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Jim Glass

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Position: Principal Research Scientist
Office: 32-G444
Phone: +1 (617) 253-1640
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Areas of Study: Language & Learning

Last Update: July 15, 2009
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Biography

James R. Glass obtained his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, and 1988, respectively. After starting in the Speech Communication group at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, he has worked since 1989 at the Laboratory for Computer Science, now the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Currently, he is a Principal Research Scientist at CSAIL where he heads the Spoken Language Systems Group. He is also a Lecturer in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health, Sciences, and Technology. His primary research interests are in the area of speech communication and human-computer interaction, centered on automatic speech recognition and spoken language understanding. He has lectured, taught courses, supervised students, and published extensively in these areas. He is currently a Senior Member of the IEEE and has previously been a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech Technical Committee, and an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing.

Publications

J. Glass, T. Hazen, S. Cyphers, I. Malioutov, D. Huynh, and R. Barzilay, "Recent Progress in the MIT Spoken Lecture Processing Project," Proc. Interspeech, Antwerp, 2007.
J. Ming, T. Hazen, J. Glass, and D. Reynolds, "Robust Speaker Recognition in Unknown Noisy Conditions," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Proc., 15(5), 1711-1723, 2007.
B.J. Hsu and J. Glass, "Style and Topic Language Model Adaptation Using HMM-LDA," Proc. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Sydney, 2006.
A. Park and J. Glass, "Unsupervised Word Aquisition from Speech Using Pattern Discovery," Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Sig. Proc. (ICASSP), Toulouse, 2006.
L. Hetherington, H. Shu, and J. Glass, "Flexible Multi-Stream Framework for Speech Recognition Using Multi-Tape Finite-State Transducers," Proc. ICASSP, Toulouse, 2006.
K. Saenko, K. Livescu, M. Siracusa, K. Wilson, J. Glass, and T. Darrell, "Visual Speech Recognition with Loosely Synchronized Streams," Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, Beijing, 2005.
J. Glass, "A Probabilistic Framework for Segment-Based Speech Recognition," Computer, Speech, and Language, 17, 137-152, 2003.
V. Zue and J. Glass, "Conversational Interfaces: Advances and Challenges," IEEE Proceedings, 88(8), 1166-1180, 2000.