Technical Publications

Roberto Pieraccini

2011

Suendermann, D., Liscombe, J., Bloom, J., Pieraccini, R., Topic and Emotion Classification of Customer Surveys, In Proc. of the 5th Workshop on Emotion and Computing, Berlin, Germany, October 2011.
Suendermann, D., Liscombe, J., Bloom, J., Li, G., Pieraccini, R., Large-Scale Experiments on Data-Driven Design of Commercial Spoken Dialog Systems. In Proc. of the Interspeech 2011, 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence, Italy, August 2011.
Suendermann, D., Pieraccini, R., SLU in Commercial and Research Spoken Dialogue Systems. In Spoken Language Understanding, G. Tur and R. De Mori, editors, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011, pp. 171-194.
Suendermann, D., Liscombe, J., Bloom, J., Li, G., and Pieraccini, R., Deploying Contender: Early Lessons in Data, Measurement, and Testing of Multiple Call Flow Decisions. In Proc. of the HCI 2011, IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Washington, USA, May 2011.

2010

Suendermann, D., Liscombe, J., and Pieraccini, R.: Contender. In Proc. of the SLT 2010, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Berkeley, USA, December 2010.
Pieraccini, R., The Industry of Spoken Dialog Systems and the Third Generation of Interactive Applications, in Speech Technology: Theory and Applications, F. Chen and K. Jokinen, editors, Springer, 2010, pp 61-78.
Schmidt A., Pieraccini, R., Polzhel, T., “For Heaven’s Sake, Give me a Live Person!” Designing Emotion-Detection Customer Care Voice Applications in Automated Call Centers, in Advances in Speech Recognition, Amy Neustein, Editor, Springer, 2010, pp 191-220.
Suendermann, D., Liscombe, J., Pieraccini, R., Evanini, K., “How am I Doing?”: A New Framework to Effectively Measure the Performance of Automated Customer Care Contact Centers, in Advances in Speech Recognition, Amy Neustein, Editor, Springer, 2010, pp 155-180.
Suendermann, D., Liscombe, J., Pieraccini, R., How to Drink from a Fire Hose: One Person Can Annoscribe 693 Thousand Utterances in One Month, SIGDIAL 2010, The 11th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Sep 2010, Tokyo, Japan.
Suendermann, D., Liscombe, J., Pieraccini, R., Minimally Invasive Surgery for Spoken Dialog Systems, Interspeech 2010, Sep. 26-30, Makuhari, Japan.
Suendermann, D., Liscombe, J., Pieraccini, R., Optimize the Obvious: Automatic Call Flow Generation, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010), March 2010, Dallas, TX.

2009

Pieraccini, R.,Suendermann, D., Liscombe, J., Dayanidhi, K., Are We There Yet? Research in Commercial Spoken Dialog Systems, in Text, Speech and Dialogue, 12^th International Conference, TSD 2009, Pilsen, Czech Republic, Sep. 2009, Vaclav Matousek and Pavel Mautner (Eds): pp. 3:13
Suendermann, D., Liscombe, J., Dayanidhi, K., Pieraccini, R., A Handsome Set of Metrics to Measure Utterance Classification Performance in Spoken Dialog Systems, SIGDIAL 2009, The 10th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, London, UK, 11-12 September, 2009.
Alabate, A., Suendermann, D., Pieraccini, R., Minker, W., Machine Learning for Categorization of Speech Utterances, in Mathematical Analysis of Evolution, Information, and Complexity. Edited by Wolfgang Arendt and Wolfgang P. Schleich,. 2009 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, pp. 219-241
Suendermann, D., Liscombe, J., Dayanidhi, K., Pieraccini, R., Localization of Speech Recognition in Spoken Dialog Systems: How Machine Translation Can Make Our Lives Easier, Proceeding of the 2009 Interspeech Conference, 6-10 September 2009, Brighton, UK.
Suendermann, D., Evanini, K., Liscombe, J., Hunter., P, Dayanidhi, K., Pieraccini, R., From Rule-Based to Statistical Grammars: Continuous Improvement of Large-Scale Spoken Dialog Systems, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009), Taipei, Taiwan, April 19-24, 2009

