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Dr. Alvin F. Martin

Position: Mathematician
Speech Group (894.01), of the
Information Access Division, (894), of the
Information Technology Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
U.S. Department of Commerce

Education
B.S. University of Chicago
M.S. Yale University
Ph.D. Yale University

Research Interests
Automatic speech recognition
Automatic speaker recognition
Automatic language and dialect recognition
Spoken language system testing and assessment

Projects
Actively involved in the planning, implementation, and assessment of
standardized evaluations of systems for large vocabulary speech
recognition, speaker recognition, and language and dialect recognition,
including collection and selection of development and test data,
charts and metrics for scoring and presentation of results, and
statistical tests for significance of performance differences

Recent Publications

A. Martin et al., "The DET Curve in Assessment of Detection Task Performance", Proc. Eurospeech '97, v. 4, pp. 1895-1898

M. Przybocki and A. Martin, "NIST speaker recognition evaluation - 1997", Proc. RLA2C, Avignon, 20-23 April 1998, pp. 120-123.

M. Przybocki and A. Martin, "NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluations", Proc. LREC, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998, vol. 1, pp. 331-335.

D. Reynolds et al., "NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation: Overview, Methodology, Systems, Results, Perspective", Speech Communication, to appear

D. Pallett et al., "1995 HUB-3 NIST Multiple Microphone Corpus Benchmark Tests", Proc. DARPA Speech Recognition Workshop, Feb. '96, pp. 27-46

D. Pallett et al., "1997 Broadcast New Benchmark Test Results: English and Non-English", Proc. DARPA Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop, Feb. '98, pp. 5-11

D. Pallett et al., "1998 Broadcast New Benchmark Test Results: English and Non-English Word Error Rate Performance Measures", Proc. DARPA Broadcast New Workshop, Feb.-Mar. '99

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