Patents

Michael Emonts, Xavier Menendez-Pidal, Lex Olorenshaw. “System and Method for Speech Recognition Utilizing a Merged Dictionary” /(PATENT #: 20040193416)/

Michael Emonts, Xavier Menendez-Pidal, Lex Olorenshaw. “System and Method for Cantonese Speech Recognition Using an Optimized Phone Set” /(PATENT #: 20040193418)/

Michael Emonts, Xavier Menendez-Pidal, Lex Olorenshaw. “System and Method for Performing Speech Recognition by Utilizing a Multi-Language Dictionary” /(PATENT #: 20050038654)/

Xavier Menendez-Pidal, Michael Emonts, Lei Duan, Lex Olorenshaw. “System and Method for Utilizing Distance Measures to Perform Text Classification” /(PATENT #: 20060142993)/

Publications (all peer-reviewed and available upon request)

Douglas Jones, Martha Herzog, Hussny Ibrahim, Arvind Jairam, Wade Shen, Edward Gibson, Michael Emonts. “ILR-Based MT KComprehension Test with Multi-Level Questions”. Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2007). Presented in Rochester, NY, April 2007.

Douglas Jones, Arvind Jairam, Wade Shen, Paul Gatewood, John Tardelli, Michael Emonts. “Experimental Facility for Measuring the Impact of Environmental Noise and Speaker Variation on Speech-to-Speech Translation Devices”. IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2006). Presented in Palm Beach, Aruba, December 2006.

Douglas Jones, Wade Shen, Brian Delaney, Martha Herzog, Michael Emonts, Sabine Atwell, James Dirgin, Neil Granoien, Sargon Jabri, Jurgen Sottung, Timothy Anderson, Timothy Hunter. “Toward an Interagency Language Roundtable Based Assessment of Speech-to-Speech Translation Capabilities”. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2006). Presented in Boston, MA, August 2006.

Michael Emonts, Stephanie Seneff, Mitch Peabody. “The Need for Interactivity in Chinese Language Learning Software”. North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Presented in Monterey, CA, June 2005.

Michael Emonts. “Current Projects in Languages of Military Interest at the Defense Language Institute”. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004). Presented in Lisbon, Portugal, May 2004.

Michael Emonts and Deryle Lonsdale. "Cantonese Tone Recognition Using a k-NN Classifier". The 15^th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-15). Presented in East Lansing, Michigan, July 2003.

Michael Emonts and Deryle Lonsdale. “A Memory-based Approach to Cantonese Tone Recognition”. 8^th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2003). Presented in Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003.**

Michael Emonts. "Memory-based Tone Recognition of Cantonese Syllables". BYU Linguistics Master's Thesis, December 2002.

Michael Emonts and Michael Rushforth. "Interactive Language Learning in a Speech Environment". 2001 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICASSP). Presented in Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2001.

Michael Emonts, Deryle Lonsdale, C. Ray Graham, Michael Rushforth. "Improving Speech Recognition for a Communicative CALL Task". Presented at the Deseret Language and Linguistic Society in Provo, Utah, March 2001.