Some Publications of Klaus Zechner


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Klaus Zechner, 2003. Spoken Language Condensation in the 21st Century. Proceedings of the Eurospeech-2003 Special Session on Robust Methods for the Analysis of Spoken Language Dialogues, Geneva, Switzerland, September.

Bing Zhao, Klaus Zechner, Stephan Vogel, and Alex Waibel, 2003. Efficient Optimization for Bilingual Sentence Alignment Using Linear Regression. Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT-03 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts, Edmonton, Canada, May.

Klaus Zechner, 2002. Automatic Summarization of Open-Domain Multiparty Dialogues in Diverse Genres. Computational Linguistics 28(4), pp.447-485, December, Special Issue on Summarization.

Klaus Zechner, 2002. Summarization of Spoken Language - Challenges, Methods, and Prospects. Speech Technology Expert eZine, Issue 6, January 2002. [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Klaus Zechner, 2001. Automatic Summarization of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains. Ph.D. thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Language Technologies Institute, November 2001. Also printed as: Technical Report CMU-LTI-01-168. [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Klaus Zechner, 2001. Automatic Generation of Concise Summaries of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains. Proceedings of the 24th ACM-SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, New Orleans, LA, September 2001. [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Klaus Zechner and Alon Lavie, 2001. Increasing the Coherence of Spoken Dialogue Summaries by Cross-Speaker Information Linking. Proceedings of the NAACL-01 Workshop on Automatic Summarization, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2001. [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Alex Waibel, Michael Bett, Florian Metze, Klaus Ries, Thomas Schaaf, Tanja Schultz, Hagen Soltau, Hua Yu, and Klaus Zechner, 2001. Advances in Automatic Meeting Record Creation and Access. Proceedings of ICASSP-2001, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2001. [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Tanja Schultz, Alex Waibel, Michael Bett, Florian Metze, Yue Pan, Klaus Ries, Thomas Schaaf, Hagen Soltau, Martin Westphal, Hua Yu, and Klaus Zechner, 2001. The ISL Meeting Room System. Proceedings of the Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication (HSC-2001), April 2001. [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Klaus Zechner and Alex Waibel, 2000. DiaSumm: Flexible Summarization of Spontaneous Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains. Proceedings of COLING-2000, Saarbruecken, Germany, July/August, pp.968-974 [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Klaus Zechner and Alex Waibel, 2000. Minimizing Word Error Rate in Textual Summaries of Spoken Language. Proceedings of NAACL-ANLP-2000, Seattle, WA, May, pp.186-193 [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Klaus Zechner, 2000. A Word-Based Annotation and Evaluation Scheme for Summarization of Spontaneous Speech. Working note, LTI/CMU, January. [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Lori Levin, Ann Thyme-Gobbel, Alon Lavie, Klaus Ries, and Klaus Zechner, 1998. A Discourse Coding Scheme for Conversational Spanish. Proceedings of ICSLP-98, Sydney, Australia. pp.2335-2338 [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Klaus Zechner, 1998. Automatic Construction of Frame Representations for Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains. Proceedings of COLING/ACL 98, Montreal, Canada, pp. 1448-1452 [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Klaus Zechner and Alex Waibel, 1998. Using Chunk Based Partial Parsing of Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains for Reducing Word Error Rate in Speech Recognition. Proceedings of COLING/ACL 98, Montreal, Canada, pp. 1453-1459 [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Michael Finke, Maria Lapata, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin, Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Thomas Polzin, Klaus Ries, Alex Waibel, and Klaus Zechner, 1998. CLARITY: Inferring Discourse Structure from Speech. Proceedings of the AAAI 98 Spring Symposium: Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing, Stanford, CA, pp. 25-32 [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Klaus Zechner, 1997. Building Chunk Level Representations for Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains: The CHUNKY System and its Application to Reranking Nbest Lists of a Speech Recognizer. M.S. Project Report, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Philosophy. [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Klaus Zechner, 1997. A Literature Survey on Information Extraction and Text Summarization. Term paper, Carnegie Mellon University. [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Marsal Gavalda, Klaus Zechner, and Gregory Aist, 1997. High Performance Segmentation of Spontaneous Speech Using Part of Speech and Trigger Word Information. Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP-97), Washington, DC, pp. 12-15 [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Klaus Zechner, 1996. Fast Generation of Abstracts from General Domain Text Corpora by Extracting Relevant Sentences. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-96), Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 986-989 [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Dragan Mistric, Darko Novosel, Volkbert M. Roth, and Klaus Zechner, 1996. MODAKT. In: Darko Novosel & Volkbert M. Roth (eds.): Valmod & Modakt zur computerunterstuetzten systemischen Therapie von Sprech- / Sprachstoerungen. Verlag querblick, Konstanz, pp. 33-83

Klaus Zechner, 1995. Vaclav Havels existenzphilosophische Betrachtungen in seinen "Briefen an Olga". In: Kontroversen in der Philosophie (8), December 1995, pp. 65-85 [pdf] [htm]

Frank Keller and Klaus Zechner, 1995. A Connectionist Model of Lexical and Contextual Influences on Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution in Human Sentence Processing. Proceedings of the First Natural Language Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS-95), Seoul, Korea, pp. 592-597 [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Klaus Zechner, 1995. Automatic Text Abstracting by Selecting Relevant Passages. M.Sc. dissertation, University of Edinburgh, UK. [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Klaus Zechner, 1995. Building Interfaces from DATR to PATR. Project report, University of Edinburgh, UK. [pdf version] [uuencoded version]

Ulrike Bele, Klaus Zechner, Barbara Andree, Hanspeter Gadler, and Birgit Wrentschur, 1994. Das Sprachtrainingsprogramm AUSWEGE fuer computerunterstuetzte Sprachtherapie. In: Uwe Kosa (ed.): Sprechende Computer in der paedagogischen Praxis, Deutscher Studienverlag, Weinheim, pp. 63-72

Klaus Zechner, 1993. Computerunterstuetzte Sprachtherapie mit dem Sprachtrainingsprogramm AUSWEGE. M.A. thesis, University of Graz, Austria.

Hanspeter Gadler and Klaus Zechner, 1992. AUSWEGE - WEGE in Oesterreich. In: Volkbert M. Roth (ed.): Computer in der Sprachtherapie. Narr Verlag, Tuebingen, pp. 147-159


email: zechner@cs.cmu.edu

last update: July 5th, 2002