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Multilingual Word Error Rate Estimation: e-WER3
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
The success of the multilingual automatic speech recognition systems empowered many voice-driven applications. However, measuring the performance of such systems remains a major ch…
What can Speech and Language Tell us About the Working Alliance in Psychotherapy
Sebastian P. Bayerl, Gabriel Roccabruna, Shammur Absar Chowdhury +4
We are interested in the problem of conversational analysis and its application to the health domain. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a structured approach in psychotherapy, allowi…
Textual Data Augmentation for Arabic-English Code-Switching Speech Recognition
Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Abdelali +3
The pervasiveness of intra-utterance code-switching (CS) in spoken content requires that speech recognition (ASR) systems handle mixed language. Designing a CS-ASR system has many…
A Review of Bangla Natural Language Processing Tasks and the Utility of Transformer Models
Firoj Alam, Arid Hasan, Tanvirul Alam +4
Bangla -- ranked as the 6th most widely spoken language across the world (https://www.ethnologue.com/guides/ethnologue200), with 230 million native speakers -- is still considered…
What do End-to-End Speech Models Learn about Speaker, Language and Channel Information? A Layer-wise and Neuron-level Analysis
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Nadir Durrani, Ahmed Ali
Deep neural networks are inherently opaque and challenging to interpret. Unlike hand-crafted feature-based models, we struggle to comprehend the concepts learned and how they inter…
QASR: QCRI Aljazeera Speech Resource -- A Large Scale Annotated Arabic Speech Corpus
Hamdy Mubarak, Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury +1
We introduce the largest transcribed Arabic speech corpus, QASR, collected from the broadcast domain. This multi-dialect speech dataset contains 2,000 hours of speech sampled at 16…
Towards One Model to Rule All: Multilingual Strategy for Dialectal Code-Switching Arabic ASR
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Amir Hussein, Ahmed Abdelali +1
With the advent of globalization, there is an increasing demand for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR), handling language and dialectal variation of spoken content. Re…
Sentiment Classification in Bangla Textual Content: A Comparative Study
Md. Arid Hasan, Jannatul Tajrin, Shammur Absar Chowdhury +1
Sentiment analysis has been widely used to understand our views on social and political agendas or user experiences over a product. It is one of the cores and well-researched areas…
Depression Severity Estimation from Multiple Modalities
Evgeny Stepanov, Stephane Lathuiliere, Shammur Absar Chowdhury +4
Depression is a major debilitating disorder which can affect people from all ages. With a continuous increase in the number of annual cases of depression, there is a need to develo…
Rediscovering the Co-occurrence Principles of Vowel Inventories: A Complex Network Approach
Animesh Mukherjee, Monojit Choudhury, Shamik RoyChowdhury +2
In this work, we attempt to capture patterns of co-occurrence across vowel systems and at the same time figure out the nature of the force leading to the emergence of such patterns…