Development of Automatic Speech Recognition for the Documentation of Cook Islands Māori

no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Rolando Coto-Solano, Sally Akevai Nicholas, Samiha Datta, Victoria Quint, Piripi Wills, Emma Ngakuravaru Powell, Liam Koka’ua, Syed Tanveer, Isaac Feldman

This paper describes the process of data processing and training of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system for Cook Islands Māori (CIM), an Indigenous language spoken by approximately 22, 000 people in the South Pacific.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

EnCBP: A New Benchmark Dataset for Finer-Grained Cultural Background Prediction in English

no code implementations • Findings (ACL) 2022 • Weicheng Ma, Samiha Datta, Lili Wang, Soroush Vosoughi

While cultural backgrounds have been shown to affect linguistic expressions, existing natural language processing (NLP) research on culture modeling is overly coarse-grained and does not examine cultural differences among speakers of the same language.

Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction Language Modelling +5