--- title: "Steven Rennie — author profile and papers · Dialogue systems" description: "Steven Rennie: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2015–2016), h-index 18 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-rennie/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-rennie/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Steven Rennie # Steven Rennie Steven Rennie has 3 papers in our library, in 2015–2016, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [George Saon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/george-saon/), [Hong-Kwang J. Kuo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hong-kwang-j-kuo/), [Michael Picheny](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-picheny/). 3 papers in our library · 2015–2016 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5088753951) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5088753951) · [57 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5088753951) · [4,130 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5088753951&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-rennie/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 270 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-rennie/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1098](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/11/#star-1098) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Steven+Rennie) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Steven+Rennie) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Steven+Rennie) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Steven+Rennie) ## Affiliations [🔬**IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center** Yorktown Heights · United States 2006–2017 · 32 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2007–2017 · 21 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**University of Toronto** Toronto · Canada 2003–2008 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-toronto/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Signal Processing · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Dialogue systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [English · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Speech & spoken language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2016** 2 papers Steven Rennie's papers of 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-rennie/year/2016/) · [**2015** 1 paper The IBM 2015 English Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saon-2015-ibm-2015-english-conversational-telephone/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Self-critical Sequence Training for Image Captioning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rennie-2016-self-critical-sequence-training-image/)** *(2016 · 2,374 citations)* Image captioning models are usually trained with word-level cross-entropy and teacher forcing. They are then judged with non-differentiable sentence metrics such as CIDEr or BLEU. This creates two problems: exposure bias, and a gap between the training objective and the evaluation metric. Rennie et al. (IBM Watson)… 2. **[The IBM 2015 English Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saon-2015-ibm-2015-english-conversational-telephone/)** *(2015 · 96 citations)* The paper reports how IBM improved its English recognizer for conversational telephone speech. The benchmark is the Switchboard part of the Hub5-2000 evaluation. Training used 1975 hours of two-party phone conversations from Switchboard 1, Fisher and CallHome. The authors argue that no single trick is enough and that… 3. **[The IBM 2016 English Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saon-2016-ibm-2016-english-conversational-telephone/)** *(2016 · 3 citations)* The paper reports how IBM pushed English conversational telephone speech recognition to a record word error rate of 6.6% on the Switchboard portion of the Hub5 2000 evaluation. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [George Saon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/george-saon/) ×2 - [Hong-Kwang J. Kuo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hong-kwang-j-kuo/) ×2 - [Michael Picheny](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-picheny/) - [Tom Sercu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-sercu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/): [IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/2016/) - [Interspeech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/interspeech-usb/): [Interspeech 2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/interspeech-usb/2015/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 270 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [25 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-rennie/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026