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Julie Berndsen

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Professor Julie Berndsen BA MA PhD
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Biography

Julie Carson-Berndsen is Professor in the UCD School of Computer Science & Informatics. She received a BA (Mod) in German and Mathematics from Trinity College Dublin in 1986 and was awarded a Council of Europe Higher Education Award to undertake postgraduate studies at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. She received her doctoral degree in 1993 for her research on finite state models in speech recognition supervised by Prof. Dr. Dafydd Gibbon and was awarded the Dissertationspreis der Westfälisch-Lippischen Universitätsgesellschaft for her Dr. Phil. thesis. She worked as a wissenschaftliche Assistentin at the University of Bielefeld until 1998 when she joined University College Dublin. Carson-Berndsen received an SFI Investigator Award in 2002 to undertake research in the area of multilingual ubiquitous speech and language technology and was subsequently awarded an industry supplement to this grant to collaborate with the IBM Dublin Software Lab. Carson-Berndsen was invited to become a Faculty Fellow at the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies in Dublin in 2003 and in 2005 won an IBM Innovation Award (only one in Ireland) to collaborate with Dr. Leo Ferres of Carleton University, Canada. Carson-Berndsen's research group has been developing speech recognition and synthesis systems which use fine-grained linguistic information paving the way for the development of robust multilingual applications which are easily scaleable. These systems are now being integrated with machine translation technologies to provide speech-to-speech translation within a major new collaborative initiative, the SFI-funded CSET on Next Generation Localisation which is led by Dublin City University in collaboration with University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, University of Limerick and 9 industry partners. Prof. Carson-Berndsen was Director of the UCD College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Graduate School from 2005 to 2007. In Sept 2008 she took up the position of UCD Deputy Registrar for Graduate Studies.

Professional

Honours & Awards:

  • Year: 2005.
    Title: IBM Innovation Award

Professional Associations:

  • Association: ACL- Association for Computational Linguistics, Function/Role: *
  • Association: ISCA- International Speech Communication Association, Function/Role: *
  • Association: SIGPHON, Function/Role: Executive Committee Member
  • Association: SALTMIL, Function/Role: Committee Member
  • Association: GLDV - Gesellschaft für linguistische Datenverarbeitung, Function/Role: *

Committee Work:

  • Committee : SALTMIL - Special Interest Group for Minority Languages
  • Committee : SIGPHON - Association of Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group for Computational Phonology

Education:

  • Year 1986 Institution: Trinity College Dublin
    Qualification: BA Subject:
  • Year 1993 Institution: University of Bielefeld
    Qualification: PhD Subject:

Languages:

  • German:

Publications

Books:

  • Carson-Berndsen, J. (1998) Time Map Phonology: Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition. : Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers. [Details]

Book Chapters:

  • Carson-Berndsen, J., Gut, U. and Kelly, R. (2006) 'Discovering Regularities in Non-native Speech' In: A. Wilson, D. Archer, P. Rayson (eds). Corpus Linguistics Around the World. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi. [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. & M. Walsh (2005) 'Phonetic Time Maps' In: W. J. Barry & W. A. van Dommelen (eds). The Integration of Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology. Dordrecht: Springer. [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. & D. Gibbon (2002) 'Visualising Lexical Prosodic Representations for Speech Applications' In: In: McKevitt, P., S. O' Nuallain & C. Mulvihill (Eds.): , AiCR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands/Philadelphia, USA: John Benjamins Publishing Company. (eds). Language, vision and music, Readings in Cognitive Science and Consciousness, Advances in Consciousness Research. [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. , G. Joue & M. Walsh (2001) 'Phonotactic constraint ranking for speech recognition' In: In: Daelemans, W; K Sima'an; J. Veenstra & J. Zavrel (eds.): Selected Papers form the Eleventh CLIN Meeting. Editions Rodopi B.V Amsterdam, New York. (eds). Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2000. [Details]
  • Cahill, L.; J. Carson-Berndsen & G. Gazdar (2000) 'Phonology-based Lexical Knowledge Representation' In: van Eynde, F & D. Gibbon (eds.): Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers: (eds). Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing. [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. (1998) 'Computational Autosegmental Phonology in Pronunciation Teaching' In: Jager, S.; J. Nerbonne & A. van Essen (eds.): Lisse: Swets and Zeitlinger (eds). Language Teaching and Language Technology. [Details]
  • Gibbon , D. & J. Berndsen (1997) 'Gesprochene Sprache' In: Linguistik: Die Bielefelder Sicht. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag (eds). Bielefelder Linguistik. [Details]
  • Berndsen, J. & D. Gibbon (1997) 'Phonetik und Phonologie' In: Linguistik: Die Bielefelder Sicht. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag (eds). Bielefelder Linguistik. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals:

