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Full Conference Papers:

Munteanu, C., Penn, G., Zhu, X., Improving Automatic Speech Recognition for Lectures through Transformation-based Rules Learned from Minimal Data. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Singapore, 2009.
Kazemian, S., Rudzicz, F., Penn, G., Munteanu, C., A Critical Assessment of Spoken Utterance Retrieval through Approximate Lattice Representations. In Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Vancouver, Canada, October 2008.
Zhu, X., He, X., Munteanu, C., Penn, G., Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation to Incorporate Domain Knowledge For Topic Transition Detection. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing - ICSLP / Ninth INTERSPEECH, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008.
Munteanu, C., Baecker, R., Penn, G., Collaborative Editing for Improved Usefulness and Usability of Transcript-Enhanced Webcasts. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI, Florence, Italy, April 2008.
Munteanu, C., Penn, G., Baecker, R., Web-Based Language Modelling for Automatic Lecture Transcription. In Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology - EuroSpeech / Eighth INTERSPEECH, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.
Munteanu, C., Penn, G., Baecker, R., Zhang, Y., Automatic Speech Recognition for Webcasts: How Good is Good Enough and What to Do When it Isn'’t In Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces - ICMI, Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 2006.
Munteanu, C., Baecker, R., Penn, G., Toms, E., James, D., Measuring the Acceptable Word Error Rate of Machine-Generated Webcast Transcripts. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing - ICSLP / Seventh INTERSPEECH, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, September 2006.
Munteanu, C., Baecker, R., Penn, G., Toms, E., James, D., The Effect of Speech Recognition Accuracy Rates on the Usefulness and Usability of Webcast Archives. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI, Montreal, Canada, 2006. (Best of CHI Nominee.)
(© ACM, 2006. This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version is published in "The Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems -- CHI 2006")
Munteanu, C., Penn, G.,Optimizing Typed Feature Structure Grammar Parsing through Non-Statistical Indexing. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Barcelona, Spain, 2004.
Munteanu, C., Indexing Methods for Efficient Parsing with Typed Feature Structures. In Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics Conference - PACLING, Halifax, Canada, 2003. (Best Paper Award.)
Penn, G., Munteanu, C., A Tabulation-Based Parsing Method that Reduces Copying. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Sapporo, Japan, 2003.
Munteanu, C., Boldea, M., A Description Language for Dialog Modeling and Control. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Technical Informatics - CONTI, Timisoara, Romania, 2000.
Munteanu, C., Boldea, M., MDWOZ: A Wizard of Oz Environment for Dialog Systems Development. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC, Athens, Greece, 2000.

Workshop and Short Conference Papers:

Fenwick, K., Massimi, M., Baecker, R., Black, S., Tonon, K., Munteanu, C., Rochon, E., Ryan, D., Cell phone software aiding name recall. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI - Work-In-Progress Track, Boston, USA, April 2009.
Munteanu, C., Baecker, R., Penn, G., Usable speech recognition: toward improved access to webcast lectures. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI - Workshop on Usable Artificial Intelligence, Florence, Italy, April 2008.
Munteanu, C., Zhang, Y., Baecker, R., Penn, G., Wiki-like Editing of Imperfect Computer-Generated Webcast Transcripts. In Proceedings of the Demo track of the 20th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work - CSCW, Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 2006.
Munteanu, C., Indexing Methods for Efficient Parsing. In Proceedings of the Joint Third International Conference on Human Language Technology / Third Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - HLT/NAACL - Student Research Workshop, Edmonton, Canada, 2003.
Boldea, M., Munteanu, C., Doroga, A., Design, Collection, and Annotation of a Romanian Speech Database. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC - Workshop on Speech Database Developement for Central and Eastern European Languages, Granada, Spain, 1998.
Boldea, M., Munteanu, C., Labeling a Romanian Speech Database. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop "Speech and Computer" - SPECOM'97, Cluj-Napoca, 1997.

Reports:

Munteanu, C., Usable Transcriptions of Webcast Lectures and Presentations. . Research Proposal, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, December, 2005
Munteanu, C., Automatic Speech Recognition -- Obtaining Useable Transcriptions of Lectures and Presentations.. Comprehensive Oral Examination, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, November, 2004
Munteanu, C., Chou, W., A Study of Robust Parsing Methods for Spoken Language Processing. Avaya Labs Research Technical Report, Basking Ridge, NJ, USA, September 2004

Technical Manuals:

Munteanu, C., Audio Setup and Control for ePresence Webcasts. ePresence/KMDI Technical Manual, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto, 2005.

Books:

Ilin, A., Munteanu, C., Computer Programming - the C Language (original title: "Programarea Calculatoarelor - Limbajul C"), ISBN 973-8109-20-5, "Orizonturi Universitare" Publishing House, Timisoara, 2000

Theses:

PhD Thesis: Useful Transcriptions of Webcast Lectures, University of Toronto, 2009.
Master Thesis: Indexing Methods for Efficient Parsing with Typed Feature Structures, University of Toronto, 2004. Also available in HTML
Master Thesis: Human-Computer Dialog Modeling and Control (original title: "Modelarea si controlul dialogului om-calculator".) "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, 2000. Also available in HTML
Engineering Diploma Project: Development Environment for Dialog Systems Using Wizard of Oz Technique (original title: "Mediu pentru dezvoltarea sistemelor de dialog prin metoda Vrajitorului din Oz".) "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, 1999.