Publications
Publications
CDT students are shown in bold in the list below.
2024
2024
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R Flynn , A Ragni (2024). Self-Train Before You Transcribe. Proceedings of Interspeech 202 4 , Kos Island, Greece , 1 - 5 September 202 4 .
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R Flynn , A Ragni (2024). How Much Context Does My Attention-Based ASR System Need? Proceedings of Interspeech 2024 , Kos Island, Greece , 1-5 September 2024.
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W Ravenscroft , G Close , S Goetze, T Hain, M Soleymanpur, A Chowdury, M Fuhs (2024). Transcription-Free Fine-Tuning of Speech Separation Models for Noisy and Reverberant Multi-Speaker Automatic Speech Recognition. Proceedings of Interspeech 2024 , Kos Island, Greece , 1-5 September 2024.
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C Hughes , N Ma, N Dibben, G Brown (2024). Acoustic Effects of Facial Feminisation Surgery on Speech and Singing: A Case Study. Proceedings of Interspeech 2024 , Kos Island, Greece , 1-5 September 2024.
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W Leung , M Cross , A Ragni, S Goetze (2024). Training Data Augmentation for Dysarthric Automatic Speech Recognition by Text-to-Dysarthric-Speech Synthesis. Proceedings of Interspeech 2024 , Kos Island, Greece , 1-5 September 2024.
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R Mogridge , A Ragni (2024). Learning from memory-based models. Proceedings of Interspeech 2024 , Kos Island, Greece , 1-5 September 2024.
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A Meghanani , T Hain (2024). LASER: Learning by Aligning Self-supervised Representations of Speech for Improving Content-related Tasks. Proceedings of Interspeech 2024 , Kos Island, Greece , 1-5 September 2024.
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R Sutherland , G Close , T Hain, S Goetze, J Barker (2024), Using Speech Foundational Models in Loss Functions for Hearing Aid Speech. Proceedings of 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2024).
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G Close , T Hain, S Goetze (2024), Hallucination in Perceptual Metric-Driven Speech Enhancement Networks. Proceedings of 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2024).
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D Phelps, T Pickard , M Mi , E Gow-Smith , A Villavicencio (2024). Sign of the Times: Evaluating the use of Large Language Models for Idiomaticity Detection . Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 178–187, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL. Winner of the Best Paper Award.
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Z Zhang, T Goldsack , C Scarton, C Lin (2024). ATLAS: Improving Lay Summarisation with Attribute-based Control. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( ACL 2024 ), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-16 August 2024 .
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M Williams , N Aletras (2024). On the Impact of Calibration Data in Post-training Quantization and Pruning . Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( ACL 2024 ), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-16 August 2024 .
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T Loakman , C Lin (2024). ReproHum #0087-01: Human Evaluation Reproduction Report for "Generating Fact-Checking Explanations" . