Sameer R. Maskey
Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research CenterAdjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University (Spring 2010)
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Sameer R. MaskeyResearch Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research CenterAdjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University (Spring 2010) |
| Education: Ph.D, 2008, Columbia University (Computer Science) M.S, 2005, Columbia University (Computer Science) B.S. 2002, Bates College, (Math and Physics) |
Info: I have been doing research in statistical methods for natural language and speech processing for a number of years now, working at various labs in Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Auburn University, AT&T Shannon Labs, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Columbia University. I have worked on various topics such as Speech to Speech translation, Text-to-Speech synthesis (TTS), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), summarization, Question Answering (QA), multimodal intelligent agents, Machine Learning (ML), and information extraction. I graduated from Columbia University with PhD in Computer Science in 2008. I currently work as a Research Staff Member (Research Scientist) at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center on statistical machine translation and speech-to-speech translation. I started at Columbia University in the fall of 2002 working for Prof. Julia Hirschberg. I graduated from Bates College with B.S (Honors) in May of 2002 in Math and Physics. |
| Teaching Spring 2010, Statistical Methods for Natural Language Processing (COMS E6998-7) |
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Professional Services Reviewer, CICLING 2011 Reviewer, ICASSP 2011 Session chair, COLING 2010 Review Committee, SLT 2010 Invited Talk, CUNY 2010 Invited Lecture, Columbia University, 2010 Reviewer, Interspeech 2010 Reviewer, ACL 2010 Reviewer, HLT 2010 Program Committee Member, ASRU 2009 Reviewer, Journal of Computer Speech and Language, 2009 Reviewer, International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing, 2009 Reviewer, Journal: Transaction of Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2008 - present Reviewer, Journal : IEEE letters, 2008 Reviewer, International Conference on Speech and Language Processing, 2008, 2009 Reviewer, Journal of Data Knowledge & Engineering, 2008 PhD Committee, Dept. of Computer Science, Columbia University, Sept. 2006 - Sept. 2008 Review Committee, Special Session - Speech Summarization, InterSpeech, 2006 Program Committee Member, HLT, 2004 Reviewer, Journal of Speech Communications, 2004 Research Project Liaison, Columbia University, 2004 - 2007 |
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Publications: 201019) Maskey, S.R., Rennie S.J, Zhou, B., "A Power Mean Based Algorithm for Combining Multiple Alignment Tables ", COLING 2010, Beijing China 18) Sainath, T, Maskey, S.R., Ramabhadran, B., Kanevsky, D., Nahamoo, D., Hirschberg, J., "Sparse Representations for Text Categorization ", Interspeech, 2010, Japan 17) Maskey, S.R., Rennie S.J, Zhou, B., "Combining Many Alignments for Speech to Speech Translation ", Interspeech, 2010, Japan 16) Maskey, S.R., Zhou, B., "Rapid Integration of Parts of Speech Information to Improve Reordering Model for English-Farsi Speech to Speech Translation ", ICASSP, March 2010, Dallas, US 200915) Maskey, S.R., Dakka, W., "Named Entity Network Using Wikipedia", Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK 14) Sarikaya, R., Maskey, S.R. , Zhang, R., Jan, E., Wang, D., Ramabhadran, B., Roukos, S., "Iterative Sentence-Pair Extraction from Quasi-Parallel Corpora for Machine Translation", Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK 13) Maskey, S.R., Sethy, A., "Resampling Auxiliary Data for Language Model Adaptation in Machine Translation for Speech ", ICASSP 2009,
Taiwan 2007-200812) Maskey, S.R, Cmejrek, M., Zhou, B., Gao, Y., "Class based Named Entity Translation for Speech to Speech Translation System,", Spoken Language Technology, 2008, Goa, India 
11) Maskey, S.R., Rosenberg, A., Hirschberg, J., "Intonational Phrases for Speech Summarization," Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia
10) Mari Ostendorf, Benoit Favre, Ralph Grishman, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Mary Harper, Dustin Hillard, Julia Hirschberg, Heng Ji, Jeremy G. Kahn, Yang Liu, Maskey S.R., Evegeny Matusov, Hermann Ney, Andrew Rosenberg, Elizabeth Shriberg, Weng Wang and Chuck Wooters. "Speech Segmentation and its Impact on Spoken Document Processing", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Spoken Language Technology, May 2008 Maskey, S.R., "Automatic Broadcast News Speech Summarization", PhD Thesis, Columbia University, New York, NY 20069) Maskey, S.R., Zhou, B.,
Gao, Y., "A Phrase-Level Machine Translation Approach for Disfluency
Detection Using Weighted Finite State Transducers", Interspeech 2006,
Pittsburgh, PA 8) Maskey, S.R. &
Hirschberg, J. "Soundbite Detection in Broadcast News Domain",
Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA 7) Maskey, S.R. &
Hirschberg, J. "Summarizing Speech Without Text Using Hidden Markov
Models", HLT-NAACL 2006 (short), New York, NY 20056) Maskey, S.R. &
Hirschberg, J. "Comparing Lexial, Acoustic/Prosodic, Discourse and
Structural Features for Speech Summarization", Eurospeech 2005, Lisbon,
Portugal 5) McKeown, K., Hirschberg, J., Galley, M., Maskey,
S.R., “From Text to Speech Summarization”, ICASSP 2005,
Philadelphia, PA 20044) Maskey, S.R., Black, A.B.,
Tomokiyo, L.M., "Bootstrapping Phonetic Lexicon for New Languages",
ICSLP 2004, South Korea. (best student paper nomination) 3) Maskey, S.R., Bacchiani,
M., Roark, Brian., Sproat, R., "Improved Name Recognition using
Meta-Data dependent Name Networks", ICASSP 2004, Montreal, Canada. 2) Thorisson, K., Benko, H., Abramov, D., Arnold, A., Maskey,
S.R., Vaseekaran, A., "Constructionist Design
Methodology for Interactive Intelligences", p 77-90, AI Magazine, Vol.
25, No. 4, Winter 2004. 20031) Maskey, S.R. &
Hirschberg, J., "Automatic Summarization of Broadcast News using
Structural Features", Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Switzerland. Pending Patents Bacchiani, M., Maskey, S.R.,
Roark, B., Sproat, R.,
"A System and Method Using Meta-Data for Spoken Dialog
Systems" U. S.
Prov. Application No: 60/515,896. Filed for International Patent as
well. Filed in Oct. 2003
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