Scholar
Svetlana Stoyanchev
Google Scholar ID: -REQZ6kAAAAJ
Research Scientist, AT&T Labs
Citations & Impact
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Resume
Research Experience
- Currently a research scientist at Interactions Corporation (which acquired AT&T's Speech & Language Research in December 2014)
- Visiting Researcher at the Spoken Language Processing Group, Columbia University, working with Professor Julia Hirschberg
- Teaching a seminar on Spoken Dialogue Systems in Spring 2015
- Current work focuses on handling speech recognition errors in spoken dialogue systems by generating targeted clarification questions
- Developed a localized error detection approach using prosodic, syntactic, semantic, and ASR confidence features with machine learning to identify misrecognized words
- Previously worked on the CODA project with Paul Piwek at the Open University (UK) to automatically convert monologues into dialogues
- Built a parallel corpus of monologues and dialogues and derived automatic conversion rules