2008

Suendermann, D., Liscombe, J., Evanini, K., Dayanidhi, K., Pieraccini, R., C⁵, in Proc. of 2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 08), December 15-18, 2008, Goa, India.
Evanini, K., Hunter, P., Liscombe, J., Suendermann, D., Dayanidhi, K., Pieraccini, R., Caller Experience: a Method for Evaluating Dialog Systems and its Automatic Prediction, in Proc. of 2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 08), December 15-18, 2008, Goa, India.
Suendermann, D., Hunter, P., Pieraccini, R., Call Classification with Hundreds of Classes and Hundred Thousands of Training Utterances ... and No Target Domain Data, in Perception in Multimodal Dialog Systems, Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies for Speech-Based Systems, PIT 2008, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 16-18, 2008, Springer-Verlag, pp. 81-87.
Paek, T., Pieraccini, R., Automating spoken dialogue management design using machine learning: An industry perspective, Speech Communication, Vol. 50, 2008, pp 716-729.

2007

Evanini, K., Suendermann, D., Pieraccini, R., Call Classification for Automated Troubleshooting on Large Corpora, ASRU 2007, Kyoto, Japan, December 9-13, 2007
Albalate, A., Dimitrov, D., Pieraccini, R, Unsupervised Categorisation Approaches for Technical Support Automated Agents, Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007.
Acomb, K., Bloom, J., Dayanidhi, K., Hunter, P., Krogh, P., Levin, E., Pieraccini, R., Technical Support Dialog Systems, Issues, Problems, and Solutions, HLT 2007 Workshop on “Bridging the Gap, Academic and Industrial Research in Dialog Technology,” Rochester, NY, April. 26, 2007.

2006

Levin, E., Pieraccini, R., Value-Based Optimal Decision for Dialog Systems, Proc. of IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies (SLT 06), Aruba, Dec. 10-13, 2006
Pieraccini R., Nuove tecniche per parlare con i computer, (in Italian), I Quaderni di Telèma, Supplemento al numero 232 di dicembre 2005/gennaio 2006 di MEDIADUEMILA, pp. 84-92. (Dec 2005-Jan 2006)

2005

Pieraccini, R. Huerta, J., Where do we go from here? Research and Commercial Spoken Dialog Systems, Proc. of 6^th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialog, Lisbon, Portugal, 2-3 September, 2005. pp. 1-10
Pieraccini R., Lubensky, D., Spoken Language Communication with Machines: the Long and Winding Road from research to Business, in M. Ali and F. Esposito (Eds) : IEA/AIE 2005, LNAI 3533, pp 6-15, 2005, Springer-Verlag.

2004

Gherardi, F., Pieraccini, R., Using Information Theory to Assess Dynamics, Structure, and Organization of Crayfish Agonistic Repertoire, Behavioural Processes, 65 (2004), pp 163-178
Pieraccini, R., Dayandhi, K., Bloom, J., Dahan, J.-G., Phillips, M., Goodman, B. R., Prasad, K. V., Multimodal Conversational Systems for Automobiles, Communications of the ACM, January 2004, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 47-49.

2003

Caskey S. P., Story, E., Pieraccini R., Interactive Grammar Inference with Finite State Transducers, ASRU’03 Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, St. Thomas, USVI, Nov 30-Dec 4, 2003, pp 572-575.
Meng, H.M., Wai, C., Pieraccini, R., The Use of Belief Networks for Mixed-Initiative Dialog Modeling, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 11, N. 6, pp. 757-773, November 2003.
Pieraccini, R., Dayanidhi K., Bloom, J., Dahan, J.G., Phillips, M., Goodman B.R., Prasad, K.V., A Multimodal Conversational Interface for a Concept Vehicle, Eurospeech 2003., Geneva (Switzerland), September 2003.

2002

Lee, C. M., Narayanan, S, Pieraccini, R., Classifying emotions in human-machine spoken dialogs, Proc. of ICME, (Lausanne, Switzerland), 2002.
Carpenter, B., Caskey, S, Dayanidhi, K., Drouin, C., Pieraccini, R., A Portable, Server-Side Dialog Framework for VoiceXML, Proc of ICSLP 2002, Denver (CO), September 2002.
Lee, C. M., Narayanan, S., Pieraccini, R., Combining Acoustic and Language Information for Emotion Recognition, Proc of ICSLP 2002, Denver (CO), September 2002.
Pieraccini, R., Carpenter, B., Woudenberg, E., Caskey, S., Springer, S., Bloom, J., Phillips, M., Multi-modal Spoken Dialog with Wireless Devices, Proc. of ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop - Multi-modal Dialog in Mobile Environments - June 17 - 19, 2002 - Kloster Irsee, Germany.

