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Sean Shensheng Xu, Xiaoquan Ke, Man-Wai Mak, Helen M. Meng, Timothy C.Y. Kwok, Speaker-turn Aware Diarization for Speech-Based Cognitive Assessments. in Frontiers in Neuroscience, Jan. 2024.
Xiaoquan Ke, Man-Wai Mak, Helen M. Meng, Automatic Selection of Spoken Language Biomarkers for Dementia Detection. in Neural Networks, vol. 129, Jan. 2024, pp. 191–204. (JCR Q1, IF: 9.7)
Haibin Wu, Jiawen Kang, Lingwei Meng, Helen Meng, Hung-yi Lee. The defender's perspective on automatic speaker verification: An overview. Proceedings of IJCAI 2023 Workshop on Deepfake Audio Detection and Analysis (DADA 2023), Macau, China.
Jinchao Li, Xixin Wu, Kaitao Song, Dongsheng Li, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng A Hierarchical Regression Chain Framework for Affective Vocal Burst Recognition IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2023
Jinchao Li, Kaitao Song, Junan Li, Bo Zheng, Dongsheng Li, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng Leveraging Pretrained Representations with Task-related Keywords for Alzheimer's Disease Detection IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2023
Ka Ho Wong and Helen Mei-Ling Meng (2023) Automatic Analyses of Dysarthric Speech based on Distinctive Features APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing: Vol. 12: No. 3, e18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/116.00000077
Haohan Guo, Fenglong Xie, Xixin Wu, Frank Soong, Helen Meng MSMC-TTS: Multi-Stage Multi-Codebook VQ-VAE Based Neural TTS. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 31 (2023): 1811-1824.
Zhe Li, Man-Wai Mak Speaker Representation Learning via Contrastive Loss with Maximal Speaker Separability In 2022 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC) (pp. 962-967). IEEE.
Zhe Li, Man-Wai Mak, Helen Meng Discriminative Speaker Representation via Contrastive Learning with Class-Aware Attention in Angular Space In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023).
Lingwei Meng, Jiawen Kang, Mingyu Cui, Yuejiao Wang, Xixin Wu, Helen Meng A Sidecar Separator Can Convert a Single-Talker Speech Recognition System to a Multi-Talker One IEEE ICASSP 2023, Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2023
Xiaoquan Ke, Man-Wai Mak, Helen M Meng. Feature Selection and Text Embedding For Detecting Dementia from Spontaneous Cantonese, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2023.
Hui Lu, Disong Wang, Xixin Wu, Zhiyong Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng. Disentangled Speech Representation Learning for One-Shot Cross-lingual Voice Conversion Using Beta-VAE, IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), Doha, Qatar, 9-12 January, 2023.
Xianmin Gong, Xiaoquan Ke, Man-Wai Mak, Helen M. Meng, Automatic Selection of Discriminative Features for Dementia Detection in Cantonese-Speaking People. in Proc. Interspeech 2022.
Xianmin Gong, Patrick C. M. Wong, Helene H. Fung, Vincent C. T. Mok, Timothy C. Y. Kwok, Jean Woo, Ka Ho Wong, Helen Meng. The Hong Kong Grocery Shopping Dialog Task (HK-GSDT): A Quick Screening Test for Neurocognitive Disorders. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 13302, 2022
Yi Wang, Tianzi Wang, Zi Ye, Lingwei Meng, Shoukang Hu, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng. Exploring linguistic feature and model combination for speech recognition based automatic AD detection. Interspeech 2022, Sept 2022.
Jingyan Zhou, Fei Mi, Helen Meng, Jiawen Deng. Overview of NLPCC 2022 Shared Task 7: Fine-Grained Dialogue Social Bias Measurement, NLPCC 2022, Sept 2022
Jiawen Deng, Jingyan Zhou, Hao Sun, Chujie Zheng, Fei Mi, Helen Meng and Minlie Huang. COLD: A Benchmark for Chinese Offensive Language Detection, EMNLP 2022 , Dec 2022
Jingyan Zhou, Jiawen Deng, Fei Mi, Yitong Li, Yasheng Wang, Minlie Huang, Xin Jiang, Qun Liu, Helen Meng. Towards Identifying Social Bias in Dialog Systems: Framework, Dataset, and Benchmark, EMNLP 2022, Dec 2022
Haibin Wu, Jiawen Kang, Lingwei Meng, Yang Zhang, Xixin Wu, Zhiyong Wu, Hung-Yi Lee, Helen Meng. Tackling Spoofing-Aware Speaker Verification with Multi-Model Fusion, Odyssey 2022: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, Beijing, China, June 2022.
Haibin Wu, Lingwei Meng, Jiawen Kang, Jinchao Li, Xu Li, Xixin Wu, Hung-yi Lee, Helen Meng. Spoofing-Aware Speaker Verification by Multi-Level Fusion, Interspeech 2022, Sept 2022.
Xueyuan Chen, Qiaochu Huang, Xixin Wu, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, "HILvoice:Human-in-the-Loop Style Selection for Elder-Facing Speech Synthesis", accepted to ISCSLP 2022
Guo, Haohan, Hui Lu, Xixin Wu, and Helen Meng. "A Multi-Scale Time-Frequency Spectrogram Discriminator for GAN-based Non-Autoregressive TTS." Interspeech 2022, Sept 2022
Haohan Guo, Fenglong Xie, Frank K. Soong, Xixin Wu, Helen Meng, A Multi-Stage Multi-Codebook VQ-VAE Approach to High-Performance Neural TTS, Interspeech 2022, Sept 2022
Tianzi Wang, Jiajun Deng, Mengzhe Geng, Zi Ye, Shoukang Hu, Yi Wang, Mingyu Cui, Zengrui Jin, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, Conformer Based Elderly Speech Recognition System for Alzheimer’s Disease Detection, Interspeech 2022, Sept 2022
Xiaoying ZHANG, Baolin Peng, Jianfeng Gao and Helen Meng, Toward Self-Learning End-to-End Dialog Systems, SIGDIAL 2022, Sept 2022
Mingyu Cui, Jiajun Deng, Shoukang Hu, Xurong Xie, Tianzi Wang, Shujie Hu, Mengzhe Geng, Boyang Xue, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, Two-Pass Decoding and Cross-Adaptation Based System Combination of End-to-End Conformer and Hybrid TDNN ASR Systems, ISCA2022, June 2022
Chunhong Liao, Mingxing Li, Pengfei Liu, Kun Li, Helen Meng. Segment substitution and its variation in Philippine English: general speakers vs. English teachers. Experimental Linguistics, 2022, 11(3), 89-96.
Haibin Wu, Po-Chun Hsu, Ji Gao, Shanshan Zhang, Shen Huang, Jian Kang, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Hung-Yi Lee, Adversarial Sample Detection for Speaker Verification by Neural Vocoders, ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 236-240, May 2022.
Haibin Wu, Heng-Cheng Kuo, Naijun Zheng, Kuo-Hsuan Hung, Hung-yi Lee, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Min Wang, Helen Meng, Partially Fake Audio Detection by Self-Attention-Based Fake Span Discovery," ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 9236-9240, May 2022.
H. Wu, B. Zheng, X. Li, X. Wu, H. -Y. Lee and H. Meng, Characterizing the Adversarial Vulnerability of Speech self-Supervised Learning, ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 3164-3168, May 2022.
Kun Li, Tianhua Zhang, Liping Tang, Junan Li, Hongyuan Lu, Xixin Wu, and Helen Meng. 2022. Grounded Dialogue Generation with Cross-encoding Re-ranker, Grounding Span Prediction, and Passage Dropout. The Second DialDoc Workshop on Document-grounded Dialogue and Conversational Question Answering, pages 123–129, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics. May 2022.
Xiaoquan Ke, Man-Wai Mak, Jinchao Li, Helen M. Meng, Dual Dropout Ranking of Linguistic Features for Alzheimer’s Disease Recognition. in Proc. 2021 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA 2021).
Shoukang Hu, Xurong Xie, Shansong Liu , Jianwei Yu , Zi Ye, Mengzhe Geng, Xunying Liu , Helen Meng, Bayesian Learning of LF-MMI Trained Time Delay Neural Networks for Speech Recognition. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 29, 1514-1529. 2021
Junhao Xu, Jianwei Yu, Shoukang Hu, Xunying Liu and Helen Meng. Mixed Precision Low-bit Quantisation of Neural Network Language Models for Speech Recognition, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Volume 29, Pages 3679-3693, November 2021.
Zengrui Jin, Mengzhe Geng, Xurong Xie, Jianwei Yu, Shansong Liu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng. Adversarial Data Augmentation for Disordered Speech Recognition, ISCA Interspeech2021, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2021
Jiajun Deng, Fabian Ritter Gutierrez, Shoukang Hu, Mengzhe Geng, Xurong Xie, Zi Ye, Shansong Liu, Jianwei Yu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng. Bayesian Parametric and Architectural Domain Adaptation of LF-MMI Trained TDNNs for Elderly and Dysarthric Speech Recognition, ISCA Interspeech2021, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2021
Boyang Xue, Jianwei Yu, Junhao Xu, Shansong Liu, Shoukang Hu, Zi Ye, Mengzhe Geng, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng. Bayesian transformer language models for speech recognition, IEEE ICASSP2021, Toronto, Canada, June 2021
Junhao Xu, Jianwei Yu, Shoukang Hu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, Mixed precision quantization of transformer language models for speech recognition, IEEE ICASSP2021, Toronto, Canada, June 2021
Jianwei Yu, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Bo Wu, Shansong Liu, Shoukang Hu, Mengzhe Geng, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng and Dong Yu. Audio-visual Multi-channel Integration and Recognition of Overlapped Speech, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Volume 29, Pages 2067-2082, May 2021.
Xu Li, Na Li, Jinghua Zhong, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu, Dan Su, Dong Yu, Helen Meng, "Investigating Robustness of Adversarial Samples Detection for Automatic Speaker Verification", Interspeech, Oct 2020
Shansong Liu, Xurong Xie, Jianwei Yu, Shoukang Hu, Mengzhe Geng, Rongfeng Su, Shixiong Zhang, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng "Exploiting Cross Domain Visual Feature Generation for Disordered Speech Recognition", ISCA Interspeech, Oct 2020
Naijun Zheng, Xixin Wu, Jinghua Zhong, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, "Speaker-Aware Linear Discriminant Analysis in Speaker Verification", Interspeech, Oct 2020
Jianwei Yu, Bo Wu, Rongzhi Gu, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Lianwu Chen, Yong Xu, Meng Yu, Dan Su, Dong Yu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng "Audio-visual Multi-channel Recognition of Overlapped Speech" Interspeech, Oct 2020
Xiangyu LIANG, Zhiyong WU, Runnan LI, Yanqing LIU, Sheng ZHAO, Helen MENG, "Enhancing Monotonicity for Robust Autoregressive Transformer TTS," Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 3181-3185. Shanghai, China, 25-29 October, 2020.
Kun ZHANG, Zhiyong WU, Daode YUAN, Jian LUAN, Jia JIA, Helen Meng, Binheng SONG, "Re-weighted Interval Loss for Handling Data Imbalance Problem of End-to-End Keyword Spotting," Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 2567-2571. Shanghai, China, 25-29 October, 2020.
Xingchen SONG, Guangsen WANG, Yiheng HUANG, Zhiyong WU, Dan SU, Helen MENG, "Speech-XLNet: Unsupervised Acoustic Model Pretraining For Self-Attention Networks," Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 3765-3769. Shanghai, China, 25-29 October, 2020.
Xingchen SONG, Zhiyong WU, Yiheng HUANG, Dan SU, Helen MENG, "SpecSwap: A Simple Data Augmentation Method for End-to-End Speech Recognition," Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 581-585. Shanghai, China, 25-29 October, 2020.
Songxiang Liu, Yuewen Cao, Shiyin Kang, Na Hu, Xunying Liu, Dan Su, Dong Yu, Helen Meng, "Transferring Source Style in Non-Parallel Voice Conversion", Interspeech, Oct 2020
Songxiang Liu, Disong Wang, Yuewen Cao, Lifa Sun, Xixin Wu, Shiyin Kang, Zhiyong Wu, Xunying Liu, Dan Su, Dong Yu, Helen Meng. "END-TO-END Accent Conversion Without Using Native Utterances", IEEE ICASSP, May 2020, Barcelona, Spain.
Jianwei Yu, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Jian Wu, Shahram Ghorbani, Bo Wu, Shiyin Kang, Shansong Liu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, Dong Yu "Audio-Visual Recognition of Overlapped Speech for the LRS2 Dataset" ICASSP, May 2020
Yuewen Cao, Songxiang Liu, Xixin Wu, Shiyin Kang, Peng Liu, Zhiyong Wuy, Xunying Liu, Dan Su, Dong Yu, Helen Meng, "Code-Switched Speech Synthesis Using Bilingual Phonetic Posteriorgram with Only Monolingual Corpora", ICASSP, May 2020
Disong Wang, Jianwei Yu, Xixin Wu, Songxiang Liu, Lifa Sun, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, "End-To-End Voice Conversion Via Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Dysarthric Speech Reconstruction", ICASSP, May 2020
Xu Li, Jinghua Zhong, Xixin Wu, Jianwei Yu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, "Adversarial Attacks on GMM i-vector based Speaker Verification Systems", ICASSP, May 2020
Jia Li, Yu Rong, Hong Cheng, Helen Meng, Wenbing Huang, Junzhou Huang, "Semi-Supervised Graph Classification: A Hierarchical Graph Perspective" WWW ’19, May 13–17, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2019
Dongyang Dai, Zhiyong Wu, Runnan Li, Xixin Wu, Jia Jia, Helen Meng, Learning Discriminative Features from Spectrograms Using Center Loss for Speech Emotion Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2019
Hui Lu, Zhiyong Wu, Runnan Li, Shiyin Kang, Jia Jia, Helen Meng, A Compact Framework for Voice Conversion Using Wavenet Conditioned on Phonetic Posteriorgrams, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2019
Shoukang Hu, Max W. Y. Lam, Xurong Xie, Shansong Liu, Jianwei Yu, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng Bayesian and Gaussian Process Neural Networks for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2019
Runnan Li, Zhiyong Wu, Jia Jia, Sheng Zhao, Helen Meng, Dilated Residual Network with Multi-head Self-attention for Speech Emotion Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2019
Jianwei Yu, Max. W. Y. Lam, Xie Cheny, Shoukang Hu, Songxiang Liu, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, Recurrent Neural Network Language Model Training Using Natural Gradient, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2019
Wai-Kim Leung, Xunying Liu and Helen Meng, "CNN-RNN-CTC Based End-to-end Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis" IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2019
Yuewen Cao, Xixin Wu, Songxiang Liu,Jianwei Yu, Xu Li, Zhiyong Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, "End-to-end Code-switched TTS with Mix of Monolingual Recordings" IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2019
Songxiang Liu, Yuewen Cao, Xixin Wu, Lifa Sun, Xunying Liu , Helen Meng “Jointly Trained Conversion Model and WaveNet Vocoder for Non-parallel Voice Conversion using Mel-spectrograms and Phonetic Posteriorgrams”, Interspeech2019, Graz, Austria.
Hang Su, Borislav Dzodzo, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, "Unsupervised Methods for Audio Classification from Lecture Discussion Recordings" Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria.
