Search Results for author: Tim Polzehl

Found 11 papers, 3 papers with code

Best Practices for Crowd-based Evaluation of German Summarization: Comparing Crowd, Expert and Automatic Evaluation

no code implementations EMNLP (Eval4NLP) 2020 Neslihan Iskender, Tim Polzehl, Sebastian Möller

On the one hand, the human assessment of summarization quality conducted by linguistic experts is slow, expensive, and still not a standardized procedure.

Informativeness

Reliability of Human Evaluation for Text Summarization: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead

1 code implementation EACL (HumEval) 2021 Neslihan Iskender, Tim Polzehl, Sebastian Möller

Based on our empirical analysis, we provide guidelines to ensure the reliability of expert and non-expert evaluations, and we determine the factors that might affect the reliability of the human evaluation.

Text Summarization

Towards Hybrid Human-Machine Workflow for Natural Language Generation

no code implementations EACL (HCINLP) 2021 Neslihan Iskender, Tim Polzehl, Sebastian Möller

In recent years, crowdsourcing has gained much attention from researchers to generate data for the Natural Language Generation (NLG) tools or to evaluate them.

Text Generation

StarGAN-VC++: Towards Emotion Preserving Voice Conversion Using Deep Embeddings

1 code implementation14 Sep 2023 Arnab Das, Suhita Ghosh, Tim Polzehl, Sebastian Stober

In this paper, we show that StarGANv2-VC fails to disentangle the speaker and emotion representations, pertinent to preserve emotion.

Generative Adversarial Network Voice Conversion

Emo-StarGAN: A Semi-Supervised Any-to-Many Non-Parallel Emotion-Preserving Voice Conversion

1 code implementation14 Sep 2023 Suhita Ghosh, Arnab Das, Yamini Sinha, Ingo Siegert, Tim Polzehl, Sebastian Stober

Speech anonymisation prevents misuse of spoken data by removing any personal identifier while preserving at least linguistic content.

Voice Conversion

Speaker adaptation for Wav2vec2 based dysarthric ASR

no code implementations2 Apr 2022 Murali Karthick Baskar, Tim Herzig, Diana Nguyen, Mireia Diez, Tim Polzehl, Lukáš Burget, Jan "Honza'' Černocký

Speaker adaptation using fMLLR and xvectors have provided major gains for dysarthric speech with very little adaptation data.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

Towards Human-Free Automatic Quality Evaluation of German Summarization

no code implementations13 May 2021 Neslihan Iskender, Oleg Vasilyev, Tim Polzehl, John Bohannon, Sebastian Möller

Evaluating large summarization corpora using humans has proven to be expensive from both the organizational and the financial perspective.

Informativeness Language Modelling

Towards a Reliable and Robust Methodology for Crowd-Based Subjective Quality Assessment of Query-Based Extractive Text Summarization

no code implementations LREC 2020 Neslihan Iskender, Tim Polzehl, Sebastian M{\"o}ller

The intrinsic and extrinsic quality evaluation is an essential part of the summary evaluation methodology usually conducted in a traditional controlled laboratory environment.

Extractive Text Summarization Informativeness

Crowdsourcing a Multi-lingual Speech Corpus: Recording, Transcription and Annotation of the CrowdIS Corpora

no code implementations LREC 2016 Andrew Caines, Christian Bentz, Calbert Graham, Tim Polzehl, Paula Buttery

We announce the release of the CROWDED CORPUS: a pair of speech corpora collected via crowdsourcing, containing a native speaker corpus of English (CROWDED{\_}ENGLISH), and a corpus of German/English bilinguals (CROWDED{\_}BILINGUAL).

Sentence valid

Improving Automatic Emotion Recognition from speech using Rhythm and Temporal feature

no code implementations7 Mar 2013 Mayank Bhargava, Tim Polzehl

This paper is devoted to improve automatic emotion recognition from speech by incorporating rhythm and temporal features.

Emotion Recognition

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