Prof. Berlin Chen's Research Articles

   Journal Papers 

1. Sheng-Hsuan Hung, Zong-Rong Ye, Chi-Feng Cheng, An-Cheng Yang*, Berlin Chen*, Ming-Kang Tsai*, "Feature-driven prediction of HOMO–LUMO gaps in transition-metal complexes using the SLEET model: A SMILES-based transformer framework," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, June 2025. 

2. Bi-Cheng Yan, Berlin Chen, "An effective hierarchical graph attention network modeling approach for pronunciation assessment," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 32, pp. 3974-3985, 2024.

3. Sheng-Hsuan Hung, Zong-Rong Ye, Chi-Feng Cheng, Berlin Chen*, Ming-Kang Tsai*, "Enhanced predictions for the experimental photophysical data using the featurized SchNet-Bondstep approach," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Vol. 19, No. 14, pp. 4559–4567, May 2023.  (Cover Highlight)

4. Zong-Rong Ye, Sheng-Hsuan Hung, Berlin Chen, Ming-Kang Tsai, "Assessment of predicting frontier orbital energies for small organic molecules using knowledge-based and structural information," ACS Engineering Au, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 360–368, 2022. (Cover Highlight)

5. Fu-An Chao, Jeih-weih Hung, Tommy Sheu,  Berlin Chen*, "A time-reversal enhancement network with cross-domain information for noise-robust speech recognition," IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 114-124, January-March 2022. 

6. Fu-An Chao, Tien-Hong Lo, Shi-Yan Weng, Shih-Hsuan Chiu, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, "The NTNU Taiwanese ASR System for Formosa Speech Recognition Challenge 2020,"  International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing. Vol.  26,  No.  1,  pp.  1-16, June  2021.

7. Yu-Te Wu, Berlin Chen, Li Su, "Multi-instrument automatic music transcription with self-attention-based instance segmentation," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 28, pp. 2796-2809, October 2020.

8. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, 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: 1-19, February 2020.

9. Tzu-En Liu, Shih-Hung Liu, Kuo-Wei Chang, and Berlin Chen, "Spoken document summarization using end-to-end modeling techniques," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 25, No. 1, June 2020. (in Chinese).

10. Hsiu-Jui Chang, Wei-Cheng Chao,  Tien-Hong Lo, Berlin Chen, "An investigation of hybrid CTC-attention modeling in Mandarin speech recognition," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 39-50, June 2019. (In Chinese) 

11. Hou-Chiang Tseng, Berlin Chen, Tao-Hsing Chang, Yao-Ting Sung, “Integrating LSA-based hierarchical conceptual space and machine learning methods for leveling the readability of domain specific texts," Natural Language Engineering, Vol 25, No. 3, pp. 331-361, May 2019.

12. Tien-Hong Lo and Berlin Chen, "Leveraging discriminative training and model combination for semi-supervised speech recognition," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 19-34, December 2018. (in Chinese) 

13. Wei-Cheng Chao, Hsiu-Jui Chang, Tien-Hong Lo, Berlin Chen, "Leveraging discriminative training and improved neural network architecture and optimization method," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 35-46, December 2018. (in Chinese) 

14. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, 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.

15. 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. (in Chinese)

16. Hou-Chiang Tseng, Berlin Chen and Yao-Ting Sung, "Exploring the use of neural network based features for text readability classification," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 31-46, December 2017. (in Chinese)

17. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu-Lun Hsieh, Berlin Chen*, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, 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, Article 27:1-13, August 2017.

18. 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. (in Chinese).

19. Yao-Chi Hsu, Ming-Han Yang, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Yi-Ju Lin, Kuan-Yu Chen and Berlin Chen, "Evaluation metric-related optimization methods for Mandarin mispronunciation detection," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 55-70, December 2016. (in Chinese)

20. Bi-Cheng Yan, Chin-Hong Shih, Shih-Hung Liu and Berlin Chen, "The use of dictionary learning approach for robustness speech recognition," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 35-54, December 2016. (in Chinese)

21. Ming-Han Yang, Yao-Chi Hsu, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Ying-Wen Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, and Berlin Chen, "Leveraging multi-task learning with neural network based acoustic modeling for improved meeting speech recognition," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 85-104, December 2016. (in Chinese)

22. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen*, Hsin-Min Wang, 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.

23. Hsien-sheng Hsiao, Cheng-Sian Chang, Chiou-Yan Lin, Berlin Chen, Chia-Hou Wu, “The development and evaluation of listening and speaking diagnosis and remedial teaching system,” British Journal of Educational Technology, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 372-389, March 2016.

24. Jeih-weih Hung, Hsin-Ju Hsieh, Berlin Chen, "Robust speech recognition via enhancing the complex-valued acoustic spectrum in modulation domain," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 236-251, February 2016.

25. 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. (in Chinese)

26. 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. (in Chinese)

27. Hsin-Ju Hsieh, Berlin Chen*, Jeih-weih Hung, “Histogram equalization of contextual statistics of speech features for robust speech recognition," Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 74, No. 17, pp. 6769-6795, September 2015.

28. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen*, Hsin-Min Wang, Ea-Ee Jan, Wen-Lian Hsu, 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.

29. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen*, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, 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.

30. Po-Han Hao, Ssu-Cheng Chen*, Berlin Chen*, "Exploring concept information for Mandarin large vocabulary continuous speech recognition," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 47-60, December 2014. (in Chinese)

31. Hsuan-Sheng Chiu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen*, “Leveraging topical and positional cues for language modeling in speech recognition,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 72, No. 2, pp. 1465-1481, September 2014. 

32. Berlin Chen*, Yi-Wen Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Kuen-Tyng Yu, “Enhancing query formulation for spoken document retrieval,” 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. 

33. Berlin Chen*, Kuan-Yu Chen, “Leveraging relevance cues for language modeling in speech recognition,” Information Processing & Management, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 807-816, 2013. 

34.  Berlin Chen*, Shih-Hsiang Lin, Yu-Mei Chang, Jia-Wen Liu, “Extractive speech summarization using evaluation metric-related training criteria,” Information Processing & Management, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 1-12, 2013.

35. Berlin Chen*, Kuan-Yu Chen, Pei-Ning Chen, 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, 2012. 

36. Berlin Chen*, Shih-Hsiang Lin, “A risk-aware modeling framework for speech summarization,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 199-210, 2012. 

37. Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-min Wang, Berlin Chen*, “Spoken document retrieval leveraging unsupervised and supervised topic modeling techniques,” IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E95-D, No.5, pp. 1195-1205, May 2012. 

38. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Berlin Chen, “A comparative study of methods for topic modeling in spoken document retrieval,” International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 65-86, March 2012.

39. Hsin-Ju Hsieh, Jeih-weih Hung, Berlin Chen, "Speech recognition Leveraging histogram equalization methods," International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing. Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 69-84, November 2012. (in Chinese)

40. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Yao-Ming Yeh, Berlin Chen*, “Leveraging Kullback-Leibler divergence measures and information-rich cues for speech summarization,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp.871-882, May 2011.

41. Berlin Chen*, Wei-Hau Chen, Shih-Hsiang Lin, Wen-Yi Chu, “Robust speech recognition using spatial-temporal feature distribution characteristics,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 32, No. 7, pp. 919-926, 1 May 2011. 

42. Berlin Chen*, Shih-Hung Liu, Fang-Hui Chu, “Training data selection for improving discriminative training of acoustic models,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 30, No. 13, pp. 1228-1235, October 2009. 

43. Berlin Chen*, “Word topic models for spoken document retrieval and transcription,” ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, Vol. 8, No.1, pp. 2:1-2:27, March 2009. 

44. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Berlin Chen*, Hsin-Min Wang, “A comparative study of probabilistic ranking models for Chinese spoken document summarization,” ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, Vol. 8, No.1, pp. 3:1-3:23, March 2009.

45. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Berlin Chen*, Yao-Ming Yeh, “Exploring the use of speech features and their corresponding distribution characteristics for robust speech recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 17. No.1, pp. 84-94, January 2009. 

46. Yi-Ting Chen, Berlin Chen*, Hsin-Min Wang, “A probabilistic generative framework for extractive broadcast news speech summarization,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 17, No.1, pp. 95-106, 2009. 

47. Shih-Hung Liu, Fang-Hui Chu, Yueng-Tien Lo, Berlin Chen, “Improved minimum phone error based discriminative training of acoustic models for mandarin large vocabulary continuous speech recognition,” International Journal of Computational Linguistics & Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 13. No. 3, pp. 327-342, September 2008. 

48. Berlin Chen*, Yi-Ting Chen, “Extractive spoken document summarization for information retrieval,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 426-437, 1 March 2008. 

49. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Yao-Ming Yeh, Berlin Chen, “A comparative study of histogram equalization (HEQ) for robust speech recognition,” International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 217-238, June 2007.

50. Jen-Wei Kuo, Shih-Hung Liu, Hsin-Min Wang, and Berlin Chen, “An empirical study of word error minimization approaches for mandarin large vocabulary speech recognition,” International Journal of Computational Linguistics & Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 201-222, September 2006.

51. Berlin Chen*, “Voice retrieval of mandarin broadcast news speech,” International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 91-109, February 2006. 

52. Berlin Chen*, “Exploring the use of latent topical information for statistical Chinese spoken document retrieval,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 9-18, January 2006. 