Shansong Liu, Shoukang Hu, Yi Wang, Jianwei Yu, Rongfeng Su, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, "Exploiting Visual Features using Bayesian Gated Neural Networks for Disordered Speech Recognition", Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria.
Shansong Liu, Shoukang Hu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, "On the Use of Pitch Features for Disordered Speech Recognition", Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria.
Hui Lu, Zhiyong Wu, Dongyang Dai, Runnan Li, Shiyin Kang, Jia Jia, Helen Meng, "One-shot Voice Conversion with Global Speaker Embeddings," Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 669-673. Graz, Austria, 15-19 September, 2019.
Dongyang Dai, Zhiyong Wu, Shiyin Kang, Xixin Wu, Jia Jia, Dan Su, Dong Yu, Helen Meng, "Disambiguation of Chinese Polyphones in an End-to-End Framework with Semantic Features Extracted by Pre-trained BERT," Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 2090-2094. Graz, Austria, 15-19 September, 2019.
Jingbei Li, Zhiyong Wu, Runnan Li, Pengpeng Zhi, Song Yang, Helen Meng, "Knowledge-based Linguistic Encoding for End-to-End Mandarin Text-to-Speech Synthesis," Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 4494-4498. Graz, Austria, 15-19 September, 2019.
Runnan Li, Zhiyong Wu, Yaohua Bu, Jia Jia, Sheng Zhao, Helen Meng, "Towards Discriminative Representation Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition," International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 5060-5066. Macao, China, 10-16 August, 2019.
Yao Du, Zhiyong Wu, Shiyin Kang, Dan Su, Dong Yu, Helen Meng, "Automatic Prosodic Structure Labeling using DNN-BGRU-CRF Hybrid Neural Network," APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), pp. 1234-1238. Lanzhou, China, 18-21 November, 2019.
Yao Du, Zhiyong Wu, Shiyin Kang, Dan Su, Dong Yu, Helen Meng, "Prosodic Structure Prediction using Deep Self-attention Neural Network," APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), pp. 320-324. Lanzhou, China, 18-21 November, 2019.
Liangqi Liu, Zhiyong Wu, Runnan Li, Jia Jia, Helen Meng, "Learning Contextual Representation with Convolution Bank and Multi-head Self-attention for Speech Emphasis Detection," APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), pp. 922-926. Lanzhou, China, 18-21 November, 2019.
Kun Zhang, Zhiyong Wu, Jia Jia, Helen Meng, Binheng Song, "Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection using Attentive Pooling Networks," APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), pp. 1267-1272. Lanzhou, China, 18-21 November, 2019.
Mu Wang, Zhiyong Wu, Shiyin Kang, Xixin Wu, Jia Jia, Dan Su, Dong Yu, Helen Meng, "Speech Super Resolution Using Parallel WaveNet," in the Proceedings of The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP). Taipei, 26-29 November, 2018.
Runnan Li, Zhiyong Wu, Jia Jia, Jingbei Li, Wei Chen, Helen Meng, "Inferring User Emotive State Changes in Realistic Human-Computer Conversational Dialogs," in the Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference (ACM Multimedia), pp. 136-144. Seoul, Korea, 22-26 October, 2018.
M. Lam, X. Liu, H. Meng and K. Tsoi Drawing-Based Automatic Dementia Screening Using Gaussian Process Markov Chains, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2018, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
X. Liu, S. Liu, J. Sha, J. Yu, Z. Xu, X. Chen and H. Meng Limited-memory BFGS Optimization of Recurrent Neural Network Language Models for Speech Recognition, IEEE ICASSP2018, Calgary, Canada
Songxiang Liu, Lifa Sun, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu and Helen Meng, The HCCL-CUHK System for the Voice Conversion Challenge 2018, Odyssey 2018 The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, Les Sables d’Olonne, France.
Jinghua Zhong, Helen Meng, "DNN i-vector based Fishervoice and PLDA SVM scoring for NIST SRE 2016." in the Proceedings of The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP). Taipei, 26-29 November, 2018.
Xixin Wu, Yuewen Cao, Mu Wang, Songxiang Liu, Shiyin Kang, Zhiyong Wu, Xunying Liu, Dan Su, Dong Yu, Helen Meng, "Rapid Style Adaptation using Residual Error Embedding for Expressive Speech Synthesis," in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 3072-3076. Hyderabad, India, 2-6 September, 2018.
Jianwei Yu, Xurong Xie, Shansong Liu, Shoukang Hu, Max.W.Y.LAM, Xixin Wu, Ka Ho Wong, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, "Development of the CUHK Dysarthric Speech Recognition System for the UASpeech Corpus" Interspeech 2018, 2-6 September 2018.
Ziwei Zhu, Zhiyong Wu, Runnan Li, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Siamese Recurrent Auto-Encoder Representation for Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection," in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 102-106. Hyderabad, India, 2-6 September, 2018.
Shuai Yang, Zhiyong Wu, Binbin Shen, Helen Meng, "Detection of Glottal Closure Instants from Speech Signals: A Convolutional Neural Network based Method," in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 317-321. Hyderabad, India, 2-6 September, 2018.
Xi Ma, Zhiyong Wu, Jia Jia, Mingxing Xu, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Emotion Recognition from Variable-Length Speech Segments using Deep Learning on Spectrograms," in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 3683-3687. Hyderabad, India, 2-6 September, 2018.
X. Li, S. Mao, X. Wu, K. Li, X. Liu and H. Meng Unsupervised discovery of non-native pronunciation patterns in L2 English speech for mispronunciation detection and diagnosis, ISCA Interspeech2018, Hyderabad, India.
K.K. Wu, H. Meng, Y. Yam, Topic Discovery via Convex Polytopic Model: A Case Study with Small Corpora. IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), August 22-24, 2018. [Best Paper Award]
M. Lam, S. Hu, X. Xie, S. Liu, J. Yu, R. Su, X. Liu and Helen Meng Gaussian Process Neural Networks for Speech Recognition, ISCA Interspeech2018, Hyderabad, India
Songxiang Liu, Jinghua Zhong, Lifa Sun, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu and Helen Meng "Voice Conversion Across Arbitrary Speakers based on a Single Target-Speaker Utterance" Interspeech2018, Hyderabad, India
Jia Li, Yu Rong, Helen M. Meng, Zhihui Lu, Timothy Kwok, Hong Cheng, "TATC: Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease with Actigraphy Data' KDD 2018, August 19-23, 2018, London, United Kingdom
Mu Wang, Zhiyong Wu, Xixin Wu, Helen Meng, Shiyin Kang, Jia Jia, Lianhong Cai, "Emphatic Speech Synthesis and Control based on Characteristic Transferring in End-to-End Speech Synthesis," in the Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII Asia). Beijing, China, 20-22 May, 2018.
Runnan Li, Zhiyong Wu, Yuchen Huang, Jia Jia, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Emphatic Speech Generation with Conditional Input Layer and Bidirectional LSTMs for Expressive Speech Synthesis," in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 5129-5133. Calgary, Canada, 15-20 April, 2018.
Xixin Wu, Lifa Sun, Shiyin Kang, Songxiang Liu, Zhiyong Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, "Feature Based Adaptation for Speaker Style Synthesis," in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 5304-5308. Calgary, Canada, 15-20 April, 2018.
Kun Li, Shaoguang Mao, Xu Li, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, “Automatic lexical stress and pitch accent detection for L2 English speech using multi-distribution deep neural networks,” Speech Communication, 2018, 96: 28-36.
Shaoguang Mao, Zhiyong Wu, Runnan Li, Xu Li, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, “Applying Multitask Learning to Acoustic-Phonemic Model for Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis in L2 English Speech,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 6254-6258. Calgary, Canada, 15-20 April, 2018.
