4 papers
Arab Voices: Mapping Standard and Dialectal Arabic Speech Technology
Peter Sullivan, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Alcides Alcoba Inciarte +1
Dialectal Arabic (DA) speech data vary widely in domain coverage, dialect labeling practices, and recording conditions, complicating cross-dataset comparison and model evaluation.…
Quantum NLP models on Natural Language Inference
Ling Sun, Peter Sullivan, Michael Martin +1
Quantum natural language processing (QNLP) offers a novel approach to semantic modeling by embedding compositional structure directly into quantum circuits. This paper investigates…
NADI 2025: The First Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task
Bashar Talafha, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Peter Sullivan +9
We present the findings of the sixth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI 2025) Shared Task, which focused on Arabic speech dialect processing across three subtasks: spoken…
On Barriers to Archival Audio Processing
Peter Sullivan, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
In this study, we leverage a unique UNESCO collection of mid-20th century radio recordings to probe the robustness of modern off-the-shelf language identification (LID) and speaker…