Cheng-I Lai

1.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 875 citations indexed

About

Cheng-I Lai is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Cheng-I Lai has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 875 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 6 papers in Signal Processing and 3 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Cheng-I Lai's work include Speech Recognition and Synthesis (10 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 papers) and Topic Modeling (6 papers). Cheng-I Lai is often cited by papers focused on Speech Recognition and Synthesis (10 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 papers) and Topic Modeling (6 papers). Cheng-I Lai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Japan. Cheng-I Lai's co-authors include James Glass, Nanxin Chen, Yuan Gong, Yu-An Chung, Hung-yi Lee, Yung-Sung Chuang, Jesús Villalba, Najim Dehak, Shang-Wen Li and Shinji Watanabe and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

In The Last Decade

Cheng-I Lai

13 papers receiving 830 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.

SUPERB: Speech Processing Universal PERformance Benchmark

2021 409 citations Shu-Wen Yang, Po-Han Chi et al. profile →
SSAST: Self-Supervised Audio Spectrogram Transformer

2022 146 citations Yuan Gong, Cheng-I Lai et al. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cheng-I Lai United States	10	718	567	104	80	29	14	875
Brecht Desplanques Belgium	9	819 1.1×	737 1.3×	85 0.8×	50 0.6×	32 1.1×	20	1.0k
Jenthe Thienpondt Belgium	6	792 1.1×	704 1.2×	75 0.7×	42 0.5×	32 1.1×	13	894
Xuankai Chang United States	21	1.4k 1.9×	1.1k 1.9×	72 0.7×	88 1.1×	25 0.9×	66	1.6k
Jiatong Shi United States	13	807 1.1×	497 0.9×	63 0.6×	93 1.2×	20 0.7×	50	950
Longbiao Wang China	16	603 0.8×	623 1.1×	89 0.9×	139 1.7×	50 1.7×	62	771
Shinnosuke Takamichi Japan	16	756 1.1×	682 1.2×	115 1.1×	64 0.8×	33 1.1×	116	978
Sachin Kajarekar United States	20	1.3k 1.8×	1.2k 2.1×	119 1.1×	84 1.1×	19 0.7×	52	1.4k
Tsubasa Ochiai Japan	7	897 1.2×	681 1.2×	71 0.7×	45 0.6×	26 0.9×	11	1.0k
Kushal Lakhotia Israel	10	830 1.2×	456 0.8×	94 0.9×	93 1.2×	30 1.0×	11	950
František Grézl Czechia	20	1.5k 2.1×	1.3k 2.2×	127 1.2×	74 0.9×	16 0.6×	48	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Cheng-I Lai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cheng-I Lai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cheng-I Lai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cheng-I Lai based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Cheng-I Lai. Cheng-I Lai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Lai, Cheng-I, et al.. (2023). Cascading and Direct Approaches to Unsupervised Constituency Parsing on Spoken Sentences. 1–5. 1 indexed citations

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Lai, Cheng-I, Freda Shi, Yoon Kim, et al.. (2023). Audio-Visual Neural Syntax Acquisition. 1–8.

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Liu, Alexander, et al.. (2022). Cross-Modal Discrete Representation Learning. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 3013–3035. 24 indexed citations

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Lai, Cheng-I, Erica Cooper, Yang Zhang, et al.. (2022). On the Interplay between Sparsity, Naturalness, Intelligibility, and Prosody in Speech Synthesis. ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 8447–8451. 3 indexed citations

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Lai, Cheng-I, et al.. (2022). Simple and Effective Unsupervised Speech Synthesis. Interspeech 2022. 843–847. 9 indexed citations

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Gong, Yuan, Cheng-I Lai, Yu-An Chung, & James Glass. (2022). SSAST: Self-Supervised Audio Spectrogram Transformer. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 36(10). 10699–10709. 146 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Shu-Wen, Po-Han Chi, Yung-Sung Chuang, et al.. (2021). SUPERB: Speech Processing Universal PERformance Benchmark. 1194–1198. 409 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lai, Cheng-I, Yung-Sung Chuang, Hung-yi Lee, Shang-Wen Li, & James Glass. (2021). Semi-Supervised Spoken Language Understanding via Self-Supervised Speech and Language Model Pretraining. 7468–7472. 35 indexed citations

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Cooper, Erica, Cheng-I Lai, Yusuke Yasuda, et al.. (2020). Zero-Shot Multi-Speaker Text-To-Speech with State-Of-The-Art Neural Speaker Embeddings. 6184–6188. 98 indexed citations

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Lai, Cheng-I, et al.. (2020). Improved Prosody from Learned F0 Codebook Representations for VQ-VAE Speech Waveform Reconstruction. 8 indexed citations

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Cooper, Erica, Cheng-I Lai, Yusuke Yasuda, & Junichi Yamagishi. (2020). Can Speaker Augmentation Improve Multi-Speaker End-to-End TTS?. 3979–3983. 14 indexed citations

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Lai, Cheng-I, Nanxin Chen, Jesús Villalba, & Najim Dehak. (2019). ASSERT: Anti-Spoofing with Squeeze-Excitation and Residual Networks. 1013–1017. 102 indexed citations

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Guo, Jialiang, et al.. (2019). Controlling the Reading Level of Machine Translation Output. 193–203. 15 indexed citations

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Nidadavolu, Phani Sankar, Cheng-I Lai, Jesús Villalba, & Najim Dehak. (2018). Investigation on Bandwidth Extension for Speaker Recognition. 1111–1115. 11 indexed citations

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