Introduction: Compiled by Jeff Allen, this web site focuses on referencing his articles and conference talks on the topic of speech technologies.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2004. Issues in Multilingual Speech Technologies: the differences between written and spoken language must be taken into account when developing a speech system. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine, Number 63, Vol 15, Issue 3, April/May 2004. click here
MASON, Marilyn and Jeffrey ALLEN. 2000. Issues from corpus analysis that have influenced the on-going development of various Haitian Creole text- and speech-based NLP systems and applications. Poster and demo presented at the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000), 31 May - 2 June 2000, Athens, Greece.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2001. Speech technology after the hoax. In International Journal for Language and Documentation, Issue 9, May-June 2001. pp. 41-42.
MORENO, Asunción, Borge LINDBERG, Christoph DRAXLER, Gaël RICHARD, Khalid CHOUKRI, Stephan EULER, and Jeffrey Allen. 2000. SpeechDat Car: A Large Speech Database For Automotive Environments. presented at the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000), 31 May - 2 June 2000, Athens, Greece.
HOGAN, Christopher and Jeffrey ALLEN. 1999. Phonemic and Orthographic realizations of 'r' and 'w' in Haitian Creole. Paper presented at the International Conference of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 99), San Francisco, 1-7 August 1999. click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in PDF format.
ALLEN, Jeffrey and Christopher HOGAN. 1999. Le 'r' et le 'w' en créole haïtien: 1, 2 ou 3 phonemes? Paper presented at the 9è Colloque du Comite International des Etudes Créoles. Held at the Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, 24 - 29 June 1999.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1998. Intelligence artificielle: apport de la traduction automatique et le traitement automatique de la parole au créole haïtien. Seminar and system demonstration presented at the Université Caraïbe, Port-au-Prince (Haiti), 28 March 1998. This has been Videotaped.
ALLEN, Jeff and Jocelyne TROUILLOT-LEVY. 1998. Televised interview on TeleHaiti on the status of computerized language systems for Creole and standardization of Haitian Creole. Interview aired 6pm, March 27, 1998 and 6am March 28, 1998, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This has been Videotaped.
LENZO, Kevin, Christopher HOGAN, and Jeffrey ALLEN. 1998. Rapid-Deployment Text-to-Speech in the DIPLOMAT System. Poster presented at the 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP98). 30 November - 4 December 1998, Sydney, Australia. click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in PDF format. or click here to access a rasterized version of the article (in separate browser window) in PDF format or click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in HTML format. The article in PDF can also be accessed here.
ESKENAZI, Maxine, Christopher HOGAN, Jeffrey ALLEN, and Robert FREDERKING. 1997. Issues in database creation : recording new populations, faster and better labelling. In Proceedings of Eurospeech97. Vol. 4: 1699-1702. Conference held in Rhodes, Greece, 22-25 September 1997.
ESKENAZI, Maxine, Christopher HOGAN, Jeffrey ALLEN, and Robert FREDERKING. 1998. Issues in database design: recording and processing speech from new populations (poster session). In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC98), 28-30 May 1998, Granada, Spain. Vol. 2, pp. 1289-1293. click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in PDF format.
ALLEN, Jeffrey and Khalid CHOUKRI. 2000. Survey on multilingual issues, and the evolution of languages in speech and machine translation products. Report written within the framework of the LE4-8335 Language Resources Production and Packaging (LRsPP) project. European Language Resources Distribution Agency & the European Commission. Abstract: The ELRA survey on evolution of languages in speech and machine translation products was conducted between March and June 2000 with the objective of analyzing technology providers' offer with respect to languages in these domains. The survey was conceived as a more specific follow-up to the more general study on user needs with regard to language resources for which the results have already been presented in Vol. 4, No. 4 of the ELRA newsletter. click here to download the article. You must be an ELRA member to access the document.
