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Dr. Li Haizhou |
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Department Head
Human Language Technology
- Academic Qualifications: Ph.D.
- Research Interests/Areas: Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval
- Selected granted patents:
- US Patent: "Method and Apparatus for Voice Annotation and Retrieval of Multimedia Data", (Patent No: US 6,397,181 B1) granted on 28 May 2002.
- US Patent: "System for Chinese Tokenisation and Named Entity Recognition" (Patent No: US 6,311,152 B1) granted on 30 October 2001.
- US Patent: "Low data transmission rate and intelligible speech communication" (Patent No: US 6,502,073) granted on 31 December 2002.
- UK Patent: "Digital Audio Watermarking using content-adaptive multiple echo hopping" (Patent No. GB 2 363300 B) granted on 1 October 2003.
- Honors and Awards:
- National Infocomm Award 2001/2002
- The Enterprise Challenge Award 2004
- Nokia Visiting Professor 2009
- Professional Activities:
- Visiting Professor at CRIN/INRIA in France (1994-1995), and at the University of New South Wales in Australia (2008).
- Research Manager in Apple-ISS Research Centre (1996-1998).
- Research Director in Lernout & Hauspie Asia Pacific (1999-2001).
- Vice President in InfoTalk Corp. Ltd (2001-2003).
- Vice President of the Chinese and Oriental Language Information Processing Society (COLIPS, 2009-2011).
- Senior Member, IEEE.
- Executive Board Member of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP, 2006-2010).
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, and Springer International Journal of Social Robotics.
- Board Member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA, 2009-2013).
- Local Arrangement Chair of ACM SIGIR 2008 and ACL-IJCNLP 2009.
- General Chair of the 50th Annual Meeting of ACL in 2012 and the 15th Annual Conference of ISCA (Interspeech) in 2014.
- Selected Publications:
- Haizhou Li, Ma Bin, "TechWare: Speaker and Spoken Language Recognition Resources", in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, November 2010
- Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw, Haizhou Li, "Linguistically Annotated Reordering Evaluation and Analysis", in Computational Linguistics, Vol 36, No. 3, pp 535-568, 2010
- Chang Huai You, Kong Aik Lee, Haizhou Li, "GMM-SVM Kernel with a Bhattacharyya-Based Distance for Speaker Recognition", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing , Vol 18, No. 6, pp1300-1312, 2010
- Tomi Kinnunen, Haizhou Li, "An Overview of Text-Independent Speaker Recognition: from Features to Supervectors", Speech Communication, Vol 52, No. 1, pp. 12-40, 2010
- Haizhou Li, Bin Ma, and Chin-Hui Lee, "A Vector Space Modeling Approach to Spoken Language Identification", in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol 15, No. 1, 2007
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