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Francesc Alías Pujol

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PUBLICATIONS

The following list is an enumeration of my publications:

2010

  • Francesc Alías, Natàlia Munné; "Reliable pitch marking of affective speech at peaks or valleys using restricted dynamic programming" , IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (Special issue on Multimodal Affective Interaction), vol. 12 (6), October. (Accepted)
  • Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías; "Applicability of MPEG-7 low level descriptors to environmental sound source recognition " , EAA EUROREGIO 2010 Congress & Exhibition, September. (Accepted)
  • Lluís Formiga, Francesc Alías, Xavier Llorà; "Evolutionary process indicators for active IGAs applied to Weight Tuning in Unit Selection TTS synthesis" , IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation, WCCI 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, pp. 2322-2329, July, Barcelona (Spain). [ppt]

2009

  • Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías, Stylianos Kephalopoulos, Marco Paviotti; "Pattern recognition and separation of road noise sources by means of ACF, MFCC and probability density estimation" , Euronoise 2009, October, Edinburgh (UK).
  • Alexandre Trilla, Francesc Alías; "Sentiment classification in English from sentence-level annotations of emotions regarding models of affect" , Proceedings of InterSpeech2009 (ISSN: 1990-9772), pp. 516-519, September, Brighton (UK).
  • Xavier Sevillano, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías; "Fuzzy clusterers combination by positional voting for robust document clustering" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (ISSN:1135-5948), nº43, pp. 245-253,September, San Sebastián (Spain). [pdf]
  • Ignasi Iriondo, Santiago Planet, Joan Claudi Socoró, Elisa Martínez, Francesc Alías, Carlos Monzo "Automatic refinement of an expressive speech corpus assembling subjective perception and automatic classification " , Speech Communication (Special issue on non-linear and conventional speech processing - NOLISP 2007) (ISSN 0167-6393), vol. 51 (9), pp. 744-758, September. Available online. [link]
  • Xavier Sevillano, Javier Melenchón, Germán Cobo, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías; "Audiovisual Analysis and Synthesis for Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces" , Engineering the User Interaction: From Research to Practice; Redondo M., Bravo C., Ortega M. (Eds.) (ISBN 978-1-84800-135-0), Chapter 13, pp. 179-194, Springer London, January. [link]

2008

  • Carlos Monzo, Lluís Formiga, Jordi Adell, Ignasi Iriondo, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró "Adapting the URL-TTS for the Albayzin 2008 competition" , V Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla, pp. 87-90, November, Bilbao (Spain) (in Spanish) [pdf]
  • Francesc Alías, Xavier Sevillano, Joan Claudi Socoró, Xavier Gonzalvo, "Towards high quality next-generation Text-to-Speech synthesis: a Multidomain approach by automatic domain classification" , IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (Special issue on New Approaches to Statistical Speech and Text Processing) (ISSN 1558-7916), vol. 16 (7), pp. 1340-1354, September. [link] [demo]
  • Lluís Formiga, Francesc Alías; "GTM user modeling for aIGA weight tuning in TTS Synthesis" , Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence; Juan R. Rabuñal, Julian Dorado & Alejandro Pazos (Eds.) (ISBN 978-1-59904-849-9), Information Science Reference, pp. 788-795, July. [link]
  • Ignasi Iriondo, Santi Planet, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Elisa Martínez; "Emulating Subjective Criteria in Corpus Validation" , Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence; Juan R. Rabuñal, Julian Dorado & Alejandro Pazos (Eds.) (ISBN 978-1-59904-849-9), Information Science Reference, pp. 541-546, July. [link]
  • José A. Montero, Joan Gómez, Francesc Alías, Carles Garriga, Lluíis Vicent; "Evaluating subjective competences. An experience on assessing the performance of students' teamwork" , VIII Jornada sobre Aprendizaje Cooperativo (ISBN 978-84-691-4605-7), pp. 171-180, July, 4th (in Spanish)
  • David García, Francesc Alías; "Emotion identification from text using semantic disambiguation" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 40 (ISSN:1135-5948), pp. 75-82.(in Spanish) [pdf]
  • Manuel Pablo Triviño, Francesc Alías; "Statistical prediction of spectral discontinuities of speech in concatenative synthesis" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 40 (ISSN:1135-5948), pp. 67-74. (in Spanish) [pdf]

