2 papers
cs.CL2026
What makes a word hard to learn? Modeling L1 influence on English vocabulary difficulty
Jonas Mayer Martins, Zhuojing Huang, Aaricia Herygers +1
What makes a word difficult to learn, and how does the difficulty depend on the learner's native language? We computationally model vocabulary difficulty for English learners whose…
eess.AS2023
Exploring data augmentation in bias mitigation against non-native-accented speech
Yuanyuan Zhang, Aaricia Herygers, Tanvina Patel +2
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) should serve every speaker, not only the majority ``standard'' speakers of a language. In order to build inclusive ASR, mitigating the bias again…