Publications by Steve Isard

[1]	Peter Bell, Myroslava Dzikovska, and Amy Isard. Designing a spoken language interface for a tutorial dialogue system. In Proc. Interspeech, Portland, Oregon, USA, September 2012. [ bib \| .pdf \| Abstract ]
[2]	Myroslava Dzikovska, Amy Isard, Peter Bell, Johanna Moore, Natalie Steinhauser, and Gwendolyn Campbell. Beetle II: an adaptable tutorial dialogue system. In Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference, demo session, pages 338-340, Portland, Oregon, June 2011. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib \| http \| Abstract ]
[3]	Myroslava Dzikovska, Amy Isard, Peter Bell, Johanna D. Moore, Natalie B. Steinhauser, Gwendolyn E. Campbell, Leanne S. Taylor, Simon Caine, and Charlie Scott. Adaptive intelligent tutorial dialogue in the Beetle II system. In Artificial Intelligence in Education - 15th International Conference (AIED 2011), interactive event, volume 6738 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 621, Auckland, New Zealand, 2011. Springer. [ bib \| DOI ]
[4]	Helen Wright-Hastie, Massimo Poesio, and Stephen Isard. Automatically predicting dialogue structure using prosodic features. Speech Communication, 36(1-2):63-79, 2002. [ bib ]
[5]	Sue Fitt and Steve Isard. Synthesis of regional English using a keyword lexicon. In Proc. Eurospeech 1999, volume 2, pages 823-826, Budapest, September 1999. [ bib \| .ps \| .pdf \| Abstract ]
[6]	H. Wright, Massimo Poesio, and Stephen Isard. Using high level dialogue information for dialogue act recognition using prosodic features. In Proceedings of an ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Dialogue and Prosody, pages 139-143, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1999. [ bib \| .ps \| .pdf ]
[7]	John McKenna and Stephen Isard. Tailoring kalman filtering towards speaker characterisation. In Proc. Eurospeech '99, volume 6, pages 2793-2796, Budapest, 1999. [ bib \| .ps \| .pdf ]
[8]	Simon King, Todd Stephenson, Stephen Isard, Paul Taylor, and Alex Strachan. Speech recognition via phonetically featured syllables. In Proc. ICSLP `98, pages 1031-1034, Sydney, Australia, December 1998. [ bib \| .ps \| .pdf \| Abstract ]
[9]	Sue Fitt and Steve Isard. Representing the environments for phonological processes in an accent-independent lexicon for synthesis of English. In Proc. ICSLP 1998, volume 3, pages 847-850, Sydney, Australia, December 1998. [ bib \| .ps \| .pdf \| Abstract ]
[10]	Paul A. Taylor, S. King, S. D. Isard, and H. Wright. Intonation and dialogue context as constraints for speech recognition. Language and Speech, 41(3):493-512, 1998. [ bib \| .ps \| .pdf ]
[11]	Laurence Molloy and Stephen Isard. Suprasegmental duration modelling with elastic constraints in automatic speech recognition. In ICSLP, volume 7, pages 2975-2978, Sydney, Australia, 1998. [ bib \| .ps \| .pdf ]
[12]	Briony J. Williams and Stephen Isard. A keyvowel approach to the synthesis of regional accents of English. In Eurospeech 97, Rhodes, Greece, 1997. [ bib \| .ps \| .pdf ]
[13]	Jean Carletta, Amy Isard, Stephen Isard, Jacqueline C. Kowtko, Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon, and Anne H. Anderson. The reliability of a dialogue structure coding scheme. Computational Linguistics, 23(1):13-31, 1997. [ bib \| .ps \| .pdf ]
[14]	Beth Ann Hockey, Deborah Rossen-Knill, Beverly Spejewski, Matthew Stone, and Stephen Isard. Can you predict responses to yes/no questions? yes, no, and stuff. In Eurospeech '97, pages 2267-2270, 1997. [ bib ]
[15]	Paul A. Taylor, Simon King, Stephen Isard, Helen Wright, and Jacqueline Kowtko. Using intonation to constrain language models in speech recognition. In Proc. Eurospeech'97, Rhodes, 1997. [ bib \| .pdf \| Abstract ]
[16]	Paul A. Taylor, Hiroshi Shimodaira, Stephen Isard, Simon King, and Jacqueline Kowtko. Using prosodic information to constrain language models for spoken dialogue. In Proc. ICSLP `96, Philadelphia, 1996. [ bib \| .ps \| .pdf \| Abstract ]
[17]	A. Conkie and Stephen D. Isard. Optimal coupling of diphones. In J. P. H. Santen, R. W. Sproat, J. P. Olive, and Hirschberg, editors, Progress in Speech Synthesis. Springer, 1996. [ bib ]
[18]	Jean Carletta, Amy Isard, Stephen Isard, Jacqueline Kowtko, Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon, and Anne H. Anderson. The coding of dialogue structure in a corpus. In J.A. Andernach, S.P. van de Burgt, and G.F. van der Hoeven, editors, Proceedings of the Ninth Twente Workshop on Language Technology: Corpus-based Approaches to Dialogue Modelling. Universiteit Twente, Enschede, 1995. [ bib ]
[19]	Stephen Isard, Simon King, Paul A. Taylor, and Jacqueline Kowtko. Prosodic information in a speech recognition system intended for dialogue. In IEEE Workshop in speech recognition, Snowbird, Utah, 1995. [ bib \| Abstract ]
[20]	Paul A. Taylor and S. D. Isard. A new model of intonation for use with speech recognition and synthesis. In International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Banff, Canada, 1992. [ bib \| .ps \| .pdf ]
[21]	W. N. Campbell and Stephen D. Isard. Segmental durations in a syllable frame. Journal of Phonetics, 19:37-47, 1991. [ bib ]
[22]	Paul A. Taylor and Stephen D. Isard. Automatic diphone segmentation. In Proc. Eurospeech '91, Genova, Italy, 1991. [ bib ]
[23]	Paul A. Taylor and Stephen D. Isard. Automatic diphone segmentation using hidden markov models. In SST-90, Third International Australian Conference in Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 1990. [ bib ]
[24]	W. N. Campbell, Stephen D. Isard, A. I. C. Monaghan, and J. Verhoven. Duration, pitch and diphones in the CSTR TTS system. In ICSLP '90, 1990. [ bib ]
[25]	Stephen D. Isard and Mark Pearson. A repertoire of British English contours for speech synthesis. In SPEECH '88, 7th FASE Symposium, London, 1988. [ bib ]
[26]	Stephen D. Isard and D. A. Miller. Diphone synthesis techniques. In IEEE Conference Publication no 258, pages 77-82, 1986. [ bib ]