Search Results for author: Nicole Peinelt

Found 9 papers, 4 papers with code

A Comparative Analysis of Pretrained Language Models for Text-to-Speech

no code implementations4 Sep 2023 Marcel Granero-Moya, Penny Karanasou, Sri Karlapati, Bastian Schnell, Nicole Peinelt, Alexis Moinet, Thomas Drugman

In this study, we aim to address this gap by conducting a comparative analysis of different PLMs for two TTS tasks: prosody prediction and pause prediction.

Natural Language Understanding Prosody Prediction

eCat: An End-to-End Model for Multi-Speaker TTS & Many-to-Many Fine-Grained Prosody Transfer

no code implementations20 Jun 2023 Ammar Abbas, Sri Karlapati, Bastian Schnell, Penny Karanasou, Marcel Granero Moya, Amith Nagaraj, Ayman Boustati, Nicole Peinelt, Alexis Moinet, Thomas Drugman

We show that eCat statistically significantly reduces the gap in naturalness between CopyCat2 and human recordings by an average of 46. 7% across 2 languages, 3 locales, and 7 speakers, along with better target-speaker similarity in FPT.

Better Early than Late: Fusing Topics with Word Embeddings for Neural Question Paraphrase Identification

no code implementations22 Jul 2020 Nicole Peinelt, Dong Nguyen, Maria Liakata

Question paraphrase identification is a key task in Community Question Answering (CQA) to determine if an incoming question has been previously asked.

Community Question Answering Paraphrase Identification +2

Aiming beyond the Obvious: Identifying Non-Obvious Cases in Semantic Similarity Datasets

1 code implementation ACL 2019 Nicole Peinelt, Maria Liakata, Dong Nguyen

Existing datasets for scoring text pairs in terms of semantic similarity contain instances whose resolution differs according to the degree of difficulty.

Semantic Similarity Semantic Textual Similarity

ClassifierGuesser: A Context-based Classifier Prediction System for Chinese Language Learners

1 code implementation IJCNLP 2017 Nicole Peinelt, Maria Liakata, Shu-Kai Hsieh

Classifiers are function words that are used to express quantities in Chinese and are especially difficult for language learners.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Automatically Suggesting Example Sentences of Near-Synonyms for Language Learners

no code implementations COLING 2016 Chieh-Yang Huang, Nicole Peinelt, Lun-Wei Ku

In this paper, we propose GiveMeExample that ranks example sentences according to their capacity of demonstrating the differences among English and Chinese near-synonyms for language learners.

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