About

Kuan-Yu (Menphis) Chen, 陳冠宇
Associate Professor

Natural Language Processing Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Address: No.43, Sec. 4, Keelung Rd., Da-An Dist., Taipei City 106, Taiwan
(106 台北市大安區基隆路四段43號)
Office: T4-508
Phone: 886-2-2737-6377 & 886-926-267-771
Mail: kychen@mail.ntust.edu.tw & kychen@csie.ntust.edu.tw

Research Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Deep Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Speech Recognition
  • Spoken Content Processing

Publications

Journals

  1. Chia-Chih Kuo, and Kuan-Yu Chen, "Toward Zero-Shot and Zero-Resource Multilingual Question Answering," IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 99754-99761, 2022. (SCI)
  2. Fu-Hao Yu, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Ke-Han Lu, "Non-autoregressive ASR Modeling using Pre-trained Language Models for Chinese Speech Recognition," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 30, pp. 1474-1482, 2022. (SCI)
  3. Tai-Lin Chin, Kuan-Yu Chen, Da-Yi Chen, and Te-Hsiu Wang, "An Attention-based Hypocenter Estimator for Earthquake Localization," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-10, 2022. (SCI)
  4. Chia-Chih Kuo, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Shang-Bao Luo, "Audio-aware Spoken Multiple-choice Question Answering with Pre-trained Language Models," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 29, pp. 3170-3179, 2021. (SCI)
  5. Fu-Hao Yu, Ke-Han Lu, Yi-Wei Wang, Wei-Zhe Chang, Wei-Kai Huang and Kuan-Yu Chen, "A Preliminary Study of Formosa Speech Recognition Challenge 2020 – Taiwanese ASR," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 33-42, June, 2021. (THCI)
  6. Tai-Lin Chin, Kuan-Yu Chen, Da-Yi Chen, and De-En Lin, "Intelligent Realtime Earthquake Detection by Recurrent Neural Networks," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 58, No. 8, pp. 5440-5449, Aug., 2020. (SCI)
  7. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Berlin Chen, "Enhanced Language Modeling with Proximity and Sentence Relatedness Information for Extractive Broadcast News summarization," ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Vol. 19, No. 3, Article 46, February, 2020. (SCIE)
  8. Shang-Bao Luo, and Kuan-Yu Chen, "A Feature-granularity Training Strategy for Chinese Spoken Question Answering," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 1-18, December, 2019. (THCI)
  9. Zheng-Yu Wu, and Kuan-Yu Chen, "EBSUM: An Enhanced BERT-based Extractive Summarization Framework," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 19-36, December, 2019. (THCI)
  10. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, and Hsin-Min Wang, "An Information Distillation Framework for Extractive Summarization," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 161-170, January, 2018. (SCI)
  11. Shang-Bao Luo, Ching-Hsien Lee, Jia-Jang Tu, and Kuan-Yu Chen, "An OOV Word Embedding Framework for Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 67-83, December, 2018. (THCI)
  12. Tien-Hong Lo, Ying-Wen Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, and Berlin Chen, "On the use of neural network modeling techniques for spoken document retrieval," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 1-16, December, 2017. (THCI)
  13. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Kai-Wun Shih, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, and Wen-Lian Hsu "An Empirical Comparison of Contemporary Unsupervised Approaches for Extractive Speech Summarization," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 1-26, June 2017. (THCI)
  14. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu-Lun Hsieh, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, and Wen-Lian Hsu, "A Position-Aware Language Modeling Framework for Extractive Broadcast News Speech Summarization," ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Vol. 16, No. 4, September, 2017. (SCIE)
  15. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, and Hsin-Hsi Chen, "Exploring the Use of Unsupervised Query Modeling Techniques for Speech Recognition and Summarization," Speech Communication, Vol. 80, pp. 49-59, June, 2016. (SCI)
  16. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Ea-Ee Jan, Wen-Lian Hsu, and Hsin-Hsi Chen, "Extractive Broadcast News Summarization Leveraging Recurrent Neural Network Language Modeling Techniques," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 23, No. 8, pp. 1322-1334, August, 2015. (SCI)
  17. Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, and Hsin-Hsi Chen, "A Probabilistic Framework for Chinese Spelling Check," ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (Special Issue on Chinese Spell Checking), Vol. 14, No. 4, October, 2015. (SCIE)
  18. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, and Wen-Lian Hsu, "Combining Relevance Language Modeling and Clarity Measure for Extractive Speech Summarization," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 957-969, June, 2015. (SCI)
  19. Ting-Hao Chang, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, "Investigating Modulation Spectrum Factorization Techniques for Robust Speech Recognition," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 87-106, December 2015. (THCI)
  20. Kai-Wun Shih, Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, "Extractive Spoken Document Summarization with Representation Learning Techniques," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 65-86, December 2015. (THCI)
  21. Hsuan-Sheng Chiu, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Berlin Chen, "Leveraging Topical and Positional Cues for Language Modeling in Speech Recognition," Journal of Multimedia Tools and Application, Vol. 72, No. 2, pp. 1465-1481, September, 2014. (SCI)
  22. Berlin Chen, Yi-Wen Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, and Kuen-Tyng Yu, "Enhancing Query Formulation for Spoken Document Retrieval," the Special Issue on Emerging Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 553-569, May, 2014. (SCI)
  23. Berlin Chen, and Kuan-Yu Chen, "Leveraging Relevance Cues for Language Modeling in Speech Recognition," Information Processing & Management, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 807-816, July, 2013. (SCI&SSCI)
  24. Berlin Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Pei-Ning Chen, and Yi-Wen Chen, "Spoken Document Retrieval with Unsupervised Query Modeling Techniques," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol.20, no.9, pp.2602-2612, November, 2012. (SCI)
  25. Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, and Berlin Chen, "Spoken Document Retrieval Leveraging Unsupervised and Supervised Topic Modeling Techniques," Special Section: Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing Techniques and Applications, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, vol. E95-D, no.5, pp. 1195-1205, May, 2012. (SCI)


