Sarel van Vuuren

According to our database, Sarel van Vuuren authored at least 21 papers between 1996 and 2016.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2016

A study of elderly people's emotional understanding of prompts given by virtual humans.

Aarti Malhotra, Jesse Hoey, Alexandra König, Sarel van Vuuren

Proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2016

2014

A Virtual Therapist for Speech and Language Therapy.

Sarel van Vuuren, Leora R. Cherney

Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents - 14th International Conference, 2014

2012

Learning to Tutor Like a Tutor: Ranking Questions in Context.

Lee Becker, Martha Palmer, Sarel van Vuuren, Wayne H. Ward

Proceedings of the Intelligent Tutoring Systems - 11th International Conference, 2012

Question Ranking and Selection in Tutorial Dialogues.

Lee Becker, Martha Palmer, Sarel van Vuuren, Wayne H. Ward

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

2011

My science tutor: A conversational multimedia virtual tutor for elementary school science.

Wayne H. Ward, Ronald A. Cole, Daniel Bolaños, Cindy Buchenroth-Martin, Edward Svirsky, Sarel van Vuuren, Timothy J. Weston, Jing Zheng, Lee Becker

ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process., 2011

DISCUSS: A dialogue move taxonomy layered over semantic representations.

Lee Becker, Wayne H. Ward, Sarel van Vuuren, Martha Palmer

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics, 2011

Evaluating Questions in Context.

Lee Becker, Martha Stone Palmer, Sarel van Vuuren, Wayne H. Ward

Proceedings of the Question Generation, 2011

2010

DISCUSS: Enabling Detailed Characterization of Tutorial Interactions Through Dialogue Annotation.

Lee Becker, Wayne H. Ward, Sarel van Vuuren

Proceedings of the Educational Data Mining 2010, 2010

2008

Pronunciation error detection techniques for children's speech.

Daniel Bolaños, Wayne H. Ward, Barbara Wise, Sarel van Vuuren

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

2007

Syllable lattices as a basis for a children's speech reading tracker.

Daniel Bolaños, Wayne H. Ward, Sarel van Vuuren, Javier Garrido Salas

Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2007

2004

Advances in Children's Speech Recognition within an Interactive Literacy Tutor.

Andreas Hagen, Bryan L. Pellom, Sarel van Vuuren, Ronald A. Cole

Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004: Short Papers, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, May 2-7, 2004, 2004

2003

Perceptive animated interfaces: first steps toward a new paradigm for human-computer interaction.

Ronald A. Cole, Sarel van Vuuren, Bryan L. Pellom, Kadri Hacioglu, Jiyong Ma, Javier Movellan, Scott Schwartz, David Wade-Stein, Wayne H. Ward, Jie Yan

Proc. IEEE, 2003

2000

Relevance of time-frequency features for phonetic and speaker-channel classification.

Howard Hua Yang, Sarel van Vuuren, Sangita Sharma, Hynek Hermansky

Speech Commun., 2000

1999

Speech variability in the modulation spectral domain - SANOVA technique -.

Sarel van Vuuren, Hynek Hermansky

Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

Relevancy of time-frequency features for phonetic classification measured by mutual information.

Howard Hua Yang, Sarel van Vuuren, Hynek Hermansky

Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1999

1998

On the importance of components of the modulation spectrum for speaker verification.

Sarel van Vuuren, Hynek Hermansky

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

Improved neural network training of inter-word context units for connected digit recognition.

Wei Wei, Sarel van Vuuren

Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1998

1997

Data-driven design of RASTA-like filters.

Sarel van Vuuren, Hynek Hermansky

Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

CSLUsh: an extendible research environment.

Johan Schalkwyk, Jacques de Villiers, Sarel van Vuuren, Pieter J. E. Vermeulen

Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

1996

Comparison of text-independent speaker recognition methods on telephone speech with acoustic mismatch.

Sarel van Vuuren

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

Data based filter design for RASTA-like channel normalization in ASR.

Carlos Avendaño, Sarel van Vuuren, Hynek Hermansky

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996