Shaoguang Mao, Xu Li, Kun Li, Zhiyong Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Unsupervised Discovery of An Extended Phoneme Set in L2 English Speech for Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , pp. 6244-6248. Calgary, Canada, 15-20 April, 2018.
Shaoguang Mao, Zhiyong Wu, Xu Li, Runnan Li, Xixin Wu, Helen Meng, “Integrating Articulatory Features into Acoustic-Phonemic Model for Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis in L2 English Speech,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME). San Diego, USA, 23-27 July, 2018.
Xixin Wu, Shiyin Kang, Lifa Sun, Yishuang Ning, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, "Attention-based Recurrent Generator with Gaussian Tolerance for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis", accepted to The Affective Social Multimedia Computing(ASMMC) 2017.
Jinghua Zhong, Wenping Hu, Frank Soong and Helen Meng, "DNN i-vector Speaker Verification with Short, Text-constrained Test Utterances", Accepted to Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, 20-24 August 2017.
Runnan Li, Zhiyong Wu, Yishuang Ning, Lifa Sun, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Spectro-Temporal Modelling with Time-Frequency LSTM and Structured Output Layer for Voice Conversion," in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 3409-3413. Stockholm, Sweden, 20-24 August, 2017.
Yuchen Huang, Zhiyong Wu, Runnan Li, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Multi-Task Learning for Prosodic Structure Generation using BLSTM RNN with Structured Output Layer," in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 779-783. Stockholm, Sweden, 20-24 August, 2017.
Xi Ma, Zhiyong Wu, Jia Jia, Mingxing Xu, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Speech Emotion Recognition with Emotion-Pair based Framework Considering Emotion Distribution Information in Dimensional Emotion Space," in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pp. 1238-1242. Stockholm, Sweden, 20-24 August, 2017.
K.K. Wu, Y. Yam, H. Meng and M. Mesbahi, Parallel probabilistic swarm guidance by exploiting Kronecker product structures in discrete-time Markov chain. The 2017 American Control Conference (ACC), May 24-26, 2017.
Pengfei Liu, King Keung Wu and Helen Meng, "A Model of Extended Paragraph Vector for Document Categorization and Trend Analysis", In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Alaska, USA, May 14-19, 2017, IEEE.
Kun Li, Xixin Wu and Helen Meng, "Intonation classification for L2 English speech using multi-distribution deep neural networks", Computer Speech & Language, May 2017, Vol. 43: 18-33
Yishuang Ning, Zhiyong Wu, Runnan Li, Jia Jia, Mingxing Xu, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Learning Cross-Lingual Knowledge with Multilingual BLSTM for Emphasis Detection with Limited Training Data," in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 5615-5619. New Orleans, USA, 5-9 March, 2017.
Runnan Li, Zhiyong Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Multi-Task Learning of Structured Output Layer Bidirectional LSTMs for Speech Synthesis," in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 5510-5514. New Orleans, USA, 5-9 March, 2017.
Yishuang Ning, Jia Jia, Zhiyong Wu, Runnan Li, Yongsheng An, Yanfeng Wang, Helen Meng, "Multi-task Deep Learning for User Intention Understanding in Speech Interaction Systems," in the Proceedings of the 31th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 161-167. San Francisco, USA, 4-9 February, 2017.
Kun Li, Xiaojun Qian, and Helen Meng, "Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis in L2 English Speech Using Multi-Distribution Deep Neural Networks", IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech & Language Processing, January 2017.
Kun Li, Helen Meng, "Automatic lexical stress and pitch accent detection for L2 English speech using multi-distribution deep neural networks", Speech Communication, accepted for publication.
Jinghua Zhong, Helen Meng, "The CUHK Systems for NIST SRE 2016", in the Proceedings of the NIST 2016 SRE Workshop, San Diego, America, 11-12 December 2016.
Ka Ho Wong, Hoi Kiu Kristy Mok and Helen Meng, "Explorartory Data Analysis on Nuclei in Cantonese Dysarthric Speech", The 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, Tianjin, China, October 17-20, 2016.
Runnan Li, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "DBLSTM-based Multi-Task Learning for Pitch Transformation in Voice Conversion," in the Proceedings of The 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP). Tianjin, China, 17-20 October, 2016.
K.K. Wu, Y. Yam, H. Meng and M. Mesbahi, Kronecker product approximation with multiple factor matrices via the tensor product algorithm. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), October 9-12, 2016.
Linchuan Li, Zhiyong Wu, Mingxing Xu, Helen Meng and Lianhong Cai, "Combining CNN and BLSTM to Extract Textual and Acoustic Features for Recognizing Stances in Mandarin Ideological Debate Competition", in the Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH, San Francisco, USA, 8 - 12 September, 2016.
Lifa Sun, Hao Wang, Shiyin Kang, Kun Li and Helen Meng, "Personalized, Cross-Lingual TTS Using Phonetic Posteriorgrams", in the Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH, San Francisco, USA, 8 - 12 September, 2016.
Yaodong Tang, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Mingxing Xu and Lianhong Cai, "Analysis on Gated Recurrent Unit Based Question Detection Approach", in the Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH, San Francisco, USA, 8 - 12 September, 2016.
Xu Li, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Jia Jia, Xiaoyan Lou and Lianhong Cai, "Phoneme Embedding and its Application to Speech Driven Talking Avatar Synthesis", in the Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH, San Francisco, USA, 8 - 12 September, 2016.
Xu Li, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Jia Jia, Xiaoyan Lou and Lianhong Cai, "Expressive Speech Driven Talking Avatar Synthesis with DBLSTM Using Limited Amount of Emotional Bimodal Data", in the Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH, San Francisco, USA, 8 - 12 September, 2016.
Xiaojun Qian, Helen M. Meng, Frank K. Soong, "A Two-Pass Framework of Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis for Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training", IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech & Language Processing 24(6): 1020-1028 (2016)
Linchuan Li, Zhiyong Wu, Mingxing Xu, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Recognizing Stances in Mandarin Social Ideological Debates with Text and Acoustic Features", in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME). Seattle, USA, 11-15 July, 2016.
Lifa Sun, Kun Li, Hao Wang, Shiyin Kang and Helen Meng, "Phonetic Posteriorgrams for Many-to-one Voice Conversion without Parallel Data Training", in the Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2016), Seattle, USA, 11-15 July, 2016. (Best Paper Award)
Hao Wang, Peggy Mok and Helen Meng, "Capitalizing on Musical Rhythm for Prosodic Training in Computer-Aided Language Learning", Computer Speech and Language, 2016, 37: 67-81.
Quanjie Yu, Peng Liu, Zhiyong Wu, Shiyin Kang, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Learning Cross-lingual Information with Multilingual BLSTM for Speech Synthesis of Low-resource Languages", [in] Proceedings of the 41th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), Shanghai, China, 20-25 March, 2016.
Yaodong Tang, Yuchen Huang, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Mingxing Xu, Lianhong Cai, "Question Detection from Acoustic Features using Recurrent Neural Network with Gated Recurrent Unit", [in] Proceedings of the 41th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), Shanghai, China, 20-25 March, 2016.
Xinyu Lan, Xu Li, Yishuang Ning, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Jia Jia, Lianhong Cai, "Low Level Descriptors based DBLSTM Bottleneck Feature for Speech Driven Talking Avatar", [in] Proceedings of the 41th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), Shanghai, China, 20-25 March, 2016.
Ka Ho Wong, Wing Sum Yeung, Yu Ting Yeung and Helen Meng, "Exploring Articulatory Characteristics of Cantonese Dysarthric Speech Using Distinctive Features", in the Proceedings of the 41th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), Shanghai, China, 20 - 25 March, 2016.
Pengfei Liu, Shoaib Jameel, King Keung Wu, and Helen Meng, "Learning Track Representation and Trends for Conference Analytics", In Proceedings of the 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kauai, January 5-8, 2016, IEEE Computer Society.
