Research interests and publications
Papers I contributed to in a past life are below!
Published journal papers
Published conference papers
- D. Beeferman. The rhythm of lexical stress in prose.
In Proc. Assoc
Computational Linguistics '96, Santa Cruz, CA.
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- D. Beeferman, A. Berger, and J. Lafferty.
A model of lexical attraction and repulsion.
In
Proceedings of the ACL-EACL '97 Joint Conference, Madrid, Spain.
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- D. Beeferman, A. Berger, and J. Lafferty.
Text segmentation using exponential models.
In Proc. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2 (AAAI) '97,
Providence, RI.
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Abstract and postscript preprint ]
- D. Beeferman, A. Berger, J. Lafferty. A lightweight
punctuation annotation system for speech. ICASSP '98.
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[ Demo ]
- D. Beeferman, A. Berger, Agglomerative clustering of s earch
engine query log. KDD 2000.
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Workshop papers
- D. Beeferman. "Lexical discovery with an enriched semantic network".
Describes the evolving FreeNet database system, and
Lexical FreeNet.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Applications of
WordNet in Natural Language Processing Systems, ACL/COLING 1998.
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- S. Chen, D. Beeferman, R. Rosenfeld.
Evaluation Metrics for Language Models.
Appeared at the Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop,
February 1998.
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- D. Beeferman. "A probabilistic error metric for segmentation algorithms".
An abstract for a talk I gave at the Speech and Language Technology
workshop in Sheffield, England, June 1997.
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Unpublished projects, notes, and talks
- D. Beeferman. "QPD: Query by Pitch Dynamics. Indexing
Tonal Music by Content".
A course project write-up discussing a method of indexing
and clustering computer music files by content.
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- D. Beeferman. "Count your blessings...faster!".
A lecture on combinatorics and representation
I gave for Mathematical Foundations of Computer
Science on 2/17/1998.
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- D. Beeferman. "Exponential Models for Natural Language".
A talk I gave locally about my group's ongoing work with
exponential language models.
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- D. Beeferman. "A note on the water jug problem in Prodigy".
A discussion of the redesign of a Prodigy domain involving infinite
types.
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- D. Beeferman. Link Grammar Prefix Measures for Spontaneous Speech
Recognition. Originally a term project for
a speech understanding course, this paper
discusses present and future work
toward using the link grammar formalism in conversational
speech recognition.
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Book chapter
- Huang, X., A. Acero, F. Alleva, D. Beeferman, M. Hwang, and
M. Mahajan. From CMU Sphinx-II to Microsoft Whisper: Making Speech
Recognition Usable. Appeared in Advanced Topics in Speech
Recognition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.
Discusses the evolution of the Microsoft
WHISPER speech recognizer.
[ Microsoft Word 6.0 ]
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