Projects

• "Performance enhancement of the multilingual (Canadian French and Mexican Spanish) grapheme-to-phoneme conversion module", Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, 04/2009 - 09/2009, $50,000.
• "Development of multilingual (Canadian French, Mexican Spanish) grapheme-to-phoneme conversion module", Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, 09/2008 - 01/2009, $50,000.
• "Measuring cross-linguistic phoneme similarity", .20 release time awarded by the College of Humanities and the Arts (Spring 2009), SJSU IRB Protocol: F0902057.
• "Learning nonadjacent phonotactic constraints", SJSU IRB Protocol: F0804070.

Papers

• Koo, H. & Cole, J. (2007). Gradient perceptual facilitation from phonotactic knowledge. Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 43, 1, 167-181.
• Koo, H. (2007). Change in the adult phonological processing system by learning non-adjacent phonotactic constraints from brief experience: An experimental and computational study. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [pdf]
• Koo, H. & Oh, Y-i. (2007). Onset-to-onset probability and gradient acceptability in Korean. Language Research, 43, 2, 287-307.
• Koo, H. & Cheng, Y. M. (2006). Incremental learning of MAP context-dependent edit operations for spoken phone number recognition in an embedded platform. Proceedings of ISCA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006, 2310-2313. Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
• Koo, H. & Cole, J. (2006). On learnability and naturalness as constraints on phonological grammar. Proceedings of ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, 165-168. Athens, Greece.