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Amy Neustein
Linguistic Technology Systems
USA
Title:
Sequence Package Analysis: A New Speaker Biometric for Performing
Speaker Verification of Terror Suspects in Stressed Environments
Abstract: Sequence
Package Analysis (SPA) identifies another kind of
speaker trait: the unique conversational sequence patterns that are
associated with each speaker. In stressed environments where extraction
features, acoustic vectors, and classifications, and other classical
speaker biometric features are compromised by noisy texts, which
include speakers who deliberately alter their voices when colluding on
crimes and terrorist acts, SPA finds the speaker traits which are not
obscured by such conditions. What this means is that when there is a
mismatch, a non match or a low confidence match between a suspect's
normal speech sample and the speech sample obtained by law enforcement
during a high stressed situation (for example, the unidentified speaker
is making a threat and is naturally agitated) SPA identifies the
conversational sequence patterns that remain constant and identifiable
notwithstanding the stressed environment. As such, SPA may be seen as a
complementary biometric measure to improve accuracy of speaker
verification in stressed environments. For future study is a
determination of whether conversation sequence patterns (because they
are not subject to the acoustic compromises of stressed environments)
outperform standard biometrics or, at least, serve as a complementary
biometric to improve accuracy of speaker verification in stressed
environments.
Biography: Amy
Neustein, Ph.D. is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of
Speech Technology (Springer Verlag). She is Founder and CEO of
Linguistic Technology Systems, a NJ-based think tank for intelligent
design of advanced Natural Language Understanding software to improve
human response in critical systems, such as monitoring recorded
conversations of terror suspects and of patient’s calls to medical
hotlines. Neustein is a graduate of Boston University (1981) where she
received her Ph.D. in sociology; her specialty area is Conversation
Analysis. She has published a number of scholarly articles, chapters
and books and is the recipient of a pro Humanitate Literary Award. She
serves on the visiting faculty of the National Judicial College and as
a moderator and panelist at academic and industry conferences in speech
recognition and natural language processing. She has also established a
high profile in the mass media as a reformer of socio-legal and
religious institutions, and has made appearances on ABC Nightline, CNN,
Voice of America, National Public Radio, and has been quoted in the
Associated Press and the New York Times.
Kwok-L.
Tsui
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Manufacturing Engineering & Engineering Management
City University of Hong Kong
Title:
Recent Research in System Informatics, Prognostics, and Health
Management
Abstract:
Due to (i) concerns in public health safety,
product reliability, system safety and failure prevention, and (ii)
latest advancement in data collection technologies and modelling tools,
there are tremendous opportunities in quantitative modelling research
in system informatics (SI) as well as system prognostics and health
management (PHM). First, we will present our view on research in system
informatics, including data mining, surveillance, simulation, and
system integration in healthcare and public health applications.
In health surveillance, we will review and classify the various types
of health surveillance research problems. In simulation, we
review the latest research in disease spread simulation models and
hospital operation simulation models. In system integration, we explore
the opportunities for integrating surveillance, simulation,
diagnostics, prognostics, data mining, and bioinformatics for
personalized health management. Second, we will then discuss the
recent research in system prognostics and health management and how
they are connected to research in system informatics and human health
management. In particular, we will explain the characteristics of
PHM and how they are different from traditional reliability modelling
research.
Biography:
Kwok-Leung Tsui is professor in the School of Industrial and Systems
Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and chair professor of
Industrial Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He received his
Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in
1986. Dr. Tsui was a recipient of the NSF Young Investigator Award in
1992. He was the (elected) President and Vice President of the
American Statistical Association Atlanta Chapter in 1992-1993; the
Chair of the INFORMS Section in Quality, Statistics, and Reliability in
2000; and the Founding Chair of the Section in Data Mining in 2004. He
is a fellow of American Statistical Association, a US representative in
the ISO Technical Committee on Statistical Methods, and a department
editor of the IIE Transactions. His current research interests
include health informatics, data mining and surveillance in healthcare
and public health, calibration and validation of computer models,
bioinformatics, process control and monitoring, and robust design and
Taguchi method.
Václav Snášel
VSB-Technical University of Ostrava,
Czech Republic
Biography: Vaclav
Snasel's research and development experience includes over 25 years in
the Industry and Academia. He works in a multi-disciplinary environment
involving artificial intelligence, multidimensional data indexing,
conceptual lattice, information retrieval, semantic web, knowledge
management, data compression, machine intelligence, neural network, web
intelligence, data mining and applied to various real world problems.
He has given more than 5 plenary lectures and conference tutorials in
these areas. He has authored/co-authored several refereed
journal/conference papers and book chapters. He has published more than
350 papers. He has supervised many Ph.D. students from Czech Republic,
Jordan, Yemen, Slovakia, Ukraine and Vietnam. From 2001 he is a
visiting scientist in the Institute of Computer Science, Academy of
Sciences of the Czech Republic. From 2003 he is vice-dean for Research
and Science at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He is full
professor since 2006. Before turning into a full time academic, he was
working with industrial company where he was involved in different
industrial research and development projects for nearly 8 years. He
received Ph.D. degree in Algebra and Geometry from Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic and a Master of Science degree from Palacky
University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. Besides, the Editor-in-Chief of
two journals, he also serves the editorial board of some reputed
International journals. He is actively involved in the International
Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN);
Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management (CISIM);
Evolutionary Techniques in Data Processing (ETID) series of
International conferences. He is a Member of IEEE, ACM, AMS and SIAM.
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