Projects

• "Development of American English Multiple Pronunciation Lexicon", Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, July 2011 - September 2011, $50,000.
• "Development of the multilingual grapheme-to-phoneme conversion and part-of-speech tagging modules", Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, 07/2010 - 01/2011, $100,000.
• "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., & Callahan, L. (to appear). Tier-adjacency is not a necessary condition for learning phonotactic dependencies. Language and Cognitive Processes, xx, xxx-xxx.
• Koo, H. (to appear). A statistical model of Korean loanword phonology. In Ho-min Sohn, et al. (Eds.): Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 19, xxx-xxx, Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
• Koo, H. (2011). A weighted finite state transducer implementation of phoneme rewrite rules for English-to-Korean pronunciation conversion. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 27, 202-208.
• Koo, H. (2010). Perplexity of bi-phone phonotactic models in Korean loanword phonology. Proceedings of the 2010 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics.
• Koo, H. & Cole, J. (2009). 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 Unpublished doctoral dissertation.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.
• 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.
• Koo, H. & Cole, J. (2006). On learnability and naturalness as constraints on phonological grammar. In Antonis Botinis (Ed.): Proceedings of ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, 165-168.