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Quantifying Consonant Contributions to Word Intelligibility via Acoustic Masking
Eunjung Yeo, Kwanghee Choi, Krupaben Kothadia +4
Consonants contribute unequally to whether a word is understood. Given the limited time available for therapy, ranking consonants by contribution to intelligibility helps prioritiz…
Harnessing Linguistic Dissimilarity for Language Generalization on Unseen Low-Resource Varieties
Jinju Kim, Haeji Jung, Youjeong Roh +2
Low-resource language varieties used by specific groups remain neglected in the development of Multilingual Language Models. A great deal of cross-lingual research focuses on inter…
An Empirical Recipe for Universal Phone Recognition
Shikhar Bharadwaj, Chin-Jou Li, Kwanghee Choi +4
Phone recognition (PR) is a key enabler of multilingual and low-resource speech processing tasks, yet robust performance remains elusive. Highly performant English-focused models d…
Adapting Self-Supervised Speech Representations for Cross-lingual Dysarthria Detection in Parkinson's Disease
Abner Hernandez, Eunjung Yeo, Kwanghee Choi +12
The limited availability of dysarthric speech data makes cross-lingual detection an important but challenging problem. A key difficulty is that speech representations often encode…
Happiness is Sharing a Vocabulary: A Study of Transliteration Methods
Haeji Jung, Jinju Kim, Kyungjin Kim +2
Transliteration has emerged as a promising means to bridge the gap between various languages in multilingual NLP, showing promising results especially for languages using non-Latin…
Carrot and Stick: Inducing Self-Motivation with Positive & Negative Feedback
Jimin Sohn, Jeihee Cho, Junyong Lee +3
Positive thinking is thought to be an important component of self-motivation in various practical fields such as education and the workplace. Previous work, including sentiment tra…