2007

  • Xavier Sevillano, Germán Cobo, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Text Clustering on Latent Thematic Spaces: Variants, Strenghts and Weaknesses" , 7th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ISSN: 0302-9743), Springer Verlag, nº 4446, pp. 794-801, September, London (UK).
  • Francesc Alías, Manuel Pablo Triviño; "A phonetically balanced Modified Rhyme Test for evaluating Catalan speech intelligibility" , Proceedings of 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 2197-2200, August, Saarbrücken (Germany) [pdf]
  • Carlos Monzo, Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo, Xavier Gonzalvo, Santiago Planet; "Discriminating Expressive Speech Styles by Voice Quality Parameterization" , Proceedings of 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 2081-2084, August, Saarbrücken (Germany).
  • Ignasi Iriondo, Santiago Planet, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías, Carlos Monzo, Elisa Martínez; "Expressive Speech Corpus Validation by Mapping Subjective Perception to Automatic Classification Based on Prosody and Voice Quality" , Proceedings of 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 2125-2128, August, Saarbrücken (Germany).
  • Xavier Sevillano, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "BordaConsensus: a New Consensus Function for Soft Cluster Ensembles" , 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, july, Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
  • Lluís Formiga, Francesc Alías; "Extracting user Preferences by GTM for aiGA Weight Tuning in Unit Selection Text-to-Speech Synthesis" , The 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN'2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (ISSN: 0302-9743), Springer Verlag, nº 4507, pp. 654-661, June, San Sebastián (Spain).
  • José A. Montero, Francesc Alías, Carles Garriga, Lluís Vicent, Ignasi Iriondo; "Assessing Students’ Teamwork Performance by means of Fuzzy Logic" , The 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN'2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (ISSN: 0302-9743), Springer Verlag, nº 4507, pp. 383-390, June, San Sebastián (Spain).
  • Ignasi Iriondo, Santiago Planet, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Elisa Martínez; "Validation of an Expressive Speech Corpus by Mapping Automatic Classification to Subjective Evaluation" , The 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN'2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (ISSN: 0302-9743), Springer Verlag, nº 4507, pp. 646-653, June, San Sebastián (Spain).
  • Xavier Gonzalvo, Ignasi Iriondo, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías, Carlos Monzo; "HMM-based Spanish speech synthesis using CBR as F0 estimator" , ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Non Linear Speech Processing (NOLISP07), May, Paris (France).
  • Ignasi Iriondo, Santiago Planet, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías; "Objective and Subjective Evaluation of an Expressive Speech Corpus" , ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Non Linear Speech Processing (NOLISP07), May, Paris (France).
  • Ignasi Iriondo, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías; "Prosody Modelling of Spanish for Expressive Speech Synthesis" , International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP07), vol. IV, pp. 821-824, May, Hawai'i (USA).
  • Xavier Sevillano, Germán Cobo, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Hierarchical Consensus Architecture for Robust Document Clustering" , 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR07), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, nº 4425 (ISSN: 0302-9743), Springer Verlag, pp. 741-745, April, Rome (Italy).

