Publications

  • Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu, Frank Rudzicz, Tiago H. Falk. (2011) Using Acoustic Measures to Predict Automatic Speech Recognition Performance for Dysarthric Speakers. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA). A Workshop at Interspeech 2011, August 25 -- 27, Florence, Italy.
  • Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu and Frank Ruzicz. (2011) Adapting Acoustic and Lexical Models to Dysarthric Speech. In: Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 22 --27, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu and Frank Ruzicz. (2011) Comparing Humans and Automatic Speech Recognition Systems in Recognizing Dysarthric Speech. In: Proceedings of Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CanAI), May 25 -- 27, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  • Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu, Mirko Hannemann, Tobias Baum, and Andreas Wendemuth. (2008) Hierarchical HMM-based Semantic Concept Labeling Model. In: Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), December 15--18, Goa, India.
  • Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu and Andreas Wendemuth. (2008) Accent and Channel Adaptation for Use in a Telephone-based Spoken Dialog System. In: Lecture Notes In Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 5246, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue (TSD) , September 8--12, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu, Mirko Hannemann, Tobias Baum, and Andreas Wendemuth. (2008) Using Prior Domain Knowledge to Build Robust HMM-Based Semantic Tagger Trained on Completely Unannotated Data. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Prior Knowledge for Text and Language. A Workshop at ICML/UAI/COLT 2008 , July 9, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu and Andreas Wendemuth. (2008) Towards User Group Dependent Acoustic Models. In: Proceedings of 19. Konferenz Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV), September 8--10, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
  • Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu, Mirko Hannemann, and Andreas Wendemuth. (2008) Using More Context in HMM-based Semantic Tagging Model. In: Proceedings of Research Workshop on Emotion-, Speech-, and Face Recognition with Advanced Classifiers , A. Wendemuth and H.-G. Meier (eds.), Magdeburg, Germany.
  • Bogdan Vlasenko, Björn Schuller, Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu, Gerhard Rigoll, and Andreas Wendemuth. (2008) Balancing Spoken Content Adaptation and Unit Length in the Recognition of Emotion and Interest. In: Proceedings of the Interspeech 2008 Incorporating SST 2008 , September 22--26, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu, Martin Schafföner, and Andreas Wendemuth. (2007) Gender Recognition and Gender-based Acoustic Model Adaptation for Telephone-based Spoken Dialog System. In: Proceedings of 18. Konferenz Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV), September 10--12, Cottbus, Germany.
  • Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu, Marcel Katz, and Andreas Wendemuth. (2007) Acoustic Modeling for a Speaker-Independent Telephone-Based Spoken Dialog System. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), October 15--18, Moscow, Russia.
  • Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu, and Andreas Wendemuth. (2007) Telephone-based Spoken Dialog System Using HTK-based Speech Recognizer and VoiceXML. Proceedings of the 33rd German Annual Conference on Acoustics (DAGA) , March 19--22, Stuttgart, Germany.

Demonstration

  • Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu , and Andreas Wendemuth. (2009) A Multi-domain Telephone-based Spoken Dialog System Using HMM-based Acoustic and Semantic Models in a VoiceXML Framework. IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), Show & Tell Demonstration, December 13-17, Merano, Italy.

Theses and Technical Reports

  • Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu (2009) Technical Report on the KEY Telephone-based Spoken Dialog System. Otto-von-Guericke University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Cognitive Systems Research Group, Magdeburg, Germany.
  • Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu (2009) Robust Acoustic and Semantic Modeling in a Telephone-based Spoken Dialog System. Ph.D. Dissertaion, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
  • Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu (2002) Subword-based Amharic Word Recognition. An Experiment Using Hidden Markov Model. Master's Thesis, School of Information Studies for Africa, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.