Search Results for author: Neville Ryant

Found 11 papers, 4 papers with code

Improved POS tagging for spontaneous, clinical speech using data augmentation

no code implementations11 Jul 2023 Seth Kulick, Neville Ryant, David J. Irwin, Naomi Nevler, Sunghye Cho

This paper addresses the problem of improving POS tagging of transcripts of speech from clinical populations.

Data Augmentation POS +1

A Part-of-Speech Tagger for Yiddish

2 code implementations3 Apr 2022 Seth Kulick, Neville Ryant, Beatrice Santorini, Joel Wallenberg, Assaf Urieli

We describe the construction and evaluation of a part-of-speech tagger for Yiddish.

Word Embeddings

Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English: First Parsing Results and Analysis

no code implementations Findings (NAACL) 2022 Seth Kulick, Neville Ryant, Beatrice Santorini

We present the first parsing results on the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English (PPCEME), a 1. 9 million word treebank that is an important resource for research in syntactic change.

TAG

Automatic recognition of suprasegmentals in speech

no code implementations2 Aug 2021 Jiahong Yuan, Neville Ryant, Xingyu Cai, Kenneth Church, Mark Liberman

This study reports our efforts to improve automatic recognition of suprasegmentals by fine-tuning wav2vec 2. 0 with CTC, a method that has been successful in automatic speech recognition.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

The Third DIHARD Diarization Challenge

3 code implementations2 Dec 2020 Neville Ryant, Prachi Singh, Venkat Krishnamohan, Rajat Varma, Kenneth Church, Christopher Cieri, Jun Du, Sriram Ganapathy, Mark Liberman

DIHARD III was the third in a series of speaker diarization challenges intended to improve the robustness of diarization systems to variability in recording equipment, noise conditions, and conversational domain.

speaker-diarization Speaker Diarization +1

Probing Acoustic Representations for Phonetic Properties

1 code implementation25 Oct 2020 Danni Ma, Neville Ryant, Mark Liberman

Pre-trained acoustic representations such as wav2vec and DeCoAR have attained impressive word error rates (WER) for speech recognition benchmarks, particularly when labeled data is limited.

Benchmarking speech-recognition +1

Parsing Early Modern English for Linguistic Search

no code implementations SCiL 2022 Seth Kulick, Neville Ryant

We investigate the question of whether advances in NLP over the last few years make it possible to vastly increase the size of data usable for research in historical syntax.

POS Word Embeddings

The Second DIHARD Diarization Challenge: Dataset, task, and baselines

1 code implementation18 Jun 2019 Neville Ryant, Kenneth Church, Christopher Cieri, Alejandrina Cristia, Jun Du, Sriram Ganapathy, Mark Liberman

This paper introduces the second DIHARD challenge, the second in a series of speaker diarization challenges intended to improve the robustness of diarization systems to variation in recording equipment, noise conditions, and conversational domain.

Action Detection Activity Detection +5

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