Kriste Krstovski
kriste [at] cs.umass [dot] edu


Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) 
Department of Computer Science

University of Massachusetts Amherst
140 Governors Drive
Amherst, MA
01003 
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About
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst working at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). I am a member of the Information Retrieval (IR) and Information Extraction and Synthesis (IESL) Laboratories. My advisor is David A. Smith
Prior to starting my Ph.D. program at UMass Amherst, I worked as a Staff Scientist in the Speech and Language Processing Department at BBN Technologies for four years. 
I finished my B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering at the
University of New Hampshire while being a member of the Project54 team under the supervision of  Andrew L. Kun and W. Tom Miller III.

Research Interests
Machine Learning: Bayesian latent variable models
Information Retrieval
Machine Translation: modeling comparable corpora
Natural Language Processing

News
Spring 2012, I am TA-ing Search Engines (CMPSCI 446). Course textbook is Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, Croft, Metzler and Strohman, Addison-Wesley (2008).

Publications

K. Krstovski, D. A. Smith, “A Minimally Supervised Approach for Detecting and Ranking Document Translation Pairs”,  In proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 2011.

D. Stallard, R. Prasad, P. Natarajan, F. Choi, S. Saleem, R. Meermeir, K. Krstovski, S. Ananthakrishnan, J. Devlin The BBN TransTalk Speech-to-Speech Translation System, Book Chapter in “Speech and Language Technologies”, InTech Publishing, 2011.

F. Choi, S. Tsakalidis, S. Saleem, C.-L. Kao, R. Meermeier, K. Krstovski, C. Moran, K. Subramanian, D. Stallard, R. Prasad, P. Natarajan Recent Improvements in BBN’s English/Iraqi Speech-to-Speech Translation System, In proceedings of the 2nd IEEE 2008 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2008), Goa, India, December 2008.

C.-L. Kao, S. Saleem, R. Prasad, F. Choi, P. Natarajan, D. Stallard, K. Krstovski, M. Kamali, ”Rapid Development of an English/Farsi Speech-To-Speech Translation System, In proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2008), Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2008.

K. Krstovski, E. Macrostie, R. Prasad, P. Natarajan “End-to-End Trainable Thai OCR System Using Hidden Markov Models, In proceedings of the 8th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2008), Nara, Japan, September 2008.

K. Krstovski, M. Decerbo, R. Prasad, D. Stallard, S. Saleem, P. Natarajan,A Wearable Headset Speech-to-Speech Translation System”, In proceedings of ACL 2008 Workshop on Mobile Language Processing, Columbus, Ohio, June 2008.

D. Stallard, C.-L. Kao, K. Krstovski, D. Liu, P. Natarajan, R. Prasad, S. Saleem, K. Subramanian, “Recent Improvements and Performance Analysis of ASR and MT in a Speech-To-Speech Translation System, In proceedings of ICASSP 2008, Las Vegas, NV, March 2008.

D. Stallard, F. Choi, C.-L. Kao, K. Krstovski, P. Natarajan, R. Prasad, S. Saleem, K. Subramanian, “The BBN 2007 Displayless English/Iraqi Speech-to-Speech Translation System”, In proceedings of Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.

R. Prasad, K. Krstovski, F. Choi, S. Saleem, P. Natarajan, M. Decerbo, D. Stallard, “Real-Time Speech-to-Speech Translation for PDAs”, In proceedings of IEEE Portable 2007, Orlando, FL, March 2007.

D. Stallard, F. Choi, K. Krstovski, P. Natarajan, R. Prasad, S. Saleem, R. Suleiman, Design and Evaluation of the 2006 BBN English/Iraqi Two-Way Speech Translation System”,  In proceedings of IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Palm Beach, Aruba, December 2006.

D. Stallard, F. Choi, K. Krstovski, P. Natarajan, R. Prasad and S. Saleem, “A Hybrid Phrase-based/Statistical Speech Translation System”, In proceedings of Interspeech 2006-ICSLP, Pittsburg, PA, September 2006.

D. Vidacic, P. Melnyk, K. Krstovski, R.A. Messner, F.C. Hludik, A.L. Kun, “Consolidated Data Acquisition and Management for First Responders,” Sensor Review Journal, Vol.26 No.2, 2006.

K. KrstovskiHandheld Project54 Speech User Interface”, Master’s Thesis, University of New Hampshire, September 2005.

K. Krstovski, A. L. Kun and W.T. Miller III, "Speech Interaction with Handheld Computers in the Project54 System",  In proceedings of UbiComp 2004, Nottingham, England, September 2004.

K. Krstovski, A.L. Kun and W.T. Miller III, "Distributed Components for Retrieval of Driver's License Data using a Handheld Computer", In proceedings of SEA 2004, Cambridge, MA, November 2004. 

© Kriste Krstovski, 2011