Alan W. Black

18.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
320 papers, 10.5k citations indexed

About

Alan W. Black is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan W. Black has authored 320 papers receiving a total of 10.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 290 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 91 papers in Signal Processing and 32 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Alan W. Black's work include Speech Recognition and Synthesis (181 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (151 papers) and Speech and dialogue systems (138 papers). Alan W. Black is often cited by papers focused on Speech Recognition and Synthesis (181 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (151 papers) and Speech and dialogue systems (138 papers). Alan W. Black collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Portugal. Alan W. Black's co-authors include Keiichi Tokuda, Andrew J. Hunt, Tomoki Toda, Heiga Zen, Paul Taylor, Keiichi Tokuda, John Kominek, Kevin Lenzo, Isabel Trancoso and Antoine Raux and has published in prestigious journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Scientific Reports and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

Alan W. Black

310 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Statistical parametric speech synthesis

2009 793 citations Alan W. Black et al. profile →
Unit selection in a concatenative speech synthesis system using a large speech database

2002 757 citations Alan W. Black et al. ERA profile →
Voice Conversion Based on Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Spectral Parameter Trajectory

2007 683 citations Alan W. Black et al. profile →
Finding Function in Form: Compositional Character Models for Open Vocabulary Word Representation

2015 299 citations Chris Dyer, Alan W. Black et al. profile →

Peers

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James Glass United States

Andreas Stolcke United States

Mari Ostendorf United States

Elizabeth Shriberg United States

Robert C. Moore United States

Julia Hirschberg United States

Alessandro Vinciarelli United Kingdom

Roger K. Moore United Kingdom

Daniel Jurafsky United States

Richard Sproat United States

James Glass United States

Alan W. Black

7.9k ×0.8

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5.0k ×1.1

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773 ×0.6

ECP

1.5k ×1.5

CVPR

313 ×0.8

IS

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Countries citing papers authored by Alan W. Black

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan W. Black

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan W. Black

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Black, Alan W., et al.. (2020). Detecting Entailment in Code-Mixed Hindi-English Conversations. 165–170. 2 indexed citations

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Mayfield, Elijah, et al.. (2019). Equity Beyond Bias in Language Technologies for Education. 444–460. 21 indexed citations

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Kurita, Keita, et al.. (2019). Quantifying Social Biases in Contextual Word Representations. Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 4 indexed citations

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Wilson, Shomir, Alan W. Black, & Jon Oberlander. (2016). This Table is Different: A WordNet-Based Approach to Identifying References to Document Entities. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 432–440. 1 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yu, et al.. (2016). Strategy and Policy Learning for Non-Task-Oriented Conversational Systems. 404–412. 51 indexed citations

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Marujo, Luís, Ling Wang, Isabel Trancoso, et al.. (2015). Automatic Keyword Extraction on Twitter. 637–643. 38 indexed citations

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Wang, Ling, Chris Dyer, Alan W. Black, & Isabel Trancoso. (2013). Paraphrasing 4 Microblog Normalization. 73–84. 35 indexed citations

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Prahallad, Kishore, et al.. (2013). The Blizzard Challenge 2013 -- Indian Language Task. 9 indexed citations

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Sitaram, Sunayana, et al.. (2013). Text to Speech in New Languages without a Standardized Orthography. SSW. 95–100. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Ling, Nadi Tomeh, Guang Xiang, Isabel Trancoso, & Alan W. Black. (2012). Improving Relative-Entropy Pruning using Statistical Significance. International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 713–722. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Ling, Pável Calado, Bruno Martins, et al.. (2011). Named entity translation using anchor texts.. IWSLT. 206–213. 7 indexed citations

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Prahallad, Kishore, et al.. (2010). Semi-supervised learning of acoustic driven prosodic phrase breaks for text-to-speech systems. paper 151–0. 3 indexed citations

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Anumanchipalli, Gopala K., et al.. (2010). KLATTSTAT: knowledge-based parametric speech synthesis.. SSW. 206–210. 6 indexed citations

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Eskénazi, Maxine, Alan W. Black, Antoine Raux, & Brian Langner. (2008). Let's go lab: a platform for evaluation of spoken dialog systems with real world users.. Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. 219. 6 indexed citations

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Kominek, John, Tanja Schultz, & Alan W. Black. (2007). Voice building from insufficient data - classroom experiences with web-based language development tools.. SSW. 322–327. 6 indexed citations

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Kominek, John & Alan W. Black. (2006). The Blizzard Challenge 2006 CMU Entry introducing hybrid trajectory-selection synthesis. 13–16. 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jason, Arthur R. Toth, Kevyn Collins‐Thompson, & Alan W. Black. (2004). Prominence prediction for supersentential prosodic modeling based on a new database.. SSW. 203–208. 7 indexed citations

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Black, Alan W., et al.. (2004). Unit selection voice for Amharic using Festvox.. SSW. 103–108. 11 indexed citations

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Black, Alan W., Kevin Lenzo, & Vincent Pagel. (1998). Issues in Building General Letter to Sound Rules. ERA. 77–80. 158 indexed citations

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Ritchie, Graéme, et al.. (1987). A computational framework for lexical description. Computational Linguistics. 13(3). 290–307. 19 indexed citations

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