Daniele Falavigna
Senior Researcher
Short bio
Daniele Falavigna is senior researcher at FBK, affiliated with the SpeechTek research unit of the Centre for Information Technology. After graduating in Electronic engineering at the University of Padova in 1985, in 1988 he joined ITC-irst (FBK from 2007). From 2000 to 2004 he lead the research unit DITELO at ITC-irst and from 2016 to 2020 the SpeechTek research unit at FBK. From 2001 to 2004 he was the scientific coordinator of the European Project HOMEY.
His research interests focus mainly on automatic speech recognition, acoustic modelling, speaker verification and recognition.
He has authored more than 100 publications on top ranked international journals and conferences.
Main publications
Patents.
Brunelli, D. Falavigna, L. Stringa, T. Poggio A Recognition System, Particularly for Recognizing People, European Patent Application no. 93112738.5, August 1993.
Brunelli, D. Falavigna, L. Stringa, T. Poggio Recognition System, Particularly for Recognizing People, USA Patent no. 103,700, August 1993.
Books.
R. De Mori, "Spoken Dialogues with Computers", Academic Press, London, Author of chapters 3,4 and of Appendix A.
A selection of recent publications.
Gretter, R., Matassoni, M., Falavigna, D., Misra, A., Leong, C., Knill, K., Wang, L. (2021). ETLT 2021: SHARED TASK ON AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR NON-NATIVE CHILDREN’S SPEECH. Interspeech 2021. https://www.isca-speech.org/
R. Gretter, M. Matassoni, S. Banno`, D. Falavigna (2020). TLT-scool: a Corpus of Non Native Children Speech. Proceedings of LREC 2020. Marseille (France), 2020
Papi, S., Trentin, E., Gretter, R., Matassoni, M., Falavigna, D. (2020) Mixtures of Deep Neural Experts for Automated Speech Scoring. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020, 3845-3849, DOI:10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1055
Gretter, R., Matassoni, M., Falavigna, D., Evanini, K., Leong, C.W. (2020) Overview of the Interspeech TLT2020 Shared Task on ASR for Non-Native Children’s Speech. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020, 245-249, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2133
Gretter, Roberto; Matassoni, Marco; Allgaier, Katharina; Tchistiakova, Svetlana Lvovna; Falavigna, Giuseppe Daniele, Automatic assessment of spoken language proficiency of non-native children, Proceedings of ICASSP 2019, Brighton (UK), 2019
Matassoni, Marco; Gretter, Roberto; Falavigna, Giuseppe Daniele; Giuliani, Diego, Non-native children speech recognition through transfer learning, Proceedings of ICASSP 2018, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2018
Falavigna, Daniele; Matassoni, Marco; Jalalvand, Shahab; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco, DNN adaptation by automatic quality estimation of ASR hypotheses, in «COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE», vol. 46, 2016, pp. 585 -604
Shahab Jalalvand; Matteo Negri; Marco Turchi; Daniele Falavigna; Marco Matassoni. Automatic Quality Estimation for ASR System Combination, in «COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE», vol 47, 2018, pp. 214-239
Matassoni, Marco; Falavigna, Giuseppe Daniele; Giuliani, Diego, DNN adaptation for recognition of children speech through automatic utterance selection, Proceedings of IWSLT 2016, San Diego, California, 2016
Shahab, Jalalvand; Matteo, Negri; Marco, Turchi; José, G. C. de Souza; Giuseppe Daniele Falavigna; Mohammed, R. H. Qwaider, TranscRater: a Tool for Automatic Speech Recognition Quality Estimation, Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (System Demonstrations), Stroudsburg, PA, pp. 43-48, Berlin, Germany, 2016
Jalalvand, Shahab; Negri, Matteo; Falavigna, Daniele; Turchi, Marco, Driving ROVER with Segment-based ASR Quality Estimation, Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), Beijing, China, 2015
de Souza, Jose' G.C.; Zamani, Hamed; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco; Falavigna, Giuseppe Daniele, Multitask Learning for Adaptive Quality Estimation of Automatically Transcribed Utterances, Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Stroudsburg, PA, 2015 , pp. 714-724, Colorado, USA, 2015
Zamani, Hamed; de Souza, José G. C.; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco; Falavigna, Giuseppe Daniele, Reference-free and Confidence-independent Binary Quality Estimation for Automatic Speech Recognition, Proceedings of the Second Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-it), 2015 , pp. 280-285, Trento, Italy, December 2015
Jalalvand, Shahab; Falavigna, Giuseppe Daniele; Matassoni, Marco ; Svaizer, Piergiorgio ; Omologo, Maurizio, Boosted acoustic model learning and hypotheses rescoring on the CHiME-3 task, Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 2015 , pp. 409-415, Scottsdale (Arizona), US, 2015
BabaAli B.; Serizel R.; Jalalvand S.; Gretter R.; Falavigna D.; Giuliani D., FBK @ IWSLT 2014 - ASR track, Proceedings of International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT2014), Lake Tahoe, USA, 2014
Falavigna G.; Gretter R.; Brugnara F.; Giuliani D.; Serizel H. R., FBK @ IWSLT 2013 - ASR tracks, Proceedings of IWSLT2013, Heidelberg (Germany), 2013
Ivanov A. V.; Jalalvand S.; Gretter R.; Falavigna G., PHONETIC AND ANTHROPOMETRIC CONDITIONING OF MSA-KST COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEM, Proceedings of ASRU 2013, Olomouc (Czech Republic), 2013
Fabio Brugnara; Daniele Falavigna; Diego Giuliani; Roberto Gretter, Analysis of the Characteristics of Talk-show TV Programs, Proceedings of Interspeech 2012,Portland, USA, 2012
Falavigna D.; Gretter R., Focusing Language Models For Automatic Speech Recognition, Proceedings of IWSLT 2012, Hong-Kong, 2012
Falavigna D.; Gretter R.; Brugnara F.; Giuliani D., FBK @ IWSLT 2012 - ASR track, Proceedings of IWSLT 2012, Hong-Kong, 2012
Christian Girardi; Roberto Gretter; Daniele Falavigna; Fabio Brugnara; Diego Giuliani; Marcello Federico, NeMo: a Platform for Multilingual News Monitoring, 2011 , pp. 2261-2264, Proceedings of Interspeech 2011, Florence 2011
Daniele Falavigna, Redundancy Reduction in ASR of Spontaneous Speech through Statistical Machine Translation, 2011 , pp. 1417-1420, Proceedings of Interspeech 2011, Florence 2011
Daniele Falavigna; Roberto Gretter, Cheap Bootstrap of Multi-Lingual Hidden Markov Models, 2011 , pp. 2325-2328, Proceedings of Interspeech 2011, Florence 2011
Ruiz; A. Bisazza; F. Brugnara; D. Falavigna; D. Giuliani; S. Jaber; R. Gretter; M. Federico, FBK @ IWSLT 2011, Proceedings of International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, San Francisco, USA, 2011
D. Falavigna; M.Gerosa; D. Giuliani; R. Gretter, An Automatic Transcription System of Hearings in Italian Courtrooms, Proceedings of Multimedia in Forensics, Security and Intelligence - MiFor2010, Florence 2010