King Keung Wu, Pengfei Liu, Helen M. Meng and Yeung Yam. “An embedding approach for context-aware collaborative recommendation and visualization.” 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) (2016): 003457-003462.
Zhiyong Wu, Yishuang Ning, Xiao Zang, Jia Jia, Fanbo Meng, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Generating Emphatic Speech with Hidden Markov Model for Expressive Speech Synthesis", Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 74, pp. 9909-9925, DOI: 10.1007/s11042-014-2164-2, Springer, 2015.
Zhiyong Wu, Kai Zhao, Xixin Wu, Xinyu Lan, Helen Meng, "Acoustic to Articulatory Mapping with Deep Neural Network", Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 74, pp. 9889-9907, DOI: 10.1007/s11042-014-2183-z, Springer, 2015.
Qi Lyu, Zhiyong Wu, Jun Zhu, Helen Meng, Jia Jia, Lianhong Cai, "Modelling High-dimensional Sequences with LSTM-RTRBM: Application to Polyphonic Music Generation", [in] Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 4138-4139. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 25-31 July, 2015.
Yishuang Ning, Zhiyong Wu, Xiaoyan Lou, Helen Meng, Jia Jia, Lianhong Cai, "Using Tilt for Automatic Emphasis Detection with Bayesian Networks", [in] Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, pp. 578-582. Dresden, Germany, 6-10 September, 2015.
Xixin Wu, Zhiyong Wu, Yishuang Ning, Jia Jia, Lianhong Cai, Helen Meng, "Understanding Speaking Styles of Internet Speech Data with LSTM and Low-resource Training", [in] Proceedings of ACII, pp. 815-820. Xian, China, 21-24 September, 2015.
Pengfei Liu, Shafiq Joty, and Helen Meng, "Fine-grained Opinion Mining with Recurrent Neural Networks and Word Embeddings", Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Association for Computational Linguistics, Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2015.
Yu Ting Yeung, Ka Ho Wong and Helen Meng, "Improving Automatic Forced Alignment for Dysarthric Speech Transcription", in the Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH, Dresden, Germany, 6 - 10 September, 2015.
Ka Ho Wong, Yu Ting Yeung, Patrick C. M. Wong, Gina-Anne Levow and Helen Meng, "Analysis of Dysarthric Speech Using Distinctive Feature Recognition", in the Proceedings of 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), Dresden, Germany, September 11, 2015.
Kun Li, Xiaojun Qian, Shiying Kang, Pengfei Liu and Helen Meng, "Integrating Acoustic and State-Transition Models for Free Phone Recognition in L2 English Speech using Multi-Distribution Deep Neural Networks", in the Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE), Leipzig, Germany, September 4-5, 2015.
Pengfei Liu, Shoaib Jameel, Wai Lam, Bin Ma and Helen Meng, "Topic Modeling for Conference Analytics", in the Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH, Dresden, Germany, 6 - 10 September, 2015.
Ka Ho Wong, Wai Kim Leung and Helen Meng, "E-Commu-Book: An Assistive Technology for Users with Speech Impairments", in the Proceedings of the Interspeech, Dresden, Germany, 6 - 10 September, 2015.
Ka Ho Wong, Yu Ting Yeung, Edwin H. Y. Chan, Patrick C. M. Wong, Gina-Anne Levow and Helen Meng, "Development of a Cantonese Dysarthric Speech Corpus", in the Proceedings of the Interspeech, Dresden, Germany, 6 - 10 September, 2015.
Yishuang Ning, Zhiyong Wu, Jia Jia, Fanbo Meng, Helen Meng and Lianhong Cai, "HMM-based Emphatic Speech Synthesis for Corrective Feedback in Computer-aided Pronunciation training", in the Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015), Brisbane, Australia, 19 - 24 April, 2015, pp. 4934-4938.
Peng Liu, Quanjie Yu, Zhiyong Wu, Shiyin Kang, Helen Meng and Lianhong Cai,"A Deep Recurrent Approach for Acoustic-to-articulatory Inversion", in the Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015), Brisbane, Australia, 19 - 24 April, 2015, pp. 4450-4454.
Haizhou Li, Marcello Federico, Xiaodong He, Helen M. Meng, Isabel Trancoso,"Introduction to the Special Section on Continuous Space and Related Methods in Natural Language Processing.", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 23(3): 427-430 (2015)
Zhen-Hua Ling, Shiyin Kang, Heiga Zen, Andrew W. Senior, Mike Schuster, Xiaojun Qian, Helen M. Meng, Li Deng,"Deep Learning for Acoustic Modeling in Parametric Speech Generation: A systematic review of existing techniques and future trends", IEEE Signal Process. Mag. 32(3): 35-52 (2015)
Lifa Sun, Shiyin Kang, Kun Li and Helen Meng, "Voice Conversion using Deep Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Based Recurrent Neural Networks", in the Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015), Brisbane, Australia, 19 - 24 April, 2015, pp. 4869-4873.
Hao Wang, Frank K. Soong and Helen Meng, "A Spectral Space Warping Approach to Cross-Lingual Voice Transformation in HMM-based TTS", in the Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015), Brisbane, Australia, 19 - 24 April, 2015, pp. 4874-4878.
Xiao ZANG, Zhiyong WU, Yishuang NING, Helen MENG, Lianhong CAI,"Automatic Detection of Contrastive Word Pairs using Textual and Acoustic Features", [in] Proceedings of ICSP, pp. 594-598. Hangzhou, 19-23 October, 2014.
Fanbo Meng, Zhiyong Wu, Jia Jia, Helen M. Meng, Lianhong Cai,"Synthesizing English emphatic speech for multimodal corrective feedback in computer-aided pronunciation training", Multimedia Tools Appl. 73(1): 463-489 (2014)
Jia Jia, Zhiyong Wu, Shen Zhang, Helen M. Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Head and facial gestures synthesis using PAD model for an expressive talking avatar", Multimedia Tools Appl. 73(1): 439-461 (2014)
Jia Jia, Wai-Kim Leung, Yu-Hao Wu, Xiu-Long Zhang, Hao Wang, Lianhong Cai, Helen M. Meng, " Grading the Severity of Mispronunciations in CAPT Based on Statistical Analysis and Computational Speech Perception", J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 29(5): 751-761 (2014)
Pengfei Liu, Xiaojun Qian and Helen Meng, "Seeing Stars from Reviews by a Semantic-based Approach with MapReduce Implementation", In Proceedings of 2014 ASE BigData Conference, Harvard University, December 14-16, United States.
Xiao Zang, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Jia Jia and Lianhong Cai, "Using Conditional Random Fields to Predict Focus Word Pair in Spontaneous Spoken English", in the Proceedings of Interspeech, Singapore, 14-18 September 2014.
Xixin Wu, Zhiyong Wu, Jia Jia, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai and Weifeng Li, "Automatic Speech Data Clustering with Human Perception based Weighted Distance", in the Proceeding of ISCSLP 2014.
Jinghua Zhong, Weiwu Jiang, Wei Rao, Man-Wai Mak and Helen Meng, "PLDA Modeling in the Fishervoice Subspace for Speaker Verification ", in the Proceedings of Interspeech, Singapore, 14-18 September 2014, pp. 1130-1134.
Jinghua Zhong, Weiwu Jiang, Helen Meng, Na Li and Zhifeng Li, "An Integration of Random Subspace Sampling and Fishervoice for Speaker Verification", Odyssey 2014: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, Joensuu, Finland, June 2014, pp. 88-93.
Shiyin Kang and Helen Meng, "Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis using Weighted Multi-distribution Deep Belief Network", in the Proceedings of Interspeech, Singapore, 14-18 September 2014.
