Publications

Journals

C. Lai, M. Farrús, J.D. Moore. Integrating lexical and prosodic features for automatic paragraph segmentation. Speech Communication, 121, pp. 44-57, 2020.
L. Pérez-Mayos, M. Farrús, J. Adell. Part-of-speech and prosody-based approaches for robot speech and gesture synchronization. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, pp. 1-11, 2019.
J.M. Basart, M. Farrús, M. Serra. Mindful engineers in a sustainable engineering. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 38(3), pp. 68-73, 2019.
M. Farrús. Voice disguise in automatic speaker recognition. ACM Computing Surveys, 51(4), pp. 68:1-68:22, 2018.
J.M. Basart, M. Farrús, M. Serra. New ethical challenges for today engineering and technology. Telematics and Informatics, 32(2), pp. 409-415, May 2015.
M.R. Costa-jussà, M. Farrús. Statistical machine translation enhancements through linguistic levels: A survey. ACM Computing Surveys, 46(3), January 2014. ISSN:0360-0300, EISSN:1557-734.
M.R. Costa-jussà, Marc Poch, J.A.R. Fonollosa, M. Farrús, J.B. Mariño. A large Spanish-Catalan parallel corpus release for machine translation. Computing and Informatics, 33(4), pp. 907-920, 2014.
M.R. Costa-jussà, M. Farrús. Towards human linguistic machine translation evaluation. Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 28(4), December 2013.
M. Farrús, M.R. Costa-jussà. Automatic evaluation for e-learning using latent semantic analysis: A use case. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 14(1), 2013.
M.R. Costa-jussà, M. Farrús, J.B. Mariño, J.A.R. Fonollosa. Study and comparison of rule-based and statistical Catalan-Spanish machine translation systems. Computing and Informatics, 31(2), pp. 245-270, February 2012. ISSN 1335-9150.
M. Farrús, M.R. Costa-jussà, M. Popovic. Study and correlation analysis of linguistic, perceptual and automatic machine translation evaluations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(1), pp. 174-184, January 2012. ISSN 1532-2882.
M. Farrús, I. Noguera, F. Santanach, J. Moré, C. López, C. Appel. L'ensenyament universitari del segle XXI: més enllà del paper. Ítem, 55, pp. 33-47, December 2011. ISSN 0214-0349.
M. Farrús. La prosòdia com a identificador biomètric. Llengua, Societat i Comunicació (Journal of Sociolinguistics of the University of Barcelona) -- Special Issue on Forensic Linguistics, pp. 42-48, September 2011. ISSN 1697-5928.
M. Farrús, M.R. Costa-jussà, J.B. Mariño, M. Poch, A. Hernández, C. Henríquez, J.A.R. Fonollosa. Overcoming statistical machine translation limitations: error analysis and proposed solutions for the Catalan-Spanish language pair. Language Resources and Evaluation, 45, pp. 181-208, May 2011.
M. Farrús, M. Wagner, D. Erro, J. Hernando. Automatic speaker recognition as a measurement of voice imitation and conversion. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 16(2), pp. 119-142, December 2009. ISSN 1748-8885.
M. Farrús. Fusing prosodic and acoustic information for speaker recognition. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 16(1), pp. 169-171, June 2009. ISSN 1748-8885.
M. Farrús, J. Hernando. Using jitter and shimmer in speaker verification. IET Signal Processing -- Special Issue on Biometric Recognition, 3(4), pp. 247-257, June 2009. ISSN 1751-9675.

