• K.Inoue, D.Lala, K.Takanashi, and T.Kawahara.
  Latent character model for engagement recognition based on multimodal behaviors.
  In Proc. Int'l Workshop Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), p. (accepted for presentation), 2018.

• R.Nakanishi, K.Inoue, S.Nakamura, K.Takanashi, and T.Kawahara.
  Generating fillers based on dialog act pairs for smooth turn-taking by humanoid robot.
  In Proc. Int'l Workshop Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), p. (accepted for presentation), 2018.

• S.Ueno, H.Inaguma, M.Mimura, and T.Kawahara.
  Acoustic-to-word attention-based model complemented with character-level CTC-based model.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, p. (accepted for presentation), 2018.

• K.Shimada, Y.Bando, M.Mimura, K.Itoyama, K.Yoshii, and T.Kawahara.
  Unsupervised beamforming based on multichannel nonnegative matrix factorization for noisy speech recognition.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, p. (accepted for presentation), 2018.

• H.Inaguma, M.Mimura, K.Inoue, K.Yoshii, and T.Kawahara.
  An end-to-end approach to joint social signal detection and automatic speech recognition.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, p. (accepted for presentation), 2018.

• R.Duan, T.Kawahara, M.Dantsuji, and H.Nanjo.
  Efficient learning of articulatory models based on multi-label training and label correction for pronunciation learning.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, p. (accepted for presentation), 2018.

• Y.Bando, M.Mimura, K.Itoyama, K.Yoshii, and T.Kawahara.
  Statistical speech enhancement based on probabilistic integration of variational autoencoder and non-negative matrix factorization.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, p. (accepted for presentation), 2018.

• T.Kawahara, K.Inoue, D.Lala, and K.Takanashi.
  Audio-visual conversation analysis by smart posterboard and humanoid robot.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, p. (accepted for presentation), 2018.

• T.Hagiya, K.Hoashi, and T.Kawahara.
  Voice input tutoring system for older adults using input stumble detection.
  In Proc. ACM Int'l Conf. Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pp. 415--419, 2018.

• S.Li, X.Lu, P.Shen, R.Takashima, T.Kawahara, and H.Kawai.
  Incremental training and constructing the very deep convolutional residual network acoustic models.
  In Proc. IEEE Workshop Automatic Speech Recognition \& Understanding (ASRU), pp.222--227, 2017.

• M.Mimura, S.Sakai, and T.Kawahara.
  Cross-domain speech recognition using nonparallel corpora with cycle-consistent adversarial networks.
  In Proc. IEEE Workshop Automatic Speech Recognition \& Understanding (ASRU), pp.134--140, 2017.

• Y.Li, C.T.Ishi, N.Ward, K.Inoue, S.Nakamura, K.Takanashi, and T.Kawahara.
  Emotion recognition by combining prosody and sentiment analysis for expressing reactive emotion by humanoid robot.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2017.

• T.Kawahara.
  Automatic meeting transcription system for the Japanese Parliament (Diet).
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, p. (overview talk), 2017.

• T.Zhao and T.Kawahara.
  Joint learning of dialog act segmentation and recognition in spoken dialog using neural networks.
  In Proc. IJCNLP, pp.704--712, 2017.

• T.Kawahara.
  Modeling difficulties of second language learners using speech technology.
  In Proc. Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences (SICSS), p. 11 (keynote speech), 2017.

• D.Lala, K.Inoue, P.Milhorat, and T.Kawahara.
  Detection of social signals for recognizing engagement in human-robot interaction.
  In Proc. AAAI Fall Sympo. Natural Communication for Human-Robot Collaboration, 2017.

• M.Wake, Y.Bando, M.Mimura, K.Itoyama, K.Yoshii, and T.Kawahara.
  Semi-blind speech enhancement based on recurrent neural network for source separation and dereverberation.
  In Proc. IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Workshop (MLSP), 2017.

• M.Mirzaei, K.Meshgi, and T.Kawahara.
  Detecting listening difficulty for second language learners using automatic speech recognition errors.
  In Proc. Workshop Speech \& Language Technology for Education (SLaTE), pp.164--168, 2017.

• R.Duan, T.Kawahara, M.Dantsuji, and H.Nanjo.
  Transfer learning based non-native acoustic modeling for pronunciation error detection.
  In Proc. Workshop Speech \& Language Technology for Education (SLaTE), pp.50--54, 2017.

