Klaus Zechner

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1996-2021
Publications (10 Years): 23

Top Topics

Automatic Detection

Spontaneous Speech

Middle School Students

Spoken Language

Top Venues

Publications

Abhinav Misra, Anastassia Loukina, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Binod Gyawali, Klaus Zechner
A Good Start is Half the Battle Won: Unsupervised Pre-training for Low Resource Children's Speech Recognition for an Interactive Reading Companion. AIED (1) (2021)
Anastassia Loukina, Keelan Evanini, Matthew Mulholland, Ian Blood, Klaus Zechner
Do Face Masks Introduce Bias in Speech Technologies? The Case of Automated Scoring of Speaking Proficiency. INTERSPEECH (2020)
Anastassia Loukina, Keelan Evanini, Matthew Mulholland, Ian Blood, Klaus Zechner
Do face masks introduce bias in speech technologies? The case of automated scoring of speaking proficiency. CoRR (2020)
Xinhao Wang, Klaus Zechner, Christopher Hamill
Targeted Content Feedback in Spoken Language Learning and Assessment. INTERSPEECH (2020)
Su-Youn Yoon, Chong Min Lee, Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini
Development of Robust Automated Scoring Models Using Adversarial Input for Oral Proficiency Assessment. INTERSPEECH (2019)
Su-Youn Yoon, Ching-Ni Hsieh, Klaus Zechner, Matthew Mulholland, Yuan Wang, Nitin Madnani
Toward Automated Content Feedback Generation for Non-native Spontaneous Speech. BEA@ACL (2019)
Xinhao Wang, Keelan Evanini, Yao Qian, Klaus Zechner
Using Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Automatically Detect Plagiarized Spoken Responses. ASRU (2019)
Anastassia Loukina, Nitin Madnani, Klaus Zechner
The many dimensions of algorithmic fairness in educational applications. BEA@ACL (2019)
Xinhao Wang, Su-Youn Yoon, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner, Yao Qian
Automatic Detection of Off-Topic Spoken Responses Using Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. INTERSPEECH (2019)
Anastassia Loukina, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Patrick L. Lange, Yao Qian, Binod Gyawali, Nitin Madnani, Abhinav Misra, Klaus Zechner, Zuowei Wang, John Sabatini
Automated Estimation of Oral Reading Fluency During Summer Camp e-Book Reading with MyTurnToRead. INTERSPEECH (2019)
Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, James V. Bruno, Beata Beigman Klebanov
Using exemplar responses for training and evaluating automated speech scoring systems. BEA@NAACL-HLT (2018)
Xinhao Wang, Binod Gyawali, James V. Bruno, Hillary R. Molloy, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
Discourse Modeling of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech Using the Rhetorical Structure Theory Framework. SLT (2018)
Su-Youn Yoon, Aoife Cahill, Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, Brian Riordan, Nitin Madnani
Atypical Inputs in Educational Applications. NAACL-HLT (3) (2018)
Xinhao Wang, James V. Bruno, Hillary Molloy, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
Discourse Annotation of Non-native Spontaneous Spoken Responses Using the Rhetorical Structure Theory Framework. ACL (2) (2017)
Su-Youn Yoon, Klaus Zechner
Combining human and automated scores for the improved assessment of non-native speech. Speech Commun. 93 (2017)
Xinhao Wang, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner, Matthew Mulholland
Modeling Discourse Coherence for the Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Spoken Responses. SLaTE (2017)
Klaus Zechner, Su-Youn Yoon, Suma Bhat, Chee Wee Leong
Comparative evaluation of automated scoring of syntactic competence of non-native speakers. Comput. Hum. Behav. 76 (2017)
Jidong Tao, Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan, Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner
Exploring deep learning architectures for automatically grading non-native spontaneous speech. ICASSP (2016)
Min Ma, Keelan Evanini, Anastassia Loukina, Xinhao Wang, Klaus Zechner
Using F0 contours to assess nativeness in a sentence repeat task. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Zhou Yu, Vikram Ramanarayanan, David Suendermann-Oeft, Xinhao Wang, Klaus Zechner, Lei Chen, Jidong Tao, Aliaksei Ivanou, Yao Qian
Using bidirectional lstm recurrent neural networks to learn high-level abstractions of sequential features for automated scoring of non-native spontaneous speech. ASRU (2015)
Anastassia Loukina, Melissa Lopez, Keelan Evanini, David Suendermann-Oeft, Klaus Zechner
Expert and crowdsourced annotation of pronunciation errors for automatic scoring systems. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, Lei Chen, Michael Heilman
Feature selection for automated speech scoring. BEA@NAACL-HLT (2015)
Anastassia Loukina, Melissa Lopez, Keelan Evanini, David Suendermann-Oeft, Alexei V. Ivanov, Klaus Zechner
Pronunciation accuracy and intelligibility of non-native speech. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, Lei Chen
Automatic evaluation of spoken summaries: the case of language assessment. BEA@ACL (2014)
Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, Su-Youn Yoon, Lawrence Davis, Xinhao Wang, Lei Chen, Chong Min Lee, Chee Wee Leong
Automated scoring of speaking items in an assessment for teachers of English as a Foreign Language. BEA@ACL (2014)
Keelan Evanini, Shasha Xie, Klaus Zechner
Prompt-based Content Scoring for Automated Spoken Language Assessment. BEA@NAACL-HLT (2013)
