Y. C. Ju
SENIOR RSDE
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Research interests
- Statistical Model Learning with Minimum Labeled Data -- robust model training, automatic data acquisition, semi-supervised learning.
- Information Retrieval--search of structured data.
- Spoken Language Understanding: robust understanding, parsing, semantic modeling, call routing, voice search.
- Spoken Language Systems: rapid prototyping of speech understanding systems, language learning tools for semantic grammar development.
- Speech Recognition: language modeling, language model adaptation.
- Statistical Machine Translation.
Background
- Yun-Cheng (Y.C.) Ju joined Microsoft in 1994. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1984 and a master's and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990 and 1992, respectively. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked at Bell Labs for two years.
Publications
2009
- Ivan Tashev, Michael L. Seltzer, and Yun-Cheng Ju, Speech and sound for in-car infotainment systems, in Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2009), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Essen, Germany, 22 September 2009
- Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, Commute UX: Voice Enabled In-car Infotainment System, in Mobile HCI '09: Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Bonn, Germany, 15 September 2009
- Yun-Cheng Ju and Tim Paek, A Voice Search Approach to Replying to SMS Messages in Automobiles, International Speech Communication Association, September 2009
- Yun-Cheng Ju, Michael Seltzer, and Ivan Tashev, Improving Perceived Accuracy for In-Car Media Search, International Speech Communication Association, September 2009
- Young-In Song, Ye-Yi Wang, Yun-Cheng Ju, Mike Seltzer, Ivan Tashev, and Alex Acero, Voice Search of Structured Media Data, in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electornic Engineers, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009
2008
- Tim Paek, Bo Thiesson, Y. C. Ju, and Bongshin Lee, Search Vox: Leveraging multimodal refinement and partial knowledge for mobile voice search, in Proceedings of User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., October 2008
- Yun-Cheng Ju and Julian Odell, A Language-Modeling Approach to Inverse Text Normalization and Data Cleanup, International Speech Communication Association, September 2008
- Xiaolong Li, Li Deng, Yun-Cheng Ju, and Alex Acero, Automatic Children's Reading Tutor on Hand-Held Devices, in Proceedings of Interspeech, International Speech Communication Association, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008
- Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu, Yun-Cheng Ju, and Alex Acero, An Introduction to Voice Search, in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (Special Issue on Spoken Language Technology), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., May 2008
- Alex Acero, Neal Bernstein, Rob Chambers, Yun-Cheng Ju, Xiao Li, Julian Odell, Patrick Nguyen, Oliver Scholtz, and Geoff Zweig, Live Search for Mobile: Web Services by Voice on the Cellphone, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., April 2008
- Xiao Li, Y.-C. Ju, Geoffrey Zweig, and Alex Acero, Language modeling for voice search: a machine translation approach, in ICASSP, March 2008
- Tim Paek and Yun-Cheng Ju, Accommodating Explicit User Expressions of Uncertainty in Voice Search or Something Like That, International Speech Communication Association, 2008
2007
- Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Dong Yu, and Alex Acero, Commute UX: Telephone Dialog System for Location-based Services, in Proceedings of SIGdial Workshop on Disclosure and Dialogue 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2007
- Michael Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ivan Tashev, and Alex Acero, Robust Location Understanding in Spoken Dialog Systems Using Intersections, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007
- J. Sherwani, Dong Yu, Tim Paek, Mary Czerwinski, Yun-Cheng Ju, and Alex Acero, VoicePedia: Towards Speech-based Access to Unstructured Information, in Interspeech, International Speech Communication Association, August 2007
- Dong Yu, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Geoffrey Zweig, and Alex Acero, Automated Directory Assistance System - from Theory to Practice, in Proc. of Interspeech, International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007
- Xiaolong Li, Yun-Cheng Ju, Li Deng, and Alex Acero, Efficient and Robust Language Modeling in an Automatic Children's Reading Tutor System, in Proceedings of IEEE Internaltional Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 18 April 2007
- Tim Paek, Yun-Cheng Ju, and Christopher Meek, People Watcher: A Game for Eliciting Human-Transcribed Data for Automated Directory Assistance, International Speech Communication Association, 2007
- Geoffrey Zweig, Yun-Cheng Ju, Patrick Nguyen, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, Voice-Rate: A Dialog System for Consumer Ratings, in NAACL/HLT (Demonstration Program), Association for Computational Linguistics, Rochester, New York, USA, 2007
- Tim Paek, Sudeep Gandhe, David Chickering, and Yun-Cheng ju, Handling Out-of-Grammar Commands in Mobile Speech Interaction Using Backoff Filler Models, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2007
- Geoffrey Zweig, Patrick Nguyen, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu, and Alex Acero, The Voice-Rate Dialog System for Consumer Ratings, in INTERSPEECH, International Speech Communication Association, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007
2006
- Dong Yu, Yun-Cheng Ju, and Alex Acero, An Effective and Efficient Utterance Verification Technology Using Word N-gram Filler Models, in Proc. of the Interspeech Conference, International Speech Communication Association, September 2006
- Dong Yu, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, N-Gram Based Filler Model for Robust Grammar Authoring, in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing., Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Toulouse, France, 2006
- Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, Call Analysis with Classification Using Speech and Non-Speech Features, in the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, International Speech Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2006
2004
- Ye-Yi Wang and Yun-Cheng Ju, Creating Speech Recognition Grammars from Regular Expressions for Alphanumeric Concepts, in International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, International Speech Communication Association, Jeju, Korea, 2004