Kun Li and Helen Meng, "Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis in L2 English Speech Using Multi-Distribution Deep Neural Networks", in the Proceeding of ISCSLP 2014.
Pengfei Liu and Helen Meng, SeemGo: Conditional Random Fields Labeling and Maximum Entropy Classification for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis, In Proceedings of the eighth international workshop on Semantic Evaluation Exercises (SemEval-2014), August 2014, Dublin, Ireland.
Hao Wang, Xiaojun Qian and Helen Meng, "Phonological Modeling of Mispronunciation Gradations in L2 English speech of L1 Chinese Learners," in the Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, 4-9 May, 2014, pp. 7764-7768.
Xin Zheng, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Contrastive Auto-encoder for Phoneme Recognition," in the Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, 4-9 May, 2014, pp. 2548-2552.
Xin Zheng, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Learning Dynamic Features with Neural Networks for Phoneme Recognition," in the Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, 4-9 May, 2014, pp. 2543-2547.
Pui-Yu Hui and Helen Meng, "Laten Semantic Analysis for Multilodal User Input With Speech and Gestures", IEEE/ACM Tansactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol 22, No. 2, February 2014
Fanbo Meng, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Jia Jia, Lianhong Cai, "English Emphatic Speech Conversion based on a Decision Tree," Journal of Tsinghua University, 2013, 53(7): 1046-1051.
Wai-Kim Leung, Ka-Wa Yuen, Ka-Ho Wong and Helen Meng, "Development of Text-to-Audiovisual Speech Synthesis to Support Interactive Language Learning on a Mobile Device" in the Proceeding of IEEE 4th International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom 2013),Budapest, Hungary, 2-5 December 2013
Hao Wang, Helen Meng and Xiaojun Qian, "Predicting Gradation of L2 English Mispronunciations Using ASR with Extended Recognition Network", in the Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2013), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on 29 October - 1 November, 2013.
Fanbo Meng, Zhiyong Wu, Jia Jia, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Synthesizing English Emphatic Speech for Multimodal Corrective Feedback in Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training," Mulmedia Tools and Applications, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/s11042-013-1601-y.
Jia Jia, Zhiyong Wu, Shen Zhang, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Head and Facial Gestures Synthesis using PAD Model for an Expressive Talking Avatar," Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/S11042-013-1604-8.
Hao Wang, Xiaojun Qian and Helen Meng, "Predicting Gradation of L2 English Mispronunciations using Crowdsourced Ratings and Phonological Rules", in the Proceeding of Speech and LanguageTechnology in Education (SLaTE 2013), Grenoble, France, on 30 - 31 August & 1 September, 2013.
Kun Li, Xiaojun Qian, Shiyin Kang and Helen Meng, "Lexical Stress Detection for L2 English Speech Using Deep Belief Networks", in the Proceedings of Interspeech, Lyon, France, 25-29 August 2013.
Maxine Eskenazi, Gina-Anne Levow, Helen Meng, Gabriel Parent,& David Suendermann.(2013). "Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing: Applications to Data Collection, Transcription and Assessment"(1st edition), A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication, ISBN: 978-1-118-35869-6.
Zhaojun Yang, Gina-Anne Levow, and Helen Meng, "Predicting User Satisfaction in Spoken Dialog System Evaluation With Collaborative Filtering", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 6(8), p. 971 - 981.
Na Li, Weiwu Jiang, Helen Meng and Zhifeng Li, "Clustering Similar Acoustic Classes in the Fishervoice Framework" in the Proceeding of the 38th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2013), Vancouver, Canada, on 26 - 31 May 2013.
Shiyin Kang, Xiaojun Qian and Helen Meng, "Multi-Distribution Deep Belief Network for Speech Synthesis" in the Proceeding of the 38th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2013), Vancouver, Canada, on 26 - 31 May 2013.
Xin Zheng, Zhiyong Wu, Binbin Shen, Helen Meng and Lianhong Cai, "Inverstigation of Tandem Deep Belief Network Approach for Phoneme Recognition" in the Proceeding of the 38th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2013), Vancouver, Canada, on 26 - 31 May 2013.
Junhong Zhao, Hua Yuan, Wai-Kim Leung, Jia Liu, Shanhong Xia and Helen Meng, "Audiovisual Synthesis Of Exaggerated Speech For Corrective Feedback In Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training" in the Proceeding of the 38th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held in the Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre, Vancouver, Canada, on May 26 - 31, 2013.
Jia Jia, Xiaohui Wang, Zhiyong Wu, Lianhong Cai, Helen Meng, "Modeling the Correlation between Modality Semantics and Facial Expressions," in the Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2013), Hollywood, USA, 3-6 December 2012.
Chunrong Li, Zhiyong Wu, Fanbo Meng, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai, "Detection and Emphatic Realization of Contrastive Word Pairs for Expressive Text-to-Speech Synthesis," in the Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing 2012 (ISCSLP 2012), pp. 93-97, Hong Kong, China, 5-8 December 2012.
Hao Wang and Helen Meng, "Deriving Perceptual Gradation of L2 English Mispronunciations using Crowdsourcing and the Workerrank Algorithm" in the Proceeding of the 15th Oriental COCOSDA(O'cocosda 2012), Macau, China, 9- 12 December 2012.
Jia Jia, Wai-Kim Leung, YeTian, Lianhong Cai and Helen Meng, "Analysis on Mispronunciations in CAPT Based on Computational Speech Perception" in the Proceeding of the 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing 2012 (ISCSLP 2012), Hong Kong, China, 5 - 8 December 2012.
Pengfei Liu, Ka-Wa Yuen, Wai-Kim Leung and Helen Meng, "mENUNCIATE: Development of a Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training System on a Cross-Platform Framework for Mobile, Speech-Enabled Application Development", in the Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing 2012 (ISCSLP 2012), Hong Kong, China, 5 - 8 December 2012.
Kun Li and Helen Meng, "Perceptually-Motivated Assessment of Automatically Detected Lexical Stress in L2 Learners' Speech" in the Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing 2012 (ISCSLP 2012), Hong Kong, China, 5 - 8 December 2012.
Xiaojun Qian, Helen Meng and Frank Soong, "The Use of DBN-HMMs for Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis in L2 English to Support Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training", in the Proceedings of Interspeech 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA, 9 - 13 September 2012.
Fanbo Meng, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Jia Jia and Lianhong Cai, "Hierarchical English Emphatic Speech Synthesis Based on HMM with Limited Training Data", in the Proceedings of Interspeech 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA, 9 - 13 September 2012.
Lan Wang, Hui Chen, Sheng Li and Helen Meng, "Phoneme-level Articulatory Animation in Pronunciation Training", Speech Communication, Vol 54, Issue 7, p. 845-856, Elservier Science, September 2012.
Fanbo Meng, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Jia Jia and Lianhong Cai, "Generating Emphasis from Neutral Speech using Hierarchical Perturbation Model by Decision Tree and Support Vector Machine ", in the Proceedings of International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2012), University of Warwick, UK, 9-13 July, 2012.
Ka-Wa Yuen, Wai-Kim Leung, Peng-fei Liu, Ka-Ho Wong, Xiao-jun Qian,Wai-Kit Lo and Helen Meng, "Enunciate: An Internet-Accessible Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training System and Related User Evaluations ", in the Proceedings of Oriental COCOSDA 2011, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 26-28 October, 2011.
Kun Li, Shuang Zhang, Mingxing Li, Wai-Kit Lo and Helen Meng, "Prominence Model for Prosodic Features in Automatic Lexical Stress and Pitch Accent Detection", in the Proceedings of Interspeech, Florence, Italy, 28-31 August, 2011.
