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner, Yao Qian

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2019

Automated Estimation of Oral Reading Fluency During Summer Camp e-Book Reading with MyTurnToRead.

Anastassia Loukina, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Patrick L. Lange, Yao Qian, Binod Gyawali, Nitin Madnani, Abhinav Misra, Klaus Zechner, Zuowei Wang, John Sabatini

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2019

Toward Automated Content Feedback Generation for Non-native Spontaneous Speech.

Su-Youn Yoon, Ching-Ni Hsieh, Klaus Zechner, Matthew Mulholland, Yuan Wang, Nitin Madnani

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2019

The many dimensions of algorithmic fairness in educational applications.

Anastassia Loukina, Nitin Madnani, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2019

Using Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Automatically Detect Plagiarized Spoken Responses.

Xinhao Wang, Keelan Evanini, Yao Qian, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2019

2018

Discourse Modeling of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech Using the Rhetorical Structure Theory Framework.

Xinhao Wang, Binod Gyawali, James V. Bruno, Hillary R. Molloy, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2018

Atypical Inputs in Educational Applications.

Su-Youn Yoon, Aoife Cahill, Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, Brian Riordan, Nitin Madnani

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2018

Using exemplar responses for training and evaluating automated speech scoring systems.

Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, James V. Bruno, Beata Beigman Klebanov

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications@NAACL-HLT 2018, 2018

2017

Combining human and automated scores for the improved assessment of non-native speech.

Su-Youn Yoon, Klaus Zechner

Speech Commun., 2017

Comparative evaluation of automated scoring of syntactic competence of non-native speakers.

Klaus Zechner, Su-Youn Yoon, Suma Bhat, Chee Wee Leong

Comput. Hum. Behav., 2017

Modeling Discourse Coherence for the Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Spoken Responses.

Xinhao Wang, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner, Matthew Mulholland

Proceedings of the 7th ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2017

Discourse Annotation of Non-native Spontaneous Spoken Responses Using the Rhetorical Structure Theory Framework.

Xinhao Wang, James V. Bruno, Hillary Molloy, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

2016

Exploring deep learning architectures for automatically grading non-native spontaneous speech.

Jidong Tao, Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan, Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2016

2015

Using F0 contours to assess nativeness in a sentence repeat task.

Min Ma, Keelan Evanini, Anastassia Loukina, Xinhao Wang, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2015

Expert and crowdsourced annotation of pronunciation errors for automatic scoring systems.

Anastassia Loukina, Melissa Lopez, Keelan Evanini, David Suendermann-Oeft, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2015

Pronunciation accuracy and intelligibility of non-native speech.

Anastassia Loukina, Melissa Lopez, Keelan Evanini, David Suendermann-Oeft, Alexei V. Ivanov, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2015

Feature selection for automated speech scoring.

Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, Lei Chen, Michael Heilman

Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2015

Using bidirectional lstm recurrent neural networks to learn high-level abstractions of sequential features for automated scoring of non-native spontaneous speech.

Zhou Yu, Vikram Ramanarayanan, David Suendermann-Oeft, Xinhao Wang, Klaus Zechner, Lei Chen, Jidong Tao, Aliaksei Ivanou, Yao Qian

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 2015

2014

Automated scoring of speaking items in an assessment for teachers of English as a Foreign Language.

Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, Su-Youn Yoon, Lawrence Davis, Xinhao Wang, Lei Chen, Chong Min Lee, Chee Wee Leong

Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2014

Automatic evaluation of spoken summaries: the case of language assessment.

Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, Lei Chen

Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2014

2013

Automated content scoring of spoken responses containing multiple parts with factual information.

Wenting Xiong, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner, Lei Chen

Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2013

Applying rhythm metrics to non-native spontaneous speech.

Catherine Lai, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2013

Coherence Modeling for the Automated Assessment of Spontaneous Spoken Responses.

Xinhao Wang, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2013

Automated Content Scoring of Spoken Responses in an Assessment for Teachers of English.

Klaus Zechner, Xinhao Wang

Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2013

Prompt-based Content Scoring for Automated Spoken Language Assessment.

Keelan Evanini, Shasha Xie, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2013

2012

Using automatic speech recognition to assess the reading proficiency of a diverse sample of middle school students.

Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, Cara Laitusis

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, 2012

Exploring Content Features for Automated Speech Scoring.

Shasha Xie, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2012

Vocabulary Profile as a Measure of Vocabulary Sophistication.

Su-Youn Yoon, Suma Bhat, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP, 2012

Using an Ontology for Improved Automated Content Scoring of Spontaneous Non-Native Speech.

Miao Chen, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP, 2012

2011

A three-stage approach to the automated scoring of spontaneous spoken responses.

Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi, Klaus Zechner, David M. Williamson

Comput. Speech Lang., 2011

Using Crowdsourcing to Provide Prosodic Annotations for Non-Native Speech.

Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

Applying Rhythm Features to Automatically Assess Non-Native Speech.

Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

Non-scorable Response Detection for Automated Speaking Proficiency Assessment.

Su-Youn Yoon, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2011

Evaluating prosodic features for automated scoring of non-native read speech.

Klaus Zechner, Xiaoming Xi, Lei Chen

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2011

Computing and Evaluating Syntactic Complexity Features for Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Non-Native Speech.

Miao Chen, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2011

2010

Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for Transcription of Non-Native Speech.

Keelan Evanini, Derrick Higgins, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, 2010

Predicting word accuracy for the automatic speech recognition of non-native speech.

Su-Youn Yoon, Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

2009

Automatic scoring of non-native spontaneous speech in tests of spoken English.

Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi, David M. Williamson

Speech Commun., 2009

What did they actually say? agreement and disagreement among transcribers of non-native spontaneous speech responses in an English proficiency test.

Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2009

Improved pronunciation features for construct-driven assessment of non-native spontaneous speech.

Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner, Xiaoming Xi

Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, May 31, 2009

Adapting the acoustic model of a speech recognizer for varied proficiency non-native spontaneous speech using read speech with language-specific pronunciation difficulty.

Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, René Lawless, Yoko Futagi, Sarah Ohls, George Ivanov

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Automatic Scoring of Children's Read-Aloud Text Passages and Word Lists.

Klaus Zechner, John Sabatini, Lei Chen

Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2009

2007

Speechrater^TM: a construct-driven approach to scoring spontaneous non-native speech.

Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi

Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2007

2006

Towards Automatic Scoring of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech.

Klaus Zechner, Isaac Bejar

Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2006

2003

Efficient Optimization for Bilingual Sentence Alignment Based on Linear Regression.

Bing Zhao, Klaus Zechner, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel

Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond, 2003

Spoken language condensation in the 21st century.

Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

2002

Automatic Summarization of Open-Domain Multiparty Dialogues in Diverse Genres.

Klaus Zechner

Comput. Linguistics, 2002

2001

Automatic Generation of Concise Summaries of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains.

Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2001: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2001

Advances in automatic meeting record creation and access.

Alex Waibel, Michael Bett, Florian Metze, Klaus Ries, Thomas Schaaf, Tanja Schultz, Hagen Soltau, Hua Yu, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2001

2000

DIASUMM: Flexible Summarization of Spontaneous Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains.

Klaus Zechner, Alex Waibel

Proceedings of the COLING 2000, 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, 2 Volumes, July 31, 2000

Minimizing Word Error Rate in Textual Summaries of Spoken Language.

Klaus Zechner, Alex Waibel

Proceedings of the 6th Applied Natural Language Processing Conference, 2000

1998

A discourse coding scheme for conversational Spanish.

Lori S. Levin, Ann E. Thymé-Gobbel, Alon Lavie, Klaus Ries, Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998

Using Chunk Based Partial Parsing of Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains for Reducing Word Error Rate in Speech Recognition.

Klaus Zechner, Alex Waibel

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1998

Automatic Construction of Frame Representations for Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains.

Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1998

1997

High Performance Segmentation of Spontaneous Speech Using Part of Speech and Trigger Word Information.

Marsal Gavaldà, Klaus Zechner, Gregory Aist

Proceedings of the 5th Applied Natural Language Processing Conference, 1997

1996

Fast Generation of Abstracts from General Domain Text Corpora by Extracting Relevant Sentences.

Klaus Zechner

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1996