2001

Pieraccini, R., Caskey, S., Dayanidhi, K., Carpenter, B., Phillips, M., ETUDE, a Recursive Dialog Manager with Embedded User Interface Patterns, Proc. of ASRU01 – IEEE Workshop, Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, Dec. 2001.
Lee, C.M., Narayanan, S., Pieraccini R., Recognition of Negative Emotions from the Speech Signal, Proc. of ASRU01 – IEEE Workshop, Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, Dec. 2001.
Wai, C., Pieraccini, R., Meng, H., A Dynamic Semantic Model for Rescoring Recognition Hypothesis, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2001
Wai, C., Meng, H., Pieraccini, 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.

2000

Meng, H., Wai, C., Pieraccini, R., The Use of Belief Networks for Mixed-Initiative Dialog Modeling, Proc. ICSLP 2000, China, Oct. 2000.
Levin, E., Narayanan, S., Pieraccini, R., Biatov, K., Bocchieri, E., Di Fabbrizio, G., Eckert, W., Lee, S., Pokrovsky, A., Rahim, M., Ruscitti, P., Walker, L., The AT&T-DARPA Communicator Mixed-Initiative Spoken Dialog System, Proc. ICSLP 2000, Beijing, China, Oct. 2000.
Rahim, M., Pieraccini, R., Eckert, W., Levin, E., Di Fabbrizio, G., Riccardi, G., Kamm, C., Narayanan, S., A Spoken Dialogue System for Conference/Workshop Services, Proc. ICSLP 2000, Beijing, China, Oct. 2000.
Carpenter, B., Lerner, S., Pieraccini, R., Optimizing BNF Grammars through Source Transformation, Proc. ICSLP 2000, Beijing, China, Oct. 2000
Levin, E., Pieraccini, R., Eckert, W., A Stochastic Model of Human-Machine Interaction for Learning Dialog Strategies, IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 11-23, January 2000.

1999

Levin, E., Pieraccini, R., Eckert, W., Di Fabbrizio, G., Narayanan, S., Spoken Language Dialogue: from Theory to Practice, Proc. of ASRU99 – IEEE Workshop, Keystone, Colorado, Dec. 1999.
Rahim, M., Pieraccini, R., Eckert, W., Levin, E., Di Fabbrizio, G., Riccardi, G., Lin, C.-M., Kamm, C., W99 – A Spoken Dialog System for the ASRU’99, Workshop, Proc. of ASRU99 – IEEE Workshop, Keystone, Colorado, Dec. 1999.
Gibbon, D., Basso, A., Civanlar, R., Huang, Q., Levin, E. and Pieraccini, R., Browsing and retrieval of full broadcast-quality video, Packet Video 99, NY, 26-27 April 1999.

1998

Pieraccini, R., Levin, E., Eckert, W., Spoken Language Dialog: Architectures and Algorithms, Proc. of XXIIemes Journees d’Etude sur la Parole, Martigny (Switzerland), June 1998
Eckert, W., Levin, E., Pieraccini, R., Automatic evaluation of spoken dialogue systems, Twente Workshop on Language Technology (TWLT13), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, May 1998. Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 99--110.
Levin, E., Pieraccini, R. and Eckert, W., Using Markov decision process for learning dialogue strategies, Proc. ICASSP 98, Seattle, WA, May, 1998.

1997

Levin, E. and Pieraccini, R., A stochastic model of computer-human interaction for learning dialogue strategies, Proc. of EUROSPEECH 97, Rhodes, Greece, Sept. 1997.
Pieraccini, R., Levin, E. and Eckert, W., AMICA: the AT&T Mixed Initiative Conversational Architecture, Proc. of EUROSPEECH 97, Rhodes, Greece, Sept. 1997.
Eckert, W., Levin, E. and Pieraccini, R., User modeling for spoken dialogue system, ASRU '97, 1997.
Levin, E., Pieraccini, R. and Eckert, W., Learning Dialog Strategies within the Markov Decision Process Framework, ASRU '97, 1997.