Conferences & Workshops

A. Peiró-Lilja, M. Farrús. Naturalness enhancement with linguistic information in end-to-end TTS using unsupervised parallel encoding. Proceedings of Interspeech. Shanghai, China, October 2020.
B. Külebi, A. Öktem, A. Peiró-Lilja, S. Pascual, M. Farrús. CATOTRON -- A neural text-to-speech system in Catalan. Proceedings of Interspeech. Shanghai, China, October 2020.
G. Cámbara, J. Luque, M. Farrús. Detection of speech events and speaker characteristics through photo-plethysmographic signal neural processing. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 7564-7568, Barcelona, Catalonia, May 2020.
H.V. Georgious, INGENIOUS Consortium. INGENIOUS: The First Responder of the Future – A Next Generation Integrated Toolkit for Collaborative Response, Increasing Protection and Augmenting Operational Capacity. Proceedings of the International Conference on Civil Protection and New Technologies. Corfu Island, Greece, November 2019.Proceedings of Interspeech. Graz, Austria, September 2019.
A. Öktem, M. Farrús, A. Bonafonte. Prosodic phrase alignment for machine dubbing.
A. Öktem, M. Farrús, A. Bonafonte. Bilingual prosodic dataset compilation for spoken language translation. Proceedings of Iberspeech. Barcelona, November 2018.
M. Domínguez, A. Burga, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. Towards expressive prosody generationin TTS for reading aloud applications. Proceedings of Iberspeech. Barcelona, November 2018.
A. Öktem, M. Farrús, A. Bonafonte. Visualizing punctuation restoration in speech transcripts with Prosograph. Proceedings of Interspeech. Hyderabad, India, September 2018.
M. Domínguez, A. Burga, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. On the role of communicative structure in read aloud applications for elderly. Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Conversation Agents and Geriatric Care Applications, in AAMAS (International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems). Stockholm, Sweden, August 2018.
A. Peiró-Lilja, M. Farrús. Paragraph prosodic patterns to enhance text-to-speech naturalness. Proceedings of the Speech Prosody Conference. Poznań, Poland, June 2018.
M. Domínguez, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. Thematicity-based prosody enrichment for text-to-speech applications. Proceedings of the Speech Prosody Conference. Poznań, Poland, June 2018.
M. Domínguez, A. Burga, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. Compilation of Corpora for the study of the Information Structure-Prosody interface. Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conferece. Miyazaki, Japan. May 2018.
L. Wanner, E. André, J. Blat, S. Dasiopoulou, M. Farrús, T. Fraga, E. Kamateri, F. Lingenfelser, G. Llorach, O. Martínez, G. Meditskos, S. Mille, W. Minker, L. Pragst, D. Schiller, A. Stam, L. Stellingwerff, F. Sukno, B. Vieru, S. Vrochidis. Design of knowledge-based agent as a social companion. Proceedings of the International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies (HCist), Barcelona, Catalonia, November 2017.
A. Öktem, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. Attentional parallel RMMs for generating punctuation in transcribed speech. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP), Le Mans, France, October 2017.
A. Öktem, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. Prosograph: A tool for prosody visualisation of large speech corpora. Proceedings of Interespeech, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2017.
M. Domínguez-Bajo, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. A thematicity-based prosody enrichment tool for CTS. Proceedings of Interspeech, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2017.
J. Kleinhans, M. Farrús, A. Gravano, J.M. Pérez, C. Lai, L. Wanner. Using prosody to classify discourse relations. Proceedings of Interspeech, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2017.
A. Öktem, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. Automatic extraction of parallel speech corpora from dubbed movies. Proceedings of the 10th ACL Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC), Vancouver, Canada, August 2017.
L. Wanner, E. André, J. Blat, S. Dasiopoulou, M. Farrús, T. Fraga, E. Kamateri, F. Lingenfelser, G. Llorach, O. Martínez, G. Meditskos, S. Mille, W. Minker, L. Pragst, D. Schiller, A. Stam, L. Stellingwerff, F. Sukno, B. Vieru, S. Vrochidis. KRISTINA: A knowledge-based virtual conversation agent. Proceedings of the International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS), Porto, Portugal, June 2017.
M. Domínguez, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. An automatic prosody tagger for spontaneous speech. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pp. 377-386, Osaka, Japan, December 2016.
M. Domínguez, I. Latorre, M. Farrús, J. Codina-Filbà, L. Wanner. Praat on the Web: An upgrade of Praat for semi-automatic speech annotation. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pp. 218-222, Osaka, Japan, December 2016.
C. Lai, M. Farrús, J.D. Moore. Automatic paragraph segmentation with lexical and prosodic features. Proceedings of the Interspeech, San Francisco, CA, September 2016.
M. Farrús, M. Serra, J.M. Basart, C. Nadeu. Baixant de la tarima. Una experiència a l’aula on l’alumne pren la paraula. Actes del Congrés Internacional de Docència Universitària i Innovació (CIDUI), July 2016.
M. Domínguez, M. Farrús, A. Burga, L. Wanner. Using hierarchical information structure for prosody prediction in content-to-speech applications. Proceedings of the 8th Speech Prosody Conference. Boston, MA, May 2016.
M. Domínguez, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. Combining acoustic and linguistic features in phrase-oriented prosody prediction. Proceedings of the 8th Speech Prosody Conference. Boston, MA, May 2016.
M. Farrús, C. Lai, J.D. Moore. Paragraph-based prosodic cues for speech synthesis applications. Proceedings of the 8th Speech Prosody Conference. Boston, MA, May 2016.
M. Barceló, J.M. Basart, M. Farrús, A. Florensa, J.B. Mariño, C. Nadeu, M. Serra. Learning engineering without avoiding the what for question. 1st HEIRRI Conference. Barcelona, March 2016.
M. Domínguez, M. Farrús, A. Burga, L. Wanner. The information structure-prosody language interface revisited. Proceedings of the 7th Speech Prosody Conference, pp. 539-543, Dublin, Ireland, May 2014. ISSN:233-2043.
M. Domínguez, M. Farrús, A. Burga, L. Wanner. Towards automatic extraction of prosodic patterns for speech synthesis. Proceedings of the 7th Speech Prosody Conference, pp. 1105-1109, Dublin, Ireland, May 2014. ISSN:2333-2042.
