Dissertation

Kirov, Christo. 2013. A Bayesian Approach to Speech Production. Ph.D. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University.

Invited Talks

  • Kirov, Christo. 2016. UniMorph - Universal Morphology at JHU. Center For Language and Speech Processing Seminar Series. Johns Hopkins University.
  • Kirov, Christo. 2015. The Consequences of Bayesian Decision-Making in Speech Production. Common Ground Speaker Series. University of Pennsylvania.

Refereed Publications

  • Kirov, Christo and Frank, Bob. 2011. Processing of Nested and Cross-Serial Dependencies: an Automaton Perspective on SRN Behavior. Connection Science. Volume 24. Issue 1. pp. 1-24.
  • Kirov, Christo and Gafos, Adamantios. 2010. Assembling Phonological Representations. Phono- logical and Complex Adaptive Systems: Phonology and Complexity. Chitoran, Ioana, Coupe, Christophe, Marsico, Egidio, and Pellegrino, Francois (eds.), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin/New York.

Conference Proceedings

  • Cotterell, Ryan, Kirov, Christo, Sylak-Glassman, John, Yarowsky, David, Eisner, Jason, and Hulden, Mans. 2016. The SIGMORPHON 2016 Shared Task - Morphological Reinflection. Proceedings of the 2016 Meeting of SIGMORPHON. Association for Computational Linguistics. Berlin, Germany.
  • Kirov, Christo, Sylak-Glassman, John, Que, Roger, and Yarowsky, David. 2016. Very-large Scale Parsing and Normalization of Wiktionary Morphological Paradigms.  Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Portoroz, Slovenia.
  • Sylak-Glassman, John, Kirov, Christo, and Yarowsky, David. 2016. Remote Elicitation of Inflectional Paradigms to Seed Morphological Analysis in Low-Resource Languages. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Portoroz, Slovenia.
  • Sylak-Glassman, John, Kirov, Christo, Yarowsky, David, and Que, Roger. 2015. A Language-Independent Feature Schema for Inflectional Morphology. Association for Computational Linguistics. Beijing, China.
  • Sylak-Glassman, John, Kirov, Christo, Yarowsky, David, and Que, Roger. 2015. A Universal Schema for Rich Morphological Annotation.  Workshop on Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology. Stuttgart, Germany.
  • Kirov, Christo and Wilson, Colin. 2013. Bayesian Speech Production: Evidence from Latency and Hyperarticulation. 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany.
  • Kirov, Christo and Wilson, Colin. 2012. The Specificity of Online Variation in Speech Production. 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sapporo, Japan.
  • Kirov, Christo and Gafos, Adamantios. 2007. Dynamic Phonetic Detail in Lexical Representations. In Trouvain, Jurgen and William J. Barry (eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken, Germany. pp. 637-640.

Conference Presentations

  • Kirov, Christo. 2017. Recurrent Neural Networks as a Strong Baseline for Morphophonological Learning. 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Austin, TX. (submitted)
  • Sylak-Glassman, John, Kirov, Christo, Yarowsky, David, and Que, Roger. 2015. Typology Enriching NLP: A Universal Schema for Inflectional Morphology. Association for Linguistic Typology. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • Kirov, Christo and Wilson, Colin. 2013. Modeling the Relationship Between Competition, Latency, and Articulation. 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Boston, MA.
  • Kirov, Christo and Wilson, Colin. 2012. Modeling Speech Production with Bayesian Inference: Competition, Latency, and Articulation. 11th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting. Minneapolis, MN.
  • Kirov, Christo and Wilson, Colin. 2012. Specificity of Online Variation in Speech Production. 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, Oregon.
  • Kirov, Christo. 2011. Explaining Online Hyperarticulation in Speech Production. 5th Northeast Computational Phonology Meeting, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Poster Presentations

  • Kirov, Christo. 2014. Grammatical Influences in a Bayesian Speech Production Framework. 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Quebec City, Quebec.
  • Kirov, Christo and Wilson, Colin. 2012. How Phonological Context Affects Phonetic Realization. The 13th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Stuttgart, Germany.
  • Kirov, Christo. 2008. Forward and Reverse Recall in Simple Recurrent Networks. 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, D.C. 
  • Kirov, Christo and Gafos, Adamantios. 2007. Dynamic Phonetic Detail in Lexical Representations. 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken, Germany. pp. 637-640.