Publications

• Brinckmann, Caren (2009): Transcription Bottleneck of Speech Corpus Exploitation. In: Lyding, Verena (Ed.): LULCL II 2008 - Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics. Bozen-Bolzano, 13th-14th November 2008. Bozen-Bolzano: EURAC. 165-179.


• Brinckmann, Caren, Stefan Kleiner, Ralf Knöbl & Nina Berend (2008): German Today: an areally extensive corpus of spoken Standard German. Proceedings 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco. 3185-3191.


• Gasch, Joachim, Caren Brinckmann & Sylvia Dickgießer (2008): memasysco: XML schema based metadata management system for speech corpora. Proceedings 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco. 2865-2870.


• Raffelsiefen, Renate & Caren Brinckmann (2007): Evaluating phonological status: significance of paradigm uniformity vs. prosodic grouping effects. Proceedings 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVI), Saarbrücken, Germany. 1441-1444.


• Knöbl, Ralf, Stefan Kleiner, Caren Brinckmann & Nina Berend (2007): German Today - An extensive speech data collection in the German speaking area of Europe. Proceedings Corpus Linguistics 2007, Birmingham, United Kingdom.


• Brinckmann, Caren (2006): Improving prosody prediction for speech synthesis - with and without symbolic prosody features. PHONUS 10, Research Report of the Institute of Phonetics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. [This is a slightly revised version of my Masters Thesis.]


• Brinckmann, Caren (2005): The "Kiel Corpus of Read Speech" as a Resource for Prosody Prediction in Speech Synthesis. Proceedings Second Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (HLT'2005), Tallinn, Estonia. 101-106.


• Brinckmann, Caren (2004): The "Kiel Corpus of Read Speech" as a Resource for Speech Synthesis. Masters Thesis, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. [more]


• Baumann, Stefan, Caren Brinckmann, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Geert-Jan Kruijff, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Stella Neumann & Elke Teich (2004): Multi-dimensional annotation of linguistic corpora for investigating information structure. Proceedings Frontiers in Corpus Annotation Workshop at HLT/NAACL 2004 (Human Language Technology conference / North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting), Boston, USA. 39-46.


• Baumann, Stefan, Caren Brinckmann, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Geert-Jan Kruijff, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Stella Neumann, Erich Steiner, Elke Teich & Hans Uszkoreit (2004): The MULI Project: Annotation and Analysis of Information Structure in German and English. Proceedings 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), Lisbon, Portugal.


• Brinckmann, Caren & Jürgen Trouvain (2003): The Role of Duration Models and Symbolic Representation for Timing in Synthetic Speech. International Journal of Speech Technology, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Special Issue on Speech Synthesis). 21-31.


• Brinckmann, Caren & Jürgen Trouvain (2001): On the role of duration prediction and symbolic representation for the evaluation of synthetic speech. Proceedings 4th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Pitlochry, Scotland. 35-40. [more]


• Brinckmann, Caren & Ralf Benzmüller (1999): The relationship between utterance type and F0 contour in German. Proceedings 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH '99), Budapest, Hungary. Volume 1, 21-24. [more]


• Brinckmann, Caren (1997): German in Eight Weeks - A Crash Course for CHATR. Technical Report TR-IT-0236, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.


• Brinckmann, Caren (1995): Mikrosegmentsynthese. Proceedings 17. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS), Saarbrücken, Germany.

Selected presentations

• Brinckmann, Caren (2008): Transcription bottleneck of speech corpus exploitation. Invited presentation, Second Colloquium on Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics (LULCL II 2008). EURAC, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, 13th-14th November 2008.


• Brinckmann, Caren, Sylvia Dickgießer & Joachim Gasch (2007): XML schema based metadata system for speech corpora. Poster presentation, Corpus Linguistics 2007, Birmingham, United Kingdom.


• Brinckmann, Caren (2007): Krautsourcing? oder: Wie können wir am IDS das "Mitmach-Internet" für uns nutzen? Invited presentation, Gesprächsrunde, IDS, Mannheim, Germany.


• Brinckmann, Caren (2004): Kongruenz in der Nominalphrase. Handout, Seminar "Zur Syntax der Nominalphrase im Deutschen", German Linguistics, Saarland University, Germany.


• Brinckmann, Caren (2003): Delexikalisierungsmöglichkeiten: Deutsche und Italienische Daten. Invited presentation, Seminar "Silbenstruktur in akzent- und silbenzählenden Sprachen", Phonetics, Saarland University, Germany.


• Brinckmann, Caren & Girgsdies, Stefan (2002): Ein HPSG-Grammatikfragment zur Analyse von Nominalphrasen im Deutschen. Term paper and LKB files, Projektseminar "Practical Grammar Engineering Using HPSG", Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Germany.


• Brinckmann, Caren (2002): Image-based visual synthesis: facial overlay. Video Rewrite and AT&T's 2D photo-realistic talking head. Short term paper, Seminar "Audiovisuelle Sprache in der Sprachtechnologie", Phonetics, Saarland University, Germany.


• Brinckmann, Caren (2001): Text Alignment. Satz-, Offset- und Wort-Alignment. Presentation with comments, Seminar "Spezielle statistische Methoden in der Sprachdatenverarbeitung", Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Germany.


• Brinckmann, Caren (2000): Data Mining und maschinelles Lernen. Einführung und Anwendung mit WEKA. Invited presentation, Phonetics, Saarland University, Germany.


• Brinckmann, Caren (1999): Sprachsynthese. Text-to-Speech Synthesesysteme im Überblick. Invited presentation, Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Germany.