Office: Language Technologies Institute

Carnegie Mellon University

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Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Email: abqszi@r.postjobfree.com

Web: www.cs.cmu.edu/~cbennett

EducationUniversity

of Texas at Austin: 1993

1997Graduation

Date: December 20, 1997Degree:

B.A. /GPA

and Honors information available by requestCarnegie

Mellon University: 2001

2003Graduation Date: May 18, 2003Degree: M.S. in,

Masters Thesis Topic: Personalization of synthetic voices by learning

speaker-specific pronunciation habitsCarnegie

Mellon University: 2003

presentExpected

Graduation Date: 2007

Technical SkillsLinguistic

Experience:Phonetic

Transcription (IPA, NA, DARPA)Historical

Language Change Rule DerivationsCoursework: Phonetics, Phonology, Historical

Linguistics and Language Change, Syntax, American English, English

Grammar, History of the English Language, Sociolinguistics of Latin

America, Romani Language and Culture, Language and the Law, Language and

the Brain, Speech Science, Old English, graduate level PhoneticsLanguage

Technology Experience:

C++,

Perl, VoiceXML, and HTML programmingSemantic

and Syntactic GrammarsCoursework: Speech:PPPS,,

Speech Lab, Algorithms for Natural Language

Processing, Grammars and

Lexicons, Formal Knowledge

Representation, Formal

Semantics, LT for

CALL,

Software Engineering for IT,,

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, Fall 2004

Course: Grammars and

Lexicons

Instructors: and

Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute

Work Experience

Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute

August 1998 to August 2001

Position: Research Assistant, Communicator Project

Full time

Responsibilities:

Management of Speech Transcription Effort

Error Analysis of CMU Communicator Dialog System Logs

Maintenance of System Dictionary and Grammar

Periodic Maintenance of Databases and NLG

Additional work history available upon request.

Publications

Bennett, C. L., "Large Scale Evaluation of Corpus-based Synthesizers: Results and Lessons from the Blizzard Challenge 2005," In Proceedings of Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005.

Kominek, J., Bennett, C., Langner, B., and Toth, A., "," In Proceedings of Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005.

Bennett, C. L. and Black, A. W., "Prediction of Pronunciation Variations for Speech Synthesis: A Data-driven Approach," in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005.

Bennett, C. L. and Black, A. W., ","

in Proceedings of Eurospeech, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003.

Kominek, J., Bennett, C. and Black, A. W., ","

in Proceedings of Eurospeech, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003.

Bennett, C. and Rudnicky, A. I., "," in Proceedings of the International Conference of Spoken Language Processing, Denver, Colorado, 2002.

Bennett, C., Font Llitjos, A., Shriver, S., Rudnicky,

A., and Black, A. W., "Building

VoiceXML-Based Applications," in Proceedings

of the International Conference of Spoken Language Processing, Denver,

Colorado, 2002.

Bennett, C., "A Comparative Analysis of DARPA

Communicator Systems," Presentation at DARPA Communicator PI Meeting,

New Orleans, Louisiana, July 2001. (info available by request)

Rudnicky, A., Bennett, C., Black, A.,

Chotimongkol,

A., Lenzo, K., Oh, A., Singh, R., "Task and Domain Specific Modelling in

the Carnegie Mellon Communicator System," in Proceedings of the

International Conference of Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, China,

2000.

Eskenazi, M., Rudnicky, A., Gregory, K.,

Constantinides, P., Brennan, R.,

Bennett, C., Allen, J., "Data Collection and Processing in the Carnegie

Mellon Communicator," in Proceedings of

the Eurospeech Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 1999.

References

Available upon request

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