Publications associées à Discrimination linguistique

Linguistic effects on news headline success: Evidence from thousands of online field experiments (Registered Report)

What makes written text appealing? In this registered report, we study the linguistic characteristics of news headline success using a large-scale dataset of field experiments (A/B tests) conducted on the popular website comparing multiple headline variant ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2023

Adjustable deterministic pseudonymization of speech

Mathew Magimai Doss, Subrahmanya Pavankumar Dubagunta

While public speech resources become increasingly available, there is a growing interest to preserve the privacy of the speakers, through methods that anonymize the speaker information from speech while preserving the spoken linguistic content. In this pap ...

ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Explainable Phonology-based Approach for Sign Language Recognition and Assessment

Sandrine Tornay

Sign language technology, unlike spoken language technology, is an emerging area of research. Sign language technologies can help in bridging the gap between the Deaf community and the hearing community. One such computer-aided technology is sign language ...

EPFL2021

Predicting Group Performance in Task-Based Interaction

Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

We address the problem of automatically predicting group performance on a task, using multimodal features derived from the group conversation. These include acoustic features extracted from the speech signal, and linguistic features derived from the conver ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Negentropic linguistic evolution: A comparison of seven languages

Frédéric Kaplan, Vincent Christian Buntinx

The relationship between the entropy of language and its complexity has been the subject of much speculation – some seeing the increase of linguistic entropy as a sign of linguistic complexification or interpreting entropy drop as a marker of greater regul ...

Red de Humanidades Digitales A. C.2018

On Structured Sparsity of Phonological Posteriors for Linguistic Parsing

Hervé Bourlard, Afsaneh Asaei, Milos Cernak

The speech signal conveys information on different time scales from short (20--40 ms) time scale or segmental, associated to phonological and phonetic information to long (150--250 ms) time scale or supra segmental, associated to syllabic and prosodic info ...

2016

Excluded Linguistic Communities and the Production of an Inclusive Multilingual Digital Language Infrastructure

Martin Benjamin

The consequence of linguistic digital exclusion is the inability of billions of people to access vital knowledge and economic resources that contribute to prosperity in an era of globalization. However, rectifying linguistic inequity is mostly absent from ...

2015

Privacy-Sensitive Audio Features for Speech/Nonspeech Detection

Hervé Bourlard, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Mathew Magimai Doss, Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi

The goal of this paper is to investigate features for speech/nonspeech detection (SND) having low linguistic information from the speech signal. Towards this, we present a comprehensive study of privacy-sensitive features for SND in multiparty conversation ...

2011

Answering questions about archived, annotated meetings

Marita Ailomaa

Retrieving information from archived meetings is a new domain of information retrieval that has received increasing attention in the past few years. Search in spontaneous spoken conversations has been recognized as more difficult than text-based document r ...

EPFL2009

Cognitive language engineering towards robust human-computer interaction

Vincenzo Pallotta

Intelligent information processing seems to be one of the most challenging task among those involved in human-computer interaction. A central issue is how to model the various types of interaction among artificial and natural entities at different levels o ...

EPFL2002