Publications
Besser J, Koelewijn T, Kramer S.E., Zekveld A.A., Festen J.M. Development and evaluation of parallel reading and listening span tests for cognitive hearing research, in submission.
2012
Besser J, Zekveld A.A., Kramer S.E., Rönnberg J., Festen J.M. New measures of masked text recognition in relation to spech-in-noise perception and their associations with age and cognitive abilities. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, in press.
2010
Besser J, Hofmann K, Larson M. Podcast search: user goals and retrieval technologies. Online Information Review, Vol 34.3, 395-419, 2010.
2008
Besser J, Hofmann K, Larson M. An Exploratory Study of User Goals and Strategies in Podcast Search. Proceedings of the FGIR Workshop Information Retrieval (WIR2008). Würzburg, Germany, 2008. [PDF]
Fuller M, Tsagkias E, Newman E, Besser J, Larson M, Jones GJF, de Rijke M. Using Term Clouds to Represent Segment-Level Semantic Content of Podcasts. Proceedings of the 2nd SIGIR Workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2008). Singapore. 2008
2007
Besser J, Alexandersson J. A Comprehensive Disfluency Model for Mulity-Party Interaction. Proceedings of the 8th SIGDial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Antwerp, Belgium. 2007
Theses
Besser J. Incorporating User Search Goal Analysis in Podcast Retrieval Optimization. Master's thesis. Saarland University, Germany, 2008. [PDF]
Besser J. A Corpus-Based Approach to the Classification and Correction of Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech. Bachelor's thesis. Saarland University, Germany, 2006. [PDF]