5 papers
Opinionated, Hesitant and Stressed: Three Studies of How Politicians Speak in Four Slavic Parliaments
Ivan Porupski, Nikola Ljubešić
We present three large-scale studies of spoken parliamentary speech across four Slavic languages (Croatian, Czech, Polish, Serbian), drawing on over 6,000 hours from the ParlaSpeec…
Umm... With Transformers? Insights from Filled Pause Use across Four Slavic Parliaments
Ivan Porupski, Branimir Dropuljić, Nikola Ljubešić
Filled pauses (FPs) are a universal feature of spontaneous speech, yet most studies rely on small, single-language corpora, limiting the generalisability of their findings. We anal…
State of the Art in Text Classification for South Slavic Languages: Fine-Tuning or Prompting?
Taja Kuzman Pungeršek, Peter Rupnik, Ivan Porupski +2
Until recently, fine-tuned BERT-like models provided state-of-the-art performance on text classification tasks. With the rise of instruction-tuned decoder-only models, commonly kno…
ParlaSpeech 3.0: Richly Annotated Spoken Parliamentary Corpora of Croatian, Czech, Polish, and Serbian
Nikola Ljubešić, Peter Rupnik, Ivan Porupski +1
ParlaSpeech is a collection of spoken parliamentary corpora currently spanning four Slavic languages - Croatian, Czech, Polish and Serbian - all together 6 thousand hours in size.…
Identifying Primary Stress Across Related Languages and Dialects with Transformer-based Speech Encoder Models
Nikola Ljubešić, Ivan Porupski, Peter Rupnik
Automating primary stress identification has been an active research field due to the role of stress in encoding meaning and aiding speech comprehension. Previous studies relied ma…