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NL Seminar- Automated Tools For Analyzing Sociophonetic Variation
Tue, Jun 23, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
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Speaker: Sravana Reddy, Dartmouth College
Talk Title: Automated Tools For Analyzing Sociophonetic Variation
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: The phenomenal amount of text on social media has recently spawned endeavors on computational methods to study language variation and change. However, we also have access to an unprecedented quantity of speech -- from Youtube video blogs to podcasts to recordings of radio and television shows, spanning several different accents and dialects. This data is a boon to sociophoneticians, who have traditionally relied on small-scale interviews to study systematic variation in speech. At the same time, it presents a challenge: the usual manual speech analysis methods do not scale. I will present ongoing work on an application that allows sociophoneticians to identify dialect features from potentially noisy speech data without the need for manual transcription.
Biography: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sravana/
Host: Nima Pourdamghani and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 6th Flr Conf Rm # 689, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
