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Decentralising power: how we are trying to keep CALLector ethical
Cathy Chua, Hanieh Habibi, Manny Rayner +1
We present a brief overview of the CALLector project, and consider ethical questions arising from its overall goal of creating a social network to support creation and use of onlin…
What do the founders of online communities owe to their users?
Cathy Chua, Manny Rayner
We discuss the organisation of internet communities, focusing on what we call the principle of "bait and switch": founders of internet communities often find it advantageous to rec…
Alexa as a CALL platform for children: Where do we start?
Nikos Tsourakis, Manny Rayner, Hanieh Habibi +3
Amazon's Alexa is now widely available and shows interesting potential as a platform for hosting CALL games aimed at children. In this paper, we describe an initial informal experi…
Helping Domain Experts Build Speech Translation Systems
Manny Rayner, Alejandro Armando, Pierrette Bouillon +5
We present a new platform, "Regulus Lite", which supports rapid development and web deployment of several types of phrasal speech translation systems using a minimal formalism. A d…
Compiling Language Models from a Linguistically Motivated Unification Grammar
Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey, Frankie James +3
Systems now exist which are able to compile unification grammars into language models that can be included in a speech recognizer, but it is so far unclear whether non-trivial ling…
A Comparison of the XTAG and CLE Grammars for English
Beth Ann Hockey, Manny Rayner, Frankie James
When people develop something intended as a large broad-coverage grammar, they usually have a more specific goal in mind. Sometimes this goal is covering a corpus; sometimes the de…