Nikos Tsourakis

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A Multilingual CALL Game Based on Speech Translation
Manny Rayner, P. Bouillon, Nikos Tsourakis, Johanna Gerlach +3 more
2010International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation48 citations Open access
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Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition in greek: corpus and an automatic dictation system
V. Digalakis, Dimitris Oikonomidis, Dimitris Pratsolis, Nikos Tsourakis +3 more
2003Interspeech28 citations
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A Speech-Enabled Fixed-Phrase Translator for Emergency Settings: Crossover Study
H. Spechbach, Johanna Gerlach, Sanae Mazouri Karker, Nikos Tsourakis +2 more
2019JMIR Medical Informatics25 citations Open access
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A Scalable Architecture For Web Deployment of Spoken Dialogue Systems
M. Fuchs, Nikos Tsourakis, Manny Rayner
2012International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation25 citations Open access
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Many-to-Many Multilingual Medical Speech Translation on a PDA
P. Bouillon, Glenn Flores, Maria Georgescul, Sonia Halimi +8 more
2008Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas24 citations
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An Open Web Platform for Rule-Based Speech-to-Sign Translation
Manny Rayner, P. Bouillon, S. Ebling, Johanna Gerlach +2 more
2016Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics22 citations Open access
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A Bidirectional Grammar-Based Medical Speech Translator
P. Bouillon, Glenn Flores, Marianne Starlander, Nikos Chatzichrisafis +4 more
200722 citations Open access
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CALL-SLT: A Spoken CALL System Based on Grammar and Speech Recognition
Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis, Claudia Baur, P. Bouillon +1 more
2014LILT21 citations
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A student-centred evaluation of a web-based spoken translation game
P. Bouillon, Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis, Qing-Lu Zhang
2011Slate20 citations Open access
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Building Mobile Spoken Dialogue Applications Using Regulus
Nikos Tsourakis, Maria Georgescul, P. Bouillon, Manny Rayner
2008International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation19 citations Open access
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For a fistful of dollars: using crowd-sourcing to evaluate a spoken language CALL application
Manny Rayner, Ian Frank, Cathy Chua, Nikos Tsourakis +1 more
2011Slate17 citations Open access
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Developing Non-European Translation Pairs in a Medium-Vocabulary Medical Speech Translation System
P. Bouillon, Sonia Halimi, Yukie Nakao, K. Kanzaki +5 more
2008International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation17 citations Open access
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Helping Domain Experts Build Phrasal Speech Translation Systems
Manny Rayner, Alejandro Armando, P. Bouillon, S. Ebling +4 more
2015International Workshop on Future and Emergent Trends in Language Technology15 citations Open access
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Using a Serious Game to Collect a Child Learner Speech Corpus
Claudia Baur, Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis
2014International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation15 citations Open access
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Lightweight Spoken Utterance Classification with CFG, tf-idf and Dynamic Programming
Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis, Johanna Gerlach
2017International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing11 citations
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A Speech-enabled Fixed-phrase Translator for Healthcare Accessibility
P. Bouillon, Johanna Gerlach, Jonathan Mutal, Nikos Tsourakis +1 more
2021NLP4POSIMPACT10 citations Open access
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Helping non-expert users develop online spoken CALL courses
Manny Rayner, Claudia Baur, P. Bouillon, Cathy Chua +1 more
2015Slate10 citations Open access
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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact
J. Lee, Bai-Kun Liang, Haley Fong, Tian-Yi Zhang +496 more
20219 citations Open access
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Supervised learning of response grammars in a spoken call system
Manny Rayner, Claudia Baur, Cathy Chua, Nikos Tsourakis
2015Slate9 citations Open access
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Rapid Construction of a Web-Enabled Medical Speech to Sign Language Translator Using Recorded Video
Farhia Ahmed, P. Bouillon, C. Destefano, Johanna Gerlach +5 more
2016International Workshop on Future and Emergent Trends in Language Technology8 citations Open access
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Using hand gestures to control mobile spoken dialogue systems
Nikos Tsourakis
2013Universal Access in the Information Society8 citations Open access
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Evaluating the Quality of Mobile Medical Speech Translators Based on ISO/IEC 9126 Series: Definition, Weighted Quality Model and Metrics
Nikos Tsourakis, Paula Estrella
20138 citations Open access
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Methodological issues in evaluating a spoken CALL game: can crowdsourcing help us perform controlled experiments?
Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis
2013Slate8 citations Open access
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Automatic text simplification for French: model fine-tuning for simplicity assessment and simpler text generation
Lucía Ormaechea, Nikos Tsourakis
2024International Journal of Speech Technology6 citations Open access
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CALL-SLT lite: a minimal framework for building interactive speech-enabled CALL applications
Manny Rayner, Claudia Baur, Nikos Tsourakis
2014Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction6 citations
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EVALUATING A WEB-BASED SPOKEN TRANSLATION GAME FOR LEARNING DOMAIN LANGUAGE
P. Bouillon, Sonia Halimi, Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis
20116 citations
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Comparing two different bidirectional versions of the limited-domain medical spoken language translator MedSLT
Marianne Starlander, P. Bouillon, Glenn Flores, Manny Rayner +1 more
2008European Association for Machine Translation Conferences/Workshops6 citations
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Extracting Sentence Simplification Pairs from French Comparable Corpora Using a Two-Step Filtering Method
Lucía Ormaechea, Nikos Tsourakis
2023Swiss Text Analytics Conference5 citations
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Formative feedback in an interactive spoken CALL system
Nikos Tsourakis, Manny Rayner, Claudia Baur
2014Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction5 citations
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Assessing the quality of TTS audio in the LARA learning-by-reading platform
Elham Akhlaghi, Anna Bączkowska, Harald Berthelsen, Branislav Bédi +11 more
2021CALL and professionalisation: short papers from EUROCALL 20214 citations Open access
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From Desktop to Mobile: Adapting a Successful Voice Interaction Platform for Use in Mobile Devices
Nikos Tsourakis, Agnes Lisowska, P. Bouillon, Manny Rayner
20084 citations
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Statistical Language and Speech Processing
Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis
2018Lecture Notes in Computer Science3 citations
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A tool for building multilingual voice questionnaires
Alejandro Armando, P. Bouillon, Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis
2014TC3 citations
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Discriminative learning using linguistic features to rescore n-best speech hypotheses
Maria Georgescul, Manny Rayner, P. Bouillon, Nikos Tsourakis
20082008 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop3 citations Open access
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Degradation of speech recognition performance over lossy data networks
Dimitris Pratsolis, Nikos Tsourakis, Vassilis Digalakis
2007Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling3 citations
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A generic methodology of converting transliterated text to phonetic strings case study: greeklish
Nikos Tsourakis, V. Digalakis
2007Interspeech3 citations
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Simplification Strategies in French Spontaneous Speech
Lucía Ormaechea, Nikos Tsourakis, Didier Schwab, Pierrette Bouillon +1 more
2024DETERMIT2 citations
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Using the LARA Little Prince to compare human and TTS audio quality
Elham Akhlaghi, Ingibjörg Iða Auðunardóttir, Anna Bączkowska, Branislav Bédi +14 more
2022International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation2 citations Open access
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An Albanian Text-to-Speech System for the BabelDr Medical Speech Translator
Nikos Tsourakis, Rovena Troqe, Johanna Gerlach, P. Bouillon +1 more
2020Medical Informatics Europe2 citations Open access
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Alexa as a CALL platform for children: Where do we start?
Nikos Tsourakis, Manny Rayner, Hanieh Habibi, P. Gallais +2 more
2019arXiv.org2 citations
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Decentralising power: how we are trying to keep CALLector ethical
Cathy Chua, Hanieh Habibi, Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis
2019arXiv.org2 citations
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A Robust Medical Speech-to-Speech/Speech-to-Sign Phraselator
Farhia Ahmed, P. Bouillon, C. Destefano, Johanna Gerlach +6 more
2017Interspeech2 citations
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The 2008 MedSLT System
Manny Rayner, P. Bouillon, J. Brotanek, Glenn Flores +9 more
2008SPSCTPA@COLING2 citations
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An architecture for miultiemodal applications over wireless data networks
Nikos Tsourakis, Dimitris Pratsolis, C. Harizakis, V. Digalakis
20062 citations
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Simple, Simpler and Beyond: A Fine-Tuning BERT-Based Approach to Enhance Sentence Complexity Assessment for Text Simplification
Lucía Ormaechea, Nikos Tsourakis, Didier Schwab, Pierrette Bouillon +1 more
2023International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing1 citations
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Handling Ellipsis in a Spoken Medical Phraselator
Manny Rayner, Johanna Gerlach, P. Bouillon, Nikos Tsourakis +1 more
2018International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing1 citations Open access
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Helping Domain Experts Build Speech Translation Systems
Manny Rayner, Alejandro Armando, P. Bouillon, S. Ebling +4 more
2015arXiv.org1 citations
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A Web-Deployed Swedish Spoken CALL System Based on a Large Shared English/Swedish Feature Grammar
Manny Rayner, Johanna Gerlach, Marianne Starlander, Nikos Tsourakis +5 more
20121 citations
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Examining the Effects of Rephrasing User Input on Two Mobile Spoken Language Systems
Nikos Tsourakis, Agnes Lisowska, Manny Rayner, P. Bouillon
2010International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation1 citations Open access
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Towards High-Quality LLM-Based Data for French Spontaneous Speech Simplification: an Exo-Refinement Approach
Lucía Ormaechea, Nikos Tsourakis, Pierrette Bouillon, Benjamin Lecouteux +1 more
2025Interspeech0 citations Open access
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