• M.Mirzaei, K.Meshgi, and T.Kawahara.
  Listening difficulty detection to foster second language listening with the partial and synchronized caption system.
  In Proc. EUROCALL, pp.211--216, 2017.

• M.Mimura, Y.Bando, K.Shimada, S.Sakai, K.Yoshii, and T.Kawahara.
  Combined multi-channel NMF-based robust beamforming for noisy speech recognition.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2451--2455, 2017.

• S.Nakamura, R.Nakanishi, K.Takanashi, and T.Kawahara.
  Analysis of the relationship between prosodic features of fillers and its forms or occurrence positions.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1726--1230, 2017.

• H.Inaguma, K.Inoue, M.Mimura, and T.Kawahara.
  Social signal detection in spontaneous dialogue using bidirectional LSTM-CTC.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1691--1695, 2017.

• D.Lala, P.Milhorat, K.Inoue, M.Ishida, K.Takanashi, and T.Kawahara.
  Attentive listening system with backchanneling, response generation and flexible turn-taking.
  In Proc. SIGdial Meeting Discourse \& Dialogue, pp.127--136, 2017.

• P.Milhorat, D.Lala, K.Inoue, Z.Tianyu, M.Ishida, K.Takanashi, S.Nakamura, and T.Kawahara.
  A conversational dialogue manager for the humanoid robot ERICA.
  In Proc. Int'l Workshop Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), 2017.

• R.Duan, T.Kawahara, M.Dantsuji, and J.Zhang.
  Effective articulatory modeling for pronunciation error detection of L2 learner without non-native training data.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.5815--5819, 2017.

• S.Li, X.Lu, S.Sakai, M.Mimura, and T.Kawahara.
  Semi-supervised ensemble DNN acoustic model training.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.5270--5274, 2017.

• K.Itakura, Y.Bando, E.Nakamura, K.Itoyama, K.Yoshii, and T.Kawahara.
  Bayesian multichannel nonnegative matrix factorization for audio source separation and localization.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.551--555, 2017.

• D.Lala, Y.Li, and T.Kawahara.
  Utterance behavior of users while playing basketball with a virtual teammate.
  In Proc. ICAART, pp.28--38, 2017.

• R.Duan, T.Kawahara, M.Dantsuji, and J.Zhang.
  Multi-lingual and multi-task DNN learning for articulatory error detection.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2016.

• M.Mirzaei, K.Meshgi, and T.Kawahara.
  ASR errors as predictor of L2 listening difficulties and PSC enhancement.
  In Proc. Coling Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC), pp.192--201, 2016.

• K.Inoue, D.Lala, S.Nakamura, K.Takanashi, and T.Kawahara.
  Annotation and analysis of listener's engagement based on multi-modal behaviors.
  In Proc. ICMI Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI), 2016.

• H.Inaguma, K.Inoue, S.Nakamura, K.Takanashi, and T.Kawahara.
  Prediction of ice-breaking between participants using prosodic features in the first meeting dialogue.
  In Proc. ICMI Workshop on Advancements in Social Signal Processing for Multimodal Interaction (ASSP4MI), 2016.

• D.Lala, P.Milhorat, K.Inoue, T.Zhao, and T.Kawahara.
  Multimodal interaction with the autonomous android ERICA.
  In Proc. ICMI, Vol.Demo. Paper, pp.417--418, 2016.

• R.Duan, T.Kawahara, M.Dantsuji, and J.Zhang.
  Pronunaciation error detection using DNN articulatory model based on multi-lingual and multi-task learning.
  In Proc. Int'l Sympo. Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), 2016.

• S.Li, X.Lu, S.Mori, Y.Akita, and T.Kawahara.
  Confidence estimation for speech recognition systems using conditional random fields trained with partially annotated data.
  In Proc. Int'l Sympo. Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), 2016.

• D.Lala and T.Kawahara.
  Managing dialog and joint actions for virtual basketball teammates.
  In Proc. IVA, Vol.Poster, 2016.

• K.Inoue, P.Milhorat, D.Lala, T.Zhao, and T.Kawahara.
  Talking with ERICA, an autonomous android.
  In Proc. SIGdial Meeting Discourse \& Dialogue, Vol.Demo. Paper, pp.212--215, 2016.

