Published journal papers

• D. Beeferman, A. Berger, J. Lafferty. Statistical Models for Text Segmentation. Machine Learning Journal Special Issue on Natural Language Learning. [ Abstract ] [ Postscript preprint ] .

Published conference papers

• D. Beeferman. The rhythm of lexical stress in prose. In Proc. Assoc Computational Linguistics '96, Santa Cruz, CA. [ Postscript ]

• D. Beeferman, A. Berger, and J. Lafferty. A model of lexical attraction and repulsion. In Proceedings of the ACL-EACL '97 Joint Conference, Madrid, Spain. [ Abstract ] [ Postscript preprint ]

• D. Beeferman, A. Berger, and J. Lafferty. Text segmentation using exponential models. In Proc. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2 (AAAI) '97, Providence, RI. [ Abstract and postscript preprint ]

• D. Beeferman, A. Berger, J. Lafferty. A lightweight punctuation annotation system for speech. ICASSP '98. [ Postscript ] [ Demo ]

• D. Beeferman, A. Berger, Agglomerative clustering of s earch engine query log. KDD 2000. [ PDF ]

Workshop papers

• D. Beeferman. "Lexical discovery with an enriched semantic network". Describes the evolving FreeNet database system, and Lexical FreeNet. Proceedings of the Workshop on Applications of WordNet in Natural Language Processing Systems, ACL/COLING 1998. [ PDF ]

• S. Chen, D. Beeferman, R. Rosenfeld. Evaluation Metrics for Language Models. Appeared at the Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop, February 1998. [ Postscript ] [ HTML ]

• D. Beeferman. "A probabilistic error metric for segmentation algorithms". An abstract for a talk I gave at the Speech and Language Technology workshop in Sheffield, England, June 1997. [ Postscript ]

Unpublished projects, notes, and talks

• D. Beeferman. "QPD: Query by Pitch Dynamics. Indexing Tonal Music by Content". A course project write-up discussing a method of indexing and clustering computer music files by content. [ PDF ]

• D. Beeferman. "Count your blessings...faster!". A lecture on combinatorics and representation I gave for Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science on 2/17/1998. [ HTML ] [ Powerpoint ] [ PDF ]

• D. Beeferman. "Exponential Models for Natural Language". A talk I gave locally about my group's ongoing work with exponential language models. [ Postscript ]

• D. Beeferman. "A note on the water jug problem in Prodigy". A discussion of the redesign of a Prodigy domain involving infinite types. [ Postscript ]

• D. Beeferman. Link Grammar Prefix Measures for Spontaneous Speech Recognition. Originally a term project for a speech understanding course, this paper discusses present and future work toward using the link grammar formalism in conversational speech recognition. [ Postscript ]

Book chapter

• Huang, X., A. Acero, F. Alleva, D. Beeferman, M. Hwang, and M. Mahajan. From CMU Sphinx-II to Microsoft Whisper: Making Speech Recognition Usable. Appeared in Advanced Topics in Speech Recognition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. Discusses the evolution of the Microsoft WHISPER speech recognizer. [ Microsoft Word 6.0 ]