Automatic Dialect Density Estimation for African American English

no code implementations • 3 Apr 2022 • Alexander Johnson, Kevin Everson, Vijay Ravi, Anissa Gladney, Mari Ostendorf, Abeer Alwan

In this paper, we explore automatic prediction of dialect density of the African American English (AAE) dialect, where dialect density is defined as the percentage of words in an utterance that contain characteristics of the non-standard dialect.

Density Estimation Language Modelling

Can Social Robots Effectively Elicit Curiosity in STEM Topics from K-1 Students During Oral Assessments?

no code implementations • 19 Feb 2022 • Alexander Johnson, Alejandra Martin, Marlen Quintero, Alison Bailey, Abeer Alwan

This paper presents the results of a pilot study that introduces social robots into kindergarten and first-grade classroom tasks.

LPC Augment: An LPC-Based ASR Data Augmentation Algorithm for Low and Zero-Resource Children's Dialects

no code implementations • 19 Feb 2022 • Alexander Johnson, Ruchao Fan, Robin Morris, Abeer Alwan

This paper proposes a novel linear prediction coding-based data aug-mentation method for children's low and zero resource dialect ASR.

Data Augmentation