• M.Mimura, S.Sakai, and T.Kawahara.
  Joint optimization of denoising autoencoder and DNN acoustic model based on multi-target learning for noisy speech recognition.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.3803--3807, 2016.

• T.Kawahara, T.Yamaguchi, K.Inoue, K.Takanashi, and N.Ward.
  Prediction and generation of backchannel form for attentive listening systems.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2890--2894, 2016.

• D.F.Glas, T.Minato, C.T.Ishi, T.Kawahara, and H.Ishiguro.
  ERICA: The ERATO Intelligent Conversational Android.
  In Proc. RO-MAN, pp.22--29, 2016.

• M.Mirzaei, K.Meshgi, and T.Kawahara.
  Leveraging automatic speech recognition errors to detect challenging speech segments in TED talks.
  In Proc. EUROCALL, pp.313--318, 2016.

• N.Ward, Y.Li, T.Zhao, and T.Kawahara.
  Interactional and pragmatics-related prosodic patterns in Mandarin dialog.
  In Proc. Int'l Conf. Speech Prosody, 2016.

• S.Li, Y.Akita, and T.Kawahara.
  Data selection from multiple ASR systems' hypotheses for unsupervised acoustic model training.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.5875--5879, 2016.

• T.Yamaguchi, K.Inoue, K.Yoshino, K.Takanashi, N.Ward, and T.Kawahara.
  Analysis and prediction of morphological patterns of backchannels for attentive listening agents.
  In Proc. Int'l Workshop Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), 2016.

• T.Kawahara, T.Yamaguchi, M.Uesato, K.Yoshino, and K.Takanashi.
  Synchrony in prosodic and linguistic features between backchannels and preceding utterances in attentive listening.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, pp.392--395, 2015.

• Y.Akita, N.Kuwahara, and T.Kawahara.
  Automatic classification of usability of ASR result for real-time captioning of lectures.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, pp.19--22, 2015.

• S.Li, Y.Akita, and T.Kawahara.
  Discriminative data selection for lightly supervised training of acoustic model using closed caption texts.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.3526--3530, 2015.

• K.Inoue, Y.Wakabayashi, H.Yoshimoto, K.Takanashi, and T.Kawahara.
  Enhanced speaker diarization with detection of backchannels using eye-gaze information in poster conversations.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.3086--3090, 2015.

• S.Li, X.Lu, Y.Akita, and T.Kawahara.
  Ensemble speaker modeling using speaker adaptive training deep neural network for speaker adaptation.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2892--2896, 2015.

• M.Mimura, S.Sakai, and T.Kawahara.
  Speech dereverberation using long short-term memory.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2435--2439, 2015.

• M.Mirzaei and T.Kawahara.
  ASR technology to empower partial and synchronized caption for L2 listening development.
  In Proc. Workshop Speech \& Language Technology for Education (SLaTE), pp.65--70, 2015.

• M.Mirzaei, K.Meshgi, Y.Akita, and T.Kawahara.
  Errors in automatic speech recognition versus difficulties in second language listening.
  In Proc. EUROCALL, pp.410--415, 2015.

• T.Sasada, S.Mori, T.Kawahara, and Y.Yamakata.
  Named entity recognizer trainable from partially annotated data.
  In Proc. PACLING, pp.10--17, 2015.

• Y.Akita, Y.Tong, and T.Kawahara.
  Language model adaptation for academic lectures using character recognition result of presentation slides.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.5431--5435, 2015.

• M.Mimura, S.Sakai, and T.Kawahara.
  Deep autoencoders augmented with phone-class feature for reverberant speech recognition.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.4356--4369, 2015.

• T.Kawahara, M.Uesato, K.Yoshino, and K.Takanashi.
  Toward adaptive generation of backchannels for attentive listening agents.
  In Proc. Int'l Workshop Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), 2015.

• K.Yoshino and T.Kawahara.
  News navigation system based on proactive dialogue strategy.
  In Proc. Int'l Workshop Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), 2015.

• Y.Wakabayashi, K.Inoue, H.Yoshimoto, and T.Kawahara.
  Speaker diarization based on audio-visual integration for smart posterboard.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2014.

• M.Mimura and T.Kawahara.
  Unsupervised speaker adaptation of DNN-HMM by selecting similar speakers for lecture transcription.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2014.