Catherine Lai, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
Applying rhythm metrics to non-native spontaneous speech. SLaTE (2013)
Klaus Zechner, Xinhao Wang
Automated Content Scoring of Spoken Responses in an Assessment for Teachers of English. BEA@NAACL-HLT (2013)
Wenting Xiong, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner, Lei Chen
Automated content scoring of spoken responses containing multiple parts with factual information. SLaTE (2013)
Xinhao Wang, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
Coherence Modeling for the Automated Assessment of Spontaneous Spoken Responses. HLT-NAACL (2013)
Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini, Cara Laitusis
Using automatic speech recognition to assess the reading proficiency of a diverse sample of middle school students. WOCCI (2012)
Su-Youn Yoon, Suma Bhat, Klaus Zechner
Vocabulary Profile as a Measure of Vocabulary Sophistication. BEA@NAACL-HLT (2012)
Miao Chen, Klaus Zechner
Using an Ontology for Improved Automated Content Scoring of Spontaneous Non-Native Speech. BEA@NAACL-HLT (2012)
Shasha Xie, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
Exploring Content Features for Automated Speech Scoring. HLT-NAACL (2012)
Su-Youn Yoon, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
Non-scorable Response Detection for Automated Speaking Proficiency Assessment. BEA@ACL (2011)
Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi, Klaus Zechner, David M. Williamson
A three-stage approach to the automated scoring of spontaneous spoken responses. Comput. Speech Lang. 25 (2) (2011)
Klaus Zechner, Xiaoming Xi, Lei Chen
Evaluating prosodic features for automated scoring of non-native read speech. ASRU (2011)
Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner
Applying Rhythm Features to Automatically Assess Non-Native Speech. INTERSPEECH (2011)
Miao Chen, Klaus Zechner
Computing and Evaluating Syntactic Complexity Features for Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Non-Native Speech. ACL (2011)
Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner
Using Crowdsourcing to Provide Prosodic Annotations for Non-Native Speech. INTERSPEECH (2011)
Su-Youn Yoon, Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner
Predicting word accuracy for the automatic speech recognition of non-native speech. INTERSPEECH (2010)
Keelan Evanini, Derrick Higgins, Klaus Zechner
Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for Transcription of Non-Native Speech. Mturk@HLT-NAACL (2010)
Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner, Xiaoming Xi
Improved pronunciation features for construct-driven assessment of non-native spontaneous speech. HLT-NAACL (2009)
Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi, David M. Williamson
Automatic scoring of non-native spontaneous speech in tests of spoken English. Speech Commun. 51 (10) (2009)
Klaus Zechner
What did they actually say? agreement and disagreement among transcribers of non-native spontaneous speech responses in an English proficiency test. SLaTE (2009)
Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, René Lawless, Yoko Futagi, Sarah Ohls, George Ivanov
Adapting the acoustic model of a speech recognizer for varied proficiency non-native spontaneous speech using read speech with language-specific pronunciation difficulty. INTERSPEECH (2009)
Klaus Zechner, John Sabatini, Lei Chen
Automatic Scoring of Children's Read-Aloud Text Passages and Word Lists. BEA@NAACL (2009)
Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi
: a construct-driven approach to scoring spontaneous non-native speech. SLaTE (2007)
Klaus Zechner, Isaac Bejar
Towards Automatic Scoring of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech. HLT-NAACL (2006)
Klaus Zechner
Spoken language condensation in the 21st century. INTERSPEECH (2003)
Bing Zhao, Klaus Zechner, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel
Efficient Optimization for Bilingual Sentence Alignment Based on Linear Regression. ParallelTexts@NAACL-HLT (2003)
Klaus Zechner
Automatic Summarization of Open-Domain Multiparty Dialogues in Diverse Genres. Comput. Linguistics 28 (4) (2002)
Klaus Zechner
Automatic Generation of Concise Summaries of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains. SIGIR (2001)
Alex Waibel, Michael Bett, Florian Metze, Klaus Ries, Thomas Schaaf, Tanja Schultz, Hagen Soltau, Hua Yu, Klaus Zechner
Advances in automatic meeting record creation and access. ICASSP (2001)
Klaus Zechner, Alex Waibel
Minimizing Word Error Rate in Textual Summaries of Spoken Language. ANLP (2000)
Klaus Zechner, Alex Waibel
DIASUMM: Flexible Summarization of Spontaneous Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains. COLING (2000)
Lori S. Levin, Ann E. Thymé-Gobbel, Alon Lavie, Klaus Ries, Klaus Zechner
A discourse coding scheme for conversational Spanish. ICSLP (1998)
Klaus Zechner
Automatic Construction of Frame Representations for Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains. COLING-ACL (1998)
Klaus Zechner, Alex Waibel
Using Chunk Based Partial Parsing of Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains for Reducing Word Error Rate in Speech Recognition. COLING-ACL (1998)
Marsal Gavaldà, Klaus Zechner, Gregory Aist
High Performance Segmentation of Spontaneous Speech Using Part of Speech and Trigger Word Information. ANLP (1997)
Klaus Zechner
Fast Generation of Abstracts from General Domain Text Corpora by Extracting Relevant Sentences. COLING (1996)