2006

  • Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Multidomain Text-to-Speech Conversion: principles and portability" , IV Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla (4JTH06), pp. 237-242, ISBN 84-96214-82-6, november, Zaragoza (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  • Lluís Formiga, Francesc Alías; "Heuristics for implementing the A* algorithm for unit selection TTS synthesis systems" , IV Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla (4JTH06), pp. 219-224, ISBN 84-96214-82-6, november, Zaragoza (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  • Ignasi Iriondo, Joan Claudi Socoró, Lluís Formiga, Xavier Gonzalvo, Francesc Alías, Pere Miralles; "Prosody modelling and estimation by means of Case-Based Reasoning" , IV Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla (4JTH06), pp. 183-188, ISBN 84-96214-82-6, november, Zaragoza (Spain). (in Spanish)
  • Francesc Alías; "Multi-domain Unit selection based Text-to-Speech Synthesis with subjective weight tuning and robust pitch marking" , Ph.D. Thesis; Supervisor: Dr. Joan Claudi Socoró, Defense: September, the 28th. (in Spanish) [abstract]
  • Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Xavier Sevillano, Ignasi Iriondo, Xavier Gonzalvo; "Multi-domain Text-to-Speech Synthesis by Automatic Text Classification" , InterSpeech2006 -International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), pp. 1304-1307, September, Pittsburgh (USA). [pdf]
  • Francesc Alías, Carlos Monzo, Joan Claudi Socoró; "A Pitch Marks Filtering Algorithm based on Restricted Dynamic Programming" , InterSpeech2006 -International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), pp. 1698-1701, September, Pittsburgh (USA). [pdf]
  • Francesc Alías, Xavier Gonzalvo, Xavier Sevillano, Joan Claudi Socoró, José Antonio Montero, David García; "Text Classification adapted to Multi-domain Text-to-Speech Synthesis" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 37 (ISSN:1135-5948), pp. 267-274, September, Zaragoza (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  • Xavier Sevillano, Germán Cobo, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Robust Document Clustering by Exploiting Feature Diversity in Cluster Ensembles" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 37 (ISSN:1135-5948), pp. 169-176, September, Zaragoza (Spain).
  • Germán Cobo, Xavier Sevillano, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Text Representation Techniques for Document Clustering" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 37 (ISSN:1135-5948), pp. 328-336, September, Zaragoza (Spain). (in Spanish)
  • Carlos Monzo, Francesc Alías, José Antonio Morán, Xavier Gonzalvo; "Phonetic Transcription of Spanish Acronyms by using C4.5 algorithm" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 37 (ISSN:1135-5948), pp. 275-282, September, Zaragoza (Spain). (in Spanish)
  • Francesc Alías, Xavier Sevillano, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Text Classification based on Associative Relational Networks for Multi-Domain Text-to-Speech Synthesis" , 2006 SIGIR Workshop on Computational Analysis of Stylistics in Text Retrieval, August 10, Seattle (USA). [pdf]
  • Xavier Sevillano, Germán Cobo, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Feature Diversity in Cluster Ensembles for Robust Document Clustering" , The 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR, August, Seattle (USA).
  • Xavier Llorà, Kumara Sastry, Francesc Alías, David E. Goldberg, Michael Welge; "Analyzing Active Interactive Genetic Algorithms using Visual Analytics" , 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July, Seattle (USA).
  • José A. Montero, José A. Morán, Joan Gómez, Francesc Alías, Lluís Vicent, David Badia; "The role of Cooperative Learning in Linear Algebra for engineeers. A practical study." , 6th Workshop on Cooperative Learning, July, 7, Barcelona (Spain). (in Spanish)
  • José A. Montero, José A. Morán, Joan Gómez, Francesc Alías, Lluís Vicent, David Badia; "Moving from classical teaching to active learning in Algebra for engineers" , International Seminar on Innovative Teaching and Learning in Engineering Education, May, Valladolid (Spain).(in Spanish)
  • Francesc Alías, Xavier Llorà, Lluís Formiga, Kumara Sastry, David E. Goldberg; "Efficient interactive weight tuning for TTS synthesis: reducing user fatigue by improving user consistency" , 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP06), vol. I, pp. 865-868, May, Toulouse (France). [link]

2005

  • Xavier Llorà, Francesc Alías, Lluís Formiga, Kumara Sastry, David E. Goldberg; "Evaluation consistency in iGAs: user contradictions as cycles in partial-ordering graphs" , Technical Report No. 2005022 of IlliGAL - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo, Lluís Formiga, Xavier Gonzalvo, Carlos Monzo, Xavier Sevillano; "High quality Spanish restricted-domain TTS oriented to a weather forecast application" , The 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (InterSpeech) ISSN 1018-4074, pp. 2573-2576, september, Lisbon (Portugal). [pdf]

