HCCL Publications

2008

• Harrison, A. M., W. Y. Lau, H. Meng and L. Wang, "Improving Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis of Learners' Speech with Context-sensitive Phonological Rules based on Language Transfer," in the Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbanem, Australia, 22-26 September 2008.

• Wang, L., X. Feng and H. Meng, "Automatic Generation and Pruning of Phonetic Mispronunciations to Support Computer-Aided Pronuinciation Training," in the Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbanem, Australia, 22-26 September 2008.

• Wang, L., X. Feng and H. Meng, "Mispronunciation Detection Based on Cross-Language Phonological Comparisons", in the Proceedings of the IEEE IET International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing, Shanghai, China, 4-9 July 2008.

• Wang, Y., Z. Y. Wu, L. H. Cai and H. Meng, "Modeling the Synchrony between Audio and Visual Modalities for Speaker Identification", in the Proceedings of the 8th Phonetic Conference of China and the International Symposium on Phonetic Frontiers (PCC2008), Beijing, China, 18-20 April 2008. Presentation PowerPoint
• Z.Y.Zhou and H.Meng, "Recasting the Discriminative N-gram Model as a Pseudo-conventional N-gram Model for LVCSR", in the Proceedings of ICASSP, USA, March 2008.

2007

• H. Meng, "Multilingual Dialog Systems," in Advances in Chinese Spoken Language Processing, in Advances in Chinese Spoken Langauge Processing (C.H. Lee, H. Li, L.S. Lee and R.H. Wang, Eds.), World Scientific Publishing Company 2007.
• P.C. Ching, T. Lee, W.K. Lo and H. Meng, "Cantonese Speech Recognition and Synthesis," in Advances in Chinese Spoken Langauge Processing (C.H. Lee, H. Li, L.S. Lee and R.H. Wang, Eds.), World Scientific Publishing Company 2007.
• S.X. Zhang, M.W. Mak and Helen M. Meng, "Speaker Verification via High-Level Feature Based Phonetic-Class Pronunciation Modeling", IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. 56, No. 9, pp. 1189-1198, Sept. 2007.

• Helen Meng, Yuen-yee Lo, Lan Wang and Wing-yiu Lau, "Deriving Salient Learners' Mispronunciations from Cross-Language Phonological Comparisons," in the Proceedings of ASRU, Kyoto, Japan, 9-13 December 2007.

• Liu, C., L. Xie and H. Meng, "Classification of Music and Speech in Mandarin News Broadcasts", 9th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC), Huangshan, Anhui, China, 21-24 October 2007.

• Shing-Kai Chan, Lei Xie and Helen Meng, "Modling the Statistical Behavior of Lexical Chains to Capture Word Cohesiveness for Automatic Story Segmentation," in the Proceedings of Interspeech, Belgium, August 2007.

• Pui-yu Hui, Zhengyu Zhou and Helen Meng, Complementarity and Redundancy in Multimodal User Inputs with Speech and Pen Gestures," in the Proceedings of Interspeech, Belgium, August 2007.

• Zhifeng Li, Dahua lin, Helen Meng, and Xiaoou Tang, "Discriminant Mutual Subspace Learning for Indoor and Outdoor Face Recognition," in the Proceedings of IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 18-23 June 2007.

• Zhifeng Li and Xiaoou Tang, "Using Support Vector Machines to Enhance the Performance of Bayesian Face Recognition," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IFS), Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 174-180, June 2007.

• Lei Xie, Chuan Liu and Helen Meng, Combined Use of Speaker- and Tone-Normalized Pitch Reset with Pause Duration for Automatic Story Segmentation in Mandarin Broadcast News," in the Proceedings of NAACL/HLT, Rochester, New York, USA, pp 193-196, 22-25 April, 2007.

• Shen Zhang, Zhiyong Wu, Helen M. Meng and Lianhong Cai, HEAD MOVEMENT SYNTHESIS BASED ON SEMANTIC AND PROSODIC FEATURES FOR A CHINESE EXPRESSIVE AVATAR," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Hawai'i Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 15-20 2007.

• Shen Zhang, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng and Lianhong Cai, "Facial Expression Synthesis using PAD Emotional Parameters for a Chinese Expressive Avatar", in the Proceedings of Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Lisbon, Portugal, 12-14 September 2007. Also in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007 (4738).

• Bin MA, Helen M. MENG and Man-Wai MAK, "Effects of Device Mismatch, Language Mismatch and Environmental Mismatch on Speaker Verification," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Hawai'i Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 15-20 2007.