• M.Mirzaei, Y.Akita, and T.Kawahara.
  Partial and synchronized caption generation to develop second language listening skill.
  In ICCE Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA), pp.13--23, 2014.

• K.Sudoh, M.Nagata, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
  Japanese-to-English patent translation system based on domain-adapted word segmentation and post-ordering.
  In Proc. Assoc. for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), Vol.1, pp.234--248, 2014.

• K.Inoue, Y.Wakabayashi, H.Yoshimoto, and T.Kawahara.
  Speaker diarization using eye-gaze information in multi-party conversations.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.562--566, 2014.

• S.Li, Y.Akita, and T.Kawahara.
  Corpus and transcription system of Chinese Lecture Room.
  In Proc. Int'l Sympo. Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), pp.442--445, 2014.

• M.Mirzaei, Y.Akita, and T.Kawahara.
  Partial and synchronized captioning: A new tool for second language listening development.
  In Proc. EUROCALL, pp.230--236, 2014.

• K.Yoshino and T.Kawahara.
  Information navigation system based on POMDP that tracks user focus.
  In Proc. SIGdial Meeting Discourse \& Dialogue, pp.32--40, 2014.

• M.Mimura, S.Sakai, and T.Kawahara.
  Exploring deep neural networks and deep autoencoders in reverberant speech recognition.
  In Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication \& Microphone Arrays (HSCMA), 2014.

• T.Kawahara.
  Smart posterboard: Multi-modal sensing and analysis of poster conversations.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, p. (plenary overview talk), 2013.

• K.Yoshino, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
  Predicate argument structure analysis using partially annotated corpora.
  In Proc. IJCNLP, pp.957--961, 2013.

• T.Kawahara, S.Hayashi, and K.Takanashi.
  Estimation of interest and comprehension level of audience through multi-modal behaviors in poster conversations.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1882--1885, 2013.

• K.Yoshino, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
  Incorporating semantic information to selection of web texts for language model of spoken dialogue system.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.8252--8256, 2013.

• K.Yoshino, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
  Language modeling for spoken dialogue system based on filtering using predicate-argument structures.
  In Proc. COLING, pp.2993--3002, 2012.

• C.Lee and T.Kawahara.
  Hybrid vector space model for flexible voice search.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2012.

• K.Yoshino, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
  Language modeling for spoken dialogue system based on sentence transformation and filtering using predicate-argument structures.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2012.

• Y.Akita, M.Watanabe, and T.Kawahara.
  Automatic transcription of lecture speech using language model based on speaking-style transformation of proceeding texts.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, 2012.

• R.Gomez and T.Kawahara.
  Dereverberation based on wavelet packet filtering for robust automatic speech recognition.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, 2012.

• T.Kawahara, T.Iwatate, and K.Takanashi.
  Prediction of turn-taking by combining prosodic and eye-gaze information in poster conversations.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, 2012.

• T.Kawahara, T.Iwatate, T.Tsuchiya, and K.Takanashi.
  Can we predict who in the audience will ask what kind of questions with their feedback behaviors in poster conversation?
  In Proc. Interdisciplinary Workshop on Feedback Behaviors in Dialog, pp.35--38, 2012.

• T.Kawahara.
  Transcription system using automatic speech recognition for the Japanese Parliament (Diet).
  In Proc. AAAI/IAAI, pp.2224--2228, 2012.

• G.Neubig, T.Watanabe, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
  Machine translation without words through substring alignment.
  In Proc. ACL, pp.165--174, 2012.

• T.Kawahara.
  Multi-modal sensing and analysis of poster conversations toward smart posterboard.
  In Proc. SIGdial Meeting Discourse \& Dialogue, pp.1--9 (keynote speech), 2012.

• M.Ablimit, T.Kawahara, and A.Hamdulla.
  Discriminative approach to lexical entry selection for automatic speech recognition of agglutinative language.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.5009--5012, 2012.

• M.Ablimit, A.Hamdulla, and T.Kawahara.
  Morpheme concatenation approach in language modeling for large-vocabulary Uyghur speech recognition.
  In Proc. Oriental-COCOSDA Workshop, 2011.

• R.Gomez and T.Kawahara.
  Optimized wavelet-based speech enhancement for speech recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2011.

