1 code implementation • Findings (EMNLP) 2021 • Nicole Peinelt, Marek Rei, Maria Liakata
Large pre-trained language models such as BERT have been the driving force behind recent improvements across many NLP tasks.
no code implementations • 4 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.
no code implementations • 20 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.
no code implementations • 23 Oct 2020 • Nicole Peinelt, Marek Rei, Maria Liakata
Large pre-trained language models such as BERT have been the driving force behind recent improvements across many NLP tasks.
no code implementations • 22 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.
1 code implementation • ACL 2020 • Nicole Peinelt, Dong Nguyen, Maria Liakata
Semantic similarity detection is a fundamental task in natural language understanding.
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.
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.
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.