• Henry Pak-Sum HUI, Helen M. MENG and Man-Wai MAK, "Adaptive Weight Estimation in Multi-biometric Verification using Fuzzy Decision Fusion," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Hawai'i Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 15-20 2007.

• Helen Meng, Eric Zee and Wai-sum Lee, "A Contrastive Phonetic Study between Cantonese and English to Predict Salient Mispronunciations by Cantonese Learners of English," Technical Report, SEEM2007-1500, Department of Sytems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, February 2007.

  2006

• H. Meng and D. Li, "Multilingual Spoken Dialog Systems," in Multilingual Speech Processing (T. Schultz, K. Kirchkoff, Eds), Academic Press 2006.
• Hongwu Yang, Helen M. Meng, Zhiyong Wu and Lianhong Cai, "Modelling the Global Acoustic Correlates of Expressivity for Chinese Text-to-speech Synthesis", IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Aruba, 10-13 December 2006.

• Zhiyong Wu, Helen M. Meng, Hui Ning and Sam C. Tse, "A Corpus-based Approach for Cooperative Response Generation in a Dialog System", the 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP'06), Vol. I, pp. 614-626, Singapore, 13-16 December 2006.

• Lei Xie, Helen Meng and Zhi-Qiang Liu, "A Cantonese Speech-Driven Talking Face using Translingual Audio-to-Visual Conversion", 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP'06), Singapore, Vol. I, pp. 627-639, 13-16 December 2006.

• H.W. Yang, Helen M. Meng and L. H. Cai, "Modeling the Acoustic Correlates of Expressive Elements in Text Genres for Expressive Text-to-Speech Synthesis". In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburg, USA, Sep. 17-21, 2006.

• Z. Y. Wu, L. H. Cai and Helen M. Meng. "Weight Estimation for Audio-Visual Multi-level Fusion in Bimodal Speaker Identification". In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Kunming, China, August 16-19, 2006.

• Z. Y. Zhou, Helen M. Meng and W. K. Lo, "A Multi-Pass Error Detection and Correction Framework for Mandarin LVCSR". In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburg, USA, Sep. 17-21, 2006.

• Z. Y. Wu, S. Zhang, L. H. Cai and Helen M. Meng. Real-time Synthesis of Chinese Visual Speech and Facial Expressions using MPEG-4 FAP Features in a Three-dimensional Avatar". In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburg, USA, Sep. 17-21, 2006.

• P. Y. Hui and Helen M. Meng., "Joint Interpretation of Input Speech and Pen Gestures for Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction". In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Pittsburgh, USA, 17-21 September, 2006.

• Helen M. Meng, P. C. Ching, Tan Lee, Man-Wai Mak, Brian Mak, Y. S. Moon, Man-Hung Siu, Xiaoou Tang, Henry P. S. Hui, Andrew Lee, Wai-Kit Lo, Bin Ma and Eddie K. T. Sio, "The Multi-Biometric, Multi-Device and Multilingual (M3) Corpus". In the Proceedings of The Second Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication (MMUA), Toulouse, France, 11-12 May 2006.

• Xu, K, Meng, Helen M. and Weng, F., " A Maxiumu Entropy Framework that Integrates Word Dependencies and Grammatical Relations for Reading Comprehension". In the Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference /North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting (HLT-NAACL), New York City, USA, 4 - 9 June 2006.

• Zhengyu Zhou, Peng Yu, Ciprian Chelba, and Frank Seide, "Towards Spoken- Document Retrieval for the Internet: Lattice Indexing For Large-Scale Web Search Architectures", In the Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference /North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting (HLT-NAACL), New York City, USA, 4 - 9 June 2006.

• Zhengyu Zhou, Jianfeng Gao, Frank K. Soong and Helen Meng, "A Comparative Study of Discriminative Methods for Reranking LVCSR N-Best Hypotheses in Domain Adaptation and Generalization", In the Proceedings of The 31st International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, France, 14 - 19 May 2006.

  2005

• Z. Y. Wu, L. H. Cai and Helen M. Meng, "Multi-level Fusion of Audio and Visual Features for Speaker Identification". In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Biometrics, Hong Kong, January 5-7, 2006. Also published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3832, Springer Belin/Heidelberg, pages 493-499, 2005.

• Xu, K. and Meng, Helen M., "Design and Development of a Bilingual Reading Comprehension Corpus". Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing. Volume 10, No. 2, pp. 251-276, June 2005.

• T. Y. Fung, Y. C. Li, Eddie Sio, Icarus Lee, Helen M. Meng, P. C. Ching, "Embedded Cantonese TTS for Multi-Device Access to Web Content". In the Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, Lisboa, Portugal, 4-8 September 2005.

• Du, Yongping, Helen Meng, Xuanjing Huang and Lide Wu, The Use of Metadata, Web-derived Answer Patterns and Passage Context to Improve Reading Comprehension Performance," in the Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP), pages 604¡V611, Vancouver, October 2005.

2004

• Xu, K. and Meng, H., "Using Verb Dependency Matching in a Reading Comprehension System", Proceedings of the Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS), Beijing, China, October 2004.
• Zhengyu Zhou and Helen Meng, "Error Identification for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition", In the Proceedings of ISCSLP 2004.

• Tien-Ying Fung, Yuk-Chi Li, Helen Meng and P.C. Ching, "Prosody and Style Controls in CU VOCAL using SSML and SAPI XML Tags", In the Proceedings of ISCSLP 2004.

• Zhou, Z. Y. and Helen M. Meng, "A Two-Level Schema for Detecting Recognition Errors", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Korea, October 2004.
• Lau, C. W., Ma, B., Helen M. Meng, Y.S. Moon and Yeung Yam, "Fuzzy Logic Decision Fusion in a Multimodal Biometric System", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Korea, October 2004.
• Meng, H., P.C. Ching, S.F. Chan, Y.F. Wong and C.C. Chan, "ISIS: An Adaptive, Trilingual Conversation System with Interleaving Interaction and Delegation Dialogs," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human INteraction (TOCHI), Volume 11, Issue 3, pages 268-299, September 2004.
• Wang, J. Q., Wong, K. H., Heng, P. A., Meng, H., Wong, T. T., "A Real-Time Cantonese Text-to-Audiovisual Speech Synthesizer", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 17-21 May 2004.
• Lo, W. K., Meng, H., Ching, P. C., "Multi-scale spoken document retrieval for Cantonese broadcast news", International Journal of Speech Technology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, April 2004.
• Yip, Wing Lin and Helen Meng, "Bilingual Response Generation using Semi-Automatically-Induced Templates for a Mixed-Initiative Dialog System," in the Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, Hong Kong, 15-18 December 2004.
• Ma, B., Meng, H., "English-Chinese Bilingual Text-Independent Speaker Verification", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 17-21 May 2004.
• H. Meng, B. Chen, S. Khudanpur, G. Levow, W. Lo, D. Oard, P.Schone, K. Tang, H. Wang and J. Wang, "Mandarin-English Information (MEI): Investigating Translingual Speech Retrieval", Computer Speech and Language, Volume 18, pp. 163-179, April 2004.
• Luk, P. C., Xu, K. and Meng, H., "Headword Percolation in a Multi-Parser Architecture for Natural Language Understanding", International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Hainan Island, China, March 2004.

2003

• T. Lee, H. Meng, W.K. Lo and P.C. Ching, "The State of the art in human-computer speech-based interface technologies", HKIE Transactions, Vol.10, No. 4, pp. 50 - 61, December 2003.
• W.K.Lo, H. Meng and P.C.Ching, "Cross-language spoken document retrieval using HMM-based retrieval model with multi-scale fusion", ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, Vol.2, iss.1, pp.1 - 26, March 2003.
• Lo, W. K., Li, Y. C., Levow, G., Wang, H. M., Meng, H., "Multi-Scale Document Expansion in English-Mandarin Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval", Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003.
• Meng, H., Yip, W. L., Mok, O. Y., Chan, S. F. "Natural Language Response Generation in Mixed-Initiative Dialogs using Task Goals and Dialog Acts", Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003.
• Siu, K. C., Meng, H., Wong, C. C. "Example-based Bi-directional Chinese-English Machine Translation with Semi-automatically Induced Grammars", Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003.
• Meng, H., Li, Y. C., Fung, T. Y., Ho, M. C., Keung, C. K., Lo, T. H., Lo, W. K., Ching, P. C., "Recent Enhancement in CU VOCAL for Chinese TTS-Enabled Applications ", Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003.
• MENG, H., Ching, P. C., FUNG, T. Y., Li, Y. C., Ho, M. C., Keung, C. K., Lo, W. K., Lo, T. H., Low K. F., "The "Author Once, Present Anywhere" (AOPA) Software Platform", Proceedings of Hong Kong International Computer Conference 2003, Hong Kong, September 2003.
• Meng, H., Lo, T. H., Keung, C. K., Ho, M. C., Ho, M. C., Lo, W. K., "CU VOCAL Web Service: A Text-to-speech Synthesis Web Service for Voice-enabled Web-mediated Applications", Proceedings of the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, Budapest, HUNGARY, May 2003.
• Li, Y. C., Meng, H., "Document Expansion using a Side Collection for Monolingual and Cross-langauge Spoken Document Retrieval", Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Multilingual Spoken Document Retrieval (MSDR), Hong Kong SAR, China, April 2003.
• Hui, P. Y., Lo, W. K., Meng, H., "Two Robust Methods for Cantonese Spoken Document Retrieval", Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Multilingual Spoken Document Retrieval (MSDR), Hong Kong SAR, China, April 2003.
• Hui, P. Y., Lo, W. K., Meng, H., "Multimedia Fusion in Automatic Extraction of Studio Speech Segments for Spoken Document Retrieval", Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hong Kong SAR, China, April 2003.

