The Centre for Speech Technology Research, The university of Edinburgh

Publications by Steve Isard

[1] Peter Bell, Myroslava Dzikovska, and Amy Isard. Designing a spoken language interface for a tutorial dialogue system. In Proc. Interspeech, Portland, Oregon, USA, September 2012. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[2] Myroslava Dzikovska, Amy Isard, Peter Bell, Johanna Moore, Natalie Steinhauser, and Gwendolyn Campbell. Beetle II: an adaptable tutorial dialogue system. In Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference, demo session, pages 338-340, Portland, Oregon, June 2011. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | http | Abstract ]
[3] Myroslava Dzikovska, Amy Isard, Peter Bell, Johanna D. Moore, Natalie B. Steinhauser, Gwendolyn E. Campbell, Leanne S. Taylor, Simon Caine, and Charlie Scott. Adaptive intelligent tutorial dialogue in the Beetle II system. In Artificial Intelligence in Education - 15th International Conference (AIED 2011), interactive event, volume 6738 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 621, Auckland, New Zealand, 2011. Springer. [ bib | DOI ]
[4] Helen Wright-Hastie, Massimo Poesio, and Stephen Isard. Automatically predicting dialogue structure using prosodic features. Speech Communication, 36(1-2):63-79, 2002. [ bib ]
[5] Sue Fitt and Steve Isard. Synthesis of regional English using a keyword lexicon. In Proc. Eurospeech 1999, volume 2, pages 823-826, Budapest, September 1999. [ bib | .ps | .pdf | Abstract ]
[6] H. Wright, Massimo Poesio, and Stephen Isard. Using high level dialogue information for dialogue act recognition using prosodic features. In Proceedings of an ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Dialogue and Prosody, pages 139-143, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1999. [ bib | .ps | .pdf ]
[7] Sue Fitt and Steve Isard. Representing the environments for phonological processes in an accent-independent lexicon for synthesis of English. In Proc. ICSLP 1998, volume 3, pages 847-850, Sydney, Australia, December 1998. [ bib | .ps | .pdf | Abstract ]
[8] Paul A. Taylor, S. King, S. D. Isard, and H. Wright. Intonation and dialogue context as constraints for speech recognition. Language and Speech, 41(3):493-512, 1998. [ bib | .ps | .pdf ]
[9] Paul A. Taylor, Simon King, Stephen Isard, Helen Wright, and Jacqueline Kowtko. Using intonation to constrain language models in speech recognition. In Proc. Eurospeech'97, Rhodes, 1997. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[10] Paul A. Taylor, Hiroshi Shimodaira, Stephen Isard, Simon King, and Jacqueline Kowtko. Using prosodic information to constrain language models for spoken dialogue. In Proc. ICSLP `96, Philadelphia, 1996. [ bib | .ps | .pdf | Abstract ]
[11] Paul A. Taylor and S. D. Isard. A new model of intonation for use with speech recognition and synthesis. In International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Banff, Canada, 1992. [ bib | .ps | .pdf ]