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... Jorge Daniel Leonardo Proença

Jorge Proença

Former IT academic position: Researcher
Joining/Leaving IT dates: 01-04-2011 / 01-11-2018
Roles held in IT:
Former IT thematic line: Information and Data Sciences
Group: Multimedia Signal Processing – Co

Scientific Achievements

  • MSc, Universidade de Coimbra, 01-01-2010
  • Automatic characterization of reading ability in children
  • Speech Recognition
  • Speech Processing
  • Universidade de Coimbra, 01-01-2013,
2Books Chapters
  • A. Veiga, D. Celorico, J. Proença, S. Candeias, F. Perdigão, Prosodic and Phonetic Features for Speaking Styles Classification and Detection, Chapter in, Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages, D. Torre Toledano, A. Ortega Giménez, A. Teixeira, J. González Rodríguez, L. Hernández Gómez, R. San Segundo Hernández, and D. Ramos Castro, Springer, Madrid, 2012
  • A. Veiga, S. Candeias, D. Celorico, J. Proença, F. Perdigão, Towards Automatic Classification of Speech Styles, Chapter in, Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, H. Caseli, A. Villavicencio, A. Teixeira, and F. Perdigão, Springer, Coimbra, 2012
4Papers in Journals
  • J. Proença, C. Lopes, M.Tjalve Tjalve, A. Stolcke, S. Candeias, F. Perdigão, Mispronunciation Detection in Children's Reading of Sentences, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 26, No. 7, pp. 1207 - 1219, July, 2018 | BibTex
  • J. Tejedor, D. Toledano, P. Lopez-Otero, L. Docio-Fernandez, J. Proença, F. Perdigão, F. García-Granada, E. Sanchis, A. Pompili, Abad, A. Abad, ALBAYZIN Query-by-example Spoken Term Detection 2016 evaluation, Eurasip Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, Vol. 2018, No. 2, pp. 1 - 25, April, 2018 | BibTex
  • J. Proença, C. Lopes, M.Tjalve Tjalve, A. Stolcke, S. Candeias, F. Perdigão, Automatic evaluation of reading aloud performance in children, Speech Communication, Vol. 94, No. -, pp. 1 - 14, November, 2017,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • A. Veiga, C. Lopes, D. Celorico, J. Proença, F. Perdigão, S. Candeias, O desafio da participação humana do IT-Coimbra no Págico, Linguamática, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 49 - 52, April, 2012 | BibTex
23Papers in Conferences
  • J. Proença, C. Lopes, M.Tjalve Tjalve, A. Stolcke, S. Candeias, F. Perdigão, Automatic Evaluation of Children Reading Aloud on Sentences and Pseudowords, ISCA - Conf. of the International Speech Communication Association - INTERSPEECH, Stockholm, Sweden, Vol., pp. 2749 - 2753, August, 2017 | BibTex
  • J. Proença, C. Lopes, M.Tjalve Tjalve, A. Stolcke, S. Candeias, F. Perdigão, Detection of Mispronunciations and Disfluencies in Children Reading Aloud, ISCA - Conf. of the International Speech Communication Association - INTERSPEECH, Stockholm, Sweden, Vol., pp. 1437 - 1441, August, 2017 | BibTex
  • J. Proença, D. Celorico, C. Lopes, S. Candeias, F. Perdigão, Automatic Annotation of Disfluent Speech in Children's Reading Tasks, IX Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla and V Iberian SLTech Workshop IberSPEECH 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. 172 - 181, November, 2016,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • J. Proença, F. Perdigão, Segmented Dynamic Time Warping for Spoken Query-by-Example Search, ISCA - Conf. of the International Speech Communication Association - INTERSPEECH, San Francisco, United States, Vol. -, pp. 750 - 754, September, 2016 | BibTex
  • J. Proença, D. Celorico, C. Lopes, M. D. Dias, M.Tjalve Tjalve, A. Stolcke, S. Candeias, F. Perdigão, Design and Analysis of a Database to Evaluate Children's Reading Aloud Performance, International Conf. on Computational Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. 385 - 395, July, 2016 | BibTex
  • J. Proença, D. Celorico, S. Candeias, C. Lopes, F. Perdigão, The LetsRead Corpus of Portuguese Children Reading Aloud for Performance Evaluation, ELRA International Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation, - LREC, Portorož, Slovenia, Vol. 1, pp. 781 - 785, May, 2016 | BibTex
  • J. Proença, D. Celorico, S. Candeias, C. Lopes, F. Perdigão, Children’s Reading Aloud Performance: a Database and Automatic Detection of Disfluencies, ISCA - Conf. of the International Speech Communication Association - INTERSPEECH, Dresden, Germany, Vol. -, pp. 1655 - 1659, September, 2015,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • J. Proença, D. Celorico, S. Candeias, C. Lopes, A. Veiga, F. Perdigão, A Database of Children Reading Aloud for Reading Performance Evaluation, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2015,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 735 KBs) | BibTex
  • J. Proença, O. C. Costa, D. Celorico, S. Candeias, F. Perdigão, Automatic Detection of Disfluencies in Children Reading Aloud Using Task Specific Lattices, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2015,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 745 KBs) | BibTex
