The 32nd Language Lunch Date: 2012-04-12 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Determining the number of speakers in a meeting using microphone array features Erich,Zwyssig; EADS IW; e.p.zwyssig@sms.ed.ac.uk Steve,Renals; Informatics; S.Renals@ed.ac.uk Mike,Lincoln; Informatics; mlincol1@inf.ed.ac.uk The accuracy of speaker diarisation in meetings relies heavily on determining the correct number of speakers. In this paper we present a novelContinue reading The 32nd Language Lunch

The 31st Language Lunch Date: 2012-02-10 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Using Latent Variable Models to Achieve Stochastic and Consistent User Simulation for Dialog Management Aciel,Eshky; informatics; a.eshky@sms.ed.ac.uk Ben,Allison; informatics; b.allison@inf.ed.ac.uk Mark,Steedman; informatics; steedman@inf.ed.ac.uk User simulation is a vital component in training and evaluating statistical dialog systems. However, while the dialog managers they inform have becomeContinue reading The 31st Language Lunch

The 30th Language Lunch Date: 2011-12-01 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Annotating Attribution Relations: Towards source sensitivity within text Silvia,Pareti; informatics; s.pareti@sms.ed.ac.uk “Efforts to extract attribution relations have multiplied in recent years, due to their relevance in particular for Opinion Analysis and Information Extraction applications. Being able to correctly identify the source (either a specific entityContinue reading The 30th Language Lunch

The 29th Language Lunch Date: 2011-10-07 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Eye movements and perceptual span in people who stutter Sam,Miller; Psychology; s1029768@sms.ed.ac.uk Madeleine,Beveridge; PPLS; S0946253@sms.ed.ac.uk Richard,Shillcock; Informatics; rcs@inf.ed.ac.uk Recent evidence suggests that people who stutter (PWS) may display different eye movement behaviour in silent reading compared with people who do not stutter (Corcoran & Frisson,Continue reading The 29th Language Lunch

The 28th Language Lunch Date: 2011-06-10 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Exploring Social Communication Skills in Children with ASD through Humour and Social Stories Aurora,Constantin; Informatics; A.Constantin-2@sms.ed.ac.uk Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) is a term coined to cover a group of neurodevelopmental disorders associated with noticeable impairments in three domains: social interaction (inability to develop age-appropriate relationships),Continue reading The 28th Language Lunch

The 27th Language Lunch Date: 2011-04-06 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Efficient CCG Parsing: A* versus Adaptive Supertagging Michael,Auli; ILCC; m.auli@sms.ed.ac.uk Naomi,Saphra; s1477768@sms.ed.ac.uk We present a systematic comparison and combination of two orthogonal techniques for efficient parsing of Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG). First we consider adaptive supertagging, a widely used approximate search technique that prunes mostContinue reading The 27th Language Lunch

The 26th Language Lunch Date: 2011-02-04 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Tracking Social Change through Sound Change Lauren,Hall-Lew; LEL; Lauren.Hall-Lew@ed.ac.uk English vowel production is undergoing a shift in California (Eckert 2008), and one of the most robust aspects of the shift is the merger between the vowels in LOT and THOUGHT (DeCamp 1953). While this ‘low-backContinue reading The 26th Language Lunch