Biography and Interests

Formerly a Research Linguist in the AIC until early 2007.

Current Projects

TRANSTAC: Spoken Language Communication and Translation System for Tactical Use This project currently focuses on bidirectional, speech-to-speech machine translation between English and Iraqi Arabic.

Past Projects

	Aquaint: From Question-Answering to Information Seeking Dialogs From question-answering to information-seeking dialogs.
	CAST Speech-to-Speech Translation A limited domain, bidirectional, speech to speech translation project for handheld devices. The current languages are English and Pashto.

Publications

The following are in reverse chronological order of publication.
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• Kathol A. and Precoda, K. and Vergyri, D. and Wang, W. and Riehemann, S. Speech Translation for Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Pashto, in Eurospeech 2005, 2005.  [PDF, Details]

• Precoda, K. and Culy, C. and Franco, H. and Dost, A. and Frandsen, M. and Fry, J. and Kathol A. and Richey, C. and Riehemann, S. and Vergyri, D. and Zheng, J. Limited-Domain Speech-to-Speech Translation between English and Pashto, in HLT/NAACL Demo Sessions, May 2004.  [PDF, Details]

• Waldinger, R. and Appelt, D. E. and Fry, J. and Israel, D. J. and Jarvis, P. and Martin, D. and Riehemann, S. and Stickel, M. E. and Tyson, M. and Hobbs, J. and Dungan, J. L. Deductive Question Answering from Multiple Resourcesin New Directions in Question Answering, AAAI, 2004.  [PDF, Details]

• Belvin, R. and Riehemann, S. and Precoda, K. A Fine-Grained Evaluation Method for Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation Using Concept Annotations, in LREC 2004, 2004.  [PDF, Details]

• Culy, C. and Riehemann, S. Z. The Limits of N-Gram Translation Evaluation Metrics, in Proceedings of MT Summit IX (to appear), 2003.  [PDF, Details]