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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - IEEE Fellow For sustained contributions to speech technology, especially in the provision of research in and resources for the Portuguese language

Overview

Isabel Trancoso is affiliated with Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence and signal processing. Their research also intersects with experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and education, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach.

The main topics covered in Isabel Trancoso's body of work include:

  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Music and Audio Processing

Isabel Trancoso has authored several research papers, notable among them are:

  • "Prosociality in Cyberspace: Developing Emotion and Behavioral Regulation to Decrease Aggressive Communication," 2021, Cognitive Computation
  • "Exploring Dementia Detection from Speech: Cross Corpus Analysis," 2022, ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
  • "Extending automatic transcripts in a unified data representation towards a prosodic-based metadata annotation and evaluation," 2021, Journal of Speech Sciences
  • "Pathological speech detection using x-vector embeddings," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Speech as a Biomarker for Disease Detection," 2024, IEEE Access

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Isabel Trancoso include:

  • Thomas Siegert
  • Karen Hawkins
  • Mary Ward-Callan
  • John Baillieul
  • Gert Cauwenberghs

The venues where Isabel Trancoso frequently publishes highlight the academic communities they engage with most often. These publication venues include:

  • Proceedings of the IEEE
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

In 2011, Isabel Trancoso was recognized as an IEEE Fellow for sustained contributions to speech technology, especially in research and resource provision for the Portuguese language.

Best Publications

  • Finding Function in Form: Compositional Character Models for Open Vocabulary Word Representation

    Wang Ling;Chris Dyer;Alan W Black;Isabel Trancoso

  • Two/Too Simple Adaptations of Word2Vec for Syntax Problems

    Wang Ling;Chris Dyer;Alan W. Black;Isabel Trancoso

  • The MediaMill TRECVID 2009 Semantic Video Search Engine

    C.G.M. Snoek;K.E.A. van de Sande;O. de Rooij;B. Huurnink

  • Character-based Neural Machine Translation

    Wang Ling;Isabel Trancoso;Chris Dyer;Alan W Black

  • Automatic cyberbullying detection: A systematic review

    H. Rosa;H. Rosa;N. Pereira;R. Ribeiro;R. Ribeiro;P.C. Ferreira;P.C. Ferreira

  • Finding Function in Form: Compositional Character Models for Open Vocabulary Word Representation

    Wang Ling;Tiago Luís;Luís Marujo;Ramón Fernandez Astudillo

  • EUROM-A Spoken Language Resource for the EU

    D Chan;A Fourcin;D Gibbon;B Granstrom

  • Temporal Video Segmentation to Scenes Using High-Level Audiovisual Features

    P. Sidiropoulos;V. Mezaris;I. Kompatsiaris;H. Meinedo

  • Not All Contexts Are Created Equal: Better Word Representations with Variable Attention

    Wang Ling;Yulia Tsvetkov;Silvio Amir;Ramon Fermandez

  • EUROM - a spoken language resource for the EU - the SAM projects.

    Dominic S. F. Chan;Adrian Fourcin;Dafydd Gibbon;Björn Granström

  • Efficient procedures for finding the optimum innovation in stochastic coders

    I. Trancoso;B. Atal

  • Non-speech audio event detection

    Jose Portelo;Miguel Bugalho;Isabel Trancoso;Joao Neto

  • Preserving privacy in speaker and speech characterisation

    Andreas Nautsch;Andreas Nautsch;Abelino Jiménez;Amos Treiber;Jascha Kolberg

  • AUDIMUS.MEDIA: a broadcast news speech recognition system for the european portuguese language

    Hugo Meinedo;Diamantino Caseiro;João Neto;Isabel Trancoso

  • Accent identification

    C. Teixeira;I. Trancoso;A. Serralheiro

  • Automatic word naming recognition for an on-line aphasia treatment system

    Alberto Abad;Anna Pompili;Anna Pompili;Angela Costa;Angela Costa;Isabel Trancoso;Isabel Trancoso

  • Microblogs as Parallel Corpora

    Wang Ling;Guang Xiang;Chris Dyer;Alan Black

  • Bilingual Experiments on Automatic Recovery of Capitalization and Punctuation of Automatic Speech Transcripts

    F. Batista;H. Moniz;I. Trancoso;N. Mamede

  • Age and gender classification using fusion of acoustic and prosodic features.

    Hugo Meinedo;Isabel Trancoso

  • Efficient search procedures for selecting the optimum innovation in stochastic coders

    I.M. Trancoso;B.S. Atal

Frequent Co-Authors

Bhiksha Raj
Bhiksha Raj Carnegie Mellon University
Alan W. Black
Alan W. Black Carnegie Mellon University
Jorge S. Marques
Jorge S. Marques Instituto Superior Técnico
Maxine Eskenazi
Maxine Eskenazi Carnegie Mellon University
Chris Dyer
Chris Dyer Google (United States)
Jaime G. Carbonell
Jaime G. Carbonell Carnegie Mellon University
Krystian Mikolajczyk
Krystian Mikolajczyk Imperial College London
Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Ioannis Kompatsiaris Information Technologies Institute, Greece
Josef Kittler
Josef Kittler University of Surrey
Mário J. Silva
Mário J. Silva Instituto Superior Técnico

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