International Conferences

  1. Chong-En Lin and Kuan-Yu Chen, "A Lexical-aware Non-autoregressive Transformer-based ASR Model," the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2023), Dublin, Ireland, August 20-24, 2023.
  2. Whenty Ariyanti, Kai-Chun Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen and Yu Tsao, "Abnormal Respiratory Sound Identification Using Audio-Spectrogram Vision Transformer," the 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'23), Sydney, Australia, July 24-28, 2023.
  3. Ke-Han Lu and Kuan-Yu Chen, "A Context-aware Knowledge Transferring Strategy for CTC-based ASR," the 2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2022), Doha, Qatar, January 9-12, 2023.
  4. Chin-Hung Kuo and Kuan-Yu Chen, "Correcting, Rescoring and Matching: An N-Best List Selection Framework for Speech Recognition," the 2022 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2022), Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 7-10, 2022.
  5. Chin-Yueh Chien and Kuan-Yu Chen, "A BERT-based Language Modeling Framework," the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2022), Incheon, Korea, September 18-22, 2022.
  6. Chih-Ying Yang and Kuan-Yu Chen, "A Re-thinking ASR Modeling Framework using Attention Mechanisms," Workshop on Multimodal Big Data (MMBD) in 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2021), Orlando, FL, US, December 15-18, 2021.
  7. Fu-Hao Yu and Kuan-Yu Chen, "Non-autoregressive Transformer-based End-to-end ASR using BERT," arXiv:2104.04805, 2021.
  8. Ke-Han Lu, Bo-Han Fang and Kuan-Yu Chen, "A Transformer-based Cross-modal Fusion Model with Adversarial Training for VQA Challenge 2021," arXiv:2106.13033, 2021.
  9. Wen-Chin Huang, Chia-Hua Wu, Shang-Bao Luo, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang and Tomoki Toda, "Speech Recognition by Simply Fine-tuning BERT," the 46th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2021), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 6-11, 2021.
  10. Shang-Bao Luo, Chia-Chih Kuo and Kuan-Yu Chen, "Spoken Multiple-choice Question Answering using Multi-turn Audio-extracter BERT," the 2020 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2020), Auckland, New Zealand, Dec 7-10, 2020.
  11. Chia-Chih Kuo, Shang-Bao Luo and Kuan-Yu Chen, "An Audio-enriched BERT-based Framework for Spoken Multiple-choice Question Answering," the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2020), Shanghai, China, October 25-29, 2020.
  12. Li-Phen Yen, Zhen-Yu Wu and Kuan-Yu Chen, "A Neural Document Language Modeling Framework for Spoken Document Retrieval," the 45th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2020), Barcelona, Spain, May 4-8, 2020.
  13. Shang-Bao Luo, Hung-Shin Lee, Kuan-Yu Chen and Hsin-Min Wang, "Spoken Multiple-Choice Question Answering Using Multimodal Convolutional Neural Networks," IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2019), Sentosa, Singapore, December 14-18, 2019.
  14. Yang Yi, Kuan-Yu Chen and Hung-Yan Gu, "Mixture of CNN Experts from Multiple Acoustic Feature Domain for Music Genre Classification," the 2019 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2019), Lanzhou, China, November 18-21, 2019.
  15. Pin-Tuan Huang, Hung-Shin Lee, Syu-Siang Wang, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu Tsao and Hsin-Min Wang, "Exploring the Encoder Layers of Discriminative Autoencoders for LVCSR," the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2019), Graz, Austria, September 15-19, 2019.
  16. Zhen-Yu Wu, Li-Phen Yen and Kuan-Yu Chen, "Generating Pseudo-relevant Representations for Spoken Document Retrieval," the 44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019), Brighton, United Kingdom, May 12-17, 2019.
  17. Yu-Wun Wang, Hen-Hsen Huang, Kuan-Yu Chen and Hsin-Hsi Chen, "Discourse Marker Detection for Hesitation Events on Mandarin Conversation," the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2018), Hyderabad, India, September 2-6, 2018.
  18. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen and Hsin-Min Wang, "Essence Vector-based Query Modeling for Spoken Document Retrieval," the 43th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2018), Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April 15-20, 2018.
  19. Tien-Hong Lo, Ying-Wen Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang and Berlin Chen, "Neural Relevance-aware Query Modeling for Spoken Document Retrieval," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2017), Okinawa, Japan, December 16-20, 2017.
  20. Ying-Wen Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang and Berlin Chen, "Exploring the Use of Significant Words Language Modeling for Spoken Document Retrieval," the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2017), Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-24, 2017.
