Mark Kane

Publications (book chapters):

Kane, M., Mauclair, J. & Carson-Berndsen, J. (2011), “Automatic Identification of Phonetic Similarity based on Underspecification”. Human Language Technology: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 6562) Poznan, pp.47-58.

Kane, M. and Carson-Berndsen, J., (2011). “Multiple source phoneme recognition aided by articulatory features”. Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI 6704 part 2) - IEA/AIE, Syracuse NY.

Publications (conference):

Kane, M., Ahmed, Z., Carson-Berndsen, J., (2012). “Underspecification in Pronunciation Variation”. In proceedings of International Symposium on Automatic Detection of Errors in Pronunciation Training (IS ADEPT), Stockholm.

Cabral, J. P., Kane, M., Ahmed, Z, Székely, É, Zahra, A, Ogbureke, K. U., Cahill, P, Schlögl, S. and Carson-Berndsen, J, (2012). “Using the Wizard-of-Oz Framework in a Pronunciation Training System for Providing User Feedback and Instructions”. In proceedings of International Symposium on Automatic Detection of Errors in Pronunciation Training (IS ADEPT), Stockholm.

Zahra, A., Cabral, J. P., Kane, M. and Carson-Berndsen, J., (2012), “Automatic Classification of Pronunciation Errors Using Decision Trees and Speech Recognition Technology”. To appear in Proceedings of International Symposium on Automatic Detection of Errors in Pronunciation Training (IS ADEPT), Stockholm.

Cabral, J. P., Kane, M., Ahmed, Z, Székely, É, Zahra, A, Ogbureke, K. U., Cahill, P, Schlögl, S. and Carson-Berndsen, J, (2012). “Rapidly Testing the Interaction Model of a Pronunciation Training System via Wizard-of-Oz”. In Proceedings of LREC.

Kane, M., Cabral, J., Zahra, A. and Carson-Berndsen, J., (2011). “Introducing Difficulty-Levels in Pronunciation Learning”. Proceedings of the International Speech Communication Association Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE), Venice.

Kane, M. and Carson-Berndsen, J., (2011). “Multiple source phoneme recognition aided by articulatory features”. Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI 6704 part 2) - IEA/AIE, Syracuse NY.

Kane, J., Kane, M. Gobl, C. (2010). “A spectral LF model based approach to voice source parameterisation”. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2010), Makuhari, Japan pp. 2606-2609

Kane, M., Mauclair, J. and Carson-Berndsen, J. (2009). “Using an underspecified ASR system as an indicator for phonetic similarity”. 4th Language and Technology Conference, pp. 385-390, Poznan Poland.

Other presentations:

“Pronunciation variation in the context of speech recognition”, at SCICOM2010, University Limerick. Hosted by CNGL (2010).

“Phonetic neighbourhood”, Workshop at Phonetics and Computational Linguistics division, University of Bonn, Germany. Hosted by Professor Bernd Moebius (2009).

“Speech recognition in 20 minutes”, Research Series Seminar, UCD, Ireland. Hosted by Dr. Nicola Stokes (2009)

Other poster presentations:

Kane, M., Jang, J., Ogbureke, K. U., Zahra, A., Ahmed, Z. and Carson-Berndsen, J. “Keyword Recognition in the Personalised Multi-Modal Customer Care Scenario Modal”, at SCICOM2010, University Limerick. Hosted by CNGL (2010).

Kane, M., Ogbureke, K.U., Mauclair, J.,Cahill, P., Carson-Berndsen, J. “Overview of Speech Technology Research in the UCD MUSTER group”, DCU, Ireland. Hosted by CNGL (2009).

Other workshops attended:

Thematic Training Course on Processing Morphologically Rich Languages 11-15 April, 2011, at RIL in Budapest, Hungary

Second AERFAI Summer School on "New trends in pattern recognition for language technologies”, Bilbao (Spain), June 23-28, 2008.

Other conferences attended:

10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Interspeech, Brighton UK, 2009.

Other:

Student placement at the Phonetics and Speech laboratory, Trinity College Dublin with Professor 

Ailbhé Ní Chasaide (2010).