1996

Riccardi, G., Pieraccini, R. and Bocchieri, E., Stochastic automata for language modeling, Computer Speech and Language, vol. 10(4), 1996, pp. 265-293.

1995

Bocchieri, E., Levin, E., Pieraccini, R. and Riccardi, G., Understanding spontaneous speech, Journal of the Italian Assoc. of Artificial Intelligence, Sept. 1995.
Bimbot, F., Pieraccini, R., Levin, E. and Atal, B., Variable-length sequence modeling: Multigrams, IEEE Signal Proc. Letters, vol. 2, no. 6, June 1995.
Pieraccini, R. and Levin, E., A spontaneous-speech understanding system for database query applications, ESCA Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems - Theories & Applications, Vigso, Denmark, June 1995.
Levin, E. and Pieraccini, R., CHRONUS, the next generation, Proc. 1995 ARPA Spoken Language Sstems Tech. Workshop, Austin, Texas, Jan. 1995.
Levin, E. and Pieraccini, R., Concept-based spontaneous speech understanding system, Proc. EUROSPEECH '95, Madrid, Spain, 1995.
Riccardi, G., Bocchieri, E. and Pieraccini, R., Non deterministic stochastic language models for speech recognition, ICASSP '95, Detroit, 1995, pp. 247-250.

1994

Bimbot, F., Pieraccini, R., Levin, E. and Atal, B., Modeles de sequences a horizon variable: Multigrams, XXth Journees d'Etude sur la Parole, 1994.

1993

Pieraccini, R., Levin, E. and Vidal, E., Learning how to understand language, Proc. EUROSPEECH '93, Berlin, Germany, Sept. 1993, pp. 1407-1414.
Vidal, E., Pieraccini, R. and Levin, E., Learning associations between grammars: A new approach to natural language understanding, Proc. EUROSPEECH '93, Berlin, Germany, Sept. 1993, pp. 1187-1190.
Lee, C-H., Gauvain, J-L., Pieraccini, R. and Rabiner, L. R., Subword-based large vocabulary speech recognition, AT&T Tech. Journal, vol. 72, no. 5, September/October 1993, pp. 25-36.
Agazzi, O. E., Kuo, S., Levin, E. and Pieraccini, R., Connected and degraded text recognition using planar hidden Markov models, ICASSP ‘93, Minneapolis, April 1993.
Lee, C-H., Gauvain, J-L., Pieraccini, R. and Rabiner, L. R., Large vocabulary speech recognition using subword units, Speech Communication, vol. 13, 1993, pp. 263-279.
Levin, E., Pieraccini, R. and Bocchieri, E., Time-warping network: A hybrid framework for speech recognition, Int. J. Pattern Recognition& Artificial Intelligence, 1993.
Levin, E., Pieraccini, R., Bocchieri, E. and Wang, P. S. P., Time-warping network: A neural approach to hidden Markov model based speech recognition, in Advances in Pattern Recognition Systems Using Neural Network Technololgies, Guyon, I. (Ed.), World Scientific, 1993.
Pieraccini, R. and Levin, E., A learning approach to natural language understanding, in NATO-ASI, New Advances & Trends in Speech Recognition and Coding, Springer-Verlag, Bubion (Granada), Spain, 1993.

