Wade Shen

Salesky, E., Ray, J., Shen, W., Operational Assessment of Keyword Search on Oral History, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), May 2016.
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Melot, J., Malyska, N., Ray, J., Shen, W., Analysis of Factors Affecting System Performance in the ASpIRE Challenge, Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), Scottsdale, Arizona, 2015.
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Kazi, M., Salesky, E., Thompson, B., Ray, J., Coury, M., Shen, W., Anderson, T., Erdmann, G., Gwinnup, J., Young, K., Ore, B., Hutt, M., The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2014 MT System, in Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT'14), Lake Tahoe, California, December 2014.
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Salesky, E., Shen, W., Exploiting Morphological, Grammatical, and Semantic Correlates for Improved Text Difficulty Assessment, Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA9), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’14), pages 155–162, Baltimore, Maryland, June 2014.
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Williams, J., Tam, S. W., Shen, W., Finding Good Enough: A Task-Based Evaluation of Query Biased Summarization for Cross-Language Information Retrieval, In Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Doha, Qatar, 2014.
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Chen, N. F., Tam, S. W., Shen, W., Campbell, J. P., Characterizing Phonetic Transformations and Acoustic Differences Across English Dialects, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2014.
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Kazi, M., Coury, M., Salesky, E., Ray, J., Shen, W., Gleason, T., Anderson, T., Erdmann, G., Schwartz, L., Ore, B., Slyh, R., Gwinnup, J., Young, K., Hutt, M., The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2013 MT System, in Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT '13), Heidelberg, Germany, December 2013.
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Shen, W., Williams, J., Marius, T., Salesky, E. A., A Language-Independent Approach to Automatic Text Difficulty Assessment for Second-Language Learners, Second Workshop for Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR) Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013.
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Chen, N. F., Shen, W., Campbell, J. P., Analyzing and Interpreting Automatically Learned Rules Across Dialects. Proc. Interspeech, Portland, OR, 11 Sep 2012.
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Aminzadeh, A. R., Anderson, T., Slyh, R., Ore, B., Hansen, E., Shen, W., Drexler, J., Gleason, T., The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2011 MT system, Proc. IWSLT 2011, San Francisco, CA, Dec 2011.
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Schwartz, R., Campbell, J. P., Shen, W., When to Punt on Speaker Comparison?, Forensic Acoustics Subcommittee Special Session, 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA, 3 Nov 2011.
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Shen, W., Campbell, J. P., Schwartz, R., Human Error Rates for Speaker Recognition, Forensic Acoustics Subcommittee Special Session, 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA, 3 Nov 2011.
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Shen, W., Campbell, J. P., Straub, D., Schwartz, R., Assessing the Speaker Recognition Performance of Naive Listeners Using Mechanical Turk, Proc. IEEE ICASSP, Pronunciation Modeling, Prague, Czech Republic, 26 May 2011.
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Schwartz, R., Campbell, J. P., Shen, W., Sturim, D. E., Campbell, W. M., Richardson, F. S., Dunn, R. B., Granville, R., USSS-MITLL 2010 Human Assisted Speaker Recognition, Proc. IEEE ICASSP, Prague, Czech Republic, 26 May 2011.
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Chen, N. F., Shen, W., Campbell, J. P., Torres-Carrasquillo, P. A., Informative Dialect Recognition Using Context-Dependent Pronunciation Modeling, Proc. IEEE ICASSP, Prague, Czech Republic, 24 May 2011. (IEEE Spoken Language Processing Grant, Best Student Paper Award.)
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Jones, D., Shen, W., Using Military and Government Standards for MT Evaluation, Chapter in Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation: DARPA Global Autonomous Language Exploitation, Joseph Olive, Caitlin Christianson, John McCary (editors) Springer Science & Business Media, Mar 2, 2011.

Shen, W., Anderson, T., Slyh R., Amizadeh, A. R., The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2010 MT system, Proc. IWSLT 2010, Paris, France, Dec 2010.
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Chen, N., Shen, W., Campbell, J., A Linguistically-Informative Approach to Dialect Recognition using Dialect-Discriminating Context-Dependent Phonetic Models, ICASSP 2010, Dallas, TX, 19 March 2010.
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Hazen, T., Shen, W., White, C., Query-By-Example Spoken Term Detection Using Phonetic Posteriorgram Templates, IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition, Milano, Italy, Dec. 13, 2009.
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Shen, W., Delaney, B., The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT - 2009 MT System, International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 1, 2009.
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Chen, N., Campbell, J., Shen, W., A Linguistically Informative Approach to Dialect-Recognition Using Dialect-Specific Context-Dependent Phonetic Models, 158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Antonio, TX, Oct. 26, 2009.
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Chen, N., Shen, W., Campbell, J., Schwartz, R., Large-Scale Analysis of Formant Frequency Estimation Variability in Conversational Telephone Speech, New Ways of Analyzing Variation 38, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Oct. 25, 2009.
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Schwartz, R., Shen, W., Campbell, J., Granville, R., Measuring Typicality of Speech Features in American English Dialects: Towards Likelihood Ratios in Speaker Recognition Casework, 5th European Academy of Forensics Science, Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 8, 2009.
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Shen, W., Hazen, T. J., White, C. M., A Comparison of Query-By-Example Methods for Spoken Term Detection, Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK, Sept. 6, 2009.
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Chen, N., Shen, W., Campbell, J., Schwartz, R., Large-Scale Analysis of Formant Frequency Estimation Variability in Conversational Telephone Speech, Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK, Sept. 6, 2009.
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Jones, D., Shen, W., Machine Translation for Government Application, Lincoln Laboratory Journal, Lexington, MA, July 16, 2009.
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Campbell, J., Shen, W., Schwartz, R., Bonastre, J.F., Matrouf, D., Forensic Speaker Recognition: A Need for Caution, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 26, Issue 2, p. 95-103, March 2009.
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Shen, W., Bertoldi, N., Efficient Speech Translation Through Confusion Network Decoding, IEEE Transaction on Audio Speech & Language Technology, Los Alamitos, CA. Feb. 15, 2009.

