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Yun-Hsuan Sung (宋雲軒)

PhD Candidate
NLP Group and Speech Lab
Electrical Engineering Department
Stanford University
Email: yhsung@stanford.edu
Advisors: Dan Jurafsky and Robert M. Gray

I'm a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. I work with Prof. Dan Jurafsky and Christopher Manning on automatic speech recognition in Natural Language Processing Group and Speech Lab. I am insterested in applying machine learning and statistical graphical models to speech and language processing. I came from Taiwan and got my BS degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University in 2002.

Research Interests:

Speech and Language Processing, Machine Learning, Graphical Models, Optimization

Experience:

2005.09 ~ present Research Assistant
NLP Group and Speech Lab, Stanford University, CA, USA
2008.06 ~ 2008.09 Summer Intern
Speech Research Group, Google Research, CA, USA
2007.01 ~ 2007.04 Teaching Assistant
CS224S/LING281 Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Stanford University, CA, USA
2006.06 ~ 2006.09 Summer Intern
Speech Research Group, Microsoft Research, WA, USA

Publications:

Hidden Conditional Random Fields for Phone Recognition [pdf]
Yun-Hsuan Sung and Dan Jurafsky
To appear in IEEE ASRU 2009, Merano, Italy
Revisiting Graphemes with Increasing Amounts of Data [pdf]
Yun-Hsuan Sung, Thad Hughes, Francoise Beaufays, and Brian Strope
In proceedings of IEEE ICASSP 2009, Taipei, Taiwan
Maximum Conditional Likelihood Linear Regression and Maximum a Posteriori for Hidden Conditional Random Fields Speaker Adaptation [pdf]
Yun-Hsuan Sung, Constantinos Boulis, and Dan Jurafsky
In proceedings of IEEE ICASSP 2008, Las Vegas, USA
Regularization, Adaptation, and Non-Independent Features Improve Hidden Conditional Random Fields for Phone Classification [pdf]
Yun-Hsuan Sung, Constantinos Boulis, Christopher Manning, and Dan Jurafsky
In proceedings of IEEE ASRU 2007, Kyoto, Japan
Detection of Word Fragments in Mandarin Telephone Conversation [pdf]
Cheng-Tao Chu, Yun-Hsuan Sung, Zhao Yuan, and Dan Jurafsky
In proceedings of Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh PA, USA

Upcoming Conferences:

Apr 19-24 2009 ICASSP 2009, Taipei, Taiwan (deadline Sep 29, 2008)
May 31-Jun 5 2009 NAACL HLT 2009, Boulder, Colorado, USA (deadline Dec 1, 2008)
Sep 6-10 2009 Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK (deadline Apr 17, 2009)
Dec 7-10 2009 NIPS 2009, Vancouver, Canada (deadline Jun 5, 2009)
Dec 13-17 2009 ASRU 2009, Merano, Italy (deadline Jul 15, 2009)
Mar 15-19 2010 ICASSP 2010, Dallas, Texas, USA (deadline Sep 14, 2009)
Sep 26-30 2010 Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan (deadline Apr 30, 2010)

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