• M.Mimura and T.Kawahara.
  Fast speaker normalization and adaptation based on BIC for meeting speech recognition.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2011.

• M.Ablimit, T.Kawahara, and A.Hamdulla.
  Lexicon optimization for automatic speech recognition based on discriminative learning.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2011.

• H.Wang, T.Kawahara, and Y.Wang.
  Improving non-native speech recognition performance by discriminative training for language model in a CALL system.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2011.

• T.Hirayama, Y.Sumi, T.Kawahara, and T.Matsuyama.
  Info-concierge: Proactive multi-modal interaction through mind probing.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2011.

• C.Lee, T.Kawahara, and A.Rudnicky.
  Combining slot-based vector space model for voice book search.
  In Proc. Int'l Workshop Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), pp. 27--35, 2011.

• Y.Akita and T.Kawahara.
  Automatic comma insertion of lecture transcripts based on multiple annotations.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2889--2892, 2011.

• R.Gomez and T.Kawahara.
  Denoising using optimized wavelet filtering for automatic speech recognition.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1673--1676, 2011.

• G.Neubig, T.Watanabe, E.Sumita, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
  An unsupervised model for joint phrase alignment and extraction.
  In Proc. ACL-HLT, pp.632--641, 2011.

• K.Yoshino, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
  Spoken dialogue system based on information extraction using similarity of predicate argument structures.
  In Proc. SIGdial Meeting Discourse \& Dialogue, pp.59--66, 2011.

• T.Kawahara, H.Wang, Y.Tsubota, and M.Dantsuji.
  English and Japanese CALL systems developed at Kyoto University.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, pp.804--810, 2010.

• R.Gomez and T.Kawahara.
  Optimizing wavelet parameters for dereverberation in automatic speech recognition.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, pp.446--449, 2010.

• T.Kawahara.
  Automatic transcription of parliamentary meetings and classroom lectures -- a sustainable approach and real system evaluations --.
  In Proc. Int'l Sympo. Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), pp.1--6 (keynote speech), 2010.

• M.Ablimit, G.Neubig, M.Mimura, S.Mori, T.Kawahara, and A.Hamdulla.
  Uyghur morpheme-based language models and ASR.
  In Proc. Int'l Conf. Signal Processing, pp.581--584, 2010.

• K.Yoshino and T.Kawahara.
  Spoken dialogue system based on information extraction from web text.
  In Proc. Int'l Workshop Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS) (LNAI 6392), Vol.Demo. Paper, pp.196--197, 2010.

• T.Kawahara, K.Sumi, Z.Q.Chang, and K.Takanashi.
  Detection of hot spots in poster conversations based on reactive tokens of audience.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.3042--3045, 2010.

• G.Neubig, M.Mimura, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
  Learning a language model from continuous speech.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1053--1056, 2010.

• Y.Itoh, H.Nishizaki, X.Hu, H.Nanjo, T.Akiba, T.Kawahara, S.Nakagawa, T.Matsui, Y.Yamashita, and K.Aikawa.
  Constructing Japanese test collections for spoken term detection.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.677--680, 2010.

• T.Kawahara, N.Katsumaru, Y.Akita, and S.Mori.
  Classroom note-taking system for hearing impaired students using automatic speech recognition adapted to lectures.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.626--629, 2010.

• R.Gomez and T.Kawahara.
  An improved wavelet-based dereverberation for robust automatic speech recognition.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.578--581, 2010.

• Y.Akita, M.Mimura, G.Neubig, and T.Kawahara.
  Semi-automated update of automatic transcription system for the Japanese national congress.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.338--341, 2010.

• T.Kawahara, Z.Q.Chang, and K.Takanashi.
  Analysis on prosodic features of Japanese reactive tokens in poster conversations.
  In Proc. Int'l Conf. Speech Prosody, 2010.

• G.Neubig, Y.Akita, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
  Improved statistical models for SMT-based speaking style transformation.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.5206--5209, 2010.

• R.Gomez and T.Kawahara.
  Optimizing spectral subtraction and Wiener filtering for robust speech recognition in reverberant and noisy conditions.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.4566--4569, 2010.

• D.Cournapeau, S.Watanabe, A.Nakamura, and T.Kawahara.
  Using online model comparison in the Variational Bayes framework for online unsupervised voice activity detection.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.4462--4465, 2010.