M.R. Costa-jussà, M. Farrús, J. Serrano Pons. Machine Translation in Medicine. A quality analysis of statistical machine translation in the medical domain. Proceedings of the 1st Virtual International Conference on Advanced Research in Scientific Areas (ARSA-2012). Slovakia, December 2012. ISBN 978-80-554-0606-0, ISSN 1338-9831.
A. Vié, L. Villarejo, J. O'Reagan, M. Farrús. Apertium advanced web interface: A first step towards interactivity and language tools convergence. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, pp. 45-41. Barcelona, January 2011.
L. Villarejo, M. Farrús, S. Ortiz, G. Ramírez. A web-based translation service at the UOC based on Apertium. Proceedings of the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Tehcnology (IMCSIT), vol. 5, pp. 535-530. Wisla, Poland, October 2010. ISBN 978-8-3608-1027-9.
M. Farrús, M.R. Costa-jussà, G. Cobo, D. García, Ll. Villarejo, R.E. Banchs. Automatic evaluation of continuous assessment tests. Proceedings of the 6th ICTATLL International Conference, pp. 173-180, Kyoto, Japan, September 2010. ISBN 978-0-947649-76-0.
M. Farrús, M.R. Costa-jussà, J.B. Mariño, J.A.R. Fonollosa. Linguistic-based evaluation criteria to identify statistical machine translation errors. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, pp. 167-173, Saint-Raphael, France, May 2010.
M.R. Costa-jussà, M. Farrús, J.B. Mariño, J.A.R. Fonollosa. Automatic and human evaluation study of a rule-based and a statistical Catalan-Spanish machine translation systems. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Malta, May 2010.
M. Farrús, G. Iglesias, C. Henríquez, M. Poch, R. Muñoz, N. Ezeiza, E.R. Banga, J.B. Mariño. An experience on statistical machine translation between Spanish and the regional languages of Spain. Proceedings of the 4th Language and Technology Conference, Poznan, Poland, November 2009.
M. Poch, M. Farrús, M.R. Costa-jussà, J.B. Mariño, A. Hernández, C. Henríquez, J.A.R. Fonollosa. The TALP on-line Spanish-Catalan machine-translation system. Proceedings of the I Iberian SLTech 2009. Porto Salvo, Portugal, September 2009. (Best award demo paper).
M. Farrús, M.R. Costa-jussà, M. Poch, A. Hernández, J.B. Mariño. Improving a Catalan-Spanish statistical translation system using morphosyntatctic knowledge. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation, pp. 52-57, Barcelona, May 2009.
M.R. Costa-jussà, M. Farrús, M. Poch, A. Hernández, J.B. Mariño. N-II: Traductor automático estadístico basado en N-gramas. Actas de las V Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla. Bilbao, November 2008.
M. Farrús, D. Erro, J. Hernando. Speaker recognition robustness to voice conversion. Actas de las IV Jornadas de Reconocimiento Biométrico de Personas. Valladolid, Spain, September 2008.
M. Farrús, M. Wagner, J. Anguita, J. Hernando. Robustness of prosodic features to voice imitation. Proceedings of the ICSLP. Brisbane, Australia, September 2008.
C. Nadeu, J.B. Mariño, M. Farrús. Learning engineering ethics by debate. In. Fabregat J., editor: ICEHVE: Proceedings of the I International Conference on Ethics and Human Values in Engineering, Barcelona, March 2008.
M. Farrús, M. Wagner, J. Anguita, J. Hernando. How vulnerable are prosodic features to professional imitators? Proceedings of the Odyssey -- The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, Stellenbosch, South-Africa, January 2008.
M. Farrús, E. Eriksson, K.P.H. Sullivan, J. Hernando. Speaker recognition and accents. Femte Svenska Lingvistikkonferensen, Umeå, Sweden, April 2007.
C. Nadeu, J.B. Mariño, M. Farrús. Engineering and social responsibility: a case-based course. Proceedings of the III International Conference on Technoethics, 2007.
M. Farrús, P. Ejarque, A. Temko, J. Hernando. Histogram equalization in SVM multimodal person verification. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Biometrics, volume 4642 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 819-827, Seoul, Korea, August 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-74548-8.
M. Farrús, J. Hernando, P. Ejarque. Jitter and shimmer measurements for speaker recognition. Proceedings of the Eurospeech, pp. 778-781, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.
M. Farrús, A. Garde, P. Ejarque, J. Luque, J. Hernando. On the fusion of prosody, voice spectrum and face features for multimodal person verification. In Proceedings of the ICSLP, pp. 2106-2109, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006.
M. Farrús, E. Eriksson, K.P.H. Sullivan, J. Hernando. Dialect imitations in speaker recognition. Proceedings of the European IAFL Conference on Forensic Linguistics, Language and the Law, pp. 347-354, Barcelona, September 2006. ISBN 978-84-96742-28-4.
J. Hernando, M. Farrús, P. Ejarque, A. Garde. Person verification by fusion of prosodic, voice spectral and facial parameters. Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), pp. 17-23. Setúbal, Portugal, August 2006. ISBN 972-8865-63-5.
J. Luque, R. Morros, J. Anguita, M. Farrús, D. Macho, F. Marquès, C. Martínez, V. Vilaplana, J. Hernando. Multimodal person identification in a smart room. Proceedings of the IV Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla, pp. 327-331, Zaragoza, Spain, November 2006. ISBN 84-96214-82-6.
J. Luque, R. Morros, A. Garde, J. Anguita, M. Farrús, D. Macho, F. Marquès, C. Martínez, V. Vilaplana, J. Hernando. Audio, video and multimodal person identification in a smart room. CLEAR Workshop, volume 4122 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 258-269, Southampton, UK, April 2006. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 978-3-540-69567-7.
M. Farrús, J. Anguita, J. Hernando, R. Cerdà. Fusión de sistemas de reconocimiento basados en características de alto y bajo nivel. Actas de III Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Acústica Forense, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, November 2005.
R. Cerdà, M. Farrús, J. Hernando, M. Veyrat. Propuesta de experimento sobre la noción de campo de dispersión fonológica. Actas del III Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Acústica Forense, Santiago de Compostela, November 2005.
M. Farrús, J. Anguita, X. Anguera, J.M. Crego, A. de Gispert, J. Hernando, C. Nadeu. Els sistemes de reconeixement de veu i traducció automàtica en català: present i futur. Actes del II Congrés d'Enginyeria en Llengua Catalana, Andorra la Vella, Andorra, November 2004.
X. Anguera, M. Farrús, J. Hernando. Segmentació de locutor per a la indexació automàtica de bases de dades multimèdia en català. Actes del II Congrés d'Enginyeria en Llengua Catalana, Andorra la Vella, Andorra, November 2004.
A. Cassan, S. Cervell, M. Colom, M. Farrús, I. González, R. Marín, D. Trotzig. El uso editorial de herramientas lingüísticas: un ejemplo con los descriptores humanos. Revista de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, núm. 27, pp. 317-318, Jaén, Spain, 2001. ISSN 1135-5948.

