Curriculum Vitae Lori Faith LAMEL Home address: LIMSI / CNRS, BP 133, 91403 ORSAY 105 quai Branly tel.: 33-1-69858063 75015 PARIS e-mail: [email protected] tel. : 33-1-45759802 Current position: Senior Research scientist (DR2) at LIMSI-CNRS. Research topics: Human-machine communication, principally: large vocabulary, continuous speech recog- nition; studies in acoustic-phonetics; lexical and phonological modeling; spoken dialog systems; speaker and language identification; automatic indexation of audio data; lightly supervised and unsupervised acoustic model training Education • Habilitation to supervise research in Computer Science, University Paris XI (23 January 2004) • PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, May 1988 PhD thesis: Formalizing Knowledge used in Spectrogram Reading: Acoustic and perceptual evidence from stops (Supervisor: Dr. Victor Zue) • SM, SB Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, May 1980 S.M. Thesis: Methods of Endpoint Detection for Isolated Word Recognition (Research con- ducted as a co-op student at Bell Laboratories. Supervisors: Dr. Lawrence Rabiner and Dr. Aaron Rosenberg at Bell Labs, and Dr. Victor Zue at MIT.) • Bell Laboratories Graduate Research Program for Women grant recipient 1978-1984. Publications • Over 200 publications, 27 articles in nine different journals, 12 chapters in books. • 1 international patent, 2 software licenses Scientific and Administrative Responsibilities • Responsible for the research in “Acoustic-phonetic and lexical modeling” in the Spoken Lan- guage Processing Group at LIMSI since January 1995. • Appointed member to the LIMSI Advisory Council (2001-2004) • Strong contribution to the LIMSI participation in DARPA benchmark evaluations from 1992 to 2004 (best system in 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004); development of the pronun- ciation lexicons and acoustic models. • Responsible or co-responsible of 19 research contracts • Co-supervision of 7 PhD students and 16 persons on contract, including 6 postdocs 1 • Expert for the European Commission in the “Human language technologies” program: evalu- ation of ongoing projects in March 1997, Feb. and June 1999. EC Panels “Speech Technology Meeting” (Bruxelles, Oct. 1993), “Linguistic Resources” (Luxembourg, March 1994). Animator of the ELSNET “Resources Task Group” (1992-1998). Expert EAGLES “Formats and Tools” sub-group of the Spoken Language Working Group (1994-1996). Animator and coordinator of the ELRA EPIC “Identification and Collection of Language resources” (1996- 1998). • Expert for the “University Grants Committee’, Hong Kong (1999-2001). • Member of the International advisory group of the Swedish National Graduate School of Lan- guage Technology (2002-2005). • Scientific Expert for the mid-term evaluation ‘Competence Centre for Speech Technology, CTT the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm’ Member of the ‘EU-NSF Working Group for Spoken-Word Digital Audio Collections,’ (Delos Network of Excellence) (July 2001 - Feb 2004). • Member of the IEEE Speech Technical Committee (1994-1998) • Member of the Permanent Council for the Organisation of International Conferences on Spoken Language Processing (1998-2006) • Appointed member of the Conseil d’Administration of the Association Franaise de la Commu- nication Parle (2005-2006) • Member of the ISCA Advisory Council (2005-2010) • Member of the Editorial Board of Speech Communication. • Member of the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech & Audio Processing Award Committee (2006, 2007) • Reviewer for Computer, Speech & Language, IEEE Speech, Audio, & Language, Speech Communication, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Traitement Automatique des Langues • Member of the Scientific Committee of workshops and conferences: EACL95, ACL/EACL’97, Coling-ACL’98, EACL03, LREC’98,, LREC’00, LREC’02, LREC’04, LREC’06, DARPA Broadcast News Workshop 1999, ESCA ETRW PhonAsr’98, MIST’99, ISCA ITRW ASR’2000, ISCA ITRW MSDR’2003, RNALP’01, HLT’01, HLT’04 workshop on Interdisciplinary Ap- proaches to Speech Indexing and Retrieval, Eurospeech’01, Eurospeech’03, Eurospeech’05, ICSLP’02, ICSLP’04, ICSLP’06, CBMI’05, MLMI’05, JEP’06, Co-organizer of the ISCA ITRW on “Automatic Speech Recognition: Challenges for the New Millennium,” Paris, Sep 18-20, 2000. Co-organizer of a Special session at InterSpeech 2005 on ‘Gender and Age Issues in Speech and Language’. • Guest editor with D. Pallett (NIST, USA) of a Speech Communication special issue on “Au- tomatic Transcription of Broadcast News Data” (May 2002) and with R. De Mori and J.L. Gauvain of a Computer, Speech and Language issue on “Advances in Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition” (January 2002). 2 Consultant June 1990 - July 1991. Projects include research in speech recognition on the DARPA Resource Management Task at Dragon Systems, Newton, MA, speech corpora development at the National Institute of Standards and Tech- nology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Maintenance of the recording facility LIMREC and the perceptual test facilities ABXtest and FCtest at LIMSI-CNRS, France. Verification of the phonetic transcriptions of the TIMIT continuous read-speech database and development of a syllabification algorithm for MIT, Cambridge, MA, and several database-related projects for NIST, including subdi- vision of TIMIT into training and test subsets. CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) LIMSI Jan 1989 - May 1990. Visiting researcher in the Man-Machine Communication Dept. (Invited Professor at the Univ. Paris, 11 for 6 months). Research on wavelet analysis of speech, including perceptual attributes and po- tential application to pitch. Design and selection of text for BREF, a large read-speech corpus for French, and development of LIMREC recording facility, and the ABXtest and FCtest perceptual test facilities. Taught a seminar version of the Spectrogram Reading Course for American English. MIT, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1980-1988) : Teaching assistant Digital Speech Processing, Spring 1979, 1981, Circuits and Systems Spring 1980, Electronics, Fall 1978. Created and refined laboratory material, conducted lab and tutorial sessions, student consultations, assisted with development and grading of problem sets and exams. One-week courses on Speech Spectrogram Reading July 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988 (MIT), Jan 1987 (ATR), and May 1989 (CSTR). Developed course and laboratory material, supervised lab sessions, and led tutorials. Also one-week version of Digital Speech Processing (July 1980) and Speech Communication (June 1980, July 1985). Research assistant in the Speech Communications Group, 1980-1988. Investigated locating word boundaries in phoneme sequences and acoustic cues to word boundaries in continuous speech. Devel- oped syllabification algorithm. Also broad phonetic classifier and formant locator. Development and analysis of sentences for speech corpus (TIMIT), transcriptions of speech corpora. Implemented and tested isolated-word recognition system for alpha-digit lexicon. Preliminary investigation of recogni- tion/synthesis system for very low bit rate communication. Voice Processing Corporation, Cambridge, MA, Spring/Summer 1984. Consultant on speech recognition project. MIT in Cognitive Information Processing Group, Spring 1977 - Fall 1979. Research aide Studied histocompatability of lymphocytes for organ transplantation and red blood cell abnormality in sickle and normal populations. Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, June 1979 - Jan 1980. Research as co-op student on locating words for isolated word recognition led to Master’s Thesis and Patent (US Patent 4,370,521, Jan. 25,1983). Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Summer 1978. Design and implementation of microprocessor interface to high-speed memory infor- mation retrieval system. Summer 1977. Development of firmware for micro-coded digital modem. City College of New York, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, summer 1976: Developed Fortran program for NASA communications study. 3.