1992

Lee, C-H., Gauvain, J-L., Pieraccini, R. and Rabiner, L. R., Large vocabulary speech recognition using subword units, Proc. ICSST-92, Brisbane, Australia, Dec. 1992, pp. 342-353.
Pieraccini, R., Gorelov, Z., Levin, E. and Tzoukermann, E., Automatic learning in spoken language understanding, Proc. 1992 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Banff, Alberta, Canada, Oct. 1992, pp. 405-408.
Giachin, E., Lee, C-H., Rabiner, L. R., Rosenberg, A. E. and Pieraccini, R., On the use of inter-word context dependent units for word juncture modeling, Computer, Speech & Language, vol. 6, no. 3, July 1992, pp. 197-213.
Lee, C-H., Giachin, E., Rabiner, L. R., Pieraccini, R. and Rosenberg, A. E., Improved acoustic modeling for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, Computer, Speech & Language, vol. 6, no. 2, April 1992, pp. 103-127.
Pieraccini, R., Tzoukermann, E., Gorelov, Z., Gauvain, J-L., Levin, E., Wilpon, J. and Lee, C-H., A speech understanding system based on statistical representation of semantics, Proc. ICASSP '92, San Francisco, March 1992, pp. 193-196.
Levin, E. and Pieraccini, R., Dynamic planar warping for optical character recognition, Proc. ICASSP '92, vol. 3, San Francisco, CA, March, 1992, pp. 149-152.
Pieraccini, R., Tzoukermann, E., Gorelov, Z., Levin, E., Lee, C-H. and Gauvain, J-L., Progress report on the Chronus system: ATIS benchmark results, Proc. 5th DARPA Workshop on Speech and Nat. Lang., Arden House, NY, Feb. 1992.
Lee, C-H., Rabiner, L. R. and Pieraccini, R., Speaker independent continuous speech recognition using continuous density hidden Markov models, in Speech Recognition and Understanding Recent Advances, Trends and Applications, Laface, P. and DeMori, R. (Ed.), Springer Verlag NATO ASI Series, 1992, pp. 135-163.
Pieraccini, R. and Levin, E., Stochastic representation of semantic structure for speech understanding, Speech Communication, vol. 11, 1992, pp. 238-288.
Tzoukermann, E., Pieraccini, R. and Gorelov, Z., Natural language processing in the CHRONUS system, Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. Spoken Lang. Processing, Banff, Canada, 1992.

1991

Levin, E., Pieraccini, R. and Bocchieri, E., Time-warping network: A hybrid framework for speech recognition, Proc. of NIPS '91, Denver, CO, Dec. 1991.
Pieraccini, R., Levin, E., Gauvain, J-L., Gorelov, Z., Tzoukermann, E., Lee, C-H. and Wilpon, J., A speech understanding system based on statistical representation of semantics, Proc. 1991 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition, Harriman, NY, Dec. 1991, pp. 60-61.
Giachin, E., Lee, C-H., Rabiner, L. R., Rosenberg, A. E. and Pieraccini, R., Word juncture modeling using intra-word context-dependent phone-like units, Proc. EuroSpeech '91, Genova, Italy, Sept. 1991.
Pieraccini, R. and Levin, E., Stochastic representation of semantic structure for speech understanding, Proc. EUROSPEECH '91, Genova, Italy, Sept. 1991.
Pieraccini, R. and Lee, C-H., Factorization of language constraints in speech recognition, Proc. 29th Annual Mtg. of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, Berkeley, CA, June 1991.
Pieraccini, R., Speaker independent recognition of Italian telephone speech with mixture density hidden Markov models, Speech Communication, no. 10, June 1991, pp. 105-115.
Lee, C-H., Giachin, E., Rabiner, L. R., Pieraccini, R. and Rosenberg, A. E., Improved acoustic modeling for speaker independent large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, Proc. ICASSP '91, Toronto, Canada, May 1991, pp. 161-164.
Pieraccini, R., Lee, C-H., Giachin, E. and Rabiner, L. R., Complexity reduction in a large vocabulary speech recognizer, Proc. ICASSP '91, Toronto, Canada, May 1991, pp. 729-732.
Pieraccini, R., Levin, E. and Lee, C-H., Stochastic representation of conceptual structure in the ATIS task, Proc. Fourth Joint DARPA Speech and Natural Lang. Workshop, Pacific Grove, CA, Feb. 1991.

1990

Lee, C-H., Giachin, E., Rabiner, L. R., Pieraccini, R. and Rosenberg, A. E., Improved acoustic modeling for continuous speech recognition , Proc. Third Joint DARPA Speech & Nat. Lang. Workshop, Somerset, PA, June 1990, pp. 319-326.
Pieraccini, R., Lee, C-H., Giachin, E. and Rabiner, L. R., Implementation aspects of large vocabulary recognition based on intraword and interword phonetic units, Proc. Third Joint DARPA Speech & Nat. Lang. Workshop, Somerset, PA, June 1990, pp. 311-318.
Lee, C-H., Rabiner, L. R., Pieraccini, R. and Wilpon, J. G., Acoustic modeling for large vocabulary speech recognition, Computer, Speech & Language, vol. 4, no. 2, April 1990, pp. 127-165.
Lee, C-H., Rabiner, L. R., Pieraccini, R. and Wilpon, J. G., Acoustic modeling of subword units for speech recognition, Proc. ICASSP '90, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1990, pp. 721-724.
Fissore, L., Kaltenmeier, A., Laface, P., Micca, G. and Pieraccini, R., The recognition algorithms, in Advanced Algorithms and Architectures for Speech Understanding, Pirani, G. (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, 1990, pp. 7-78.
Lee, C-H., Rabiner, L. R. and Pieraccini, R., Speaker-independent continuous speech recognition using continuous density hidden Markov models, in Speech Recognition & Understanding: Recent Advances, Trends and Applications, Laface, P. and DeMori, R. (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1990, pp. 135-163.
Pieraccini, R., Lee, C-H., Giachin, E. P. and Rabiner, L. R., An efficient structure for continuous speech recognition, in Speech Recognition and Understanding: Recent Advances, Trends & Applications, Laface, P. and DeMori, R. (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1990, pp. 211-216.