  21. Ming-Han Yang, Hung-Shin Lee, Yu-Ding Lu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu Tsao, Berlin Chen and Hsin-Min Wang, "Discriminative Autoencoders for Acoustic Modeling," the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2017), Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-24, 2017.
  22. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen and Hsin-Min Wang, "A Locality-Preserving Essence Vector Modeling Framework for Spoken Document Retrieval," the 42th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, March 5-9, 2017.
  23. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang and Wen-Lian Hsu, "Leveraging Manifold Learning for Extractive Broadcast News Summarization," the 42th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, March 5-9, 2017.
  24. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen and Hsin-Min Wang, "Learning to Distill: The Essence Vector Modeling Framework," the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016), Osaka, Japan, December 13-16, 2016.
  25. Chun-I Tsai, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Berlin Chen, "Extractive Speech Summarization Leveraging Convolutional Neural Network Techniques," the IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2016), San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 13-16, 2016.
  26. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen and Hsin-Min Wang, "A Novel Paragraph Embedding Method for Spoken Document Summarization," the 2016 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2016), Jeju Island, Korea, December 13-16, 2016.
  27. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu-Lun Hsieh, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, Wen-Lian Hsu, "Graph Regularized Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Extractive Speech Summarization," the 2016 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2016), Jeju Island, Korea, December 13-16, 2016.
  28. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, and Hsin-Hsi Chen, "Novel Word Embedding and Translation-based Language Modeling for Extractive Speech Summarization," the ACM Multimedia Conference (MM 2016), Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 15-19, 2016. (Short Paper)
  29. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu-Lun Hsieh, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, and Wen-Lian Hsu, "Exploring Word Mover’s Distance and Semantic-Aware Embedding Techniques for Extractive Broadcast News Summarization," the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2016), San Francisco, USA, September 8-12, 2016.
  30. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, and Hsin-Min Wang, "Improved Spoken Document Summarization with Coverage Modeling Techniques," the 41th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), Shanghai, China, March 20-25, 2016.
  31. Kuan-Yu Chen, Kai-Wun Shih, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, and Hsin-Min Wang, "Incorporating Paragraph Embeddings and Density Peaks Clustering for Spoken Document Summarization," the IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2015), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, December 13-17, 2015.
  32. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, and Hsin-Hsi Chen, "Leveraging Word Embeddings for Spoken Document Summarization," the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015), Dresden, Germany, September 6-10, 2015.
  33. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, and Wen-Lian Hsu, "Positional Language Modeling for Extractive Broadcast News Speech Summarization," the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015), Dresden, Germany, September 6-10, 2015.
  34. Shih-Hung Liu, Hung-Shih Lee, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, and Wen-Lian Hsu, "Incorporating Proximity Information in Relevance Language Modeling for Extractive Speech Summarization," the APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA 2015), Hong Kong, China, December 16-19, 2015.
  35. Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, and Hsin-Hsi Chen, "I-vector Based Language Modeling for Query Representation," the 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015), Brisbane, Australia, April 19-24, 2015.
  36. Ea-Ee Jan, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Tsuyoshi Ide, "Probabilistic Text Analytics Framework for Information Technology Service Desk Tickets," the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2015), Ottawa, Canada, May 11-15, 2015. (Short Paper)
  37. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, Ea-Ee Jan, Hsin-Min Wang, Wen-Lian Hsu, and Hsin-Hsi Chen, "Leveraging Effective Query Modeling Techniques for Speech Recognition and Summarization," the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2014), Doha, Qatar, October 25–29, 2014. (Short Paper)
  38. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Wen-Lian Hsu and Hsin-Hsi Chen, "A Recurrent Neural Network Language Modeling Framework for Extractive Speech Summarization," the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2014), Chengdu, China, July 14-18, 2014. (Full Paper)