Aminzadeh, A. R., Shen, W., Low-Resource Speech Translation of Urdu to English Using Semi-Supervised Part-of-Speech Tagging and Transliteration, 2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Goa, India. Dec. 15-18, 2008.
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Shen, W., Delaney, B. W., The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2008 MT System, International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, Honolulu, HI, Oct. 21, 2008.
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Shen, W., Olive, J., Jones, D., Two Protocols Comparing Human & Machine Phonetic Discrimination Performance in Conversational Speech, Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia. Sept. 22-26, 2008.
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Torres-Carrasquillo, P., Singer, E., Campbell, W. M., Gleason, T., McCree, A., Reynolds, D. A., Richardson, F., Shen, W., Sturim, D., The MITLL NIST LRE 2007 Language Recognition System, Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia. Sept. 22-26, 2008.
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Shen, W., Chen, N., Reynolds, D. A., Dialect Recognition Using Adapted Phonetic Models, Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008.
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Schwartz, R., Thomas, A., Campbell, J. P., Shen, W., Proficiency Testing for Imaging and Audio Enhancement: Guidelines for Evaluation. International Association of Forensics Sciences, New Orleans, LA. Jul. 21-25, 2008.
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Cieri, C., Strassel, S., Glenn, M., Schwartz, R., Shen, W., Campbell, J., Bridging the Gap Between Linguists and Technology Developers: Large-Scale Sociolinguistic Annotation for Dialect and Speaker Recognition, Proceedings of LREC 2008, Marrakech, Morocco, 28 May 2008.
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Shen, W., Reynolds, D. A., Improved GMM-Based Language Recognition using Constrained MLLR Transforms, ICASSP 2008, Las Vegas, NV., March 30, 2008.
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Shen, W., Delaney, B. W., The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2007 MT System, IWSLT 2007, Trento, Italy. Oct. 15-16, 2007.
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Shen, W., Software Tools for Transcription and Annotation of Interview Recordings, NWAV 36, Philadelphia, PA. Oct. 11-14, 2007.
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Campbell, W., Campbell, J. Gleason, T., Reynolds, D., Shen, W., Speaker Verification using Support Vector Machines and High-Level Features, Special Issue on Speaker and Language Recognition, IEEE Transactions On Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 15, No. 7, pp. 2085-2094, September 2007.
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Shen, W., Reynolds, D. A., Improving Phonotactic Language Recognition with Acoustic Adaptation, Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium. Aug. 27-31, 2007.
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Shen, W., Reynolds, D. A., A Comparison of Speaker Clustering and Speech Recognition Techniques for Air Situational Awareness, Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium. Aug. 27-31, 2007.
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Schwartz, R., Shen, W., Campbell, J., Paget, S., Vonwiller, J., Estival, D., Cieri, C., Construction of a Phonotactic Dialect Corpus using Semiautomatic Annotation, Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium. August 27, 2007.
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Reynolds, D. A., Campbell, W. M., Shen, W., Singer, E., Automatic Language Recognition Via Spectral and Token Based Approaches, Springer Handbook of Speech Processing and Communication, Springer-Verlag GMBH, Heidelberg, Germany. May 2007.
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Jones, D. A., Jairam, A., Shen, W., ILR-Based MT Comprehension Test with Multi-Level Questions, HLT/NAACL 2007, Rochester, NY. Apr. 22-27, 2007.
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Campbell, W. M., Sturim, D. E., Shen, W., Reynolds, D. A., The MIT-LL/IBM 2006 Speaker Recognition System: High Performance Reduced Complexity Recognition, ICASSP 2007, Honolulu, HI. Apr. 15-20, 2007.
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Jones, D., Jairam, A., Shen, W., Experimental Facility for Measuring the Impact of Environmental Noise and speaker Variation on Speech-to-Speech translation Devices, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Palm Beach, Aruba, 10 December 2006.
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Shen, W., The JHU Workshop 2006 IWSLT System, IWSLT 2006, Kyoto, Japan, 27 November 2006.
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Shen, W., Delaney, B., The MITLL/AFRL IWSLT-2006 MT System, IWSLT 2006, Kyoto, Japan, 27 November 2006.
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Jones, D., Shen, W., Delaney, B., Toward an Interagency Language Roundtable Based Assessment of Speech-to-Speech Translation Abilities, AMTA 2006, Boston, MA, 8 August 2006.
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Jones, D., Shen, W., Two New Experiments for ILR-Based MT Evaluation, AMTA 2006, Boston, MA, 8 August 2006.
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Shen, W., Campbell, W., Gleason, T., Reynolds, D., Singer, E., Experiments with Lattice-based PPRLM Language Identification, IEEE Odyssey 2006, 28 June 2006.
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Campbell, W., Gleason, T., Reynolds, D., Shen, W., Singer, E., Torres-Carrasquillo, P., Advanced Language Recognition using Cepstras and Phonotactics: MITLL System Performance on the NIST 2005 Language Recognition Evaluation, IEEE Odyssey 2006, 28 June 2006.
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Shen, W., Delaney, B., The MIT-LL/AFRL MT System, IWSLT Workshop, Carnegie-Mellon University, PA, 2005.
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