 
| SP-P9: Acoustic Modeling II | 
| Session Type: Poster | 
| Time: Thursday, March 18, 10:00 - 12:00 | 
| Location: Poster Area D | 
| Session Chair: Enrico Bocchieri, AT&T Research, USA | 
| SP-P9.1: USING DURATION AND PITCH FOR MANDARIN DIGIT STRING RECOGNITION | 
| Rui Zhao; Toshiba | 
| Yusuke Kida; Toshiba | 
| Xiang Yan; Toshiba | 
| Pei Ding; Toshiba | 
| Lei He; Toshiba | 
| SP-P9.2: MAXIMUM ENTROPY BASED TONE MODELING FOR MANDARIN SPEECH RECOGNITION | 
| Xinhao Wang; Peking University | 
| Yansuo Yu; Peking University | 
| Xihong Wu; Peking University | 
| Huisheng Chi; Peking University | 
| SP-P9.3: DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION METHODS FOR HMM PHONETIC RECOGNITION | 
| Hongbing Hu; Binghamton University | 
| Stephen Zahorian; Binghamton University | 
| SP-P9.4: IMPROVING SPEECH RECOGNITION BY EXPLICIT MODELING OF PHONE DELETIONS | 
| Tom Ko; The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 
| Brian Mak; The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 
| SP-P9.5: USING BURST ONSET INFORMATION TO IMPROVE STOP/AFFRICATE PHONE RECOGNITION | 
| Chi-Yueh Lin; National Tsing Hua University | 
| Hsiao-Chuan Wang; National Tsing Hua University | 
| SP-P9.6: MULTI-STYLE MLP FEATURES FOR BN TRANSCRIPTION | 
| Viet Bac Le; LIMSI-CNRS | 
| Lori Lamel; LIMSI-CNRS | 
| Jean-Luc Gauvain; LIMSI-CNRS | 
| SP-P9.7: SPEAKER ADAPTATION BASED ON THE MULTILINEAR DECOMPOSITION OF TRAINING SPEAKER MODELS | 
| Yongwon Jeong; Pusan National University | 
| SP-P9.8: INVESTIGATIONS ON ENSEMBLE BASED UNSUPERVISED ADAPTATION METHODS | 
| Yu Kubota; Tokyo Institute of Technology | 
| Takahiro Shinozaki; Tokyo Institute of Technology | 
| Sadaoki Furui; Tokyo Institute of Technology | 
| SP-P9.9: EFFICIENT ONLINE LEARNING WITH INDIVIDUAL LEARNING-RATES FOR PHONEME SEQUENCE RECOGNITION | 
| Koby Crammer; Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | 
| SP-P9.10: EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION USING NEURAL ARCHITECTURES WITH “ADAPTIVE” HIDDEN ACTIVATION FUNCTIONS | 
| Sabato Marco Siniscalchi; Norwegian University of Science and Technology | 
| Torbjørn Svendsen; Norwegian University of Science and Technology | 
| Filippo Sorbello; Unipa | 
| Chin-Hui Lee; Georgia Institute of Technology | 
| SP-P9.11: ANALYSIS OF PHONE POSTERIOR FEATURE SPACE EXPLOITING CLASS-SPECIFIC SPARSITY AND MLP-BASED SIMILARITY MEASURE | 
| Afsaneh Asaei; Idiap Research Institute and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | 
| Benjamin Picart; TCTS Lab, Faculté Polytechnique, Université de Mons | 
| Herve Bourlard; Idiap Research Institute and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | 
| SP-P9.12: GMM-HMM ACOUSTIC MODEL TRAINING BY A TWO LEVEL PROCEDURE WITH GAUSSIAN COMPONENTS DETERMINED BY AUTOMATIC MODEL SELECTION | 
| Dan Su; Peking University | 
| Xihong Wu; Peking University | 
| Lei Xu; Chinese University of Hong Kong |