53. Y.T. Yen, B. Chen, H.W. Chiu, Y.C. Lee, Y.C. Li, C.Y. Hsu, “developing a NLP and IR-based algorithm for analyzing gene-disease relationship,” Methods of Information in Medicine, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 321-329, 2006. 

54. Lin-shan Lee and Berlin Chen, “Spoken document understanding and organization,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 42-60, September 2005. (Special Issue on Speech Technology and Systems in Human-Machine Communication) 

55. Hsin-min Wang, Berlin Chen, Jen-Wei Kuo and Shih-Sian Cheng, “MATBN: A Mandarin Chinese broadcast news corpus,” International Journal of Computational Linguistics & Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 219-236, June 2005. 

56. Berlin Chen*, Jen-Wei Kuo, Wen-Hung Tsai, “Lightly supervised and data-driven approaches to mandarin broadcast news transcription,” International Journal of Computational Linguistics & Chinese Language Processing, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-18, March 2005. 

57. Berlin Chen*, Hsin-min Wang, Lin-shan Lee, “A discriminative HMM/N-gram-based retrieval approach for Mandarin spoken documents,” ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, Special issue on Statistical Language Modeling, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 128-145, June 2004. (Special Issue on Statistical Language Modeling) 

58. Helen Meng, Berlin Chen, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Gina-Anne Levow, Wai-kit Lo, Douglas Oard, Patrick Schone, Karen Tang, Hsin-min Wang, and Jianqiang Wang, “Mandarin–English Information (MEI): Investigating translingual speech retrieval,” Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 163-179, April 2004. 

59. Berlin Chen, Hsin-min Wang, Lin-shan Lee, “Discriminating capabilities of syllable-based features and approaches of utilizing them for voice retrieval of speech information in Mandarin Chinese”, IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 303-314, July 2002. 

60. Bor-shen Lin, Berlin Chen, Hsin-min Wang, Lin-shan Lee, “A hierarchical tag-graph search scheme with layered grammar rules for spontaneous speech understanding,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 23, No. 7, pp. 819-831, May 2002. 

61. Hsin-min Wang, Berlin Chen, “Content-based language models for spoken document retrieval”, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, 14(2), pp. 193-209, June 2001.

62. Bo-ren Bai, Berlin Chen, Hsin-min Wang, “Syllable-based Chinese text/spoken document retrieval using text/speech queries”, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 14(5), pp. 603-616, Aug. 2000. 

63. Hsin-min Wang, Yu-hsueh Chou, Berlin Chen, “Browsing the Chinese Web pages using Mandarin speech”, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, 13(1), pp. 35-51, March 2000.

   Books

1. Xiaofei Lu, Berlin Chen (Eds.), Computational and Corpus Approaches to Chinese Language Learning (ISBN: 978-981-13-3570-9), Singapore: Springer, April 2019.

   Book Chapters

1. Xiaofei Lu, Berlin Chen, "Computational and corpus approaches to Chinese language learning: An introduction," Chapter 1 of the book "Computational and Corpus Approaches to Chinese Language Learning (ISBN: 978-981-13-3570-9)," pp. 3-11, Singapore: Springer, April 2019.

2. Berlin Chen*, Yao-Chi Hsu, "Mandarin Chinese mispronunciation detection and diagnosis leveraging deep neural network based acoustic modeling and training techniques," Chapter 11 of the book "Computational and Corpus Approaches to Chinese Language Learning (ISBN: 978-981-13-3570-9)," pp. 217-234, Singapore: Springer, April 2019. 

3. Berlin Chen*, Shih-Hsiang Lin, “Distribution-based feature compensation for robust speech recognition,” Chapter 10 of the book "Recent Advances in Robust Speech Recognition Technology," pp. 155-168, edited by Javier Ramez, J.M. Griz, JosC. Segura, Bentham Science Publishers, 2011.

4. Berlin Chen*, Hsin-min Wang, Lin-shan Lee, “Spoken document retrieval and summarization,” Chapter 13 of the book “Advances in Chinese Spoken Language Processing,” edited by C.-H. Lee, H. Li, L.-S. Lee, R.-H. Wang and Q. Huo, World Scientific Publisher, December 2006.

   Refereed International Conference Papers

1. Chien-Chun Wang, En-Lun Yu, Jeih-Weih Hung, Shih-Chieh Huang, Berlin Chen, "SincQDR-VAD: A noise-robust voice activity detection framework leveraging learnable filters and ranking-aware optimization," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2025), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 6-10, 2025.

2. Kuan-Tang Huang, Li-Wei Chen, Hung-Shin Lee, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, "Revealing the role of audio channels in ASR performance degradation," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2025), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 6-10, 2025.

3. Yu-Chun Liu, Li-Ting Pai, Yi-Cheng Wang, Bi-Cheng Yan, Hsin-Wei Wang, Chi-Han Lin, Juan-Wei Xu, Berlin Chen, "PRIME: Novel prompting strategies for effective biasing word recognition in contextualized ASR," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2025), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 6-10, 2025.

4. Tien-Hong Lo, Szu-Yu Chen, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, "An effective strategy for modeling score ordinality and non-uniform intervals in automated speaking assessment," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2025), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 6-10, 2025.

5. Yu-Hsuan Fang, Tien-Hong Lo, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, "Beyond Modality Limitations: A unified MLLM approach to automated speaking assessment with effective curriculum learning," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2025), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 6-10, 2025.

6. Chien-Chun Wang, Kuan-Tang Huang, Cheng-Yeh Yang , Hung-Shin Lee, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen "QAMRO: Quality-aware adaptive margin ranking optimization for human-aligned assessment of audio generation systems," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2025), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 6-10, 2025. (Challenge Track)

7. Jiun-Ting Li, Bi-Cheng Yan, Yi-Cheng Wang, Berlin Chen, "Multi-task pretraining for enhancing interpretable L2 pronunciation assessment," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2025), October 22–24, 2025, Singapore.

8. Cheng-Yeh Yang, Kuan-Tang Huang, Chien-Chun Wang, Hung-Shin Lee, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, "DRASP: A dual-resolution attentive statistics pooling framework for automatic MOS prediction," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2025), October 22–24, 2025, Singapore.

9. Fong-Chun Tsai, Kuan-Tang Huang, Bi-Cheng Yan, Tien-Hong Lo, Berlin Chen, "Mitigating data imbalance in automated speaking assessment," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2025), October 22–24, 2025, Singapore.

10. Yun-Ting Sun, Lo-Ya Li, Tien-Hong Lo, Jeih-Weih Hung, Shih-Chieh Huang, Berlin Chen, "Lightweight zero-shot keyword spotting via multi-granular knowledge distillation," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2025), October 22–24, 2025, Singapore.

11. Jhih-Rong Guo, Kuan-Tang Huang, An-Ci Peng, Berlin Chen, " The NTNU system at the S&I Challenge 2025 ASR Open Track," the 10th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2025; Satellite Workshop of Interspeech 2025), Nijmegen, Netherlands, August 22-24, 2025.  (Oral) 

12. Hong-Yun Lin, Tien Hong Lo, Yu Hsuan Fang, Jhen-Ke Lin, Chung-Chun Wang, Hao-Chien Lu, Berlin Chen, " The NTNU system at the S&I Challenge 2025 SLA Open Track," the 10th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2025; Satellite Workshop of Interspeech 2025), Nijmegen, Netherlands, August 22-24, 2025.

13. Tzu-Hsuan Yang, Yue-Yang He, Berlin Chen, " JCAPT: A Joint modeling approach for CAPT," the 10th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2025; Satellite Workshop of Interspeech 2025), Nijmegen, Netherlands, August 22-24, 2025.  (Oral) 

14. Jhen-Ke Lin, Hao-Chien Lu, Chung-Chun Wang, Hong-Yun Lin, Berlin Chen, " Acoustically precise hesitation tagging is essential for end-to-end verbatim transcription systems," the 10th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2025; Satellite Workshop of Interspeech 2025), Nijmegen, Netherlands, August 22-24, 2025.

15. Chung-Chun Wang, Jhen-Ke Lin, Hao-Chien Lu, Hong-Yun Lin, Berlin Chen, "A novel data augmentation approach for automatic speaking assessment on opinion expressions," the 10th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2025; Satellite Workshop of Interspeech 2025), Nijmegen, Netherlands, August 22-24, 2025.

16. Hao-Chien Lu, Jhen-Ke Lin, Hong-Yun Lin, Chung-Chun Wang, Berlin Chen, "Advancing automated speaking assessment leveraging multifaceted relevance and grammar information," the 10th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2025; Satellite Workshop of Interspeech 2025), Nijmegen, Netherlands, August 22-24, 2025.

17. Tien-Hong Lo, Meng-Ting Tsai, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, "Zero-shot text-to-speech as golden speech generator: A systematic framework and its applicability in automatic pronunciation assessment," the 10th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2025; Satellite Workshop of Interspeech 2025), Nijmegen, Netherlands, August 22-24, 2025.  (Oral) 

18. En-Lun Yu, Chien-Chun Wang, Jeih-Weih Hung, Shih-Chieh Huang, Berlin Chen, "Flexible VAD-PVAD transition: A detachable PVAD module for dynamic encoder RNN VAD," the 26st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2025), Rotterdam, The Netherlands,  August 17-21, 2025.

19. Hsuan-Yu Wang, Pei-Ying Lee, Berlin Chen, "Investigating manifold learning technique for robust speech recognition," the International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 2025), Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, August 4-6, 2025. 

20. Fu-An Chao, Berlin Chen, "Towards efficient and multifaceted computer-assisted pronunciation training leveraging hierarchical selective state space model and decoupled cross-entropy loss,"  2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025), Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 29–May 4, 2025.  (Long Paper; Oral)

21. Bi-Cheng Yan, Yi-Cheng Wang, Jiun-Ting Li, Meng-Shin Lin, Hsin-Wei Wang, Wei-Cheng Chao, Berlin Chen, "CONPCO: Preserving phoneme characteristics for automatic pronunciation assessment leveraging contrastive ordinal regularization," the 50th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025), Hyderabad, India, April 6-11, 2025.

22. Chien-Chun Wang, Li-Wei Chen, Cheng-Kang Chou, Hung-Shin Lee, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, "Channel-aware domain-adaptive generative adversarial network for robust speech recognition," the 50th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025), Hyderabad, India, April 6-11, 2025.

23. Kuan-Hsun Ho , En-Lun Yu, Jeih-weih Hung , Shih-Chieh Huang, Berlin Chen, "GLASS: Investigating global and local context awareness in speech separation," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2024), Macao, China, December 3-6, 2024.

24. Yuan-Jhe Yin, Bo-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, "A novel LLM-based two-stage summarization approach for long dialogues," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2024), Macao, China, December 3-6, 2024.

25. Li-Ting Pai, Yi-Cheng Wang, Bi-Cheng Yan, Hsin-Wei Wang, Jia-Liang Lu, Chi-Han Lin, Juan-Wei Xu, Berlin Chen, "An effective contextualized automatic speech recognition approach leveraging self-supervised phoneme features," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2024), Macao, China, December 3-6, 2024.

26. Chung-Wen Wu, Berlin Chen, "Layer-wise feature distillation with unsupervised multi-aspect optimization for improved automatic speech assessment," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2024), Macao, China, December 3-6, 2024.

27. Lo-Ya Li, Tien-Hong Lo, Jeih-Weih Hung  Shih-Chieh Huang, Berlin Chen, "Few-shot open-set keyword spotting with multi-stage training," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2024), Macao, China, December 3-6, 2024.

28. En-Lun Yu, Ruei-Xian Chang, Jeih-Weih Hung, Shih-Chieh Huang, Berlin Chen, "COIN-AT-PVAD: A conditional intermediate attention PVAD," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2024), Macao, China, December 3-6, 2024.

29. Yue-Yang He, Bi-Cheng Yan, Tien-Hong Lo, Meng-Shin Lin, Yung-Chang Hsu, Berlin Chen, "JAM: A unified neural architecture for jJoint multi-granularity pronunciation assessment and phone-level mispronunciation detection and diagnosis towards a comprehensive CAPT system," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2024), Macao, China, December 3-6, 2024.

30. Jia-Liang Lu, Bi-Cheng Yan, Yi-Cheng Wang, Tien-Hong Lo, Hsin-Wei Wang, Li-Ting Pai, Berlin Chen, "EADSum: Element-aware distillation for enhancing low-resource abstractive summarization," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2024), Macao, China, December 3-6, 2024.

31. Meng-Shin Lin, Bi-Cheng Yan, Tien-Hong Lo, Hsin-Wei Wang, Yue-Yang He, Wei-Cheng Chao, Berlin Chen, "PG-MDD: Prompt-guided mispronunciation detection and diagnosis leveraging articulatory features," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2024), Macao, China, December 3-6, 2024.

32. Tzu-Ting Yang, Hsin-Wei Wang, Yi-Cheng Wang, Berlin Chen, "Enhancing code-switching ASR leveraging non-peaky CTC loss and deep language posterior injection,"  IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2024), Macao, China, December 2–5, 2024.

33. Yi-Cheng Wang, Li-Ting Pai, Bi-Cheng Yan, Hsin-Wei Wang, Chi-Han Lin, Berlin Chen, "An effective context-balanced adaptation approach for long-tailed speech recognition,"  IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2024), Macao, China, December 2–5, 2024.

34. Chien-Chun Wang, Li-Wei Chen, Hung-Shin Lee, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, "Effective noise-aware data simulation for domain-adaptive speech enhancement leveraging dynamic stochastic perturbation," IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2024), Macao, China, December 2–5, 2024.

35. Jiun-Ting Li, Bi-Cheng Yan, Tien-Hong Lo, Yi-Cheng Wang, Yung-Chang Hsu, Berlin Chen, "Automated speaking assessment of conversation tests with a novel graph-based modeling method on spoken response coherence," IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2024), Macao, China, December 2–5, 2024.

36. Wen-Hsuan Peng, Sally Chen, Berlin Chen, "Enhancing automatic speech assessment leveraging heterogeneous features and soft labels for ordinal classification," IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2024), Macao, China, December 2–5, 2024.

37.  Hao-Tian Zheng, Berlin Chen, "improving speech recognition by enhancing accent discrimination," the 27th International Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA (Oriental COCOSDA 2024), October 17-19, Hsinchu, Taiwan. 

38. Hao-Chien Lu, Chung-Chun Wang, Jhen-Ke Lin, Berlin Chen, "Development of an English oral assessment system with the GEPT dataset," the 27th International Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA (Oriental COCOSDA 2024), October 17-19, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

39. Yu-Chun Liu, Yi-Cheng Wang, Li-Ting Pai, Jia-Liang Lu, Berlin Chen, "Gated adapters with balanced activation for effective contextual scpeech recognition," the 27th International Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA (Oriental COCOSDA 2024), October 17-19, Hsinchu, Taiwan. 

40. Pei-Ying Lee, Hau-Yun Guo, Tien-Hong Lo , Berlin Chen, "Exploring Branchformer-based end-to-end speaker diarization with speaker-wise VAD Loss," the 27th International Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA (Oriental COCOSDA 2024), October 17-19, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

41. En-Lun Yu, Kuan-Hsun Ho, Jeih-weih Hung, Shih-Chieh Huang, Berlin Chen, "Speaker conditional Sinc-extractor for personal VAD," the 25st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2024), Kos Island, Greece, September 1-5, 2024.

42. Chung-Wen Wu, Berlin Chen, "Optimizing automatic speech assessment: W-RankSim regularization and hybrid feature fusion strategies," the 25st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2024), Kos Island, Greece, September 1-5, 2024. (Oral) 

43. Szu-Yu Chen, Tien-Hong Lo, Yao-Ting Sung, Ching-Yu Tseng, Berlin Chen, "TEEMI: A speaking practice tool for L2 English learners," the 25st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2024), Kos Island, Greece, September 1-5, 2024.  (Show & Tell)

44. Yu-Sheng Tsao, Yung-Chang Hsu, Jiun-Ting Li, Siang-Hong Weng, Tien-Hong Lo, Berlin Chen, "EZTalking: English assessment platform for teachers and students," the 25st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2024), Kos Island, Greece, September 1-5, 2024.  (Show & Tell)

45. Bi-Cheng Yan, Jiun-Ting Li, Yi-Cheng Wang, Hsin-Wei Wang, Tien-Hong Lo, Yung-Chang Hsu, Wei-Cheng Chao, Berlin Chen, "An effective pronunciation assessment approach leveraging hierarchical Transformers and pre-training strategies," the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024),  Bangkok, Thailand, August 11-16, 2024.  (Long Paper)

46. Tien-Hong Lo, Fu-An Chao, Tzu-I Wu, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, "An effective automated speaking assessment approach to mitigating data scarcity and imbalanced distribution," Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024 (NAACL 2024 Findings), Mexico City, Mexico June 16–21, 2024. (Long Paper)

47. Yi-Cheng Wang, Hsin-Wei Wang, Bi-Cheng Yan, Chi-Han Lin and Berlin Chen, "DANCER: Entity description augmented named entity corrector for automatic speech recognition," the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Torino, Italy, May 20-25, 2024. (Long Paper; Oral)

48. Tzu-Ting Yang, Hsin-Wei Wang, Yi-Cheng Wang, Chi-Han Lin, Berlin Chen, "An effective mixture-of-experts approach for code-switching speech recognition leveraging encoder disentanglement,"  the 49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024),  Seoul, Korea, April 14-19, 2024. 

49. Kuan-Hsun Ho, Jeih-weih Hung, Berlin Chen, "What do neural networks listen to? Exploring the crucial bands in speech enhancement using sinc-convolution,"  the 49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024),  Seoul, Korea, April 14-19, 2024. 

50. Bi-Cheng Yan, Hsin-Wei Wang, Yi-Cheng Wang, Jiun Ting Li, Chi-Han Lin, Berlin Chen, "Preserving phonemic distinctions for ordinal regression: A novel loss function for automatic pronunciation assessment," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2023), Taipei, Taiwan, December 16-20, 2023.

51. Yi-Cheng Wang, Tzu-Ting Yang, Hsin-Wei Wang, Bi-Cheng Yan, Berlin Chen, "AVATAR: Robust voice search engine leveraging autoregressive document retrieval and contrastive learning," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2023), Taipei, Taiwan, October 31-November 3, 2023. 

52. Kuan-Hsun Ho, En-Lun Yu, Jeih-weih Hung, Berlin Chen, "NAaLOSS: Rethinking the objective of speech enhancement," the 33rd IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2023), Rome, Italy, September 17-20, 2023. 

53. Fu-An Chao, Tien-Hong Lo, Tzu-I Wu, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, "A hierarchical context-aware modeling approach for multi-aspect, multi-granular pronunciation assessment," the 24st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2023), Dublin, Ireland, August 20-24, 2023.

54. Jiun Ting Li, Tien-Hong Lo, Bi-Cheng Yan, Yung-Chang Hsu, Berlin Chen, "Graph-enhanced transformer architecture with novel use of CEFR vocabulary profile and filled pauses in automated speaking assessment," the 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2023; Satellite Workshop of Interspeech 2023), Dublin, Ireland, August 18-19, 2023. 

55. Tzu-I Wu, Tien-Hong Lo, Fu-An Chao, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, "Effective neural modeling leveraging readability features for automated essay scoring," the 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2023; Satellite Workshop of Interspeech 2023), Dublin, Ireland, August 18-19, 2023. 

56. Kuan-Hsun Ho, Jeih-weih Hung and Berlin Chen, "ConSep: a noise- and reverberation-robust speech separation framework by magnitude conditioning," 24th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2023), Island of Rhodes, Greece, June11-13 2023.

57. Bi-Cheng Yan, Hsin-Wei Wang, Yi-Cheng Wang, Berlin Chen, "Effective graph-based modeling of articulation traits for mispronunciation detection and diagnosis,"  the 48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023),  Island of Rhodes, Greece, June 4-10, 2023. (Oral) 

58. Yu-Sheng Tsao, Kuan-Hsun Ho, Jeih-weih Hung, Berlin Chen, "Adaptive-FSN: Integrating full-band extraction and adaptive sub-band encoding for monaural speech enhancement," IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2022), Doha, Qatar, January 9-12, 2023.

59. Bi-Cheng Yan , Hsin-Wei Wang, Berlin Chen, "PEPPANET: Effective mispronunciation detection and diagnosis leveraging phonetic, phonological, and acoustic cues," IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2022), Doha, Qatar, January 9-12, 2023. (Best Paper Honorable Mention)

60. Kuan-Hsun Ho, Jeih-weih Hung, Berlin Chen, "Bi-Sep: A multi-resolution cross-domain monaural speech separation framework,"2022 International Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI 2022; International Track), Tainan, Taiwan, December 1-3, 2022. 

61. Fu-An Chao, Tien-Hong Lo, Tzu-I Wu, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, "3M: An effective multi-view, multi-granularity, and multi-aspect modeling approach to English pronunciation assessment," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2022), Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 7-10, 2022.

62. Yu-Sheng Tsao, Jeih-weih Hung, Kuan-Hsun Ho, Berlin Chen, "Investigating low-distortion speech enhancement with discrete cosine transform features for robust speech recognition," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2022), Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 7-10, 2022.

63. Hsin-Wei Wang, Bi-Cheng Yan , Yi-Cheng Wang, Berlin Chen, "Effective ASR error correction leveraging phonetic, semantic Information and N-best hypotheses," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2022), Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 7-10, 2022.

64. Yu-Sheng Tsao, Berlin Chen, Jeih-weih Hung, "Exploiting discrete cosine transform features in speech enhancement technique FullSubNet+," 2022 IET International Conference on Engineering Technologies and Applications (IET ICETA 2022), Changhua, Taiwan, October 14-16, 2022.

65. Bi-Cheng Yan, Hsin-Wei Wang, Shih-Hsuan Chiu, Hsuan-Sheng Chiu, Berlin Chen, "Effective cross-utterance language modeling for conversational speech recognition," IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence and International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (WCCI 2022-IJCNN 2022), Padua, Italy, 18-23 July, 2022. (Oral)

66. Bi-Cheng Yan, Hsin-Wei Wang, Shao-Wei Fan Jiang, Fu-An Chao, Berlin Chen, "Maximum F1-score training for end-to-end mispronunciation detection and diagnosis of L2 English speech," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2022),  Taipei, Taiwan, July 18-22, 2022. 

67. Hsin-Wei Wang, Bi-Cheng Yan, Hsuan-Sheng Chiu, Yung-Chang Hsu, Berlin Chen, "Exploring non-autoregressive end-to-end neural modeling for English mispronunciation detection and diagnosis,"  the 47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022),  Singapore, May 22-27, 2022.

68. Fu-An Chao, Shao-wei Fan Jiang, Bi-Cheng Yan, Jeih-weih Hung, Berlin Chen, "TENET: A time-reversal enhancement network for noise-robust ASR," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2021), Cartagena, Colombia, December 13-17, 2021.

69. Shao-Wei Fan Jiang, Bi-Cheng Yan, Tien-Hong Lo, Fu-An Chao, Berlin Chen, "Towards robust mispronunciation detection and diagnosis for L2 English learners with accent-modulating methods," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2021), Cartagena, Colombia, December 13-17, 2021.

70. Shih-Hsuan Chiu, Tien-Hong Lo, Fu-An Chao, Berlin Chen, "Cross-utterance reranking models with BERT and graph convolutional networks for conversational speech recognition," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2021), Tokyo, Japan, December 14-17, 2021.

71. Wan-Ting Tseng, Chin-Ying Wu, Yung-Chang Hsu, Berlin Chen, "FAQ retrieval using question-aware graph convolutional network and contextualized language model," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2021), Tokyo Japan, December 14-17, 2021.

72. Shi-Yan Weng, Hsuan-Sheng Chiu, Berlin Chen, "An empirical study on Transformer-based end-to-end speech recognition with novel decoder masking," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2021), Tokyo Japan, December 14-17, 2021.

73. Tien-Hong Lo, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, "Improving end-to-end modeling for mispronunciation detection with effective augmentation mechanisms," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2021), Tokyo Japan, December 14-17, 2021.

74. Wen-Ting Tseng, Yung-Chang Hsu, Berlin Chen, "Effective FAQ retrieval and question matching tasks  with unsupervised knowledge injection," The 24th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2021), Olomouc, Czech Republic, September 6-9, 2021.

75. Bi-Cheng Yan, Berlin Chen, "End-to-end mispronunciation detection and diagnosis from raw waveforms," The 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2021), Online, August 23-27, 2021. (Oral) 

76. Shih-Hsuan Chiu, Tien-Hong Lo and Berlin Chen, "Cross-sentence neural language models for conversational speech recognition," The Annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2021),  Online,  July 18-22, 2021.

77. Fu-An Chao, Jeih-weih Hung, Berlin Chen, "Cross-domain single-channel speech enhancement model with bi-projection fusion module for noise-robust ASR," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2021), Online, July 5-9, 2021. (Oral) 

78. Shih-Hsuan Chiu, Berlin Chen, "Innovative BERT-based reranking language models for speech recognition," IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2021), Online, January 19-22, 2021. 

79. Shi-Yan Weng, Tien-Hong Lo, Berlin Chen, "An effective contextual language modeling framework for speech summarization with augmented features," the 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2020), Online, January 18-22, 2021.

80. Bi-Cheng Yan, Meng-Che Wu, Berlin Chen, "Exploring feature enhancement in the modulation spectrum domain via ideal ratio mask for robust speech recognition," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2020), Online, December 7-10, 2020.

81. Tien-Hong Lo, Fu-An Chao, Shi-Yan Weng, Berlin Chen, "The NTNU System at the Interspeech 2020 Non-Native Children's Speech ASR Challenge," the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2020), Online, October 25-29, 2020. 

82. Tien-Hong Lo, Shi-Yan Weng, Hsiu-Jui Chang, Berlin Chen, "An effective end-to-end modeling approach for mispronunciation detection," the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2020), Online, October 25-29, 2020.

83. Bi-Cheng Yan, Meng-Che Wu, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Berlin Chen, "An end-to-end mispronunciation detection system for L2 English speech leveraging novel anti-phone modeling," the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2020), Online, October 25-29, 2020. 

84. Shao-Wei Fan-Jiang, Tien-Hong Lo, Berlin Chen, "Spoken document retrieval leveraging BERT-based modeling and query reformulation," the 45th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2020), Online, May 4-8, 2020.

85. Hsiao-Yun Lin, Tien-Hong Lo, Berlin Chen, "Enhanced BERT-based ranking models for spoken document retrieval," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2019), Sentosa, Singapore, 14-18 December, 2019.

86. Tien-Hong Lo, Berlin Chen, "Semi-supervised training of acoustic models leveraging knowledge transferred from out-of-domain data," 2019 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2019), Lanzhou, China, November 18-21, 2019.  (Oral)

87. Hou-Chiang Tseng, Hsueh-Chih Chen, Kuo-En Chang, Yao-Ting Sung and Berlin Chen, "An innovative BERT-based readability model," International Conference of Innovative Technologies and Learning (ICITL 2019), Tromso, Norway, December 2-5, 2019.  (Oral)

88. Bi-Cheng Yan, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, "Modulation spectrum augmentation for robust speech recognition," 2019 International Conference on Algorithms, Machine Learning and Signal Processing (AMLSP 2019), Singapore, November 15-17, 2019.  (Oral)

89. Yu-Te Wu, Berlin Chen, Li Su, "Polyphonic music transcription with semantic segmentation," the 44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019), Brighton, United Kingdom, May 12-17, 2019.  (Oral)

90. Tzu-En Liu, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, "A hierarchical neural summarization framework for spoken documents," the 44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019), Brighton, United Kingdom, May 12-17, 2019. (Oral)

91. Bi-Cheng Yan, Chin-Hong Shih, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, "Investigating manifold learning technique for robust speech recognition," the 2018 International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 2018), Bandung, Indonesia, November 15-17, 2018.  (Oral)

92. Hou-Chiang Tseng, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, "An innovative readability model developed by neural network-based features,” 6th International Workshop on Advanced Learning Sciences (IWLAS 2018), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 6-8, 2018. (Oral)

93. Yu-Te Wu, Berlin Chen, Li Su, "Automatic music transcription leveraging generalized cepstral features and deep learning," the 43nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2018), Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April 15-20, 2018.

94. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, "Essence vector-based query modeling for spoken document retrieval," the 43nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2018), Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April 15-20, 2018.

95. Tien-Hong Lo, Ying-Wen Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, 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.

96. Chin-Hong Shih, Bi-Cheng Yan, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, "Investigating Siamese LSTM networks for text categorization," 2017 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2017), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 12-15, 2017.

97. Bi-Cheng Yan, Chin-Hong Shih, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, "Exploring low-dimensional structures of modulation spectra for robust speech recognition," the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2017), Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-24, 2017. (Oral)

98. Ying-Wen Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, "Exploring the use of significant words language modeling for spoken document retrieval," the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2017), Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-24, 2017.

99. Ming-Han Yang, Hung-Shin Lee, Yu-Ding Lu, Kuan-Yu Chen,Yu Tsao, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, "Discriminative autoencoders for acoustic modeling," the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2017), Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-24, 2017. (Oral)

100. Bi-Cheng Yan, Chin-Hong Shih, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, "Enhancing feature modulation spectra with dictionary learning approaches for robust speech recognition," the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2017), Hong Kong, July 10-14, 2017. (Oral)

101. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, "A locality-preserving essence vector modeling framework for spoken document retrieval," the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017), New Orleans, USA, March 5-9, 2017. (Oral)

102. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Wen-Lian Hsu, "Leveraging manifold learning for extractive broadcast news summarization," the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017), New Orleans, USA, March 5-9, 2017.

103. Chun-I Tsai, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, "Extractive speech summarization leveraging convolutional neural network techniques,"  IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2016), San Diego, California, USA, December 13-16 , 2016. 

104. 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. 

105. 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," 2016 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2016), Jeju Island, Korea, December 13-16, 2016. (Oral)

106. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen and Hsin-Min Wang, "A novel paragraph embedding method for spoken document summarization," 2016 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2016), Jeju Island, Korea, December 13-16, 2016. (Oral) 

107. Hsin-Ju Hsieh, Berlin Chen and Jeih-weih Hung, "Employing median filtering to enhance the complex-valued acoustic spectrograms in modulation domain for noise-robust speech recognition" the 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2016), Tianjin, China, October 17-20, 2016. (Oral) 

108. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsin-Hsi Chen, "Novel word embedding and translation-based language modeling for extractive speech summarization," 2016 ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2016), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 5-19, 2016. (Short Paper)

109. Yao-Chi Hsu, Ming-Han Yang, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Berlin Chen, "Mispronunciation detection leveraging maximum performance criterion training of acoustic models and decision functions," the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2016), San Francisco, USA, September 8-12, 2016.

110. 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 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2016), San Francisco, USA, September 8-12, 2016.

111. Hou-Chiang Tseng, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, Wei-En Lee, "Classification of text readability based on representation learning techniques," the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (ST&D 2016), Kassel, Germany, July 18-20, 2016.

112. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, "Improved Spoken Document Summarization with Coverage Modeling Techniques," the 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), Shanghai, China, March 20-25, 2016. (Oral) 

113. Shih-Hung Liu, Hung-Shin Lee, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, Wen-Lian Hsu, "Incorporating proximity information in relevance language modeling for extractive speech summarization," 2015 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2015), Hong Kong, December 16-19, 2015. (Oral)  

114. Hsin-Ju Hsieh, Berlin Chen and Jeih-weih Hung, "Enhancing the complex-valued acoustic spectrograms in modulation domain for creating noise-robust features in speech recognition," 2015 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2015), Hong Kong, December 16-19, 2015. (Oral) 

115. Kuan-Yu Chen, Kai-Wun Shih, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, "Incorporating paragraph embeddings and density peaks clustering for spoken document summarization," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2015), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, December 13-17, 2015.

116. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen,  Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, Wen-Lian Hsu, “Positional language modeling for extractive broadcast news speech summarization," the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2015), Dresden, Germany, September 6-10, 2015. (Oral)   

117. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, Hsin-His Chen, “Leveraging word embeddings for spoken document summarization," the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2015), Dresden, Germany, September 6-10, 2015.

118. Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, Hsin-His 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.

119. Hsin-Ju Hsieh, Berlin Chen and Jeih-weih Hung, "Spatial histogram equalization of complex-valued acoustic spectra in modulation domain for noise-robust speech recognition," 2014 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2014), Siem Reap, city of Angkor Wat, Cambodia, December 9-12, 2014.

120. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, Ea-Ee Jan, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, Wen-Lian Hsu, "A margin-based discriminative modeling approach for extractive speech summarization," 2014 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2014), Siem Reap, city of Angkor Wat, Cambodia, December 9-12, 2014.

121. Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Wen-Lian Hsu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ea-Ee Jan, "Leveraging effective query modeling techniques for speech recognition and summarization," the Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2014), October 25-29, Doha, Qatar, 2014. (Short Paper)

122. Yu-Chen Kao, Yi-Ting Wang, Berlin Chen, "Effective modulation spectrum factorization for robust speech recognition," the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2014), pp. 2724-2728, Singapore, September 14-18, 2014.

123. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu-Lun Hsieh, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, Wen-Lian Hsu, "Enhanced language modeling for extractive speech summarization with sentence relatedness information," the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2014), pp. 1865-1869, Singapore, September 14-18, 2014.

124. 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) 

125. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu-Lun Hsieh, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, 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), pp. 3226-3230, Florence, Italy, May 4-9, 2014. 

126. Kuan-Yu Chen, Hung-Shin Lee, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, 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), pp. 7083-7087, Florence, Italy, May 4-9, 2014. 

127. Berlin Chen, Yi-Wen Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Ea-Ee Jan, "Effective pseudo-relevance feedback for language modeling in speech recognition," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2013), pp. 13-18, Olomouc, Czech Republic, December 8-12, 2013.

128. Yu-Chen Kao, Berlin Chen, “Distribution-based feature normalization for robust speech recognition leveraging context and dynamics cues,” the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2013), Lyon, France, August 25-29, 2013. 

129. Hsin-Ju Hsieh, Berlin Chen, Jeih-weih Hung, “Histogram equalization of real and imaginary modulation spectra for noise-robust speech recognition,” the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2013), Lyon, France, August 25-29, 2013.

130. Yi-Wen Chen, Bo-Han Hao, Kuan-Yu Chen, 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. (Oral) 

131. Berlin Chen, Hao-Chin Chang, Kuan-Yu Chen, “Sentence modeling for extractive speech summarization,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2013), San Jose, California, USA, July 15-19, 2013. (Full Paper)

132. Yi-Wen Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, 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. 

133. Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, 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.

134. Hsin-Ju Hsieh, Jeih-weih Hung, Berlin Chen, “Exploring joint equalization of spatial-temporal contextual statistics of speech features for robust speech recognition,” the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2012), Portland, Oregon, USA, September 9-13, 2012. 

135. Kuan-Yu Chen, Hao-Chin Chang, Berlin Chen, 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. 

136. Yueng-Tien Lo, Shih-Hsiang Lin, Berlin Chen, “Constructing effective ranking models for speech summarization,” the 37th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2012),pp. 5053-5056, Kyoto, Japan, March 25 - 30, 2012. 

137. Yu-Chen Kao, Berlin Chen, “Leveraging distributional characteristics of modulation spectra for robust speech recognition,” the 11th International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and their Applications (ISSPA 2012), Montreal (Quebec), Canada, July 3-5, 2012. 

138. Berlin Chen, Pei-Ning Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, "Query modeling for spoken document retrieval," IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2011), pp. 389-394, Hawaii, USA, December 11-15, 2011. 

139. Ea-Ee Jan, Niyu Ge, Shih-Hsiang Lin and Berlin Chen, "An effective and robust framework for transliteration exploration," the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2011), pp. 1332-1340, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 8-13, 2011.

140. Wen-Yi Chu, Jeih-weih Hung and Berlin Chen, "Modulation spectrum factorization for robust speech recognition," 2011 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2011), Xian, China, October 18-21, 2011.

141. Pei-Ning Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, "Leveraging relevance cues for improved spoken document retrieval," the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2011), pp. 929-932, Florence, Italy, August 28-31, 2011.

142. Berlin Chen, Jia-Wen Liu, "Discriminative language modeling for speech recognition with relevance information," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2011), Barcelona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011. (Full Paper) 

143. Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, "Relevance language modeling for speech recognition," the 36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2011), pp. 5568-5571, Prague, Czech Republic, May 22-27, 2011. 

144. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Ea-Ee Jan, Berlin Chen, "Handling verbose queries for spoken document retrieval," the 36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2011), pp. 5552-5555, Prague, Czech Republic, May 22-27, 2011.

145. Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, "A study of topic modeling techniques for spoken document retrieval," 2010 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2010), pp. 237-242, Biopolis, Singapore, December 14-17, 2010.

146. Ea-Ee Jan, Shih-Hsiang Lin, Berlin Chen, "Transliteration retrieval model for cross lingual information retrieval," the 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2010), pp. 183-192, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1-3, 2010.

147. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Berlin Chen, Ea-Ee Jan, "Improving the informativeness of verbose queries using summarization techniques for spoken document retrieval," the 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2010), pp. 75-79, Tainan, Taiwan, November 29 - December 3, 2010.

148. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Yao-Ming Yeh, Berlin Chen, “Extractive speech summarization － From the view of decision theory,” the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2010), pp. 1684-1687, Makuhari, Japan, September 26-30, 2010.

149. Hung-Shin Lee, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, “A discriminative and heteroscedastic linear feature transformation for multiclass classification,” the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, August 23-26, 2010.

150. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Berlin Chen, “A risk minimization framework for extractive speech summarization,” the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010), pp.79-87, Uppsala, Sweden, July 11–16, 2010. (Long Paper)

151. Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsuan-Sheng Chiu, 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), pp. 5394-5397, Dallas, Texas, USA, March 14-19, 2010. 

152. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Yu-Mei Chang, Jia-Wen Liu, Berlin Chen, “Leveraging evaluation metric-related training criteria for speech summarization,” the 35th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010), pp. 5314-5317, Dallas, Texas, USA, March 14-19, 2010. 

153. Hung-Shin Lee, Berlin Chen, “Generalized likelihood ratio discriminant analysis,” IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2009), pp. 185-163, Merano, Italy, December 13-17, 2009.

154. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Berlin Chen, “Topic modeling for spoken document retrieval using word- and syllable-level information,” the 3rd workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2009) (in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2009), pp. 3-10, Beijing, China, October 23, 2009.

155. Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, “Mandarin Chinese broadcast news retrieval and summarization using probabilistic generative models,” 2009 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2009), Sapporo, Japan, October 4-7, 2009.

156. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Berlin Chen, “Improved speech summarization with multiple-hypothesis representations and Kullback-Leibler divergence measures,” the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009), pp. 1847-1850, Brighton, U.K., September 6-10, 2009.

157. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Yueng-Tien Lo, Yao-Ming Yeh, Berlin Chen, "Hybrids of supervised and unsupervised models for extractive speech summarization," the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009), pp. 1507-1510, Brighton, U.K., September 6-10, 2009.

158. Berlin Chen, "Latent topic modeling of word co-occurrence information for spoken document retrieval," the 34th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009), pp. 3961-3964, Taipei, Taiwan, April 19-24, 2009. 

159. Hung-Shin Lee, Berlin Chen, "Empirical error rate minimization based linear discriminant analysis," the 34th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009), pp. 1801-1804, Taipei, Taiwan, April 19-24, 2009. 

160. Hsuan-Sheng Chiu, Guan-Yu Chen, Chun-Jen Lee, Berlin Chen, “Position information for language modeling in speech recognition,” the 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2008), pp. 101-104, Kunming, China, December 16-19, 2008. 

161. Hung-Shin Lee, Berlin Chen, “Improved linear discriminant analysis considering empirical pairwise classification error rates,” the 6tth International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2008), pp. 149-152, Kunming, China, December 16-19, 2008. (Best Student Paper Award)

162. Wei-Hau Chen, Shih-Hsiang Lin, Berlin Chen, “Exploiting spatial-temporal feature distribution characteristics for robust speech recognition,” the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2008), pp. 2204-2207, Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008.

163. Hung-Shin Lee, Berlin Chen, “Linear discriminant feature extraction using weighted classification confusion information,” the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2008), pp. 2254-2257, Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008.

164. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Yi-Ting Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, “A comparative study of probabilistic ranking models for spoken document summarization," the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), pp. 5025-5028, Las Vegas, USA, March 30 - April 4, 2008.

165. Shih-Hung Liu, Fang-Hui Chu, Shih-Hsiang Lin, Hung-Shin Lee, Berlin Chen, “Training data selection for improving discriminative training of acoustic models,” the IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2007), pp. 284-289, Kyoto, Japan, December 9-13, 2007. 

166. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Yao-Ming Yeh, Berlin Chen, “Investigating the use of speech features and their corresponding distribution characteristics for robust speech recognition," the IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2007), pp. 87-92, Kyoto, Japan, December 9-13, 2007. 

167. Yi-Ting Chen, Shih-Hsiang Lin, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, “Spoken document summarization using relevant information,” the IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2007), pp. 189-194, Kyoto, Japan, December 9-13, 2007.

168. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Yao-Ming Yeh, Berlin Chen, “Cluster-based polynomial-fit histogram equalization (CPHEQ) for robust speech recognition,” the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2007), pp. 1054-1057, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007. 

169. Yi-Ting Chen, Hsuan-Sheng Chiu, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, “A unified probabilistic generative framework for extractive spoken document summarization,” the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2007), pp. 2805-2808, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007. 

170. Yi-cheng Pan, Hung-lin Chang, Berlin Chen, Lin-shan Lee, “Subword-based position specific posterior lattices (S-PSPL) for indexing speech information,” the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2007), pp. 318-321, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007. 

171. Berlin Chen, Yi-Ting Chen, "Word topical mixture models for extractive spoken document summarization," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2007), pp. 52-55, Beijing, China, July 2-5, 2007.

172. Shih-Hung Liu, Fang-Hui Chu, Shih-Hsiang Lin, Berlin Chen, "Investigating data selection for minimum phone error training of acoustic models," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2007), pp. 348-351, Beijing, China, July 2-5, 2007. 

173. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Shih-Hung Liu, Yao-Ming Yeh, Berlin Chen, "Improved histogram equalization (HEQ) for robust speech recognition," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2007), pp. 2234-2237, Beijing, China, July 2-5, 2007. 

174. Hsuan-Sheng Chiu, Berlin Chen, “Word topical mixture models for dynamic language model adaptation,” the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), Vol. IV, pp. 169-172, Hawaii, USA, April 15-20, 2007.

175. YT Yen, B Chen, CL Shyu, YC Li, CY Hsu, "Applying clinical ontology for biomedical information retrieval," the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics (Medinfo 2007), Brisbane, Australia, August 20-24, 2007.

176. Jia-yu Chen, Chia-yu Wan, Yi Chen, Berlin Chen, Lin-shan Lee, "Minimum phone error (MPE) model and feature training on mandarin broadcast news task," the 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2006), Singapore, December 13-16, 2006. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI4274, 2006, Springer-Verlag, pp. 270–281. 

177. Tzan-Hwei Chen, Berlin Chen, Hsin-min Wang, "On using entropy information for improving posterior probability based confidence measures," the 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2006), Singapore, December 13-16, 2006. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI4274, 2006, Springer-Verlag, pp. 454–463. 

178. Yi-Ting Chen, Suhan Yu, Hsin-min Wang, Berlin Chen, "Extractive Chinese spoken document summarization using probabilistic ranking models," the 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2006), Singapore, December 13-16, 2006. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI4274, 2006, Springer-Verlag, pp. 660–671. 

179. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Yao-Ming Yeh, Berlin Chen, “Exploiting polynomial-fit histogram equalization and temporal average for robust speech recognition,” the 7th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2006), Pittsburgh PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006.

180. Hsuan-Sheng Chiu, Berlin Chen, "Dynamic language model adaptation using word topical mixture models," the 9th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference (WESPAC IX 2006), Seoul, Korea, June 26-28, 2006.

181. Berlin Chen, Yao-Ming Yeh, Yao-Min Huang, Yi-Ting Chen, “Chinese spoken document summarization using probabilistic latent topical information,” the 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006), pp. 969-972, Toulouse, France, May 14-19, 2006. 

182. Berlin Chen, Yi-Ting Chen, Chih-Hao Chang, Hung-Bin Chen, “Speech retrieval of mandarin broadcast news via mobile devices,” the 6th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2005), pp. 109-112, Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8, 2005. 

183. Jen-Wei Kuo, Berlin Chen, “Minimum word error based discriminative training of language models,” the 6th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2005), pp. 1277-1280, Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8, 2005.

184. Te-Hsuan Li, Ming-Han Lee, Berlin Chen, Lin-shan Lee, “Hierarchical topic organization and visual presentation of spoken documents using probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) for efficient retrieval/browsing applications,” the 6th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2005), pp. 625-628, Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8, 2005.

185. Berlin Chen, “Dynamic language model adaptation using latent topical information and automatic transcripts,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2005), pp. 97-100, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 6-8, 2005. 

186. Berlin Chen, Wen-Hung Tsai, Jen-Wei Kuo, “Statistical language model adaptation for mandarin broadcast news transcription,” submitted to the 4th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2004), pp. 313-316, Hong Kong, December 15-18.

187. Berlin Chen, Jen-Wei Kuo, Yao-Min Huang, Hsin-min Wang, “Statistical Chinese spoken document retrieval using latent topical information,” the 5th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2004), Vol. II, pp. 1621-1625, Jeju Island, South Korea, October 2004. 

188. Berlin Chen, Jen-Wei Kuo, Wen-Hung Tsai, “Lightly supervised and data-driven approaches to Mandarin broadcast news transcription,” the 29th IEEE International Conference Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing (ICASSP 2004), Vol. I, pp. 777-780, Montreal, Canada, May 17-21, 2004. 

189. Berlin Chen, Shun-Shii Lin, James Chen, Wen-Li Shih, “Voice access of Mandarin broadcast news” the 2004 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT 2004), March 18-19, 2004.

190. Shun-Shii Lin, Berlin Chen, and Shi-Jie Huang, “Building a multi-modal multimedia information retrieval system for the national museum of history,” the 2004 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT 2004), March 18-19, 2004.

191. Y.T. Yen, C.Y. Hsu, C.H. Wen, Y.C. Lee, B. Chen, Y.C. Li, “Developing a NLP and IR-based algorithm for analyzing gene-disease relationship,” IJM EuroMISE 2004, Prague, April, 2004.

192. Chun-Jen Wang, Berlin Chen, and Lin-shan Lee, “Improved Chinese spoken document retrieval with hybrid modeling and data-driven indexing features,” the 3rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2002), pp. 1985-1988, Denver, USA, September 16-20, 2002. 

193. Chun-Jen Wang, Berlin Chen, and Lin-shan Lee, “A data-driven indexing approach for Chinese spoken document retrieval,” the 3rd International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2002), Taipei, ROC, August 23-24, 2002.

194. Helen Meng, Wai-Kit Lo, Berlin Chen, and Karen Tang, “Generating phonetic cognates to handle named entities in English-Chinese cross-language spoken document retrieval,” Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2001), Madonna di Campiglio Trento, Italy, December 9-13, 2001. 

195. Berlin Chen, Hsin-min Wang, and Lin-shan Lee, “An HMM/n-gram-based linguistic processing approach for mandarin spoken document retrieval,” the 2nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2001), Aalborg, Demark, September 3-7, 2001.

196. Berlin Chen, Hsin-min Wang, and Lin-shan Lee, “Improved spoken document retrieval by exploring extra acoustic and linguistic cues,” the 2nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2001), pp. 299-302,Aalborg, Demark, September 3-7, 2001

197. Hsin-min Wang and Berlin Chen, “Comparison of word and subword indexing techniques for Mandarin Chinese spoken document retrieval,” the 2nd IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (2001 International Symposium on Multimedia Information Processing), Beijing, China, October 24-26, 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS2195, 2001, Springer-Verlag, pp. 606 – 613. 

198. Helen Meng, Berlin Chen, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Gina-Anne Levow, Wai-Kit Lo, Douglas Oard,Patrick Schone, Karen Tang, Hsin-Min Wang and Jianqiang Wang , “Mandarin-English Information (MEI): Investigating translingual speech retrieval,” the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT 2001), San Diego, March 2001.

199. Hsin-min Wang, Helen Meng, Patrick Schone, Berlin Chen and Wai-kit Lo, “Multi-scale audio indexing for translingual spoken document retrieval,” the 26th IEEE International Conference Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing (ICASSP 2001), Salt Lake City, USA, May 2001. 

200. Hsin-min Wang, Berlin Chen, Liang-jui Shen, and Chao-chi Chang , “A voice-activated web-based Mandarin Chinese spoken document retrieval system,” the International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, (ICCPOL 2001), 2001.

201. Berlin Chen, Hsin-min Wang, and Lin-shan Lee, “Retrieval of Mandarin broadcast news using spoken queries,” the 1st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2000), Vol. 1, pp. 520-523, Beijing, China, October 2000. 

202. Berlin Chen, Hsin-min Wang, and Lin-shan Lee, “Retrieval of broadcast news speech in Mandarin Chinese collected in Taiwan using syllable-level statistical characteristics,” the 25th IEEE International Conference Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing (ICASSP 2000), Vol.3, 1771-1774, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000. 

203. Wen-ping Hsieh, Berlin Chen, Kuan-ting Chen, and Hsin-min Wang, “Initial experiments on recognition of internet-accessible compressed mandarin speech,” the 2nd International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2000), Beijing, China, October 2000.

204. Hsin-min Wang and Berlin Chen, “Content-based language models for spoken document,” the 5th International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL 2000), Hong Kong, October 2000.

205. Hsin-min Wang, Yu-hsueh Chou, and Berlin Chen, “Browsing the Chinese web pages using Mandarin speech,” the 18th Int. Conf. on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL 1999), Tokushima Japan, March 1999, pp. 503-508, 1999.

206. Bo-ren Bai, Berlin Chen, and Hsin-min Wang, “Syllable-based Chinese text/spoken document retrieval using text/speech queries,” the 2nd International Conference on Multimodal Interface (ICMI 1999), Hong-kong, pp. II46-51, January 1999.

207. Berlin Chen, Hsin-min Wang, Lee-feng Chien, and Lin-Shan Lee, “A*-admissible key-phrase spotting with sub-syllable level utterance verification,” the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998), November 1998. 

208. Hsin-min Wang, Bor-shen Lin, Bo-ren Bai, and Berlin Chen, “Towards a Mandarin voice memo system,” the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998), November 1998. 

209. Bor-shen Lin, Berlin Chen, Hsin-min Wang, and Lin-shan Lee, “Hierarchical tag-graph search for spontaneous speech understanding in spoken dialog systems,” the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998), November 1998. 

210. Bo-ren Bai, Berlin Chen, Hsin-min Wang, Lee-feng Chien, and Lin-shan Lee, “Large-vocabulary Chinese text/speech information retrieval using Mandarin speech queries,” International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 1998), pp. 284-289, Singapore, December 1998.

211. Berlin Chen and Hsin-min Wang, “A vocabulary-flexible key-phrase spotting system for Mandarin Chinese,” The Fourth International Symposium on Real-time and Media Systems (RAMS 1998), Taipei, September 1998.

212. Bor-shen Lin, Hsin-min Wang, Bo-ren Bai, and Berlin Chen, “A prototype of Mandarin voice memo system,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 1998), pp. 88-89, 1998. 

213. Hsin-min Wang, Yu-hsueh Chou, and Berlin Chen, “Surfing the Chinese Web pages by unconstrained Mandarin speech,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 1998), pp. 84-85, 1998. 

214. C. M. Liu, H. Y. Chang, and B. Chen, “The use of tree-trellis search for speaker-independent Mandarin polysyllabic word recognition,” 1996 International Conference on Computer Systems Technology for Industrial Applications (CSIA 1996), pp. 250-254, 1996.

215. H. Y. Chang, B. Chen, C. S. Chou, and C. M. Liu, “Speaker-independent Mandarin polysyllabic word recognition,” the 4th International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA 1996), Australia, August 1996. 

Refereed Local Conference Papers

1.  Jiun-Ting Li, Yue-Yang He, Yu-Hsuan Chang, You-Sheng Tsao, Chi-Ling Liao, Siang-Hong Weng, Yung-Chang Hsu, Berlin Chen,  "Exploring the reliability and potential enhancements of the English pronunciation assessment system: EZTalking," the 36th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ˋOCLING 2024), Taipei, Taiwan, November 4-5, 2024. (in Chinese) 

2. Ruei-Xian Chang, En-Lun Yu, Berlin Chen, Shih-Chieh Huang, Jeih-Weih Hung, "Advanced personal voice activity detection through attention score module with conformer block and FiLM layers," the 36th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2024), Taipei, Taiwan, November 4-5, 2024. (in Chinese) 

3. Chieh-Hsuan Wu, Hou-Chiang Tseng, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, Yao-Ting Sung, "Enhancing text readability models," the 36th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2024), Taipei, Taiwan, November 4-5, 2024. (in Chinese) 

4. Yi-Ting Yang, Jiun-Ting Li, Berlin Chen, "Auxiliary loss to attention head for end to end speaker diarization," the 35th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2024), Taipei, Taiwan, October 20-21, 2023. (in Chinese) 

5. Wen-Hsuan Peng, Hsin-Wei Wang, Sally Chen, Berlin Chen, "Enhancing automated English speaking assessment for L2 speakers with BERT and Wav2vec2.0 fusion," the 35th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2023), Taipei, Taiwan, October 20-21, 2023. (in Chinese) 

6. Meng-Shin Lin, Hsin-Wei Wang, Tien-Hong Lo, Berlin Chen, Wei-Cheng Chao, "Addressing the issue of data imbalance in multi-granularity pronunciation assessment," the 35th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2023), Taipei, Taiwan, October 20-21, 2023. (in Chinese) 

7. Yi-Ping Huang, Tien-Hong Lo, Berlin Chen, Leveraging dialogue discourse parsing in a two-stage framework for meeting summarization," the 35th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2023), Taipei, Taiwan, October 20-21, 2023. (in Chinese) 

8. En-Lun Yu, Kuan-Hsun Ho and Berlin Chen, "AaWLoss: An artifact-aware weighted loss function for speech enhancement," the 35th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2023), Taipei, Taiwan, October 20-21, 2023. (in Chinese) 

9. Chung-Wen Wu, Guan-Tang Huang, Yue-Yang He and Berlin Chen, "KNOT-MCTS: An effective approach to addressing hallucinations in generative language Modeling for question answering," the 35th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2023), Taipei, Taiwan, October 20-21, 2023.

10. Tzu-I Wu, Tien-Hong Lo, Fu-An Chao, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, "A preliminary study on automated speaking assessment of English as second language (ESL) students," the 34th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2022), Taipei, Taiwan, November 21-22,  2022. (in Chinese) 

11. Yi-Cheng Wang, Tzu-Ting Yang, Hsin-Wei Wang, Yung-Chang Hsu, Berlin Chen, "Building an enhanced autoregressive document retriever leveraging supervised contrastive learning," the 34th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2022), Taipei, Taiwan, November 21-22,  2022. (in Chinese) 

12. Hsin-Wei Wang, Bi-Cheng Yan, Yung-Chang Hsu, Berlin Chen, "Exploring the integration of E2E ASR and pronunciation modeling for English mispronunciation detection," the 33rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021), Taoyuan, Taiwan, October 15-16,  2021. (in Chinese)

13. You-Sheng Tsao, Tien-Hong Lo, Jiun-Ting Li, Shi-Yan Weng, Berlin Chen, "A preliminary study on environmental sound classification leveraging large-scale pretrained model and semi-supervised learning," the 33rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021), Taoyuan, Taiwan, October 15-16,  2021. (in Chinese)

14. Chin-Ying Wu, Yung-Chang Hsu, Berlin Chen, "A study on contextualized language modeling for machine reading comprehension," the 33rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021), Taoyuan, Taiwan, October 15-16,  2021. (in Chinese)

15. Fu-An Chao, Jeih-weih Hung, Berlin Chen, “Multi-view attention-based speech enhancement model for noise-robust automatic speech recognition,” the 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2020), Taipei, Taiwan, September 24-26, 2020. (in Chinese)

16. Shih-Hsuan Chiu, Berlin Chen, “Innovative pretrained-based reranking language models for N-best speech recognition lists,” the 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2020), Taipei, Taiwan, September 24-26, 2020. (in Chinese)

17. Wen-Ting Tseng, Yung-Chang Hsu, Berlin Chen, “A study on contextualized language modeling for FAQ retrieval,” the 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2020), Taipei, Taiwan, September 24-26, 2020. (in Chinese)

18. Yu-Sen Cheng, Tien-Hong Lo, Berlin Chen, “Exploiting text prompts for the development of an end-to-end computer-assisted pronunciation training system,” the 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2020), Taipei, Taiwan, September 24-26, 2020. (in Chinese)

19. Wei-Ting Lin, Berlin Chen, “Exploring disparate language model combination strategies for Mandarin-English code-switching ASR,” the 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2020), Taipei, Taiwan, September 24-26, 2020. (in Chinese)

20. Hsiu-Jui Chang, Tien-Hong Lo, Tzu-En Liu, Berlin Chen, "Investigating computer-assisted pronunciation training leveraging end-to-end speech recognition techniques," the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2019), New Taipei City, Taiwan, October 3-5, 2019. (in Chinese) 

21. Ming-Jhang Yang, Fu-An Chao, Tien-Hong Lo, Berlin Chen, "Exploiting generative adversarial network for robustness automatic speech recognition," the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2019), New Taipei City, Taiwan, October 3-5, 2019. (in Chinese) 

22. Shi-Yan Weng, Hou-Chiang Tseng, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, "A hierarchical encoding framework for text readability prediction," the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2019), New Taipei City, Taiwan, October 3-5, 2019. (in Chinese) (Runner-up of Best Poster Presentation Award)

23. Tien-Hong Lo, Berlin Chen, "Investigating acoustic model combination and semi-supervised discriminative training for meeting speech recognition," the 30th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2018), Hsinchu, Taiwan, October 4-5, 2018. (in Chinese)

24. Wei-Cheng Chao, Hsiu-Jui Chang, Tien-Hong Lo, Berlin Chen, "Discriminative training of acoustic models leveraging improved neural network architecture and optimization method," the 30th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2018), Hsinchu, Taiwan, October 4-5, 2018. (in Chinese)

25. Ying-wen Chen, Tien-hong Lo, Hsiu-jui Chang, Wei-Cheng Chao, Berlin Chen, "On the use of speaker-aware language model adaptation techniques for meeting speech recognition," the 30th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2018), Hsinchu, Taiwan, October 4-5, 2018. (in Chinese)

26. Hou-Chiang Tseng, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, "Exploring combination of FastText and convolutional neural networks for building readability models," the 30th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2018), Hsinchu, Taiwan, October 4-5, 2018. (in Chinese)

27. Tien-Hong Lo, Ying-Wen Chen, Berlin Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, "Exploring query intent and neural network modeling techniques for spoken document retrieval," the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2017), Taipei, Taiwan, November 27-28, 2017. (in Chinese) (Best Paper Award)

28. Hou-Chiang Tseng, Berlin Chen, Yao-Ting Sung, "Exploring readability analysis on multi-domain texts," the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2017), Taipei, Taiwan, November 27-28, 2017. (in Chinese)

29. Chia-Hua Wu, Chun-I Tsai, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Yu-Chen Kao, Berlin Chen, "On the use of sequence labeling and matching methods for ASR error detection and correction," the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2017), Taipei, Taiwan, November 27-28, 2017. (in Chinese)

30. 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," the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2016), Tainan, Taiwan, October 6-7, 2016. (in Chinese)

31. Bi-Cheng Yan, Chin Hong Shih, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, "The use of dictionary learning approach for robustness speech recognition," the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2016), Tainan, Taiwan, October 6-7, 2016. (in Chinese)

32. 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," the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2016), Hsinchu, Tainan, October 6-7, 2016. (in Chinese) (Best Paper Award)

33. Hou-Chiang Tseng, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, "Classification of text readability based on deep neural network and representation learning techniques," the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2016), Hsinchu, Tainan, October 6-7, 2016. (in Chinese)

34. 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," the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2016), Tainan, Taiwan, October 6-7, 2016. (in Chinese)

35. Yao-Chi Hsu, Ming-Han Yang, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Yuwen Hsiung, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen, "Exploring combinations of various deep neural network based acoustic models and classification techniques for Mandarin mispronunciation detection," the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2015), Hsinchu, Taiwan, October 1 - 2, 2015. (in Chinese)

36. 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," the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2015), Hsinchu, Taiwan, October 1-2, 2015. (in Chinese)

37. Ting-Hao Chang, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, "Several refinements of modulation spectrum factorization for robust speech recognition," the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2015), Hsinchu, Taiwan, October 1-2, 2015. (in Chinese)

38. 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," the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2015), Hsinchu, Taiwan, October 1-2, 2015. (in Chinese)

39. 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," the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2015), Hsinchu, Taiwan, October 1-2, 2015. (in Chinese) 

40. Po-Han Hao,  Ssu-Cheng Chen, Berlin Chen, "Leveraging concept modeling techniques for language model adaptation in Mandarin large vocabulary continuous speech recognition," the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2014), Jhongli, Taiwan, September 25-26, 2014. (in Chinese)

41. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu-Lun Hsieh,  Hsin-Min Wang, Wen-Lian Hsu, Berlin Chen, "Investigating novel sentence modeling techniques for extractive speech summarization," the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2014), Jhongli, Taiwan, September 25-26, 2014. (in Chinese)

42. Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Wen-Lian Hsu, Berlin Chen, "Improved Sentence Modeling Techniques for Extractive Speech Summarization," ROCLING XXV: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2013), October 4-5, 2013. (in Chinese) (Best Paper Award)

43. Yu-Chen Kao, Berlin Chen, "Improved Modulation Spectrum Histogram Equalization for Robust Speech Recognition," ROCLING XXV: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2013), October 4 - 5, 2013. (in Chinese)

44. Hsin-Ju Hsieh, Jeih-weih Hung, Berlin Chen, "Improved histogram equalization methods for robust speech recognition," ROCLING XXIV: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2012), September 21 - 22, 2012. (in Chinese)

45. Bang-Xuan Huang, Hank Hao, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, "Recurrent Neural Network-based Language Modeling with Relevance Information," ROCLING XXIV: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2012), September 21 - 22, 2012. (in Chinese) (Best Paper Award)

46. 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), September 8-9, 2011. (in Chinese) (Best Paper Award)

47. Wen-Yi Chu, Yu-Chen Kao, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen and Jeih-Weih Hung, "Probabilistic modulation spectrum factorization for robust speech recognition," ROCLING XXIII: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2011), September 8-9, 2011. (in Chinese)

48. Yueng-Tien Lo, Berlin Chen, "A comparative study on margin-based discriminative training of acoustic models," ROCLING XXII: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2010), September 1-2, 2010. (in Chinese)

49. Jia-Wen Liu, Shih-Hsiang Lin, Berlin Chen, "Exploiting discriminative language models for reranking speech recognition hypotheses," ROCLING XXII: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2010), September 1-2, 2010. (in Chinese)

50. Hung-Shin Lee, Berlin Chen, “Likelihood ratio based discriminant analysis for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition,” ROCLING XXI: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2009), September 1-2, 2009. (in Chinese)

51. Guan-Yu Chen, 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), September 1-2, 2009. (in Chinese)

52. Shih-Hung Liu, Fang-Hui Chu, Berlin Chen, “Improved MPE-based discriminative training of acoustic models for Mandarin large vocabulary continuous speech recognition,” ROCLING XIX: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2007), September 6-7, 2007. (in Chinese)

53. Shih-Hsiang Lin, Yao-Ming Yeh, Berlin Chen, “An improved histogram equalization approach for robust speech recognition,” ROCLING XVIII: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2006), September 7-8, 2006. (in Chinese)

54. Jen-Wei Kuo, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen, “An empirical study on word error minimization approaches for Mandarin large vocabulary speech recognition,” ROCLING XVII: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2005), September 15-16, 2005, pp. 371-384. (in Chinese)

55. Jen-Wei Kuo, Wen-Hung Tsai, Berlin Chen, “Exploiting unsupervised learning to mandarin TV news transcription: an initial study," ROCLING XVI: Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2004), September 2-3, 2004. (in Chinese)

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   Dissertation/Thesis

1. Berlin Chen, “Speech information retrieval for Mandarin Chinese - syllable-based indexing features, statistical retrieval models and improved approaches,” Ph.D. Dissertation, National Taiwan University, June 2001. (Advisor: Prof. Lin-shan Lee)

2. Berlin Chen, “Speaker-independent Mandarin polysyllabic word recognition.” Master Thesis, National Chiao Tung University, June 1996. (Advisor: Prof. Chi-Min Liu)