ALLEN, Jeffrey and Khalid CHOUKRI. 2000. Survey of Language Engineering needs: a Language Resources perspective. Presented at the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000) to take place 31 May - 2 June 2000, Athens, Greece. Abstract: This paper describes the current state of an on-going survey that aims at determining the needs of users with respect to available and potentially available Language Resources (LRs). Following market monitoring strategies that have been outlined within the Language Resources- Packaging and Production project (LRsP&P LE4-8335), the main objective of this survey is to provide concrete figures for developing a more reliable and workable business plan for the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and its Distribution Agency (ELDA), and to determine investment plans for sponsoring the production of new resources. click here to access the article.
ALLEN, Jeffrey and Khalid CHOUKRI. 2000. Final Language Resource Market Segmentation report. Deliverable report (D1.2d) of LE4-8335 Language Resources Production and Packaging (LRsPP) project. European Language Resources Distribution Agency & the European Commission. Abstract: This updated study, building on early initial work by using external resources, is an analysis of the existing and potential Language Resource (LR) and Language Engineering (LE) markets. click here to access the article in MS Word format. You must be an ELRA member to access the document.
ALLEN, Jeffrey and Khalid CHOUKRI. 2000. Final Language Resource User needs report. Deliverable report (D1.2c) of LE4-8335 Language Resources Production and Packaging (LRsPP) project. European Language Resources Distribution Agency & the European Commission. Abstract: This final updated study, building on early similar studies, indicates the results obtained from improved methods for determining the needs of users with respect to available and potentially available LRs. Surveyed respondents include ELRA members and non-members. click here to access the article in Postscript format. You must be an ELRA member to access the document. click here to access the article in RTF format. You must be an ELRA member to access the document.
CHOUKRI, Khalid, and Jeffrey ALLEN. 2000. The perspective of the European Language Resources Association on Meta-Descriptions and Annotation Schemas for Multimodal/Multimedia Language Resources. Presented at the First EAGLES/ISLE Workshop on Meta-Descriptions and Annotation Schemas for Multimodal/Multimedia Language Resources. Satellite workshop of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000), 31 May - 2 June 2000, Athens, Greece. click here for a summary of the presentation (in separate browser window) and click here to download the presentation in MS Powerpoint format
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2000. The ELRA/ELDA survey of Language Resources. In Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) Newsletter. Vol. IX. No. 2, pp. 25-30. click here to access the article in HTML format.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2000. The ELDA Language Resources survey: languages needed. In International Journal for Language and Documentation. Number 5. June 2000, pp 41-42.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2000. Language Resources surveyed by ELRA/ELDA. Talk presented at the Large Corpora and Annotation Standards meeting held in conjunction with the ANLP/NAACL2000 Language Technology Joint Conference, Seattle, Washington, 4 May 2000.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1999. Language Resources Go Digital: Update on the European Language Resources Association. In Language International magazine, Vol. 11, No. 6. pp. 38-39. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1999. Using Language Resources for Speech, Text and Terminology processing systems. Invited talk presented at the Copenhagen Business School, sponsored by the Language Technologies and Modern Languages Departments, 1 December 1999, Copenhagen, Denmark.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 6 Jul 1999. #99: computers & economy (was: Poincy replies to Allen) Allen comments. Appeared on the Corbett list discussion forum.click here to access the discussion list post (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 22 Sep 1999 . #560: Allen comments on #511 & 531: Help in Creole. Appeared on the Corbett list discussion forum.click here to access the discussion list post (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 26 Sep 1999. 561: Savain replies on Creole: Allen adds. Appeared on the Corbett list discussion forum.click here to access the discussion list post (in separate browser window).
Jeff Allen has 15 years of experience in the language industry, with the majority in commercial and industrial areas of controlled language, translation software, speech technologies, and localization. His biosketch is here (in separate browser window) at the Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine web site. A more detailed description of his experience is provided here (in separate browser window) at the KnowledgeBoard.
He can be reached at j e f f . a l l e n @ f r e e . f r