2002

• Chang, E., Seide, F., Meng, H., Chen, Z., Shi, Y., Li, Y. C., "A System for Spoken Query Information Retrieval on Mobile Devices", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Volume 10, Issue 8, P.531-541 , November 2002.
• Wai-Kit LO, Helen MENG and P. C. CHING, "Multi-scale and multi-model integration for improved performance in Chinese spoken document retrieval", Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Denver, September 2002.
• Meng, H., et al., "ISIS: A Multi-Modal, Trilingual, Distributed Spoken Dialog System developed with CORBA, Java, XML and KQML," Invited paper for the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing 2002, Denver, September 2002.
• Meng, H., Keung, C. K., Siu, K. C., Fung, T. Y., "CU Vocal: Corpus-based Syllable Concatenation for Chinese Speech Across Domains and Dialects", Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Denver, September 2002.
• Fung, T.Y., H. Meng, "The Effect of Tonal Context on Cantonese Concatenative Speech Synthesis," Proceedings of the International Symposium of Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Taipei, Taiwan, China, August 2002.
• Mok, B., Meng, H. "Improvements on a Belief Network Framework for Natural Language Understanding of Domain-specific Chinese Queries", Proceedings of the International Symposium of Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Taipei, Taiwan, China, August 2002.
• Lo, S. H., Meng, H., Lam, W., "Automatic Bilingual Text Document Summarization", Proceedings of the Sixth World Multiconference on Systematic, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 2002.
• Helen Meng, Steven Lee, Carmen Wai, "Intelligent speech for information systems: towards biliteracy and trilingualism" Journal of Interacting with Computers, Volume 14, Issue 4 , P.327-339, 1 July 2002.
• Luk, P.C., Meng, H. "GLR Parsing with Multiple Grammars for Natural Language Queries", ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), Vol. 1, Issue 2, p.123-144, June 2002.
• Lo, T. H., Meng, H., WAP-Speech: Deriving Synergy between WAP and the Spoken Dialog Interface Proceedings of the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference, Hawaii, USA, May 2002.
• Chang, E., Meng, H., Li, Y. C., Fung, T. Y, "Efficient Web Search on Mobile Devices with Multi-Modal Input and Intelligent Text Summarization", Proceedings of the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference, Hawaii, USA, May 2002.
• Chan, S. F., Meng, H. "Interdependencies among Dialog Acts, Task Goals and Discourse Inheritance in Mixed-Initiative Dialog" Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference, San Diego, March 2002.
• Lee, T., Lo, W. K., Ching, P. C. and Meng, H., "Spoken Language Resources for Cantonese Speech Processing," Speech Communication, vol. 36, pp 327-342, Elsevier Science, March 2002.
• Meng, H., K. C. Siu, "Semiautomatic Acquisition of Semantic Structures for Understanding Domain-Specific Natural language Queries", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol.14. Issue 1, p.172-181, Jan/Feb 2002.

