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Brian Roark

52 papers · 2000–2025 · 7 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (7) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (9) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🌍 Conference Polyglot (7) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (25) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (34) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🏠 Conference Loyalist (23) 🧬 Topic Evolution πŸ‘₯ Mega-Team (27) πŸ† Keyword Champion (2) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (78) ⚑ Prolific Year (6) πŸš€ Conference Pioneer πŸ’Ž Century Club (52) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (13) ❓ The Questioner (2)

Conferences

ACL (23) NAACL (10) EMNLP (9) COLING (4) EACL (3) INTERSPEECH (2) IJCNLP (1)

Top co-authors

Ryan Cotterell (6) Richard Sproat (5) Alexander Gutkin (5) Christo Kirov (5) Kristy Hollingshead (5) Michael Riley (4) Aaron Dunlop (4) Tiago Pimentel (4) Izhak Shafran (4) Murat Saraclar (3)

Research topics

Linguistics (1) Statistics (1)

Keywords

language modeling (3) cross-linguistic analysis (3) text classification (2) large language model (2) speech recognition (2) information theory (2) morphological complexity (2) recurrent neural network (2) text normalization (2) abbreviation expansion (2) finite-state transducer (2) multilingual nlp (2) script normalization (2) language identification (2) natural language processing (1) speech processing (1) natural language generation (1) transfer learning (1) benchmark evaluation (1) language model adaptation (1)

Papers

Improving Informally Romanized Language Identification EMNLP 2025
Abbreviation Across the World’s Languages and Scripts COLING 2024
Distinguishing Romanized Hindi from Romanized Urdu ACL 2023
XTREME-UP: A User-Centric Scarce-Data Benchmark for Under-Represented Languages EMNLP 2023
Spelling convention sensitivity in neural language models EACL 2023
Beyond Arabic: Software for Perso-Arabic Script Manipulation EMNLP 2022
Design principles of an open-source language modeling microservice package for AAC text-entry applications ACL 2022
Finite-state script normalization and processing utilities: The Nisaba Brahmic library EACL 2021
Finding Concept-specific Biases in Form–Meaning Associations NAACL 2021
Disambiguatory Signals are Stronger in Word-initial Positions EACL 2021
Structured abbreviation expansion in context EMNLP 2021
Rethinking Phonotactic Complexity ACL 2019
Meaning to Form: Measuring Systematicity as Information ACL 2019
What Kind of Language Is Hard to Language-Model? ACL 2019
Are All Languages Equally Hard to Language-Model? NAACL 2018
Learning N-Gram Language Models from Uncertain Data INTERSPEECH 2016
Contextual Prediction Models for Speech Recognition INTERSPEECH 2016
Hippocratic Abbreviation Expansion ACL 2014
Data Driven Grammatical Error Detection in Transcripts of Children’s Speech EMNLP 2014
Transforming trees into hedges and parsing with β€œhedgebank” grammars ACL 2014
Smoothed marginal distribution constraints for language modeling ACL 2013
Pair Language Models for Deriving Alternative Pronunciations and Spellings from Pronunciation Dictionaries EMNLP 2013
Discriminative Joint Modeling of Lexical Variation and Acoustic Confusion for Automated Narrative Retelling Assessment NAACL 2013
Distributional semantic models for the evaluation of disordered language NAACL 2013
The OpenGrm open-source finite-state grammar software libraries ACL 2012
Beam-Width Prediction for Efficient Context-Free Parsing ACL 2011
Lexicographic Semirings for Exact Automata Encoding of Sequence Models ACL 2011
An ERP-based Brain-Computer Interface for text entry using Rapid Serial Visual Presentation and Language Modeling ACL 2011
Unary Constraints for Efficient Context-Free Parsing ACL 2011
Semi-Supervised Modeling for Prenominal Modifier Ordering ACL 2011
Minimum Imputed-Risk: Unsupervised Discriminative Training for Machine Translation EMNLP 2011
Prenominal Modifier Ordering via Multiple Sequence Alignment NAACL 2010
Linear Complexity Context-Free Parsing Pipelines via Chart Constraints NAACL 2009
Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Student Research Workshop ACL 2009
Deriving lexical and syntactic expectation-based measures for psycholinguistic modeling via incremental top-down parsing EMNLP 2009
Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Student Research Workshop IJCNLP 2009
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Tutorial Abstracts NAACL 2009
Classifying Chart Cells for Quadratic Complexity Context-Free Inference COLING 2008
The utility of parse-derived features for automatic discourse segmentation ACL 2007
Pipeline Iteration ACL 2007
Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar Induction Based on Structural Zeros NAACL 2006
PCFGs with Syntactic and Prosodic Indicators of Speech Repairs COLING 2006
PCFGs with Syntactic and Prosodic Indicators of Speech Repairs ACL 2006
Discriminative Syntactic Language Modeling for Speech Recognition ACL 2005
Comparing and Combining Finite-State and Context-Free Parsers EMNLP 2005
Incremental Parsing with the Perceptron Algorithm ACL 2004
Language Model Adaptation with MAP Estimation and the Perceptron Algorithm NAACL 2004
Discriminative Language Modeling with Conditional Random Fields and the Perceptron Algorithm ACL 2004
Supervised and unsupervised PCFG adaptation to novel domains NAACL 2003
Generalized Algorithms for Constructing Statistical Language Models ACL 2003
Markov Parsing: Lattice Rescoring with a Statistical Parser ACL 2002
Compact non-left-recursive grammars using the selective left-corner transform and factoring COLING 2000