Jiahong Yuan
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania
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- Address:
- Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104-6305
USA- Office:
- 609 Williams Hall
- Phone number:
- (215) 746-3136
- E-mail address:
- jiahong at ling dot upenn dot edu
[curriculum vitae] [dissertation] ![]()
Research Interests:
- Phonetics, speech prosody, speech perception
- Computational modeling
- Speech synthesis and recognition
Courses:
Fall 05:
Phonetics I (co-teaching with Mark Liberman)
Spring 06:
Phonetics II (co-teaching with Mark Liberman)
Topics in Prosody
Publications:
Yuan, J.; Jurafsky D., Detection of Questions in Chinese Conversational Speech
To appear, Proceedings of ASRU 2005, Cancun, Mexico.
Yuan, J.; Brenier, J.; Jurafsky, D., Pitch Accent Prediction: Effects of Genre and Speaker
Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, Losbon, Portugal.
Yuan, J., "Perception of Mandarin Intonation,"
Proceedings of ISCSLP 2004, Hong Kong.
Yuan, J.; Shih, C., Confusability of Chinese Intonation
Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan, pp. 131-134.
Yuan, J., Selective Adaptation Tests on Mandarin Tone2 and Tone3
Proceedings of ICPhS 2003, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1719-1722.
Yuan, J.; Shen, L.; Chen, F., The Acoustic Realization of Anger, Fear, Joy and Sadness in Chinese
Proceedings of ICSLP 2002, Denver, Colorado, pp. 2025-2028.
Yuan, J.; Shih, C; Kochanski, G. P., Comparison of Declarative and Interrogative Intonation in Chinese
Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2002, Aix-en-Provence, France, pp. 711-714.
Shih, C; Kochanski, G. P; Fosler-Lussier, E.; Chan, M.; Yuan, J., "Implications of prosody modeling for prosody recognition"
Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding, Red Bank, NJ, pp. 133-138.