Bernhard Suhm

2136 Ward St.
Berkeley CA 94705
(510) 848 4143
bsuhm@cs.cmu.edu

Objective

Position in research and development of speech recognition (and multimodal), systems, applications, and user interfaces

Education

1993 - 1998

PhD in Computer Science at Karlsruhe University (Germany), Doctoral Dissertation: "Multimodal Interactive Error Correction for Speech User Interfaces", Thesis Advisor: Alex Waibel, Grade: magna cum laude

1988 - 1992

MS in Computer Science at Karlsruhe University (Germany), Thesis: "Detection and Transcription of New Words in Speech Recognition",
Grade average: 1.5 (1.0 = outstanding, 5.0 = poor)

Oct. 1993 - May 1995

Graduate level courses in HCI at Carnegie Mellon University, including Introduction in Cognitive Psychology (Prof. Herbert Simon),
Human Computer Interface Evaluation Techniques (Prof. Bonnie John), and Research Methods in Behavioral Sciences (Prof. Mark Fichman)

Experience

Apr. 1998 - Sept. 1998

Assistant Research Scientist, Computer Science Department, Karlsruhe University (Germany)

Oct. 1993 - Mar. 1998

Research Programmer, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

Winter terms 1990, 1991

Teaching Assistant, Karlsruhe University (Germany)

Term breaks 1990, 1991, 1992

Internships at SIEMENS AG (Germany)

Professional Activities

1998

Co-author of chapter on multimodal systems for supplementary to the EAGLES Handbook on Spoken Language Systems

July 1995

Co-lecturer at ELSNET Summer School on Multilinguality

Aug. 1994

Chair of session at workshop on Integration of Speech and Natural Language Processing (AAAI Conferenc)

Skills

Algorithm development for speech recognition and language modeling
Integration of speech/handwriting/gesture recognition in distributed multimodal systems
GUI development, usability engineering, and formal user studies
Software coding (C, Tcl/Tk, Perl, PASCAL, some Java, UNIX, Windows)

Languages

German (native), English (fluent), French and Spanish (background)

Publications

  1. B. Suhm, B. Myers, and A. Waibel: "Model-based and empirical evaluation of multimodal interactive error correction", accepted for CHI'99
  2. B. Suhm: "Multimodal Interactive Error Recovery for Non-Conversational Speech User Interfaces", Dissertation Karlsruhe University, 1998
  3. B. Suhm: "Empirical Evaluation of Multimodal Interactive Error Correction", IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), Santa Barbara (USA), Dec. 1997
  4. B. Suhm and A. Waibel: "Exploiting Repair Context in Interactive Multimodal Error Recovery", Proceedings of EUROSPEECH, Rhodos (Greece), Sept. 1997
  5. B. Suhm, B. Myers, and A. Waibel: "Interactive Error Recovery for Speech User Interfaces", Proceedings of ICSLP, Philadelpha (USA), Oct. 1996
  6. J.D. Lafferty, and B. Suhm: "Efficient Training of a class of Maximum Entropy Language Models", XV Workshop of Bayesian and Maximum Entropy Mehtods, Santa Fee (USA), Aug. 1995
  7. B. Suhm, P. Geutner, T. Kemp, A. Lavie, L.J. Mayfield, A.E. McNair, I. Rogina, T. Sloboda, W. Ward, M. Woszczyna, and A. Waibel: "Towards Multi-Lingual Spoken Language Translation", ARPA Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Jan. 1995
  8. B. Suhm and A. Waibel: "Towards Better Language Models for Spontaneous Speech", Proceedings of ICSLP, Yokohama (Japan), Sept. 1994 Integration of Natural Language and Speech Processing (AAAI), Seattle (USA), Aug. 1994
  9. B. Suhm, M. Woszczyna, and A. Waibel: "Detection and Transcription of New Words", Proceedings of EUROSPEECH, Berlin (Germany), Sept. 1993

References

Dr. Alex Waibel, Senior Research Scientist at the School of Computer Science, CMU, and Professor at Karlsruhe University (Germany)
Dr. Brad Myers, Senior Research Scientist at the Human Computer Interaction Institute, CMU
Dr. Jie Yang, Research Scientist at the School of Computer Science, CMU
Arthur E. McNair, Senior Speech Engineer at Vocollect, Inc., Pittsburgh