Weiwu Jiang, Zhifeng Li and Helen Meng, "An Analysis Framework based on Random Subspace Sampling for Speaker Verification", in the Proceedings of Interspecch, Florence, Italy, 28-31 August 2011.\
Xiaojun Qian, Helen Meng and Frank Soong, "On Mispronunciation Lexicon Generation using Joint-sequence Multigrams in Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT)", in the Proceedings of Interspeech, Florence, Italy, 28-31 August 2011.
Mingxing Li, Shuang Zhang, Kun Li, Alissa Harrison, Wai-Kit Lo and Helen Meng, "Design and Collection of an L2 English Corpus with a Suprasegmental Focus for Chinese Learners of English", in the Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, China, 17-21 August, 2011.
Weiwu Jiang, Man-Wai Ma, Wei Rao and Helen Meng, "The HKCUPU system for the NIST 2010 speaker recognition evaluation", in the Proceedings of ICASSP, Prague, 22-27 May, 2011.
Ka-Ho Wong, Wai-Kit Lo and Helen Meng, "Allophonic Variations in Visual Speech Synthesis for Corrective Feedback in CAPT," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, 22-27 May 2011.
Xiaodong He, Li Deng, Roland Kuhn, Helen Meng and Samy Bengio, "Introduction to the Issue on Statistical Learning Methods for Speech and Language Processing," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 2010, pages 913-916
Zhengyu Zhou and Helen Meng, "Pseudo-Conventional N-Gram Representation of the Discriminative N-Gram Model for LVCSR," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 2010.\
Helen MENG, Wai-Kit LO, Alissa M. HARRISON, Pauline LEE, Ka-Ho WONG, Wai-Kim LEUNG and Fanbo MENG, "Development of Automatic Speech Recognition and Synthesis Technologies to Support Chinese Learners of English: The CUHK Experience," in the Proceedings of the 2nd Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA2010), Biopolis, SINGAPORE, 14-17 December 2010. (Best Oral Paper Award)
Zhaojun Yang, Yi Zhu, Baichun Li, Irwin King, Gina Levow and Helen Meng, "Collection of User judgments on Spoken Dialog System with Crowdsourcing," in the Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), Berkeley, California, USA, 12-15 December 2010.
Zhaojun Yang, Yi Zhu, Baichun Li, Irwin King, Gina Levow and Helen Meng, "Collaborative Filtering Model for User Satisfaction Prediction in Spoken Dialog System Evaluation," in the Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), Berkeley, California, USA, 12-15 December 2010.
Yi Zhu, Zhaojun Yang, Baichun Li, Helen Meng, Gina Levow and Irwin King, "Using Finite State Machines for Evaluating Spoken Dialog Systems," in the Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), Berkeley, California, USA,12-15 December 2010.
Baichun Li, Zhaojun Yang, Yi Zhu, Helen Meng, Gina Levow and Irwin King, "Predicting User Evaluations of Spoken Dialog Systems using Semi-Supervised Learning," in the Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), Berkeley, California, USA, 12-15 December 2010.
Ka-Ho WONG, Wai-Kim LEUNG, Wai-Kit LO and Helen MENG, "Development of an Articulatory Visual-Speech Synthesizer to Support Language Learning," in the Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Tainan, Taiwan, 29 November-3 December 2010.
Xiaojun QIAN, Helen MENG and Frank SOONG, "Capturing L2 Segmental Mispronunciations with Joint-sequence Models in Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT)," in the Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Tainan, Taiwan, 29 November-3 December 2010.
Kun Li, Shuang Zhang, Mingxing Li, Wai-Kit Lo and Helen Meng, "Detection of Intonation in L2 English Speech of Native Mandarin Learners," in the Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Tainan, Taiwan, 29 November-3 December 2010.
Weiwu Jiang, Helen Meng and Zhifeng Li, "An Enhanced Fishervoice Subspace Framework for Text-independent Speaker Verification," in the Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Tainan, Taiwan, 29 November-3 December, 2010.
Weiwu JIANG, Wai Kit LO and Helen MENG, "A New Voice Activity Detection Method Using Maximized Sub-band SNR", in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing (ICALIP), Shanghai, China, 23-25 November 2010.
Wai-kit LO, Shuang ZHANG and Helen MENG, "Automatic Derivation of Phonological Rules for Mispronunciation Detection in a Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training System," in the Proceedings of Interspeech, Makuhari, Japan, 26-30 September 2010.
Xiaojun QIAN, Frank SOONG and Helen MENG, "Discriminative Acoustic Model for Improving Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis in Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT)," in the Proceedings of Interspeech, Makuhari, Japan, 26-30 September 2010.
Hao WANG, Peggy MOK and Helen MENG, "MusicSpeak: Capitalizing on Musical Rhythm for Prosodic Training in Computer-Aided Language Learning," in the Proceedings of the Second Language Studies: Acquisition, Learning, Education and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 22-24 September 2010.
Fanbo MENG, Helen MENG, Zhiyong WU and Lianhong CAI, "Synthesizing Expressive Speech to Convey Focus using a Perturbation Model for Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training," in the Proceedings of the Second Language Studies: Acquisition, Learning, Education and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 22-27 September 2010.
Weiwu JIANG, Man-Wai MAK, Helen MENG, "Joint Submission of CUHK and PolyU for NIST SRE 2010", in the Proceedings of the NIST 2010 SRE Workshop, Brno, Czech Republic, 24-25 June 2010.
Weiwu Jiang, Zhifeng Li and Helen Meng, "Using Random Sampling to Enhance Linear Discriminant Analysis for Video-based Face Recognition," International Journal of Electronics, Computing and Engineering Education, Volume 1, 2010.
B. J. Kroger, P. Birkholz, R. Hoffmann and H. Meng, "Audiovisual tools for phonetic and articulatory visualitation in computer-aided pronunciation training," Development of Multimodal Interfaces: Active Listening and Synchrony (LNCS 5967/2010), A. Esposito, N. Campbell, C. Vogel, A. Hussain, A. Nijholt (Eds.), Springer, Berlin, pages 337-345, 2010. (ISBN 3-642-12396-1)
Shuang ZHANG, Kun LI, Wai-Kit LO and Helen MENG, "Perception of English Suprasegmental Features by Non-Native Chinese Learners," in the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Speech Prosody, Doubletree Magnificent Mile, Chicago, USA, 11-14 May 2010.
W. K. LO, Alissa M. HARRISON and Helen MENG, "Statistical Phone Duration Modeling to Filter for Intact Utterances in a Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training System," in the Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Dallas, Texas, USA, 19-14 March 2010.
Zhifeng LI, Weiwu JIANG and Helen MENG, "Fishervioce: A Discriminant Subspace Framework for Speaker Recognition," in the Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Dallas, Texas, USA, 19-14 March 2010.
P. Y. HUI, W. K. LO and Helen MENG, "Usage Patterns and Latent Semantic Analyses for Task Goal Inference of Multimodal User Interactions," in the Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Hong Kong, 7-10 February 2010.
Shen Zhang, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng and Lianhong Cai, "Facial Express Synthesis Based on Emotion Dimensions for Affective Talking Avatar", Modeling Machine Emotions for Realizing Intelligence, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies Vol. 1, 2010, pp 109-132.
Helen Meng, "Developing Speech Recognition and Synthesis Technologies to Support Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training for Chinese Learners of English", in the Proceeding of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Hong Kong, China, 3-5 December 2009.
Zhiyong WU, Helen M. MENG, Hongwu YANG, and Lianhong CAI, "Modeling the Expressivity of Input Text Semantics for Chinese Text-to-Speech Synthesis in a Spoken Dialog System," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 17, No. 8, pp. 1567-1577, November, 2009.
Harrison, A., Meng, H., and Lee, P., "Automated Feedback in Commercial Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training Systems," Technical Report, SEEM2009-0016, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, February 2009.
Alissa M. HARRISON, Wai-Kit LO, Xiao-Jun QIANG and Helen MENG, "Implementation of an Extended Recognition Network for Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis in Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training," in the Proceedings of the 2nd ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, Warrickshire, 2009.
