Kenneth Ward Church

2 accepted papers

2025

Is Peer-Reviewing Worth the Effort?

Kenneth Ward Church, Raman Chandrasekar, John E. Ortega, Ibrahim Said Ahmad

COLING 2025main

How effective is peer-reviewing in identifying important papers? We treat this question as a forecasting task. Can we predict which papers will be highly cited in the future based on venue and “early returns” (citations soon after publication)? We show early returns are more predictive than venue. F…

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2021

Large Margin Training Improves Language Models for ASR

Jilin Wang, Jiaji Huang, Kenneth Ward Church

ICASSP 2021accepted

Language models (LM) have been widely deployed in modern ASR systems. The LM is often trained by minimizing its perplexity on speech transcript. However, few studies try to discriminate a "gold" reference against inferior hypotheses. In this work, we propose a large margin language model (LMLM). LML…

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