Publications by Fergus McInnes

fmi.bib

@inproceedings{mcinnes_cogsci2011,
  author = {Fergus R. McInnes and Sharon J. Goldwater},
  title = {Unsupervised Extraction of Recurring Words from
                   Infant-Directed Speech},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CogSci 2011},
  address = {Boston, Massachusetts},
  abstract = {To date, most computational models of infant word
                   segmentation have worked from phonemic or phonetic
                   input, or have used toy datasets. In this paper, we
                   present an algorithm for word extraction that works
                   directly from naturalistic acoustic input:
                   infant-directed speech from the CHILDES corpus. The
                   algorithm identifies recurring acoustic patterns that
                   are candidates for identification as words or phrases,
                   and then clusters together the most similar patterns.
                   The recurring patterns are found in a single pass
                   through the corpus using an incremental method, where
                   only a small number of utterances are considered at
                   once. Despite this limitation, we show that the
                   algorithm is able to extract a number of recurring
                   words, including some that infants learn earliest, such
                   as "Mommy" and the child’s name. We also introduce a
                   novel information-theoretic evaluation measure.},
  categories = {language acquisition, word segmentation, speech
                   recognition, computational modelling},
  month = jul,
  pdf = {http://www.cstr.inf.ed.ac.uk/downloads/publications/2011/mcinnes_cogsci2011.pdf},
  year = 2011
}

@inproceedings{renals-icassp91,
  author = {S.~Renals and D.~McKelvie and F.~McInnes},
  title = {A comparative study of continuous speech recognition
                   using neural networks and hidden {Markov} models},
  booktitle = {Proc IEEE ICASSP},
  pages = {369--372},
  address = {Toronto},
  categories = {},
  year = 1991
}

@inproceedings{Williams_1989_d,
  author = {Briony J. Williams and S. M Hiller and F. McInnes and
                   J. Dalby},
  title = {A Knowledge-Based Nasal Classifier for Use in
                   Continuous Speech Recognition},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech
                   Communication and Technology},
  address = {Paris, France},
  categories = {prosody, recognition},
  year = 1989
}