  • J. Proença, L. Castela, F. Perdigão, The SPL-IT-UC Query by Example Search on Speech system for MediaEval 2015, MediaEval, Wurzen, Germany, Vol. 1436, pp. - - -, September, 2015,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • I. Szoke, L. J. Rodriguez-Fuentes, A. Buzo, X. Anguera, F. Metze, J. Proença, M. Lojka, X. Xiong, Query by Example Search on Speech at Mediaeval 2015, MediaEval, Wurzen, Germany, Vol. 1436, pp. - - -, September, 2015 | BibTex
  • J. Proença, A. Veiga, F. Perdigão, Query by Example Search with Segmented Dynamic Time Warping for Non-Exact Spoken Queries, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, Nice, France, Vol. -, pp. 1691 - 1695, August, 2015,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • J. Proença, A. Veiga, S. Candeias, J. Lemos, C. Januário, F. Perdigão, Characterizing Parkinson's Disease Speech by Acoustic and Phonetic Features, International Conf. on Computational Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR, São Carlos, Brazil, Vol. 8775, pp. 24 - 35, October, 2014,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • V. Marquiafável, C. Shulby, A. Veiga, J. Proença, S. Candeias, F. Perdigão, Rule-Based Algorithms for Automatic Pronunciation of Portuguese Verbal Inflections, International Conf. on Computational Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR, São Carlos, Brazil, Vol. 8775, pp. 36 - 47, October, 2014,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • J. Proença, A. Veiga, F. Perdigão, The SPL-IT Query by Example Search on Speech system for MediaEval 2014, MediaEval, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 1263, pp. -- - --, October, 2014,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • S. Candeias, D. Celorico, J. Proença, A. Veiga, C. Lopes, F. Perdigão, HESITA(te) in Portuguese, European Language Resources Association (ELRA) International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC, Reykjavik, Iceland, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, May, 2014 | BibTex
  • A. Veiga, J. Proença, S. Candeias, F. Perdigão, Acoustic Phonetic and Prosodic Features of Parkinson s Disease Speech, Brazilian Comput Soc Brazilian Symp. in Information and Human Language Technology - STIL, Fortaleza, Brazil, Vol. 1, pp. -- - --, October, 2013,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • S. Candeias, D. Celorico, J. Proença, A. Veiga, F. Perdigão, HESITA(tions) in Portuguese: a database, ISCA, Interspeech satellite workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech - DiSS, Stockholm, Sweden, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, August, 2013 | BibTex
  • D. Celorico, J. Proença, A. Veiga, S. Candeias, F. Perdigão, Acoustical Characterization of Vocalic Fillers in European Portuguese, ISCA, Interspeech satellite workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech - DiSS, Stockholm, Sweden, Vol. 54(1), pp. 63 - 66, August, 2013,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • S. Candeias, J. Proença, A. Veiga, F. Perdigão, On the influence of the Parkinson disease in vowel production, Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia - PaPI, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, June, 2013 | BibTex
  • S. Candeias, D. Celorico, J. Proença, A. Veiga, F. Perdigão, Automatically distinguishing styles of speech, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 77 - 80, May, 2013 | BibTex
  • A. Veiga, J. Proença, D. Celorico, S. Candeias, F. Perdigão, Vocalic Filler Characterization using Acoustical Properties Derived from Cepstrum, Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla and III Iberian SLTech Workshop - IberSPEECH, Madrid, Spain, Vol. -, pp. 260 - 268, November, 2012,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 130 KBs) | BibTex
  • S. Candeias, A. Veiga, D. Celorico, J. Proença, F. Perdigão, Eventos Linguísticos na Classificação Automática de Estilos de Fala, APL, Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística - APL, Faro, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, October, 2012 | Full text (PDF 102 KBs) | BibTex

Closed Projects1

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
LETSREAD Automatic assessment of reading ability of children IT/LA 01-02-2014 01-03-2016
1Awards
  • J. Proença, D. Celorico, C. Lopes, M. D. Dias, M.Tjalve Tjalve, A. Stolcke, S. Candeias, F. Perdigão, Camões Prize 2016 for the Technologies for the Portuguese Language, Best paper award at PROPOR 2016 – International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese, given by the Camões Institue for the paper "Design and Analysis of a Database to Evaluate Children’s Reading Aloud Performance", 01-07-2016
2Short Courses and Seminars
  • J. Proença, Automatically evaluating the reading performance of children, Portugal, Coimbra, 03-2017
  • J. Proença, Letsread - automatic evaluation of reading ability of children, Portugal, Braga, 10-2016
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