Search Results for author: Steven Moran

Found 17 papers, 4 papers with code

Phonetic Segmentation of the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive

1 code implementation28 Mar 2024 Eleanor Chodroff, Blaž Pažon, Annie Baker, Steven Moran

We also discuss the utility of the VoxAngeles corpus for general research and pedagogy in crosslinguistic phonetics, as well as for low-resource and multilingual speech technologies.

Automatic Sound Event Detection and Classification of Great Ape Calls Using Neural Networks

1 code implementation5 Jan 2023 Zifan Jiang, Adrian Soldati, Isaac Schamberg, Adriano R. Lameira, Steven Moran

We present a novel approach to automatically detect and classify great ape calls from continuous raw audio recordings collected during field research.

Event Detection Sound Event Detection

SegBo: A Database of Borrowed Sounds in the World's Languages

no code implementations LREC 2020 Eitan Grossman, Elad Eisen, Dmitry Nikolaev, Steven Moran

Phonological segment borrowing is a process through which languages acquire new contrastive speech sounds as the result of borrowing new words from other languages.

The ACQDIV Corpus Database and Aggregation Pipeline

no code implementations LREC 2020 Anna Jancso, Steven Moran, Sabine Stoll

We present the ACQDIV corpus database and aggregation pipeline, a tool developed as part of the European Research Council (ERC) funded project ACQDIV, which aims to identify the universal cognitive processes that allow children to acquire any language.

Language Acquisition

Is Word Segmentation Child's Play in All Languages?

no code implementations ACL 2019 Georgia R. Loukatou, Steven Moran, Damian Blasi, Sabine Stoll, Alej Cristia, rina

When learning language, infants need to break down the flow of input speech into minimal word-like units, a process best described as unsupervised bottom-up segmentation.

Segmentation valid

The Open Linguistics Working Group: Developing the Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud

no code implementations LREC 2016 John Philip McCrae, Christian Chiarcos, Francis Bond, Philipp Cimiano, Thierry Declerck, Gerard de Melo, Jorge Gracia, Sebastian Hellmann, Bettina Klimek, Steven Moran, Petya Osenova, Antonio Pareja-Lora, Jonathan Pool

The Open Linguistics Working Group (OWLG) brings together researchers from various fields of linguistics, natural language processing, and information technology to present and discuss principles, case studies, and best practices for representing, publishing and linking linguistic data collections.

The ACQDIV Database: Min(d)ing the Ambient Language

no code implementations LREC 2016 Steven Moran

One of the most pressing questions in cognitive science remains unanswered: what cognitive mechanisms enable children to learn any of the world{'}s 7000 or so languages?

Language Acquisition

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