1 code implementation • COLING (WANLP) 2020 • Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Abdelali, Kareem Darwish, Jung Soon-Gyo, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen
Automatic categorization of short texts, such as news headlines and social media posts, has many applications ranging from content analysis to recommendation systems.
1 code implementation • 6 Nov 2023 • Rabindra Nath Nandi, Mehadi Hasan Menon, Tareq Al Muntasir, Sagor Sarker, Quazi Sarwar Muhtaseem, Md. Tariqul Islam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam
Our results demonstrate the efficacy of the model trained on psuedo-label data for the designed test-set along with publicly-available Bangla datasets.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2023 • Yassine El Kheir, Ahmed Ali, Shammur Absar Chowdhury
Pronunciation assessment and its application in computer-aided pronunciation training (CAPT) have seen impressive progress in recent years.
no code implementations • 14 Sep 2023 • Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
The phonological discrepancies between a speaker's native (L1) and the non-native language (L2) serves as a major factor for mispronunciation.
no code implementations • 14 Sep 2023 • Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
Research on pronunciation assessment systems focuses on utilizing phonetic and phonological aspects of non-native (L2) speech, often neglecting the rich layer of information hidden within the non-verbal cues.
1 code implementation • 9 Aug 2023 • Fahim Dalvi, Maram Hasanain, Sabri Boughorbel, Basel Mousi, Samir Abdaljalil, Nizi Nazar, Ahmed Abdelali, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Ali, Majd Hawasly, Nadir Durrani, Firoj Alam
In this study, we introduce the LLMeBench framework, which can be seamlessly customized to evaluate LLMs for any NLP task, regardless of language.
no code implementations • 23 Jul 2023 • Yousseif Elshahawy, Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
Furthermore, the platform offers flexibility to admin roles to add new data or tasks beyond dialectal speech and word collection, which are displayed to contributors.
no code implementations • 24 May 2023 • Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Maram Hasanain, Basel Mousi, Sabri Boughorbel, Yassine El Kheir, Daniel Izham, Fahim Dalvi, Majd Hawasly, Nizi Nazar, Yousseif Elshahawy, Ahmed Ali, Nadir Durrani, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Firoj Alam
Our findings provide valuable insights into the applicability of LLMs for Arabic NLP and speech processing tasks.
no code implementations • 9 May 2023 • Yassine El Kheir, Fouad Khnaisser, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Shazia Afzal, Ahmed Ali
This paper introduces a novel Arabic pronunciation learning application QVoice, powered with end-to-end mispronunciation detection and feedback generator module.
no code implementations • 2 Apr 2023 • Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
The success of the multilingual automatic speech recognition systems empowered many voice-driven applications.
no code implementations • 2 Nov 2022 • Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali, Hamdy Mubarak, Shazia Afzal
Our proposed technique achieves state-of-the-art results, with Speechocean762, on ASR dependent mispronunciation detection models at phoneme level, with a 2. 0% gain in Pearson Correlation Coefficient (PCC) compared to the previous state-of-the-art [1].
Ranked #4 on Phone-level pronunciation scoring on speechocean762
no code implementations • 17 Jun 2022 • Sebastian P. Bayerl, Gabriel Roccabruna, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Tommaso Ciulli, Morena Danieli, Korbinian Riedhammer, Giuseppe Riccardi
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first and a novel study to exploit speech and language for characterising working alliance.
no code implementations • COLING (WNUT) 2022 • Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam
Gender analysis of Twitter can reveal important socio-cultural differences between male and female users.
no code implementations • 18 Jan 2022 • Hamdy Mubarak, Sabit Hassan, Shammur Absar Chowdhury
We evaluate our models on external datasets - a Twitter dataset collected using a completely different method, and a multi-platform dataset containing comments from Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, for assessing generalization capability.
no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Hamdy Mubarak, Sabit Hassan, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam
We studied the data for individual types of tweets and temporal changes in stance towards vaccine.
no code implementations • 7 Jan 2022 • Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Abdelali, Najim Dehak, Ahmed Ali, Sanjeev Khudanpur
The pervasiveness of intra-utterance code-switching (CS) in spoken content requires that speech recognition (ASR) systems handle mixed language.
no code implementations • ACL 2021 • Hamdy Mubarak, Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
We also report the first baseline for Arabic punctuation restoration.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +8
2 code implementations • 8 Jul 2021 • Firoj Alam, Arid Hasan, Tanvirul Alam, Akib Khan, Janntatul Tajrin, Naira Khan, Shammur Absar Chowdhury
In this study, we first provide a review of Bangla NLP tasks, resources, and tools available to the research community; we benchmark datasets collected from various platforms for nine NLP tasks using current state-of-the-art algorithms (i. e., transformer-based models).
no code implementations • 1 Jul 2021 • Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Nadir Durrani, Ahmed Ali
In our study, we conduct a post-hoc functional interpretability analysis of pretrained speech models using the probing framework [1].
no code implementations • 24 Jun 2021 • Hamdy Mubarak, Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
We also report the first baseline for Arabic punctuation restoration.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +8
no code implementations • 31 May 2021 • Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Amir Hussein, Ahmed Abdelali, Ahmed Ali
We evaluate the system performance handling: (i) monolingual (Ar, En and Fr); (ii) multi-dialectal (Modern Standard Arabic, along with dialectal variation such as Egyptian and Moroccan); (iii) code-switching -- cross-lingual (Ar-En/Fr) and dialectal (MSA-Egyptian dialect) test cases, and compare with current state-of-the-art systems.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1
1 code implementation • 19 Nov 2020 • Md. Arid Hasan, Jannatul Tajrin, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam
In this study, we explore several publicly available sentiment labeled datasets and designed classifiers using both classical and deep learning algorithms.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Abdelali, Soon-gyo Jung, Bernard J Jansen, Joni Salminen
Hence, it is important to detect offensive comments in social media platforms.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Sabit Hassan, Younes Samih, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Abdelali, Ammar Rashed, Shammur Absar Chowdhury
In this paper, we describe our efforts at OSACT Shared Task on Offensive Language Detection.
1 code implementation • WS 2019 • Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Roberto Zamparelli
We propose a novel approach to the study of how artificial neural network perceive the distinction between grammatical and ungrammatical sentences, a crucial task in the growing field of synthetic linguistics.
1 code implementation • COLING 2018 • Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Roberto Zamparelli
The paper explores the ability of LSTM networks trained on a language modeling task to detect linguistic structures which are ungrammatical due to extraction violations (extra arguments and subject-relative clause island violations), and considers its implications for the debate on language innatism.
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2017 • Evgeny Stepanov, Stephane Lathuiliere, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Arindam Ghosh, Radu-Laurentiu Vieriu, Nicu Sebe, Giuseppe Riccardi
In this AVEC challenge we explore different modalities (speech, language and visual features extracted from face) to design and develop automatic methods for the detection of depression.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny Stepanov, Morena Danieli, Giuseppe Riccardi
It is also observed that sometimes long silences can be used deliberately to get a forced response from another speaker thus making silence a multi-functional and an important catalyst towards information flow.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Morena Danieli, Giuseppe Riccardi
In this paper, we aim to investigate the coordination of interlocutors behavior in different emotional segments.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny Stepanov, Giuseppe Riccardi
In this paper we test the utility of the ISO standard through comparative evaluation of the corpus-specific legacy and the semi-automatically transferred DiAML DA annotations on supervised dialogue act classification task.