2001

• H. Meng, "A Hierarchical Lexical Representation for Pronunciation Generation," in Data Driven Techniques in Speech Synthesis (R. Damper, Ed), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
• Wong, C.C. and H. Meng, " Improvements on a Semi-Automatic Grammar Induction Framework," Proceedings of the Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Trento, Italy, December 2001.
• Meng, H., W. K. Lo, B. Chen and K. Tang, "Generating Phonetic Cognates to Handle Named Entities in English-Chinese Cross-Langauge Spoken Document Retreival,", Proceedings of the Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Trento, Italy, December 2001.
• Hui, P.Y., X. Tang, H. Meng, W. Lam and X. Gao, "Automatic Story Segmentation for Spoken Document Retrieval", Proceedings of the IEEE Fuzzy Conference, Melbourne, December 2001.
• Wong, C.C., H. Meng and K.C. Siu, "Learning Strategies in a Grammar Induction Framework," Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium, Tokyo, November 2001.
• Meng, H. et al., "ISIS: A Trilingual Conversational System with Learning Capabilities and Combined Interaction and Delegation Dialogs," Proceedings of the National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC6), Shenzhen, November 2001.
• Luk, P.C., F. Weng and H. Meng, "Automatic Grammar Partitioning for Syntactic Parsing," Proceedings of the International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, Beijing, October 2001.
• XU, K., F. Weng, H. Meng and P. C. Luk, "Multi-Parser Architecture for Query Processing" Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Speech Communication & Technology, Scandinavia, September 2001.
• Meng, H. et al., "ISIS: A Learning System with Combined Interaction and Delegation Dialogs", Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Speech Communication & Technology, Scandinavia, September 2001.
• Lo, W. K., P. Schone and H. Meng, "Multi-Scale Retrieval in MEI:An English-Chinese Translingual Speech Retrieval System", Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Speech Communication & Technology, Aalborg, September 2001.
• Siu, K. C. and H. Meng, "Semi-Automatic Grammar Induction for Bi-directional English-Chinese Machine Translation", Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Speech Communication & Technology, Scandinavia, September 2001.
• Wai-Kit LO, P.C. CHING, Tan LEE and Helen MENG, "Design, compilation and processing of CUCall: a set of Cantonese spoken language corpora collected over telephone networks", Proceedings of Research on Computational Linguistics Conference XIV, pp.193-212, Tainan, August 2001.
• Hui, K., W. Lam and H. Meng, "Automatic Event Generation from Multi-lingual News Stories," Proceedings of the first ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries(JCDL), Roanoke, Virginia, USA, June 2001.
• Wai, C., R. Pierraccinni, H. Meng, "A Dynamic Semantic Model for Rescoring Recognition Hypothesis," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2001.
• Meng, H., X. Tang, P. Y. Hui, X. Gao, "Speech Retrieval with Video Parsing for Television News Programs", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2001.
• Wang, H., H. Meng, P. Schone, B. Chen and W. K. Lo, "Multi-scale Audio Indexing for Translingual Spoken Document Retrieval," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Salt Lake City, May 2001.
• Meng, H., P. Y. Hui, "Spoken Document Retrieval for the Languages of Hong Kong", International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing (ISIMP), May 2001.
• Hui, K., W. Lam and H. Meng, "Discovery of Unknown Events from Multi-lingual News," Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages(ICCPOL), May 2001.
• Meng, H., et al., "Speech Retrieval with Video "Mandarin-English Information (MEI): Investigating Translingual Speech Retrieval," Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference, San Diego, March 2001.
• Wai, C., Meng, H. and Pierracinni, R., "Scalability and Portability of a Belief Network-based Dialog Model for Different Application Domains," Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference, San Diego, March 2001.
• Lam, W., Meng, H., Wong, K. L., and Yen, J., "Using Contextual Analysis for News Event Detection," International Journal on Intelligent Systems, Vol 16. 525-546 (2001).
• Meng, H., "A Hierarchical Lexical Representation for Bi-directional Spelling-to-Pronunciation / Pronunciation-to-Spelling Generation," Speech Communication, Vol. 33 (2001), pp. 213-239.