  39. Ea-Ee Jan, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Tsuyoshi Ide, "A Probabilistic Concept Annotation for IT Service Desk Tickets," the Seventh International Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR 2014), Shanghai, China, November 7, 2014.
  40. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, Ea-Ee Jan, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, and Wen-Lian Hsu, "A Margin-Based Discriminative Modeling Approach for Extractive Speech Summarization," the APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA 2014), Angkor Wat, Cambodia, December 9-12, 2014.
  41. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu-lun Hsieh, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen and Wen-Lian Hsu, "Enhanced Language Modeling for Extractive Speech Summarization with Sentence Relatedness Information," the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2014), Max Atria, Singapore, Sep 14-18, 2014.
  42. Kuan-Yu Chen, Hung-Shin Lee, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, and Hsin-Hsi Chen, "I-vector Based Language Modeling for Spoken Document Retrieval," the 39th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, May 4-9, 2014.
  43. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu-Lun Hsieh, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, and Wen-Lian Hsu, "Effective Pseudo-relevance Feedback for Language Modeling in Extractive Speech Summarization," the 39th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, May 4-9, 2014.
  44. Berlin Chen, Yi-Wen Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Ea-Ee Jan, "Effective Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Language Modeling in Speech Recognition," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2013), Olomouc, Czech Republic, December 8-12, 2013.
  45. Kuan-Yu Chen, Hung-Shin Lee, Chung-Han Lee, Hsin-Min Wang and Hsin-Hsi Chen, "A Study of Language Modeling for Chinese Spelling Check," the 7th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN-7), Nagoya, Japan, Oct 14, 2013.
  46. How Jing, Yu Tsao, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Hsin-Min Wang, "Semantic Naïve Bayes Classifier for Document Classification," the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2013), Nagoya, Japan, Oct 14-18, 2013.
  47. Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, and Hsin-Hsi Chen, "Weighted Matrix Factorization for Spoken Document Retrieval," the 38th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2013), Vancouver, Canada, May 26-31, 2013.
  48. Yi-Wen Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, and Berlin Chen, "Effective Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Spoken Document Retrieval," the 38th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2013), Vancouver, Canada, May 26-31, 2013.
  49. Yi-Wen Chen, Bo-Han Hao, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Berlin Chen, "Incorporating Proximity Information for Relevance Language Modeling in Speech Recognition," the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2013), Lyon, France, August 25-29, 2013.
  50. Berlin Chen, Hao-Chin Chang, and Kuan-Yu Chen, "Sentence Modeling for Extractive Speech Summarization," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2013), San Jose, California, USA, July 15-19, 2013. (Full Paper)
  51. Kuan-Yu Chen, Hao-Chin Chang, Berlin Chen, and Hsin-Min Wang, "Word Relevance Modeling for Speech Recognition," the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2012), Portland, Oregon, USA, September 9-13, 2012.
  52. Berlin Chen, Pei-Ning Chen, and Kuan-Yu Chen, "Query Modeling for Spoken Document Retrieval," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2011), Hawaii, USA, December 11-15, 2011.
  53. Pei-Ning Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Berlin Chen, "Leveraging Relevance Cues for Improved Spoken Document Retrieval," the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2011), Florence, Italy, August 28-31, 2011.
  54. Kuan-Yu Chen, and Berlin Chen, "Relevance Language Modeling for Speech Recognition," the 36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2011), Prague, Czech, May 22-27, 2011.
  55. Kuan-Yu Chen, and Berlin Chen, "A Study of Topic Modeling Techniques for Spoken Document Retrieval," APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA 2010), Biopolis, Singapore, December 14-17, 2010.
  56. Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsuan-Sheng Chiu, and Berlin Chen, "Latent Topic Modeling of Word Vicinity Information for Speech Recognition," the 35th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010), Dallas, Texas, USA, March 14-19, 2010.
  57. Hsuan-Sheng Chiu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Chun-Jen Lee, and Berlin Chen, "Position Information for Language Modeling in Speech Recognition," the 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2008), Kunming, China, December 16-19, 2008.