• T.Kawahara.
  New perspectives on spoken language understanding: Does machine need to fully understand speech?
  In Proc. IEEE Workshop Automatic Speech Recognition \& Understanding (ASRU), pp.46--50 (invited paper), 2009.

• T.Misu, K.Sugiura, T.Kawahara, K.Ohtake, C.Hori, H.Kashioka, and S.Nakamura.
  Online learning of Bayes risk-based optimization of dialogue management.
  In Proc. Int'l Workshop Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), 2009.

• R.Gomez and T.Kawahara.
  Tight integration of dereverberation and automatic speech recognition.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, pp.639--643, 2009.

• T.Akiba, K.Aikawa, Y.Itoh, T.Kawahara, H.Nanjo, H.Nishizaki, N.Yasuda, Y.Yamashita, and K.Itou.
  Developing an SDR test collection from Japanese lecture audio data.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, pp.324--330, 2009.

• K.Katsurada, A.Lee, T.Kawahara, T.Yotsukura, S.Morishima, T.Nishimoto, Y.Yamashita, and T.Nitta.
  Development of a toolkit for spoken dialog systems with an anthropomorphic agent: Galatea.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, pp.148--153, 2009.

• A.Lee and T.Kawahara.
  Recent development of open-source speech recognition engine Julius.
  In Proc. APSIPA ASC, pp.131--137, 2009.

• G.Neubig, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
  A WFST-based log-linear framework for speaking-style transformation.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1495--1498, 2009.

• R.Gomez and T.Kawahara.
  Optimization of dereverberation parameters based on likelihood of speech recognizer.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1223--1226, 2009.

• K.Sumi, T.Kawahara, J.Ogata, and M.Goto.
  Acoustic event detection for spotting hot spots in podcasts.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1143--1146, 2009.

• Y.Akita, M.Mimura, and T.Kawahara.
  Automatic transcription system for meetings of the Japanese national congress.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.84--87, 2009.

• K.Komatani, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
  A model of temporally changing user behaviors in a deployed spoken dialogue system.
  In Proc. Int'l Conf. User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) (LNCS 5535), pp.409--414, 2009.

• T.Kawahara, M.Mimura, and Y.Akita.
  Language model transformation applied to lightly supervised training of acoustic model for congress meetings.
  In Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.3853--3856, 2009.

• M.Ablimit, M.Eli, and T.Kawahara.
  Partly supervised Uighur morpheme segmentation.
  In Proc. Oriental-COCOSDA Workshop, pp.71--76, 2008.

• T.Shinozaki, S.Furui, and T.Kawahara.
  Aggregated cross-validation and its efficient application to Gaussian mixture optimization.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2382--2385, 2008.

• T.Sasada, S.Mori, and T.Kawahara.
  Extracting word-pronunciation pairs from comparable set of text and speech.
  In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1821--1824, 2008.

