🌞#histmed summer colloquium Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) is happy to host @MSCAActions Postdoctoral Fellowship candidates 2024. If interested, do reach out to Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf runs an amazing Masterclass in May to support you! #MSCA #speech #computation #opportunity #linguistics Offer link: euraxess.de/jobs/hosting/l…

New study🚨"Compiling a corpus of African American Language from oral histories" Journal Research in Corpus Linguistics, a special issue by Dr Robbie Love. Researchers Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf🤝UFLinguistics tackled the underrepresentation of African American Language #AAL in language resources using #oralhistory. 🧵[1/6]

Paper🚨"Leveraging syntactic dependencies in disambiguation: the case of African American English" at LREC COLING 2024 2024 by student authors (WP, AR, JG, WD) & senior authors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf,UFLinguistics) Sarah Moeller (UFLinguistics,FLORIDA )🧵unroll. See QR for papers+videos

would like to thank Drs. Elisabeth Scherer and dbaer-henney.bsky.social for doing a teaching observation in my class this week for the NRW #Hochschuldidaktik teaching certificate programme that I'm taking part in HSD Paderborn Service-Center für gutes Lehren und Lernen (SeLL). p.s. dbaer-henney.bsky.social now knows what is a schneeball (👇) is.

Paper 🚨"ParsText: A Digraphic Corpus for Tajik-Farsi Transliteration", Rayyan and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, UFLinguistics, FLORIDA) at the Second Workshop on Computation and Written Language #CAWL at LREC COLING 2024, to share insights on #Persian language variations. See QR code🧵

looks forward to visiting Raffaele Vacca Behave next week to give a talk, "Navigating Human Behavior in Health and Education through the Lens of Natural Language." and meet many behavioural sociologists. #NonCiRestaCheGatorare Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab)

Studierende wachsen bei ihm über ihre bisherigen Grenzen hinaus: Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang (Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang) aus der Anglistik und Amerikanistik Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf & Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) wurde für den #hhuLehrpreis2024 nominiert. 🗣️📝

Er verbindet gekonnt Anspruch und Humor: Prof. Dr. Ingo Plag aus der Anglistik und Amerikanistik Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf wurde für den #hhuLehrpreis2024 nominiert. 📋🖊️

Diese Gesichter feiern wir heute beim #hhuTagderLehre! 44 Lehrende der @hhu_de, die sich ganz besonders engagieren und für den #hhuLehrpreis2024 nominiert sind. Wer sind die Gewinner*innen der vier Kategorien? Bleibt gespannt! Wir halten euch auf dem Laufenden. 🏆

Linguists at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Institut für Linguistik HHU Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab)) are well-represented at #LabPhon19 in Seoul, Korea: @[email protected], Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang, anna, Akhilesh, Dominic and dbaer-henney.bsky.social. Together they will present three papers. See links for abstracts! 🧵unroll [1/4]

This study investigated the effects of Parkinson's disease and various linguistic factors on the degree of lenition in Spanish stops: doi.org/10.1121/2.0001… #acoustics #speech UFLinguistics Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) SFU Linguistics UF Computer & Information Science & Engineering

🚀 Our new publication in JASA evaluated the consistency of lenition (consonant weakening) measures, focusing on voiceless and voiced stops in Spanish & pre-released a linguistic toolkit for lenition research 🎙️🧠 #Phonetics #Lenition. pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/artic… 🧵1/6

🔍 We compared three acoustic measures: 1⃣ Min & Max Intensity Velocity 📈 (Kingston 2008) 2⃣ Duration ⏳ 3⃣ Neural network (Phonet) measures based on the posterior probabilities of Sonorant & Continuant features 🤖 #MachineLearning 🧵2/6

🔄 While traditional acoustic metrics gave mixed and inconsistent results, Phonet's measures shined! 🥇🌟 Sonorant and continuant probabilities aligned with expected lenition patterns, influenced by voicing, articulation, and context. 🔍 #InterpretableAI 🧵3/6

🎯 This study highlights the effectiveness of using neural network that is phonologically informed as an alternative or supplementary method for measuring lenition. The consistency is promising for future research in speech science and phonological theories! ✨ 🧵4/6

Lastly 🛠️ we’ve made Phonet more accessible by releasing the trained Spanish Phonet model and a step-by-step pipeline for training and inferring new models. Ready to explore? Link to the tool: doi.org/10.17605/OSF.I… 🌐🔧 #OpenScience #LinguisticsTools 🧵5/6

Authors: Kevin Tang Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Ratree Wayland UFLinguistics, Fenqi Wang Fenqi Wang SFU Linguistics and Sophia Vellozzi LinkedIn and Rahul Sengupta UF Computer & Information Science & Engineering Paper: t1p.de/hdami Funded by U.S. National Science Foundation (2037266). #NeuralNetworks #Spanish #Weakening #Phonetics 🧵6/6

Could computational methods like Phonet be used as an additional or alternative method of lenition measurement? doi.org/10.1121/10.002… #acoustics #speech Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang,Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) UFLinguistics,UF Computer & Information Science & Engineering Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

At INTERSPEECH 2024? Do check out our work tomorrow at 11:20 on modeling probabilistic reduction across linguistic domains with Naive Discriminative Learning. Work by anna based on her BA thesis and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang. Paper: doi.org/10.21437/Inter… UFLinguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Institut für Linguistik HHU