Local Conferences

  1. Hung-Yun Chiang and Kuan-Yu Chen, "A BERT-based Siamese-structured Retrieval Model," ROCLING 2021: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021), 2021. (in Chinese)
  2. Cheng-Chung Fan, Chia-Chih Kuo, Shang-Bao Luo, Pei-Jun Liao, Kuang-Yu Chang, Chiao-Wei Hsu, Meng-Tse Wu, Shih-Hong Tsai, Tzu-Man Wu, Aleksandra Smolka, Chao-Chun Liang, Hsin-Min Wang, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu Tsao, Keh-Yih Su, "A Flexible and Extensible Framework for Multiple Answer Modes Question Answering," ROCLING 2021: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021), 2021. (in Chinese)
  3. Yi-Wei Wang, Wei-Zhe Chang, Bo- Han Fang, Yi-Chia Chen, Wei-Kai Huang, and Kuan-Yu Chen, "ntustnlp- 1 at ROCLING-2021 Shared Task: Educational Texts Dimensional Sentiment Analysis using Pretrained Language Models," ROCLING 2021: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021), 2021. (in Chinese)
  4. Ke-Han Lu and Kuan-Yu Chen, "ntust-nlp-2 at ROCLING-2021 Shared Task: BERT-based semantic analyzer with word-level information," ROCLING 2021: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021), 2021. (in Chinese)
  5. Shang-Bao Luo and Kuan-Yu Chen, "A Feature-granularity Training Strategy for Chinese Spoken Question Answering," ROCLING 2019: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2019), 2019. (in Chinese) (Best Paper Award in speech track)
  6. Zhen-Yu Wu and Kuan-Yu Chen, "EBSUM: An Enhanced BERT-based Extractive Summarization Framework," ROCLING 2019: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2019), 2019. (in Chinese) (Best Paper Award in NLP track)
  7. Chin-Yueh Chien and Kuan-Yu Chen, "Novel Sequence Generation Framework for Chinese Abstractive Summarization," ROCLING 2019: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2019), 2019. (in Chinese)
  8. Chia-Chih Kuo and Kuan-Yu Chen, "GALs: A GAN-based Listwise Summarizer," ROCLING 2019: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2019), 2019. (in Chinese)
  9. Shang-Bao Luo, Ching-Hsien Lee, and Kuan-Yu Chen, "An OOV Word Embedding Framework for Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension," ROCLING 2018: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2018), 2018. (in Chinese)
  10. Tien-Hong Lo, Ying-Wen Chen, Berlin Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Hsin-Min Wang, "On the use of neural network modeling techniques for spoken document retrieval," ROCLING 2017: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2017), 2017. (in Chinese)
  11. Ming-Han Yang, Yao-Chi Hsu, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Ying-Wen Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, "Leveraging multi-task learning with neural network based acoustic modeling for improved meeting speech recognition," ROCLING XXVIII: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2016), 2016. (in Chinese) (Best Paper Award)
  12. Yao-Chi Hsu, Ming-Han Yang, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Yi-Ju Lin, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, "Evaluation metric-related optimization methods for Mandarin mispronunciation detection," ROCLING XXVIII: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2016), 2016. (in Chinese)
  13. Yu-Lun Hsieh, Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Wen-Lian Hsu, Berlin Chen, "Exploiting sequence-to-sequence generation framework for automatic abstractive summarization," ROCLING XXVIII: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2016), 2016. (in Chinese)
  14. Yi-Nian Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hou-Chiang Tseng, Berlin Chen, "A Study of Readability Prediction on Elementary and Secondary Chinese Textbooks and Excellent Extracurricular Reading Materials," ROCLING XXVII: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2015), 2015. (in Chinese)
