SRI International Researcher Receives International Speech Communication
Association (ISCA) Fellow Award
MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- SRI International, an independent
nonprofit research and development institute, announced today that Dr.
Elizabeth Shriberg, a senior researcher in SRI's Speech Technology and
Research (STAR) Laboratory, has been named a Fellow of the International
Speech Communication Association (ISCA). The award, recently announced at
Interspeech 2009 in Brighton, England, recognizes significant contributions to
the field of speech communication science and technology. Shriberg was honored
for her fundamental research contributions to computational modeling of
disfluencies, prosody in speech understanding, and higher-level features in
speaker recognition.
"It is an unexpected and great honor to be included among such distinguished
researchers, and I thank the collaborators I've been so fortunate to work with
at SRI and other institutions around the world," said Shriberg. "Our research
aims to harness information that people use in natural communication,
including intonation and timing, to help computers recognize speakers and
understand what they are saying. The long term goal is to advance scientific
understanding of spontaneous speech, and to improve speech technology."
To qualify for the ISCA Fellow Award, candidates must be an ISCA member for
five years or more, with a minimum of 10 years' experience in the field. A
Fellow may be recognized for their outstanding technical contributions and/or
for continued significant service to ISCA, and is selected by the ISCA Fellow
Selection Committee. Shriberg was one of six researchers to be honored this
year.
In addition to her role at SRI, Shriberg is a member of the Speech Group at
the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, Calif., and an
Adjunct Associate Professor at the Center for Advanced Study of Language
(CASL) at the University of Maryland. She has led projects on modeling
disfluencies, punctuation, dialog, emotion, and speakers, using lexical and
prosodic features, and published more than 150 journal and conference papers
in speech science, speech technology, and related fields. Shriberg has served
as an associate editor of Language and Speech and on the boards of Speech
Communication and Computational Linguistics. She has served on a range of
conference and workshop boards, on the ISCA Advisory Council, and on the
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) Permanent
Council.
SRI's STAR Laboratory is recognized as a world-leading speech technology
organization, and has developed products for government and commercial
clients. In the 1990s, SRI spun-off Nuance Communications (www.nuance.com), a
company created to provide automated access to information and services using
the human voice and a telephone. More information about SRI's STAR Laboratory
is available at www.speech.sri.com.
About SRI International
Silicon Valley-based SRI International is one of the world's leading
independent research and technology development organizations. SRI, which was
founded by Stanford University as Stanford Research Institute in 1946 and
became independent in 1970, has been meeting the strategic needs of clients
and partners for more than 60 years. Perhaps best known for its introduction
of interactive computing and the invention of the computer mouse , SRI has
also been responsible for major advances in networking and communications,
robotics, drug discovery and development, advanced materials, atmospheric
research, education research, economic development, national security, and
more. The nonprofit institute performs sponsored research and development for
government agencies, businesses, and foundations. SRI also licenses its
technologies, forms strategic alliances, and creates spin-off companies. In
2008, SRI's consolidated revenues, including its wholly owned for-profit
subsidiary, Sarnoff Corporation, were approximately $490 million.
SOURCE SRI International
Lindsay Sheppard, +1-650-859-2491, lindsay.sheppard@sri.com, or Ellie Javadi,
+1-650-859-4874, Ellie.javadi@sri.com, both of SRI International