• H.Wang and T.Kawahara.
  A Japanese CALL system based on dynamic question generation and error prediction for ASR.
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  Detection of feeling through back-channels in spoken dialogue.
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• T.Kawahara, H.Setoguchi, K.Takanashi, K.Ishizuka, and S.Araki.
  Multi-modal recording, analysis and indexing of poster sessions.
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  Predicting ASR errors by exploiting barge-in rate of individual users for spoken dialogue systems.
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  Automatic lecture transcription by exploiting presentation slide information for language model adaptation.
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• S.Sakai, T.Kawahara, and S.Nakamura.
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• T.Shinozaki and T.Kawahara.
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• C.Waple, H.Wang, T.Kawahara Y.Tsubota, and M.Dantsuji.
  Evaluating and optimizing Japanese tutor system featuring dynamic question generation and interactive guidance.
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• Y.Akita, Y.Nemoto, and T.Kawahara.
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• K.Komatani, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
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• T.Kawahara, M.Saikou, and K.Takanashi.
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• D.Cournapeau, T.Kawahara, K.Mase, and T.Toriyama.
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• Y.Akita, M.Saikou, H.Nanjo, and T.Kawahara.
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• C.Waple, Y.Tsubota, M.Dantsuji, and T.Kawahara.
  Prototyping a CALL system for students of Japanese using dynamic diagram generation and interactive hints.
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• R.Hamabe, K.Uchimoto, T.Kawahara, and H.Isahara.
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• T.Misu and T.Kawahara.
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• R.Hamabe, K.Uchimoto, T.Kawahara, and H.Isahara.
  Detection of quotations and inserted clauses and its application to dependency structure analysis in spontaneous Japanese.
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• Y.Akita, C.Troncoso, and T.Kawahara.
  Automatic transcription of meetings using topic-oriented language model adaptation.
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• H.Nanjo, Y.Akita, and T.Kawahara.
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• Y.Akita and T.Kawahara.
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• Y.Kida and T.Kawahara.
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• C.Troncoso and T.Kawahara.
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• T.Misu and T.Kawahara.
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• H.Nanjo, T.Misu, and T.Kawahara.
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• I.R.Lane and T.Kawahara.
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• C.Troncoso, T.Kawahara, H.Yamamoto, and G.Kikui.
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• Y.Akita and T.Kawahara.
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• T.Kawahara, A.Lee, K.Takeda, K.Itou, and K.Shikano.
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• K.Shitaoka, H.Nanjo, and T.Kawahara.
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• S.Ueno, I.R.Lane, and T.Kawahara.
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• I.R.Lane, T.Kawahara, T.Matsui, and S.Nakamura.
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• T.Kitade, H.Nanjo, and T.Kawahara.
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• Y.Tsubota, M.Dantsuji, and T.Kawahara.
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• K.Shitaoka, K.Uchimoto, T.Kawahara, and H.Isahara.
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• Y.Akita and T.Kawahara.
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• K.Komatani, T.Misu, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
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• K.Shitaoka, K.Uchimoto, T.Kawahara, and H.Isahara.
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• Y.Akita, M.Hasegawa, and T.Kawahara.
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• Y.Tsubota, M.Dantsuji, and T.Kawahara.
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• M.Nishida and T.Kawahara.
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• K.Komatani, R.Ito, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
  Recognition of emotional states in spoken dialogue with a robot.
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• T.Kawahara, T.Kitade, K.Shitaoka, and H.Nanjo.
  Efficient access to lecture audio archives through spoken language processing.
  In Proc. Special Workshop in Maui (SWIM), 2004.

• T.Kawahara, K.Shitaoka, T.Kitade, and H.Nanjo.
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• Y.Tsubota, M.Dantsuji, and T.Kawahara.
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• Y.Akita and T.Kawahara.
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• M.Nishida and T.Kawahara.
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• T.Kawahara, R.Ito, and K.Komatani.
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• K.Komatani, S.Ueno, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
  User modeling in spoken dialogue systems for flexible guidance generation.
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• I.R.Lane, T.Matsui, S.Nakamura, and T.Kawahara.
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• K.Komatani, S.Ueno, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
  Flexible guidance generation using user model in spoken dialogue systems.
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• Y.Kiyota, S.Kurohashi, T.Misu, K.Komatani, T.Kawahara, and F.Kido.
  Dialog navigator: A spoken dialog Q-A system based on large text knowledge base.
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• K.Komatani, F.Adachi, S.Ueno, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
  Flexible spoken dialogue system based on user models and dynamic generation of VoiceXML scripts.
  In Proc. SIGdial Meeting Discourse \& Dialogue, pp.87--96, 2003.

• T.Kawahara, H.Nanjo, T.Shinozaki, and S.Furui.
  Benchmark test for speech recognition using the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese.
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• H.Nanjo, K.Shitaoka, and T.Kawahara.
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• Y.Akita, M.Nishida, and T.Kawahara.
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• H.Nanjo and T.Kawahara.
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• M.Nishida and T.Kawahara.
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• K.Okuda, T.Kawahara, and S.Nakamura.
  Speaking rate compensation based on likelihood criterion in acoustic model training and decoding.
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• Y.Tsubota, T.Kawahara, and M.Dantsuji.
  Recognition and verification of English by Japanese students for computer-assisted language learning system.
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• K.Imoto, Y.Tsubota, A.Raux, T.Kawahara, and M.Dantsuji.
  Modeling and automatic detection of English sentence stress for computer-assisted English prosody learning system.
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• A.Raux and T.Kawahara.
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• Y.Yamakata, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
  Belief network based disambiguation of object reference in spoken dialogue system for robot.
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• K.Komatani, T.Kawahara, R.Ito, and H.G.Okuno.
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• Y.Yamakata, T.Kawahara, and H.G.Okuno.
  Belief network based disambiguation of object reference in spoken dialogue system for robot.
  In Proc. ISCA Workshop on Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments, 2002.