1989

Lee, C-H., Rabiner, L. R., Pieraccini, R. and Wilpon, J. G., Acoustic modeling of subword units for large vocabulary speaker independent speech recognition, Proc. DARPA Speech & Nat. Lang. Workshop, Cape Cod, Oct 1989, pp. 280-291.
Fissore, L., Laface, P., Micca, G. and Pieraccini, R., Lexical access to large vocabularies for speech recognition, IEEE Trans. Acoustic, Speech & Sig. Proc., vol. ASSP-37, Aug. 1989.
Fissore, L., Laface, P., Micca, G. and Pieraccini, R., A word hypothesizer for a large vocabulary continuous speech understanding system, Proc. ICASSP 89, Glasgow, UK, May 1989.
Pieraccini, R. and Rosenberg, A. E., Automatic generation of phonetic units for continuous speech recognition, IEEE Int. Conf. Acous., Speech, and Sig. Processing, Glasgow, Scotland, May 1989, pp. 623-626.
Lee, C-H., Pieraccini, R., Rabiner, L. R. and Wilpon, J. G., Some preliminary results on speaker independent recognition of the DARPA resource management task, Proc. DARPA Speech & Nat. Lang. Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 1989.

1988

Fissore, L., Giachin, E., Laface, P., Micca, G., Pieraccini, R. and Rullent, C., Experimental results on a large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition and understanding, Proc. ICASSP '88, New York, NY, April 1988.
Fissore, L., Laface, P., Micca, G. and Pieraccini, R., Interaction between fast lexical access and word verification in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, Proc. ISASSP '88, New York, NY, April 1988.
Fissore, L., Laface, P., Micca, G. and Pieraccini, R., Very large vocabulary isolated utterance recognition: A comparison between one pass and two pass strategies, Proc. ICASSP '88, New York, NY, April 1988.
Fissore, L., Laface, P., Micca, G. and Pieraccini, R., Strategies for lexical access to very large vocabularies, Speech Communication, no. 7, 1988, pp. 335-366.
Laface, P., Micca, G. and Pieraccini, R., Recognition of words in very large vocabulary, in Recent Advances in Speech Understanding and Dialog Systems, NATO-ASI Series (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1988.

1987

Micca, G., Pieraccini, R. and Laface, P., Three dimensional DP for phonetic lattice matching, Proc. Int. Conf. on Digital Signal Proc., Florence, Italy, Sept. 1987.
Jarre, A. and Pieraccini, R., Some experiments on HMM speaker adaptation, Proc. ICASSP '87, Dallas, TX, April 1987.
Laface, P., Micca, G. and Pieraccini, R., Experimental results on a large lexicon access task, Proc. ICASSP '87, Dallas, TX, April 1987.
Micca, G., Pieraccini, R. and Laface, P., Lessico per computer, Media 2000, vol. 5, no. 2, 2 Feb. 1987.