2000

• Lam, W., Meng, H., and Hui, K., "Multilingual Topic Detection using a Parallel Corpus," Proceedings of the Topic Detection and Tracking (3) Workshop 2000, Washington DC., November 2000.
• Meng, H., "Intelligent Speech for Information Systems: Towards Biliteracy and Trilingualism", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Universal Usability (CUU), Washington D.C., November 2000.
• Luk, P.C., Meng, H. and Weng, F., "Grammar Partitioning and Parser Composition for Natural Language Understanding," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Beijing, China, October 2000.
• Lo, W.K., Meng, H. and Ching, P.C., "Subsyllabic Acoustic modeling across Chinese Dialects," Proceedings of the International Symposium of Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Beijing, China, October 2000.
• Meng, H., Lo, W.K., Li, Y.C., and Ching, P.C., "Multi-scale Audio Indexing for Spoken Document Retrieval," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Beijing, China, October 2000.
• Meng, H., Wai, C. and Pierracinni, R., "The Use of Belief Networks for Mixed-Initiative Dialog Modeling," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Beijing, China, October 2000.
• Meng, H., et al., "ISIS: A Multilingual Spoken Dialog System developed with CORBA and KQML Agents," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Beijing, China, October 2000.
• Meng, H. and Tsui, W.C., "Comprehension Across Domains and Languages," Proceedings of the International Symposium of Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Beijing, China, October 2000.
• Li, Y. C., Lo, W. K., Meng, H., and Ching, P. C., "Query Expansion using Phonetic Confusion for Chinese Spoken Document Retrieval," Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages, Hong Kong, October 2000.
• Fung, T. Y. and H. Meng, "Concatenating Syllables for Response Generation in Spoken Language Applications," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000.
• Meng, H., S. Lee and C. Wai, "CU FOREX: A Bilingual Spoken Dialog System for Foreign Exchange Inquiries", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000.
• Meng, H., "Initial Development Towards a Trilingual Speech Interface for Financial Information Inquiries", International Journal of Speech Technology, Vol. 3, Issue 2, June 2000, pp. 83-91.
• Meng, H., D. Oard, S. Khudanpur and H. M. Wang, "Mandarin-English Information (MEI): Investigating Translingual Speech Retrieval", Proceedings of the NAACL Embedded Machine Translation Workshop, Seattle, Washington, May 2000.
• Weng, F., H. Meng and P. C. Luk, "Parsing a Lattice with Multiple Grammars," Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, Trento, Italy, February 2000.
• Meng, H., D. Oard, S. Khundanpur and H. M. Wang, "Mandarin-English Information (MEI)", Proceedings of the DARPA Topic Detection and Tracking Workshop, Washington D. C., February 2000.
• Meng, H., et al., "Mandarin-English Information (MEI):Investigating Translingual Speech Retrieval", Technical Report of the Johns Hopkins University Summer Workshop 2000.

1999

• Meng, H., W. Lam and K. F. Low, "Learning Belief Networks for Language Understanding," Proceedings of the 1999 International Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), Keystone, Colorado, USA, December 1999.
• Meng, H., Y. C. Li, Y. W. Lee, K. K. Lau, "Allocative Auctions: An Application Context for CSCW and Intelligent Agents," The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, December 1999.
• Meng, H., W. Lam and K. F. Low, "A Bayesian Approach for Understanding Information-Seeking Queries," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Tokyo, Japan, October 1999.
• Meng, H. and K. C. Siu, "Semi-Automatic Acquisition of Domain-Specific Semantic Structures," Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Speech Communication & Technology, Budapest, Hungary, September 1999.
• Meng, H., W. Lam, C. Wai, "To Believe is to Understand", Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Speech Communication & Technology, Budapest, Hungary, September 1999.
• Lee, T., H. Meng, W.K. Lo, P.C. Ching and K.M. Law, "Microprosodic Control in Cantonese Text-to-Speech Synthesis". Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Speech Communication & Technology, Budapest, Hungary, September 1999.
• Meng, H. and C. W. Ip, "An Analytical Study of Transformational Tagging on Chinese Text," Proceedings of the 1999 ROCLING conference, August 1999.
• Meng, H., "HCI and the 3C convergence" ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, Vol. 32, Number 1, pp.79-82. Position paper on the Development of an HCI Agenda, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 1999.
• Meng, H. et al., "Preliminary Developments in CUHK's Trilingual Speech Interface for Financial Information Inquiries", Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent System (ISSPIS), Special Session on Speech and Language Technologies, Guangzhou, China 1999.

1997

• Zue, V., H. Meng, J. Seid, D. Tennenhouse and T. Wilcox, "Information Technology in Hong Kong," in Made by Hong Kong (Suzanne Berger and Richard K. Lester eds.), Oxford University Press, 1997.

1996

• Meng, H. et al, "Wheels: a conversational system in automobile classifieds domain", Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, October 1996.
• Meng, H., S. Hunnicutt, S. Seneff and V. Zue, "Reversible letter-to-sound /sound-to letter generation based on parsing word morphology". Journal of Speech Communication, Vol. 18, January 1996.