| 2021 | AIED | A Good Start is Half the Battle Won: Unsupervised Pre-training for Low Resource Children's Speech Recognition for an Interactive Reading Companion. | Abhinav Misra, Anastassia Loukina, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Binod Gyawali, Klaus Zechner |
| 2020 | Interspeech | Do Face Masks Introduce Bias in Speech Technologies? The Case of Automated Scoring of Speaking Proficiency. | Anastassia Loukina, Keelan Evanini, Matthew Mulholland, Ian Blood, Klaus Zechner |
| 2020 | Interspeech | Targeted Content Feedback in Spoken Language Learning and Assessment. | Xinhao Wang, Klaus Zechner, Christopher Hamill |
| 2019 | ASRU | Using Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Automatically Detect Plagiarized Spoken Responses. | Xinhao Wang, Keelan Evanini, Yao Qian, Klaus Zechner |
| 2019 | Interspeech | Automated Estimation of Oral Reading Fluency During Summer Camp e-Book Reading with MyTurnToRead. | Anastassia Loukina, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Patrick L. Lange, Yao Qian, Binod Gyawali, Nitin Madnani, Abhinav Misra, Klaus Zechner, Zuowei Wang, John Sabatini |
| 2019 | Interspeech | Automatic Detection of Off-Topic Spoken Responses Using Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. | Xinhao Wang, Su-Youn Yoon, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner, Yao Qian |
| 2019 | Interspeech | Development of Robust Automated Scoring Models Using Adversarial Input for Oral Proficiency Assessment. | Su-Youn Yoon, Chong Min Lee, Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini |
| 2018 | NAACL | Atypical Inputs in Educational Applications. | Su-Youn Yoon, Aoife Cahill, Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, Brian Riordan, Nitin Madnani |
| 2017 | ACL | Discourse Annotation of Non-native Spontaneous Spoken Responses Using the Rhetorical Structure Theory Framework. | Xinhao Wang, James V. Bruno, Hillary Molloy, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner |
| 2016 | ICASSP | Exploring deep learning architectures for automatically grading non-native spontaneous speech. | Jidong Tao, Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan, Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner |
| 2015 | ASRU | Using bidirectional lstm recurrent neural networks to learn high-level abstractions of sequential features for automated scoring of non-native spontaneous speech. | Zhou Yu, Vikram Ramanarayanan, David Suendermann-Oeft, Xinhao Wang, Klaus Zechner, Lei Chen, Jidong Tao, Aliaksei Ivanou, Yao Qian |
| 2015 | Interspeech | Pronunciation accuracy and intelligibility of non-native speech. | Anastassia Loukina, Melissa Lopez, Keelan Evanini, David Suendermann-Oeft, Alexei V. Ivanov, Klaus Zechner |
| 2015 | Interspeech | Expert and crowdsourced annotation of pronunciation errors for automatic scoring systems. | Anastassia Loukina, Melissa Lopez, Keelan Evanini, David Suendermann-Oeft, Klaus Zechner |
| 2015 | Interspeech | Using F0 contours to assess nativeness in a sentence repeat task. | Min Ma, Keelan Evanini, Anastassia Loukina, Xinhao Wang, Klaus Zechner |
| 2013 | NAACL | Coherence Modeling for the Automated Assessment of Spontaneous Spoken Responses. | Xinhao Wang, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner |
| 2012 | NAACL | Exploring Content Features for Automated Speech Scoring. | Shasha Xie, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner |
| 2011 | ACL | Computing and Evaluating Syntactic Complexity Features for Automated Scoring of Spontaneous Non-Native Speech. | Miao Chen, Klaus Zechner |
| 2011 | ASRU | Evaluating prosodic features for automated scoring of non-native read speech. | Klaus Zechner, Xiaoming Xi, Lei Chen |
| 2011 | Interspeech | Applying Rhythm Features to Automatically Assess Non-Native Speech. | Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner |
| 2011 | Interspeech | Using Crowdsourcing to Provide Prosodic Annotations for Non-Native Speech. | Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner |
| 2010 | Interspeech | Predicting word accuracy for the automatic speech recognition of non-native speech. | Su-Youn Yoon, Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner |
| 2010 | NAACL | Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for Transcription of Non-Native Speech. | Keelan Evanini, Derrick Higgins, Klaus Zechner |
| 2009 | Interspeech | Adapting the acoustic model of a speech recognizer for varied proficiency non-native spontaneous speech using read speech with language-specific pronunciation difficulty. | Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, Ren Lawless, Yoko Futagi, Sarah Ohls, George Ivanov |
| 2009 | NAACL | Improved pronunciation features for construct-driven assessment of non-native spontaneous speech. | Lei Chen, Klaus Zechner, Xiaoming Xi |
| 2006 | NAACL | Towards Automatic Scoring of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech. | Klaus Zechner, Isaac Bejar |
| 2003 | Interspeech | Spoken language condensation in the 21st century. | Klaus Zechner |
| 2003 | NAACL | Efficient Optimization for Bilingual Sentence Alignment Based on Linear Regression. | Bing Zhao, Klaus Zechner, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel |
| 2001 | ICASSP | Advances in automatic meeting record creation and access. | Alex Waibel, Michael Bett, Florian Metze, Klaus Ries, Thomas Schaaf, Tanja Schultz, Hagen Soltau, Hua Yu, Klaus Zechner |
| 2001 | SIGIR | Automatic Generation of Concise Summaries of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains. | Klaus Zechner |
| 2000 | COLING | DIASUMM: Flexible Summarization of Spontaneous Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains. | Klaus Zechner, Alex Waibel |
| 1998 | ACL | Automatic Construction of Frame Representations for Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains. | Klaus Zechner |
| 1998 | ACL | Using Chunk Based Partial Parsing of Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains for Reducing Word Error Rate in Speech Recognition. | Klaus Zechner, Alex Waibel |
| 1998 | Interspeech | A discourse coding scheme for conversational Spanish. | Lori S. Levin, Ann E. Thym-Gobbel, Alon Lavie, Klaus Ries, Klaus Zechner |
| 1996 | COLING | Fast Generation of Abstracts from General Domain Text Corpora by Extracting Relevant Sentences. | Klaus Zechner |