Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi, Klaus Zechner, and David Williamson, 2010. A three-stage approach to the automated scoring of spontaneous spoken responses. Computer Speech and Language.
Su-Youn Yoon, Lei Chen, and Klaus Zechner, 2010. Predicting word accuracy for the automatic speech recognition of non-native speech. Proceedings of InterSpeech-2010, Tokyo, Japan, September.
Keelan Evanini, Derrick Higgins, and Klaus Zechner, 2010. Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for transcription of non-native speech. Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2010 AMT workshop, Los Angeles, CA, June.
Mark D. Shermis, Jill Burstein, Derrick Higgins, and Klaus Zechner, 2010. Automated essay scoring: Writing assessment and instruction. In P. Peterson, E. Baker, and B. McGaw (Eds.), International encyclopedia of education (3rd ed.). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi and David M. Williamson, 2009. Automatic scoring of non-mative spontaneous speech in tests of spoken English. Speech Communication, 51 (10), October.
Klaus Zechner, Derrrick Higgins, Rene Lawless, Yoko Futagi, Sarah Ohls and George Ivanov, 2009. Adapting the Acoustic Model of a Speech Recognizer for Varied Proficiency Non-Native Spontaneous Speech Using Read Speech with Language-Specific Pronunciation Difficulty. Proceedings of Interspeech-2009, Brighton, UK, September.
Klaus Zechner, 2009. What did they actually say? Agreement and Disagreement among Transcribers of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech Responses in an English Proficiency Test. Proceedings of the ISCA SLaTE-2009 Workshop, Wroxall, UK, September.
Klaus Zechner, John Sabatini and Lei Chen, 2009. Automatic Scoring of Children’s Read-Aloud Text Passages and Word Lists.Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. Boulder, CO, June.
Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner and Xiaoming Xi, 2009. Improved Pronunciation Features for Construct-Driven Assessment of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech. Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT-2009 Conference, Boulder, CO, June.
Xiaoming Xi, Derrick Higgins, Klaus Zechner and David M. Williamson, 2008. Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Speech Using SpeechRater(SM) v1.0. Educational Testing Service, Research Report RR-08-62, Princeton, NJ, November.
Klaus Zechner and Xiaoming Xi, 2008. Towards Automatic Scoring of a Test of Spoken Language with Heterogeneous Task Types. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, Columbus, OH, June.
Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, and Xiaoming Xi, 2007. SpeechRater(SM): A Construct-Driven Approach to Score Spontaneous Non-Native Speech. Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE), Farmington, PA, October.
Klaus Zechner, Isaac Bejar, and Ramin Hemat, 2007. Towards an Understanding of the Role of Speech Recognition in Non-Native Speech Assessment. Research Report RR-07-02, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, February.
Klaus Zechner and Isaac I. Bejar, 2006. Towards Automatic Scoring of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech. Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL-2006 Conference, New York, NY, June.
Xiaoming Xi, Klaus Zechner, and Isaac Bejar, 2006. Extracting meaningful speech features to support diagnostic feedback: an ECD approach to automated scoring. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), San Francisco, CA, April.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Klaus Zechner, 2000. A Word-Based Annotation and Evaluation Scheme for Summarization of Spontaneous Speech. Working note, LTI/CMU, January.
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
Klaus Zechner, 1998. Automatic Construction of Frame Representations for Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains. Proceedings of COLING/ACL 98, Montreal, Canada, pp. 1448-1452
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
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
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.
Klaus Zechner, 1997. A Literature Survey on Information Extraction and Text Summarization. Term paper, Carnegie Mellon University.
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
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
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
Klaus Zechner, 1995. Automatic Text Abstracting by Selecting Relevant Passages. M.Sc. dissertation, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Klaus Zechner, 1995. Building Interfaces from DATR to PATR. Project report, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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
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
Klaus Zechner, 1995. Vaclav Havels existenzphilosophische Betrachtungen in seinen "Briefen an Olga". In: Kontroversen in der Philosophie (8), December 1995, pp. 65-85
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