  15. Ting-Hao Chang, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, "Several Refinements of Modulation Spectrum Factorization for Robust Speech Recognition," ROCLING XXVII: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2015), 2015. (in Chinese)
  16. Ssu-Cheng Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Berlin Chen, "Exploring Word Embedding and Concept Information for Language Model Adaptation in Mandarin Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition," ROCLING XXVII: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2015), 2015. (in Chinese)
  17. Kai-Wun Shih, Berlin Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Hsin-Min Wang, "A Study on Representation Learning Techniques for Extractive Spoken Document Summarization," ROCLING XXVII: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2015), 2015. (in Chinese)
  18. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu-Lun Hsieh, Hsin-Min Wang, Wen-Lian Hsu, and Berlin Chen, "Investigating Novel Sentence Modeling Techniques for Extractive Speech Summarization," ROCLING XXVI: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2014), 2014. (in Chinese)
  19. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Wen-Lian Hsu, and Berlin Chen, "Improved Sentence Modeling Techniques for Extractive Speech Summarization," ROCLING XXV: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2013), 2013. (in Chinese) (Best Paper Award)
  20. Bo-Han Hao, Yi-Wen Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Berlin Chen, "An Empirical Study of Exploring Proximity Information for Improved Language Modeling," 2013 National Computer Symposium (NCS 2013), 2013. (in Chinese)
  21. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Wen-Lian Hsu, and Berlin Chen, "An Empirical Study of Extractive Speech Summarization Techniques," 2013 National Computer Symposium (NCS 2013), 2013. (in Chinese)
  22. Yi-Wen Chen, Jun-Yu Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Berlin Chen, "Empirical Comparisons of Various Pseudo-relevant Document Selection Methods for Improved Spoken Document Retrieval," the 17th Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI 2012), 2012. (in Chinese)
  23. Bang-Xuan Huang, Hank Hao, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Berlin Chen, "Recurrent Neural Network-based Language Modeling with Relevance Information," ROCLING XXIV: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2012), 2012. (in Chinese) (Best Paper Award)
  24. Berlin Chen, Min-Hsuan Lai, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Bang-Xuan Huang, "A Survey on Discriminative Language Modeling for Speech Recognition," ACLCLP Newsletter, Vol. 22, 2011. (in Chinese)
  25. Min-Hsuan Lai, Bang-Xuan Huang, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Berlin Chen, "Empirical Comparisons of Various Discriminative Language Models for Speech Recognition," ROCLING XXIII: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2011), 2011. (in Chinese) (Best Paper Award)
  26. Kuan-Yu Chen, Min-Hsuan Lai, and Berlin Chen, "A Study on Using Word Vicinity Information for Speech Recognition," the 15th Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI 2010), 2010. (in Chinese)
  27. Feng-Ping Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Chia-Wen Liu, Yu-Mei Chang, and Berlin Chen, "On the Use of Discriminative Language Modeling Adaptation for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition," the 14th Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI 2009), 2009. (in Chinese)
  28. Kuan-Yu Chen, and Berlin Chen, "On the Use of Topic Models for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition," ROCLING XXI: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2009), 2009. (in Chinese)
  29. Ting-Wei Hsu, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Berlin Chen, "An Initial Study on English Continuous Speech Recognition," the 12th Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI 2007), 2007. (in Chinese)

