Richard Schwartz
Also known as Richard M. Schwartz
Richard Schwartz is a speech and language technology researcher and Principal Scientist at BBN Technologies. He coauthored the BBN BYBLOS speech recognition system in 1989 and published a natural-language paper in 1999. In 2016, he was part of BBN’s BabelOn team for the BABEL project; ISCA named him a Fellow in 2018 for work on speech and language technologies, search strategies, and probabilistic modelling. In 2020, he coauthored BBN’s cross-lingual retrieval system, which returns English summaries for foreign-language audio and text.
Timeline
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1989
A BBN speech recognition system
In 1989, he coauthors The BBN BYBLOS Continuous Speech Recognition System.
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1999
Why Doesn’t Natural Language Come Naturally?
In 1999, he publishes “Why Doesn’t Natural Language Come Naturally?” in the SIGDAT conference proceedings.
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2016
BabelOn at BABEL
In 2016, BBN’s BabelOn team achieves the highest accuracy in the final BABEL evaluation; the roster includes Schwartz.
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2018
An ISCA Fellowship
ISCA names him a Fellow in 2018 for contributions to speech and language technologies, with emphasis on search strategies and probabilistic modelling.
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2020
Cross-lingual retrieval
In 2020, he coauthors BBN’s 2019 cross-lingual information retrieval system, which ranks foreign-language audio and text and presents English summaries.
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As of October 2026
Principal Scientist at BBN
He is a Principal Scientist at BBN Technologies and works to improve human language processing.
Sources and credits
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- The BBN BYBLOS Continuous Speech Recognition System - ACL Anthology
- Why Doesn’t Natural Language Come Naturally? - ACL Anthology
- BABEL Project: Winning a global speech technology challenge
- ISCA - ISCA Fellow Program
- The 2019 BBN Cross-lingual Information Retrieval System - ACL Anthology
- Richard Schwartz - Custom.MT