2004

  • Francesc Alías, Xavier Sevillano, Pere Barnola, Lluís Formiga, Ignasi Iriondo, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Multidomain Text-to-Speech Conversion" , III Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla (3JTH04), pp. 101-106, november, Valencia (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  • Francesc Alías, Xavier Llorà, Ignasi Iriondo, Xavier Sevillano, Lluís Formiga, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Perception-Guided and Phonetic Clustering Weight Tuning Based on Diphone Pairs for Unit Selection TTS" , 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP2004), October, Jeju Island (Korea). [pdf]
  • Xavier Sevillano, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Reliability in ICA-based Text Classication" , 5th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, nº 3195 (ISSN: 0302-9743), Springer Verlag, pp. 1210-1217, september, Granada (Spain).
  • José A. Montero, Francesc Alías, Jordi Rodríguez, Lluís Formiga; "ALGTEC as a basis of a new constructivist methodology for the teaching of the Linear Algebra in Engineering" , Proceedings of the XIX Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio (URSI) , September, Barcelona (Spain). (in Spanish)
  • Ignasi Iriondo, Francesc Alías, Javier Melenchón, M. Angeles Llorca; "Modeling and Synthesizing Emotional Speech for Catalan Text-to-Speech Synthesis" , Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialog Systems (ADS04), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, nº 3068 (ISSN 0302- 9743), Springer Verlag, pp.197-208, June, Kloster Irsee (Germany).
  • Xavier Sevillano, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "ICA-based Hierarchical Text Classification for Multi-Domain Text-to-Speech Synthesis" , 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP04), vol. V, pp. 697-700, May, Montreal (Canada).
  • José A. Montero, Elisa Martínez, José A. Moran, Francesc Alías, Rosa Alsina; "The methodological transition in academics: is it a necessity?" , IV International Conference of Virtual Education (CIVE2004), February, Internet. (in Spanish)

2003

  • Francesc Alías, Xavier Llorà, Ignasi Iriondo, Lluís Formiga; "Subjective Weight Tuning for Unit Selection by means of Interactive Genetic Algorithms" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 31 (ISSN:1135-5948), pp. 75-82, September, Alcalá de Henares (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  • Francesc Alías, Xavier Sevillano, Pere Barnola, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Multi-domain text-to-speech architecture", Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 31 (ISSN: 1135-5948), pp. 83-90, September, Alcalá de Henares (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  • Francesc Alías, Xavier Llorà ; "Evolutionary weight tuning based on diphone pairs for unit selection speech synthesis", The 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EuroSpeech) ISSN 1018-40-74, vol. 2,  pp. 1333-1336, September, Geneve (Switzerland). (Also Technical Report No. 2003018 of IlliGAL - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) [pdf]
  • Ignasi Iriondo, Francesc Alías, Javier Sanchis, Javier Melenchón; "A Hybrid Method Oriented to Concatenative Text-to-Speech Synthesis" The 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EuroSpeech), ISSN 1018-40-74, vol. 4, pp. 2953-2958, September, Geneve (Switzerland).
  • Javier Melenchón, Fernando de la Torre, Ignasi Iriondo, Francesc Alías, Elisa Martínez, Lluís Vicent; "Text to visual synthesis with appearance models", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), ISBN 0-7803-7750-8, pp. 237-240, September, Barcelona (Spain).
  • Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo, Pere Barnola; "Multi-domain text classification for unit selection Text-to-Speech Synthesis", Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), ISBN 1-876346-48-5, pp. 2341-2344, August, Barcelona (Spain). [pdf]
  • Xavier Sevillano, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Independent topic extraction for text classification" , Proceedings of the XVIII Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio (URSI) , September, A Coruña (Spain). (in Spanish)

2002

  • Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo; "The Evolution on Speech Synthesis at La Salle School of Engineering" , II Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla, December, Granada (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  • Ignasi Iriondo, Francesc Alías, Javier Melenchón; "A hybrid model oriented to multimodal speech synthesis" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 29 (ISSN: 1135-5948), pp. 159-163, September, Valladolid (Spain). (in Spanish)
  • Javier Melenchón, Ignasi Iriondo, Francesc Alías; "Parameterized 2D model based on real samples applied to talking-heads synthesis" Actas del XVII Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio (URSI), pp. 383-384, September, Alcalá de Henares (Spain). (in Spanish)
  • Javier Melenchón, Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo; "PREVIS: a Person-specific Real Virtual Speaker" IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), August, Lausanne (Switzerland).
  • José A. Montero, Elisa Martínez, José A. Moran, Francesc Alías, Jordi Rodríguez; "ALGTEC: a complement for teaching Linear Algebra in Telecommunications Engineering" Proceedings of the International Conference of Education, Formation and Technology (Virtual Educa), June, Valencia (Spain). (in Spanish)

2001

  • Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo "Automatically pitch marking based on dynamic programming" ,   Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 27 (ISSN: 1135-5948), pp. 225-231, September, Jaén (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  • Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo; "Catalan phone labeling based on DHMM" , Proceedings of the XVI Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio (URSI), pp. 149-150; September, Madrid (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]