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Karim Filali |
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I have graduated and now work at Yahoo. I was a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at UW, working
in the SSLI Lab under my advisor,
Prof. Jeff Bilmes.
My research interests are in machine learning, graphical models, natural
language processing (especially statistical machine translation), and
speech recognition. I am also interested in neurocomputing and
computer theory.
Publications
- Generalized Graphical Abstractions for Statistical Machine Translation (to appear)
Karim Filali and Jeff Bilmes.
Human Language Technology Conference --- North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT) , Rochester, NY, April 2007.
- Multi-dynamic Bayesian Networks (pdf)
Karim Filali and Jeff Bilmes.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Dec 2006.
- Translation-invariant Modulation Spectrum with Application to
Communication Signal Interception (submitted)
Somsak Sukittanon, Les Atlas, James Pitton, Karim Filali, and Jim McLaughlin
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2006.
- Leveraging Multiple Languages to Improve Statistical MT Word Alignments (pdf)
Karim Filali and Jeff Bilmes.
IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding
(ASRU), Cancun, Mexico, Nov/Dec 2005.
The hand-aligned French-English evaluation data are available here. The sentences are taken from the Europarl
French and English development sets available at http://www.statmt.org/wpt05/mt-shared-task/.
- Algorithms for Data-driven ASR Parameter Quantization (pdf)
Karim Filali, Xiao Li, and Jeff Bilmes.
Computer Speech & Language, Volume 20, Issue 4, Oct 2005, Pages 625-643.
- A Dynamic Bayesian Framework to Model Context and Memory in
Edit Distance Learning: An Application to Pronunciation
Classification (pdf)
Karim Filali and Jeff Bilmes.
Proceedings of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL), Ann-Arbor, Michigan, June 2005.
- Improved Modulation Spectrum Through Multi-scale Modulation
Frequency Decomposition (pdf)
S. Sukittanon, L. Atlas, J. Pitton, and K. Filali.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
(ICASSP), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2005.
- Data-driven Vector Clustering for Low-memory Footprint ASR (ps.gz | pdf)
Karim Filali, Xiao Li, and Jeff Bilmes.
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Denver, Colorado, September 2002.
- Frontend Post-processing and Backend Model Enhancement on the Aurora 2.0/3.0 Databases (ps.gz | pdf)
Chia-Ping Chen, Karim Filali, and Jeff Bilmes.
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP)
, Denver, Colorado, September 2002.
- Structurally Discriminative Graphical Models for Automatic Speech Recognition: Results from the 2001 Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop (ps.gz | pdf)
G. Zweig, J. Bilmes, T. Richardson, K. Filali, K. Livescu, P. Xu, K. Jackson, Y. Brandman, E. Sandness, E. Holtz, J. Torres, and B. Byrne.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
(ICASSP), Orlando, Florida, June 2002.
For a a more detailed report from the 2001 CLSP summer workshop at the Johns Hopkins University, see
J. Bilmes et al. Discriminatively Structured Graphical Models for Speech Recognition (pdf)
Links
Email: karim@cs.washington.edu