  • Aioanei, D., Neugebauer, M. Carson-Berndsen, J. (2005) 'Validation techniques for parallel feature streams: the case of phoneme identification for speech recognition'. Archives of Control Sciences, 15 (3):279-290. [Details]
  • Kanokphara, S., Geumann, A. Carson-Berndsen, J., (2005) 'Accessing Language Specific Linguistic Information for Triphone Model Generation: Feature Tables in a Speech Recognition System'. Archives of Control Sciences, 15 (3):253-260. [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. (2000) 'Finite State Models, Event Logics and Statistics in Speech Recognition'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, Series A, Volume 358 (Issue no. 1769):1255-1266. [Details]

Other Journals:

  • Carson-Berndsen, J. & M. Neugebauer (2003) 'Die Rolle der Phonologie in the multilingualen Sprachtechnologie' LDV-Forum: Journal for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology 18 (1,2) :199-210. [Details]

Conference Publications:

  • Cahill, P; D. Aioanei, J. Carson-Berndsen (2007) Articulatory Acoustic Feature Applications in Speech Synthesis Interspeech 2007 [Details]
  • Cahill, P; J. Macek & J. Carson-Berndsen (2007) SVM Based Feature Extraction in Speech Synthesis 6th International Speech Communication Association Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis [Details]
  • Cahill, P. Carson-Berndsen, J. (2007) The Jess Blizzard Challenge 2007 Entry 6th International Speech Communication Association Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis [Details]
  • Macek, J & J. Carson-Berndsen (2006) Articulatory Manner Feature Recognition with Linear and Polynomial Kernals 5th Slovenian and 1st International Language Technologies Conference [Details]
  • Kanokphara, S. & J. Carson-Berndsen (2006) Phonetic Question Generation using Misrecognition 9th International Conference on Text Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2006) - LNCS 4188 [Details]
  • Aioanei, D., Kanokphara, S. & J. Carson-Berndsen (2006) Diagnostic Evaluation of Phonetic Feature Extraction Engines: A case study with the Time Map Model . In: LNAI 4031 eds. 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems , pp.691-700 [Details]
  • Kanokphara, S. & J. Carson-Berndsen (2005) Better HMM-Based Articulatory Feature Extraction with Context-Dependent Model 18th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS2005) [Details]
  • Kanokphara, S. & J. Carson-Berndsen (2005) Backing-Off Context- & Gender-Dependent Models for Better Articulatory Feature Extraction 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems (ICICIS2005) [Details]
  • Aioanei, D., Neugebauer, M. Carson-Berndsen, J. (2005) Efficient phonetic interpretation of multilinear feature representations for speech recognition 2nd Language and Technology Conference (L&T05) [Details]
  • Kanokphara, S. & J. Carson-Berndsen (2004) Automatic Question Generation for HMM State Tying using a Feature Table 10th Australian Conference on Speech Science and Technology [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J., R. Kelly & M. Neugebauer (2004) Automatic Acquisition of Feature-Based Phonotactic Resources 7th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Computational Phonology [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. & R. Kelly (2004) Acquiring Reusable Multilingual Phonotactic Resources 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004) [Details]
  • Aioanei, D., Carson-Berndsen, J., Geimann, A, Kelly, R., Neugebauer, M., & Wilson, S. (2004) A Multilingual Phonological Resource Toolkit for Ubiquitous Speech Technology 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004) [Details]
  • Jusek, A.; H. Rautenstrauch; G. A. Fink; F. Kummert; G. Sagerer; J. Carson-Berndsen & D. Gibbon (1994) Detektion unbekannter Wörter mit Hilfe phonotaktischer Modelle Mustererkennung 94 [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. (1992) Computational Tools for the Development of Event Phonologies Konvens 92, 1. Konferenz ``Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache'' , pp.69-78 [Details]
  • Abu-Amer, T. & J. Carson-Berndsen (2003) HARTFEX: A multi-dimensional system of HMM based recogniers for articulatory feature extraction Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2003), Geneva. 2003 *, [Details]
  • Abu-Amer, T & J. Carson-Berndsen (2003) Multilinear HMM based system for articulatory feature extraction Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2003), Hong Kong Hong Kong, [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. (2003) The PhonDoc Toolkit for Semi-Automatic Phonemic Annotation Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2003), Barcelona, August 2003 Barcelona, [Details]
  • Kelly, R. & J. Carson-Berndsen (2003) Computational Linguistic Motivations for a Finite State Machine Hierarchy Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA 2003) - LNCS 2759 Santa Barbara, [Details]
  • Walsh, M., Kelly, R., Carson-Berndsen, J., O'Hare, G.M.P. & Abu-Amer, T. (2003) A Multi-Agent Computational Linguistic Approach to Speech Recognition Proceedings of 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), 9th-15th August, Acapulco, Mexico, AAAI Press Acapulco, Mexico, [Details]
  • Wilson, S.; J. Carson-Berndsen & M. Walsh (2003) Enhancing Phonological Representations for Multilingual Speech Technology Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2003), Barcelona, August 2003 Barcelona, [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. (2002): (2002) Multilingual Time Maps; Portable Phonotactic Models for Speech Technology Applications Proceeings of the LREC 2002 Workshop on Portability Issues in Human Language Technology Las Palmas, May 2002 Las Palmas, [Details]
  • Joue, G., N. Nenova, R. Reilly & J. Carson-Berndsen, J. (2002) Sound and Function Interdependencies in Nonlexical Interjections of English 7th International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of Linguistic Form, Meaning, and Human Behavior, New York, February 2002 New York, [Details]
  • Ross, R; R. Kelly; B. McEleney; T. Abu-Amer; M.Walsh; G. O'Hare & J. Carson-Berndsen (2002: (2002) Speaking Autonomous Intelligent Agents Proceedings of AICS 2002, Limerick. - LNCS 2464 Limerick, [Details]
