Special Session, S2 at ICON 2021: 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing
16th-19th December, 2021
Motivation
Neural architectures have accelerated the growth of speech applications in a wide variety of fields not just restricted to traditional automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis - these include, deducing and increasing the interpretability of neural networks, articulatory-acoustic-mapping, and neural language models, and extensive and precise modeling of speech prosody. This session will be dedicated to provide talks from a wide-variety of such perspectives to bring together advances that highlight how computational and linguistic approaches converge in both providing technological and scholarly solutions to classical problems in speech – acoustics, articulation, prosody, and technology.
The non-linear dynamics between speech articulation and acoustics is both elegance and a source of confounds for building viable applications and knowledge representations. We will begin this session with an overview of how neural architectures have been used for learning phonological patterns, following that we will look into how speech prosody and phonation can help build representations that are holistic. We will also investigate how the non-linearity between articulation and acoustics can be examined to offer insights into the acoustic-articulatory mapping and how this mapping can be used for prediction in several domains. Our special invited lecture will shed light on how Generative Adversarial Networks are used in forming generalizations akin to phonological representations.
Speakers
- Gašper Beguš, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
- Brigitte Bigi, The Laboratoire Parole et Langage
- Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science
- Shakuntala Mahanta, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
- Fred Mailhot, Dialpad, Inc.
- Moumita Pakrashi, Centre for Linguistic Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
- Kristine Yu, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachussetts Amherst
Organizer
Program
19th December, 2021. Times are in Indian Standard Time, GMT +5:30
| Title | Time | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| Probing Phonological Encoding with Small RNNs | 9:00-9:25 am | Fred Mailhot |
| Representations for multiple dependencies in prosodic structures | 9:30-9:55 am | Kristine Yu |
| Invariant and variant characteristics in speech articulation | 10:00-10:25 am | Prasanta Kumar Ghosh |
| Automated Speech Processing of Bengali using SPPAS software | 10:30-10:55 am | Brigitte Bigi, Shakuntala Mahanta, Moumita Pakrashi |
| Interpreting internal representations of deep convolutional neural networks trained on raw speech - Special invited lecture | 11:00-11:40 am | Gašper Beguš |
| Panel discussion | 11:50 am-12:30 pm | Q&A with all panelists |