no code implementations • 6 Mar 2023 • Elizabeth Nielsen, Christo Kirov, Brian Roark
Using a set of probe words unique to either British or American English, we first establish that training corpora exhibit substantial (though not total) consistency.
1 code implementation • 23 Feb 2023 • Elizabeth Nielsen, Sharon Goldwater, Mark Steedman
Parsing spoken dialogue presents challenges that parsing text does not, including a lack of clear sentence boundaries.
no code implementations • 5 Jul 2022 • Malihe Alikhani, Thomas Kober, Bashar Alhafni, Yue Chen, Mert Inan, Elizabeth Nielsen, Shahab Raji, Mark Steedman, Matthew Stone
Typologically diverse languages offer systems of lexical and grammatical aspect that allow speakers to focus on facets of event structure in ways that comport with the specific communicative setting and discourse constraints they face.
no code implementations • ACL 2021 • Elizabeth Nielsen, Mark Steedman, Sharon Goldwater
We investigate how prosody affects a parser that receives an entire dialogue turn as input (a turn-based model), instead of gold standard pre-segmented SUs (an SU-based model).
no code implementations • EMNLP 2020 • Elizabeth Nielsen, Mark Steedman, Sharon Goldwater
We find that these innovations lead to an improvement from 87. 5% to 88. 7% accuracy on pitch accent detection on American English speech in the Boston University Radio News Corpus, a state-of-the-art result.