• A.Lee, T.Kawahara, K.Takeda, M.Mimura, A.Yamada, A.Ito, K.Itou, and K.Shikano.
  Continuous speech recognition consortium -- an open repository for CSR tools and models --.
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• T.Kawahara and M.Hasegawa.
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• H.Nanjo and T.Kawahara.
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• A.Raux and T.Kawahara.
  Optimizing computer-assisted pronunciation instruction by selecting relevant training topics.
  In InSTIL Advanced Workshop, 2002.

• Y.Tsubota, T.Kawahara, and M.Dantsuji.
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  In InSTIL Advanced Workshop, 2002.

• T.Kawahara, H.Nanjo, and S.Furui.
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• H.Nanjo, K.Kato, and T.Kawahara.
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• A.Lee, T.Kawahara, and K.Shikano.
  Julius -- an open source real-time large vocabulary recognition engine.
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• K.Komatani, K.Tanaka, H.Kashima, and T.Kawahara.
  Domain-independent spoken dialogue platform using key-phrase spotting based on combined language model.
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• A.Lee, T.Kawahara, and K.Shikano.
  Gaussian mixture selection using context-independent HMM.
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• T.Kawahara, A.Lee, T.Kobayashi, K.Takeda, N.Minematsu, S.Sagayama, K.Itou, A.Ito, M.Yamamoto, A.Yamada, T.Utsuro, and K.Shikano.
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• Y.Tsubota, M.Dantsuji, and T.Kawahara.
  Computer-assisted English vowel learning system for Japanese speakers using cross language formant structures.
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• K.Imoto, M.Dantsuji, and T.Kawahara.
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• H.Nanjo, A.Lee, and T.Kawahara.
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• K.Komatani and T.Kawahara.
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• K.Kato, H.Nanjo, and T.Kawahara.
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• H.Fujisaki, K.Shirai, S.Doshita, S.Nakagawa, K.Hirose, S.Itahashi, T.Kawahara, S.Ohno, H.Kikuchi, K.Abe, and S.Kiriyama.
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• T.Kawahara, K.Komatani, and S.Doshita.
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• K.Komatani and T.Kawahara.
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• A.Lee, T.Kawahara, K.Takeda, and K.Shikano.
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• T.Kawahara, T.Kobayashi, K.Takeda, N.Minematsu, K.Itou, M.Yamamoto, A.Yamada, T.Utsuro, and K.Shikano.
  Japanese dictation toolkit -- plug-and-play framework for speech recognition R\&D --.
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• C.-H.Jo, T.Kawahara, and S.Doshita.
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  In Proc. IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), pp.146--149, 1999.

• C.-H.Jo, T.Kawahara, and S.Doshita.
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• T.Kawahara, K.Tanaka, and S.Doshita.
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• T.Kawahara, K.Tanaka, and S.Doshita.
  Virtual fitting room with spoken dialogue interface.
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• T.Kawahara, T.Kobayashi, K.Takeda, N.Minematsu, K.Itou, M.Yamamoto, A.Yamada, T.Utsuro, and K.Shikano.
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• T.Kawahara, T.Kobayashi, K.Takeda, N.Minematsu, K.Itou, M.Yamamoto, T.Utsuro, and K.Shikano.
  Sharable software repository for Japanese large vocabulary continuous speech recognition.
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• F.M.Quimbo, T.Kawahara, and S.Doshita.
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• A.Lee, T.Kawahara, and S.Doshita.
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• C.-H.Jo, T.Kawahara, S.Doshita, and M.Dantsuji.
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• S.Itahashi, M.Yamamoto, and T.Kawahara.
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• T.Kawahara, A.Lee, T.Kobayashi, K.Takeda, N.Minematsu, K.Itou, A.Ito, M.Yamamoto, A.Yamada, T.Utsuro, and K.Shikano.
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• T.Kawahara, S.Doshita, and C.-H.Lee.
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• C.-H.Jo, T.Kawahara, S.Doshita, and M.Dantsuji.
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• C.-H.Jo, T.Kawahara, and S.Doshita.
  Computer-aided foreign language pronunciation learning system under virtual environment.
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