Others

Education

2011.9 - 2015.4: Ph.D., with advisors Prof. Hsin-Hsi Chen and Prof. Hsin-Min Wang, CSIE, NTU.
Thesis: "Statistical Language Modeling - Spoken Document Indexing, Retrieval and Summarization"
2007.9 - 2010.7: Master, with advisor Prof. Berlin Chen, CSIE, NTNU.
Thesis: "Improved Topic Modeling Techniques for Speech Recognition"
2003.9 - 2007.7: Bachelor, CSIE, NTNU.


Job Experiences

2022.8 ~ Present: Associate Professor, CSIE, NTUST, Taiwan.
2017.8 - 2022.7: Assistant Professor, CSIE, NTUST, Taiwan.
2015.5 - 2017.7: Postdoctoral Fellow, with advisor Prof. Hsin-Min Wang, IIS, SINICA, Taiwan.
2014.6 - 2014.9: Research Intern, IBM T.J. Watson, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA.
2009.4 - 2015.4: Research Assistant, with advisor Prof. Hsin-Min Wang, IIS, SINICA, Taiwan.


Awards

  1. Young Scholars Research Grant, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (臺灣科技大學 年輕學者研究獎助), 2022.
  2. Excellence in Teaching Award, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (臺灣科技大學 教學優良獎), 2020.
  3. Young Scholar Fellowship Program, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, 2018.
  4. Postdoctoral Academic Publication Award, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, 2016.
  5. Bronze Medal of Merry Electroacoustic Thesis Award, Merry Electronics Co., Ltd., Taiwan, 2015.
  6. IEEE SPS Travel Grant, The 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brisbane, Australia, 2015.
  7. IEEE Spoken Language Processing Student Grant, The 39th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, 2014.


Professional Activities

Hosted Activities

Program Committee
  • IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2017~2023
  • The Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), 2016~2023
  • The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2018~2023
  • IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 2017~2023
  • ACL Rolling Review, ~2023

Journal Reviewer
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2017~2022
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2016~2023
  • ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, 2019~2022
  • Knowledge and Information Systems, 2015~2022
  • Computer Speech & Language, 2017~2022
  • Journal of Information Science and Engineering, 2013~2022

Teaching

2024 Spring

CS2008302, Probability and Statistics

2023 Fall

CS2002302 & EC2002302: Data Structures

2023 Spring

CS2008302, Probability and Statistics

2022 Fall

CS2002301 & CS2002302 & EC2002301 & EC2002302 & AT3407301, Data Structures
CS5143701, Information Retrieval and Applications
CS5901302, Seminar

2022 Spring

CS2008301, Probability and Statistics

2021 Fall

CS2002301 & EC2002301, Data Structures
CS5143701, Information Retrieval and Applications
CS5901301, Seminar

2021 Spring

CS2008301, Probability and Statistics

2020 Fall

CS2002301 & EC2002302, Data Structures
CS5143701, Information Retrieval and Applications

2020 Spring

CS2008301, Probability and Statistics

2019 Fall

CS2002302 & EC2002302, Data Structures
CS5143701, Information Retrieval and Applications

2019 Spring

CS3001302, Algorithms

2018 Fall

CS2002302, Data Structures
CS5143701, Information Retrieval and Applications

2018 Spring

CS2008301, Probability and Statistics
CS3048701, Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

2017 Fall

CS5143701, Information Retrieval and Applications