Brian
Roark
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Research Interests
Syntactic parsing of text and speech; language modeling for automatic speech recognition; supervised and unsupervised learning of language and parsing models; probabilistic models of human language processing; spoken language processing for diagnosis of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders
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Software
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Grammar Library (GRM
Library): general software collection for constructing and
modifying weighted automata and transducers representing grammars or
language models.
- SParseval scoring tool for evaluating parse accuracy when parsing ASR output. Visit this page for technical details and software download.
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Selected Grants
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Translational refinement of adaptive communication system for locked-in patients,
NIH, NIDCD Grant (PI Fried-Oken), 2009-2014
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Efficient hidden structure annotation via structural multiple-sequence alignments,
NSF (IIS) RI Grant, 2008-2011
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DHB: Measuring Spoken Language Variability in Elderly Individuals,
NSF (BCS) HSD Grant, 2008-2011
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Discriminative Syntactic Language Modeling: Automatic Feature Selection and Efficient Annotation,
NSF (IIS) Career Grant, 2005-2010
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Automated Analysis of Spoken Story Recall Tests,
Oregon Center for Aging and Technology Pilot Grant, 2005-2006.
- Selected Publications
- Curriculum Vitae
- Participated in JHU Summer Workshop, 2005.
- Member, IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee
- Students:
back to: http://www.cslu.ogi.edu/people/roark/
WWW Page last updated April 14, 2006