PUBLICATIONS by Geoff Williams, PhD
Books & Articles:
PhD Thesis: The phonological basis of Speech Recognition. SOAS, University of London (1998).
Williams, Geoff. On the computability of certain derivations in Government Phonology . In S. Ploch (ed.) Living on the Edge: 28 Papers in honour of Jonathan Kaye. Berlin: Mouton 2003. (zipped PDF)
Siciliano, Catherine, G. Williams, Jonas Beskow and Andrew Faulkner. Evaluation of a multilingual synthetic talking face as a communication aid for the hearing impaired. Speech, Hearing & Language Vol 14, 2002 pp51-61.
Williams, Geoff. A pattern-recognition model for the phonetic interpretation of elements. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol , 1997. (gzipped Postscript)
Williams, Geoff. On the role of phonological parsing in Speech Recognition. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 4, 1994. (gzipped Postscript)
Williams, Geoff & Wiebke G. Brockhaus. Automatic Speech Recognition: a principle-based approach. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 2, 1992.
Conference Papers and talks:
Siciliano, C., Williams, Geoff, & A. Faulkner. Lipreadability of a Synthetic Talking Face in Normal Hearing and Hearing- Impaired Listeners. Proceedings of AVSP 2003: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Audio Visual Speech Processing 2003, St. Jorioz, France.
Siciliano, C., Williams, Geoff, Beskow, J. & A. Faulkner. Evaluation of a Multilingual Synthetic Talking Face as a Communication Aid for the Hearing Impaired. Proceedings of 15th ICPhS, Barcelona 2003; Session T5.5: Symposium on Applications of Auditory/Visual Speech Processing
Williams, Geoff, A. Mark Terry & Jonathan D. Kaye: Phonological elements as a basis for language-independent ASR. Proceedings of ICSLP 98, Sydney Australia. (PDF file)
Williams, Geoff, G. Martindale, J.D. Kaye, & A.M. Terry: Multi-lingual speech recognition using phonological primes. Poster presented at ASA-AJA conference, Honolulu, December 1996.
Williams, Geoff, G. Martindale, J.D. Kaye, & A.M. Terry: Multi-lingual speech recognition using phonological primes. Paper presented at SPECOM 96, St Petersburg, Russia. October 1996. (sole presenter) (gzipped postscript)
Williams, Geoff: Speech recognition and the formal power of phonology. Presented at Computational Phonology Workshop, ESSLLI 95 Summer school, Barcelona, Spain. August 1995. (Handout, gzipped postscript)
Williams, Geoff & Jonathan D. Kaye: For a principle-based approach to Speech Recognition: arguments from phonological structure. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Speech and Handwriting Recognition, Leeds University, England, 1994.
Williams, Geoff: Automatic Speech Recognition: a Government Phonology approach. In Dressler et al (eds) Phonologica 1992: Proceedings of the 7th International Phonology Meeting. Krems, Austria. 1992. (refereed) (gzipped postscript)
Williams, Geoff: Automatic Speech Recognition: a Government-Based Approach. Presented at London Phonology Seminar, November 1991.
Patents:
Joint holder with Jonathan Kaye of US, European & Japanese patents for Phonology-Based ASR.
Non-linguistics: