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  1. Towards Automated Brand-Safety Detection: A Novel Dataset and Comparative Analysis of Language Models

    Article • May 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  2. Calculating Narrative Tension for Ad Placement in Online Narrative Fiction

    Article • May 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn, Vedansh Mehta

  3. The More You Say, the More You Risk: Ethical Concerns in Large Language Model Reasoning Frameworks

    Article • May 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  4. Conversational Voice Interfaces: Translating Research Into Actionable Design

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  5. Conversational Voice User Interfaces: Connecting Engineering Fundamentals to Design Considerations

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  6. The Chinese Remainder Theorem for Compact, Task-Precise, Efficient and Secure Word Embeddings

    Article • January 2021, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  7. Extracting Mel-Frequency and Bark-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients from Encrypted Signals

    Article • September 2019, International Speech Communication Association

    Gerald Penn

  8. Efficient Evaluation of Activation Functions over Encrypted Data

    Article • May 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn

  9. Improving Speech Recognition with Drop-in Replacements for f-Bank Features

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gerald Penn

  10. MOS Naturalness and the Quest for Human-Like Speech

    Article • December 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn

  11. Can Deep Learning Compensate for a Shallow Evaluation?

    Article • August 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  12. Designing pronunciation learning tools: The case for interactivity against over-engineering

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn, Sean Robertson

  13. Speech and Hands-free Interaction

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  14. Reality recalled: Elders, memory and VR

    Article • October 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn

  15. Speech and Hands-free interaction

    Article • September 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  16. Designing Speech, Acoustic and Multimodal Interactions

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn, Matthew Aylett

  17. Speech-based Interaction

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  18. Vowel and Consonant Classification through Spectral Decomposition

    Article • January 2017, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  19. Pronunciation Error Detection for New Language Learners

    Article • September 2016, International Speech Communication Association

    Gerald Penn

  20. Designing Speech and Multimodal Interactions for Mobile, Wearable, and Pervasive Applications

    Article • May 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  21. Speech-based Interaction

    Article • May 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  22. Evaluating Sentiment Analysis in the Context of Securities Trading

    Article • January 2016, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  23. Deep bi-directional recurrent networks over spectral windows

    Article • December 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn

  24. Speech-based Interaction

    Article • April 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  25. Speech-based Interaction

    Article • March 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  26. Convolutional Neural Networks for Speech Recognition

    Article • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn

  27. Speech-based interaction

    Article • September 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  28. Speech-based interaction

    Article • April 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  29. Designing speech and language interactions

    Article • April 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  30. The CBC newsworld holodeck

    Article • April 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  31. Evaluating Sentiment Analysis Evaluation: A Case Study in Securities Trading

    Article • January 2014, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  32. Unsupervised Sentence Enhancement for Automatic Summarization

    Article • January 2014, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  33. Automatic human utility evaluation of ASR systems: does WER really predict performance?

    Article • August 2013, International Speech Communication Association

    Gerald Penn

  34. A Graph-Partitioning Framework for Aligning Hierarchical Topic Structures to Presentations

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn

  35. SeeSay and HearSay CAPTCHA for mobile interaction

    Article • April 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  36. We need to talk

    Article • April 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  37. Realistic answer verification: An analysis of user errors in a sentence-repetition task

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn

  38. Ecological validity and the evaluation of speech summarization quality

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn

  39. SiMPE

    Article • September 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  40. An ecologically valid evaluation of speech summarization

    Article • May 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  41. Applying Convolutional Neural Networks concepts to hybrid NN-HMM model for speech recognition

    Article • March 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn

  42. Understanding how Deep Belief Networks perform acoustic modelling

    Article • March 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn

  43. Computational Linguistics

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Gerald Penn

  44. Introduction to the Special Issue on the Mathematics of Language

    Article • Journal of Logic Language and Information, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gerald Penn

  45. Approximate Bit Vectors for Fast Unification

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gerald Penn

  46. Bubble Sets: Revealing Set Relations with Isocontours over Existing Visualizations

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, November 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn

  47. DocuBurst: Visualizing Document Content using Language Structure

    Article • Computer Graphics Forum, June 2009, Wiley

    Gerald Penn

  48. Statistical Parsing with Context-Free Filtering Grammar

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gerald Penn

  49. Topological field parsing of German

    Article • January 2009, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  50. Improving automatic speech recognition for lectures through transformation-based rules learned from minimal data

    Article • January 2009, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  51. Summarizing multiple spoken documents

    Article • January 2009, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  52. Identifying salient utterances of online spoken documents using descriptive hypertext

    Article • December 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn

  53. A critical assessment of spoken utterance retrieval through approximate lattice representations

    Article • October 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  54. Memory management for unification-based processing of typed feature structures

    Article • Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, October 2008, University Library J. C. Senckenberg

    Gerald Penn

  55. Using latent Dirichlet allocation to incorporate domain knowledge for topic transition detection

    Article • September 2008, International Speech Communication Association

    Gerald Penn

  56. Collaborative editing for improved usefulness and usability of transcript-enhanced webcasts

    Article • April 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  57. Interactive visualization for computational linguistics

    Article • January 2008, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  58. Photohelix: Browsing, Sorting and Sharing Digital Photo Collections

    Article • October 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn

  59. Living with a Tabletop: Analysis and Observations of Long Term Office Use of a Multi-Touch Table

    Article • October 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn

  60. Web-based language modelling for automatic lecture transcription

    Article • August 2007, International Speech Communication Association

    Gerald Penn

  61. Automatic speech recognition for webcasts

    Article • November 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  62. Measuring the acceptable word error rate of machine-generated webcast transcripts

    Article • September 2006, International Speech Communication Association

    Gerald Penn

  63. Utterance-Level Extractive Summarization of Open-Domain Spontaneous Conversations with Rich Features

    Article • July 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn

  64. The effect of speech recognition accuracy rates on the usefulness and usability of webcast archives

    Article • April 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gerald Penn

  65. Design space and typed feature logic

    Article • Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturing, March 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Gerald Penn

  66. Efficient transitive closure of sparse matrices over closed semirings

    Article • Theoretical Computer Science, March 2006, Elsevier

    Gerald Penn

  67. Control strategies for parsing with freer word-order languages

    Article • January 2006, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  68. The Other Syntax: Approaching Natural Language Semantics Through Logical Form Composition

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gerald Penn

  69. Lexical Resource Semantics: From theory to implementation

    Article • Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, October 2004, University Library J. C. Senckenberg

    Gerald Penn

  70. A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Sequent Derivability in the Lambek Calculus

    Article • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, April 2004, Elsevier

    Gerald Penn

  71. Andreas Kathol, Linear Syntax

    Article • The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gerald Penn

  72. Balancing clarity and efficiency in typed feature logic through delaying

    Article • January 2004, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  73. Head-driven parsing for word lattices

    Article • January 2004, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  74. Optimizing typed feature structure grammar parsing through non-statistical indexing

    Article • January 2004, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  75. In search of epistemic primitives in the English Resource Grammar (or Why HPSG can't live without higher-order datatypes)

    Article • Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, October 2003, University Library J. C. Senckenberg

    Gerald Penn

  76. Book Review

    Article • Computational Linguistics, September 2003, The MIT Press

    Gerald Penn

  77. A tabulation-based parsing method that reduces copying

    Article • January 2003, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  78. AVM description compilation using types as modes

    Article • January 2003, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  79. Topological parsing

    Article • January 2003, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  80. A web-based instructional platform for constraint-based grammar formalisms and parsing

    Article • January 2002, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  81. Review of Sproat (2000): A computational theory of writing systems

    Article • Written Language & Literacy, November 2001, John Benjamins

    Gerald Penn

  82. Generalized encoding of description spaces and its application to typed feature structures

    Article • January 2001, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  83. Tractability and structural closures in attribute logic type signatures

    Article • January 2001, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Gerald Penn

  84. Categorial grammars determined from linguistic data by unification

    Article • Studia Logica, December 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gerald Penn

  85. Vocalic and Consonantal Grapheme Classification through Spectral Decomposition

    Article • Atelier Fluxus Virus

    Gerald Penn

  86. Flexible Web document analysis for delivery to narrow-bandwidth devices

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gerald Penn