1986

Cravero, M., Pieraccini, R., Raineri, F., Giordana, A., Laface, P. and Kaltenmeier, A., Isolated utterance hypothesization and verification in a very large vocabulary, Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on pattern recognition, Paris, France, Oct 1986..
Micca, G., Pieraccini, R., Laface, P., Saitta, L. and Kaltenmeier, A., Esprit 26, subtask 2.1, word hypothesization & verification in a large vocabulary, Proc. 3rd Esprit Technical Week, Brussels, Oct.-Sept. 1986.
Cravero, M., Pieraccini, R. and Raineri, F., Definition of recognition units through two levels of phonemic description, Proc. Montreal Symp. Speech Recog., Montreal, Canada, July 1986.
Ciaramella, A., Cravero, M., Fissore, L., Pieraccini, R., Pirani, G., Raineri, F. and Venuti, G., Markov models in speech recognition and understanding, Proc. Int. Workshop Recentt Advances & Applications Speech Recog., Rome, Italy, May 1986.
Demichelis, P., Laface, P., Piccolo, E. and Pieraccini, R., Recognition of words in a large vocabulary, Proc. Int. Workshop on Recent Advances & Applications Speech Recog., Rome, Italy, May 1986.
Cravero, M., Pieraccini, R. and Raineri, F., Definition & evaluation of phonetic units for speech recognition by hidden Markov models, Proc. ICASSP '86, Tokyo, Japan, April 1986.
Pieraccini, R., Lexical stress and speech recognition, J. Acous. Soc. Am., vol. 80, no. Suppl. 1, Fall 1986.

1985

Giordana, A., Laface, P., Kaltenmeier, A., Mangold, H., Pieraccini, R. and Raineri, F., Esprit 26, Subtask 2.1, Algorithms for speech data reduction & recognition, Proc. of 2nd Esprit Technical Week, Brussels, Sept. 1985.
Pieraccini, R., Macchine che comprendono la voce, Le Scienze Italian issue of Scientific American, May 1985, in Italian.
Cravero, M., Fissore, L., Pieraccini, R. and Raineri, F., II Riconoscimento della voce, Electtronica e Telecomunicazioni, May-June 1985, in Italian.

1984

Oreglia, M., Pieraccini, R. and Raineri, F., A probabilistic model for the evaluation of speech recognizers, Proc. Int. Conf. Digital Signal Proc., Florence, Italy, Sept. 1984.
Pieraccini, R., Comprensione automatica del linguaggio parlato, Bollettino Scuola Superiore Guglielmo Reiss Romolo, no. 24, Sept. 1984, in Italian.
Pieraccini, R., Pattern compression in isolated word recognition, Signal Processing, vol. 7, no. 1, Sept. 1984.
Gemello, R., Pieraccini, R., Raineri, F. and Rullent, C., Diphone spotting with Markov chains, Proc. 7th Int. Conf. Pattern Recog., Montreal, Canada, July-Aug. 1984.
Cravero, M., Fissore, L., Pieraccini, R. and Scagliola, C., Syntax driven recognition of connected words by Markov models, Proc. ICASSP '84, San Diego, CA, March 1984.

1983

Pieraccini, R. and Raineri, F., A Probabilistic model of an isolated word recognition system based on template matching strategy, Proc. Second European Sig. Proc. Conf. (EUSIPCO), Erlangen, West Germany, Sept. 1983.
Pieraccini, R. and Billi, R., Experimental comparison among data compression techniques in isolated word recognition, Proc. ICASSP '83, Boston, MA, April 1983.
Pieraccini, R. and Raineri, F., Gestione di una agenda telefonica per mezzo della voce, Convegno Ausili per Handicap di Comunicazione, Florence, Italy, March 1983, in Italian.

1982

Billi, R., Oreglia, M., Pieraccini, R., Scagliola, C. and Vicenzi, C., Performance analysis of a speaker-trained isolated word recognition system, 1982 International Zurich Seminar on Digital Communications, Zurich, March 1982.
Billi, R., Oreglia, M. and Pieraccini, R., Riconoscimento e sintesi della voce: un sistema interatttivo per il dialogo uomo-macchina, 29 Rassegna Internazionale Elettronica Nucleare ed Aerospaziale, Roma, March 1982.

1981

Marola, G., Picchi, G., Piccini, P. and Pieraccini, R., Microprocessor-based adaptive DFD equaliser using fixed point WFT algorithms, Proc. Int. Conf. on Digital Sig. Proc., Florence, Italy, Sept. 1981.

1980

Pieraccini, R. and Piccini, P., Studio di realizzazione per mezzo di un microprocessore di un equalizzatore adittivo nel dominio delle frequenze discrete per transmissione sincrona dati, Dr. Ing. Thesis, Inst. di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Universita' degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Dec. 1980.

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