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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/

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