Tanya Visceglia, Chiu-yu Tseng, Mariko Kondo, Helen Meng and Yoshinori Sagisaka, "Phonetic Aspects of Content Design in AESOP (Asian English Speech cOrpus Project)," in the Proceedings of Oriental-COCOSDA, Urumuqi, China, 10-12 August 2009.
Helen Meng, Chiu-yu Tseng, Mariko Kondo, Alissa Harrison and Tanya Viscelgia, "Studying L2 Suprasegmental Features in Asian Englishes: A Position Paper," in the Proceedings of Interspeech, Brighton, UK, 6-10 September 2009.
Zhiyong WU, Guangqi CAO, Helen MENG, Lianhong CAI, "A Unified Framework for Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis with SSML Specification as Interface," in the Proceedings of NCMMSC2009. Urumqi, Xinjiang, 14-16 August, 2009. Also published in Tsinghua Science and Technology, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 623-630, October 2009.
Wai-Kit LO, Wenying XIONG and Helen MENG, "Automatic Story Segmentation using a Bayesian Decision Framework for Statistical Models of Lexical Chain Features", in the Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 2-6 August 2009.
Pui-Yu HUI and Helen MENG, "Cross-Modality Semantic Integration with Hypothesis Rescoring for Robust Interpretation of Multimodal User Interactions," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 17, No. 3, March 2009, pages 486-500.
Helen Meng, Sharon Oviatt, Gerasimos Potamianos and Gerhard Rigoll, "Introduction to the Special Issue on Multimodal Processing in Speech-Based Interactions," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 17, No. 3, March 2009, pages 409-410
Helen MENG, Alissa HARRISON and Lan WANG, Developing a Computer-Aided Pronunciation System for Chinese-Speaking Learners of English," Bulletin of Advanced Technology Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, February 2009.
Zhiyong WU, Jiying WU, Helen M. MENG, "The Use of Dynamic Deformable Templates for Lip Tracking in an Audio-Visual Corpus with Large Variations in Head Pose, Face Illumination and Lip Shapes," in the Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2008), pages 370-373. Kunming, China, 16-19 December, 2008.
Honglei CONG, Zhiyong WU, Lianhong CAI, Helen M. MENG, "A New Prosodic Strength Calculation Method for Prosody Reduction Modeling," in the Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2008), pages 53-56. Kunming, China, 16-19 December, 2008.
LO, W. K., Alissa M. HARRISON, Helen MENG, and Lan WANG, "Decision Fusion for Improving Mispronunciation Detection using Language Transfer Knowledge and Phoneme-dependent Pronunciation Scoring", Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, Kuming, China, 2008.
MENG, Helen, Pauline LEE, Lan WANG, Alissa HARRISON and Wai-Kit LO, "Interactive Language Learning for Chinese Learners of English using Automatic Speech Recognition for Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis", Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Language and Speech Science Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.
Hongwu Yang, Helen Meng and Lianhong Cai, "Modeling the Acoustic Correlates of Dialog Act for Expressive Chinese TTS Synthesis", in the Proceeding of the 2008 China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT 2008), Beijing, China, 26-28 September 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, Brisbane, Australia, 22-26 September 2008.
Wang, L., X. Feng and H. Meng, "Automatic Generation and Pruning of Phonetic Mispronunciations to Support Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training," in the Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, 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.
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.), pages 459-482, 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.), pages 365-386, 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.
Shi-Xiong Zhang, Man-Wai Mak and Helen Meng, "High-Level Feature-Based Speaker Veri?cation via Articulatory Phonetic-Class Pronunciation Modeling," in the Proceedings of Interspeech, Antwerp, Belgium, 27-31 August 2007.
Shing-Kai Chan, Lei Xie and Helen Meng, "Modeling 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 the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 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.
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 Logic 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.
H. Meng and D. Li, "Multilingual Spoken Dialog Systems," in Multilingual Speech Processing (T. Schultz, K. Kirchkoff, Eds), pages 399-447, Academic Press 2006.
Devon Li, Wai-Kit Lo and Helen Meng, "Initial Experiments on Automatic Story Segmentation in Chinese Spoken Documents Using Lexical Cohesion of Extracted Named Entities," in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Kent Ridge, Singapore, 13-16 December 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. 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.
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.
Xu, K, Meng, Helen M. and Weng, F., " A Maximum 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Y. C. Chan, P. C. Ching, Tan Lee and Helen Meng, "Detection of Language Boundary in Code-switching Utterances by Bi-phone Probabilities," in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Hong Kong ,China, 15-18 December 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.
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.
Chun Wai Lau, Bin Ma, Helen M. Meng, Y.S. Moon and Yeung Yam, Fuzzy Logic Decision Fusion in a Multimodal Biometric System, INTERSPEECH 2004
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.
Helen Meng, Carmen Wei and Roberto Pieraccini, "The Use of Belief Network for Mixed-Initiative Dialog Modeling," IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 11, No. 6, November 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., "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.
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.
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.
Helen Meng, P.C. Ching, Yee-Fong Wong and Cheong-Chat Chan, "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 Application 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.
Meng, H., P. C. Luk and K. Xu, "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.
H. Meng, "A Hierarchical Lexical Representation for Pronunciation Generation," in Data Driven Techniques in Speech Synthesis (R. Damper, Ed), pages 71-90, 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-Language Spoken Document Retrieval,", 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.
Helen Meng, Yee-Fong Wong, Cheong-Chat Chan, Shuk-Fong Chan, Chi-Kin Keung, Kai-Chung Siu, Tien-Ying Fung, Wai-Ching Tsui, Ke Chen, Lan Wang, Ting-Yao Wu, Xiaolong Li, Tan Lee, Yiu-Wing Wong, P.C. Ching and Huisheng Chi, "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.
Helen Meng, Shuk-Fong Chan, Yee-Fong Wong, Cheong-Chat Chan, Yiu-Wing Wong, Tien-Ying Fung, Wai-Ching Tsui, Ke Chen, Lan Wang, Ting-Yao Wu, Xiaolong Li, Tan Lee, Wing-Nin Choi, P.C. Ching and Huisheng Chi, "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 Re-scoring Recognition Hypotheses," 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.
Helen Meng, Berlin Chen, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Gina-Anne Levow, Wai-Kit Lo, Douglas Oard, Patrick Schone, Karen Tang, Hsin-Min Wang and Jianqiang Wang, "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.
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 Chinese 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.
Helen Meng, Shuk-Fong Chan, Yee-Fong Wong, Tien-Ying Fung, Wai-Ching Tsui, Tin-Hang Lo, Cheong-Chat Chan, Ke Chen, Lan Wang, Ting-Tao Wu, Xiaolong Li, Tan Lee, Wing-Nin Choi, Yiu-Wing Wong, P.C. Ching and Huisheng Chi, "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 Confusions 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 Enquiries", 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.
Helen Meng, Berlin Chen, Erika Grams, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Wai-Kit Lo, Gina-Anne Levow, Douglas Oard, Patrick Schone, Karen Tang, Hsin-Min Wang and Jianqiang Wang, "Mandarin-English Information (MEI):Investigating Translingual Speech Retrieval", Technical Report of the Johns Hopkins University Summer Workshop 2000.
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.
Helen Meng, Tan Lee, Tien-Ying Fung, Wai-Ching Tsui and Pui-Yuk Yau, "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.
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.), pages 216-249, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Helen Meng, Senis Busayapongchaiy, James Glass, Dave Goddeau, Lee Hetherington, Ed Hurley, Christine Pao, Joe Polifroni, Stephanie Seneff and Victor Zue, "Wheels: a conversational system in the 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 morpology". Journal of Speech Communication, Vol. 18, January 1996.