  • Gibbon, D. & J. Carson-Berndsen (1999): (1999) Web Tools for Introductory Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the EACL 99 Workshop on Computer and Internet Supported Education for Language and Speech Technology, Bergen, June 1999 Bergen, [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. & G. Drexel (1996) Parametrised Phonological Event Parsing. In: Gibbon, Dafydd (ed.) (1996): Natural Language and Speech Technology Results of the 3rd KONVENS Conference, Bielefeld, October 1996, Berlin: Mouton de Gryuter Berlin, [Details]
  • Hübener, K. & J. Carson-Berndsen (1994) Phoneme Recognition Using Acoustic Events Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, vol 4, Yokohama, Japan(1994): Yokohama, Japan, , pp.1919-1922 [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. & D. Gibbon (1992) Event relations at the phonetics/phonology interface Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 92) Nantes Nantes, , pp.1269-1273 [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. (1990) Phonological Processing of Speech Variants Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-90) Helsinki, 1990: Helsinki, , pp.21-24 [Details]
  • Carson, J. ( (1988) Unification and Transduction in Computational Phonology Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-88), Budapest Budapest, , pp.106-111 [Details]
  • Kanokphara, S. & J. Carson-Berndsen (2005) Feature-Table-Based Automatic Question Generation for Tree-Based State Tying: A Practical Implementation Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems (IEA/AIE-2005) - LNCS 3533 Bari Italy,(2005):, [Details]
  • Ashby, S. , J. Carson-Berndsen, & G. Joue (2001): (2001) A testbed for the development of multilingual phonotactic descriptions Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, September 2001 Aalborg, [Details]
  • Bohan, A.; E. Creedon, J. Carson-Berndsen & F. Cummins (2001) Application of a Computational Model of Phonology to Speech Synthesis Proceedings of AICS2001, Maynooth, September 2001 Maynooth, [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. & M. Walsh (2001) Defining constraints for multilinear speech processing Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, September 2001 Aalborg, [Details]
  • Joue, G. & J. Carson-Berndsen, J. (2001) An embodiment paradigm for speech recognition systems Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, September 2001 Aalborg, [Details]
  • Nenova, N., Joue, G., Reilly, R. & Carson-Berndsen, J. (2001) Sound and Function Regularities in Interjections Proceedings of Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2001 *, [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J.& M. Walsh (2000) Generic Techniques for Multilingual Speech Technology Applications Proceedings of TALN 2000, Lausanne, October 2000 Lausanne, [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. & G. Joue (2000): (2000) Cognitive Constraints in a Computational Linguistic Model for Speech Recognition Proceedings of AICS 2000, Galway, August 2000 Galway, [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. & M. Walsh (2000) Interpreting Multilinear Representations in Speech Proceedings of the 8th Australian Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Canberra, December 2000 Canberra, [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. (1999) A Generic Lexicon Tool for Word Model Definition in Multimodal Applications Proceedings of EUROSPEECH 99, 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Budapest, September 1999 Budapest, [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. (1999) A Feature Geometry Based Lexicon Model for Speech Applications Proceedings of IDS 99, Interactive Dialogue in Multimodal Systems, ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop, Kloster Irsee, June 1999 Kloster Irsee, [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J & D. Gibbon (1999): (1999) Interactive Phonetics, virtually! Proceedings of the MATISSE Workshop, Method and Tool Innovations for Speech Science Education, ESCA/SOCRATES Tutorial and Research Workshop, London, April 1999 London, [Details]
  • Carson-Berndsen, J. & D. Gibbon (1999): (1999) Visualising Lexical Prosodic Representations for Speech Applications Proceedings of CSNLP-8, the Eighth International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing ``LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC'', Galway, August 1999 Galway, [Details]
  • Kanokphara, S., Carson-Berndsen, J. (2006) A Study Of Phone Recognizer Combination For Higher Accuracy In TIMIT Phone Recognition n Proc. the 9th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference (WESPAC IX) [Details]
  • Kanokphara, S. Carson-Berndsen, J. (2006) Articulatory-Acoustic-Feature-based Automatic Language Identification In Proc. Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on Multilingual Speech and Language Processing [Details]
  • Kanokphara, S., Macek, J., Carson-Berndsen, J. (2006) Comparative Study: HMM & SVM for Automatic Articulatory Feature Extraction Proc. of the 19th Int'l. Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems - LNCS 4031 [Details]
  • Aioanei, D., Carson-Berndsen, J., Kanokphara, S. (2006) Diagnostic evaluation of phonetic feature extraction engines: A case study with the Time Map model 19th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems - LNCS 4031 [Details]
  • Kelly, R. Carson-Berndsen, J. (2006) Semi-Automatic Phonological Annotations of Speech by Grammatical Inference In Proceedings of the Workshop on Annotation Science [Details]
  • Cahill, P. Carson-Berndsen, J. (2006) The Jess Blizzard Challenge 2006 Entry Blizzard Challenge 2006 Workshop, Interspeech 2006 [Details]
  • Macek, J., Geumann, A., Carson-Berndsen, J. (2006) Towards multilingual articulatory feature recognition with support vector machines In Antonis Botinis, editor, Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics [Details]
  • Walsh, M., O'Hare, G.M.P. Carson-Berndsen, J. (2005) An Agent-based Framework for Speech Investigation Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech 2005) [Details]

