3 papers
cs.CL2024
Towards Precision Characterization of Communication Disorders using Models of Perceived Pragmatic Similarity
Nigel G. Ward, Andres Segura, Georgina Bugarini +4
The diagnosis and treatment of individuals with communication disorders offers many opportunities for the application of speech technology, but research so far has not adequately c…
cs.CL2024
Topics in the Study of the Pragmatic Functions of Phonetic Reduction in Dialog
Nigel G. Ward, Carlos A. Ortega
Reduced articulatory precision is common in speech, but for dialog its acoustic properties and pragmatic functions have been little studied. We here try to remedy this gap. This te…
cs.CL2024
A Collection of Pragmatic-Similarity Judgments over Spoken Dialog Utterances
Nigel G. Ward, Divette Marco
Automatic measures of similarity between utterances are invaluable for training speech synthesizers, evaluating machine translation, and assessing learner productions. While there…