Books & Book Chapters

M. Farrús. L'Enginyeria en l'Agenda 2030. In M. Muñoz, E. Oliveras (coord.). Fitxes docents per treballar la Sostenibilitat Social, Econòmica i Mediambiental. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, 2020. ISBN (in press).
J. Duran, L. Villarejo, M. Farrús, S. Ortiz, G. Ramírez. Incorporating subject areas into the Apertium machine translation system. Computational Linguistics--Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 458, pp. 281-292, Springer, 2012. ISBN 978-3-642-34398-8.
M. Farrús. Prosody in Automatic Speaker Recognition. VDM Verlag, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2010. ISBN 363908991X.
R. Cerdà, M. Farrús, J. Hernando. Hacia una sinergia metodológica en la identificación de locutores. Filología y Lingüística. Estudios ofrecidos a Antonio Quilis, vol. 2, pp. 1515--1528, CSIC, Madrid, 2005. ISBN 84-00-08401-2.

My PhD Dissertation

M. Farrús. Fusing prosodic and acoustic information for speaker recognition. PhD dissertation. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Department of Signal Theory and Communications. Barcelona, October 2008.

Technical Reports

M. Farrús, L. Wanner. Project presentation, communication kit, website, communication and dissemination plan. Public deliverable D9.1 of the KRISTINA project, May 2015.
A. Moreno, N. Bel, E. Revilla, E. García. S. Vallverdú. L. Padró, J.A.R. Fonollosa, J. Soler, I. Esquerra. M. Farrús. Language Report for Catalan. Informe de llenguatge pel català. METANET4U. Project CIP #270893. Deliverable D2.3, pp. 1-43, 2011.

Mireia Farrús

Publications

Journals

Conferences & Workshops

Books & Book Chapters

My PhD Dissertation

Technical Reports