Other Publications:

  • Carson-Berndsen, J. (ed.) (2004) First Steps in Language Documentation for Minority Languages: Computational Linguistic Tools for Morphology, Lexicon and Corpus Compilation. Workshops [Details]

Research

Research Interests:

    Computational Linguistics, Speech Technology

Research Projects:

  • Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland
    Title : Next Generation Localisation
    Start Date : 01-DEC-07
  • Sponsor : IBM, NY, USA
    Title : An Eclipse Plug-in for Speech Variants
    Start Date : 01-AUG-05
  • Sponsor : IRCSET
    Title : Multilevel Annotations
    Start Date : 01-OCT-04
  • Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland
    Title : MUNSTER - Multilingual Ubiquitous Speech Technology: Enhance and Rethought - Industrial Supplement
    Start Date : 01-JUL-04
  • Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland
    Title : MUSTER - Multilingual Ubiquitous Speech Technology : Enhanced and Rethought
    Start Date : 01-NOV-02
  • Sponsor : Enterprise Ireland
    Title : SWAULT
    Start Date : 01-MAY-02
  • Sponsor : HEA
    Title : A multilingual development environment for speech technologies
    Start Date : 01-JAN-01
  • Sponsor : Enterprise Ireland
    Title : SIN - Synthesising Irish names: investigating the application of a computational model of phonology to Irish Synthesis
    Start Date : 01-OCT-00
  • Sponsor : Enterprise Ireland
    Title : Timers-Temporal interpretation of multilinear event representations for speech
    Start Date : 01-OCT-99

Teaching

Modules Co-ordinated:

  • COMP50040     Computer Science: Online Research Skills for Graduate Students in the School of Computer Science and Informatics
  • COMP40020     Computer Science: Human Language Technologies

Recent Postgraduate Students:

    Past Postgraduate Students
    • Daniel Aioanei (PhD, 2008)
    • Amy Bohan (MSc, 2003)
    • Peter Cahill (PhD, 2008
    • Eoin Creedon (MSc, 2003)
    • Supphanat Kanokphara (PhD, to be conferred)
    • Robert Kelly (PhD, 2005)
    • Gina Joue (PhD, 2004)
    • Moritz Neugebauer (PhD, 2005)
    • Michael Walsh (PhD, 2005)
    • Stephen Wilson (PhD, 2007)

Current Postgraduate Students:

  • Udochukwu Ogbureke, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)   -   Thesis Supervisor
  • Mark Kane, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)   -   Thesis Supervisor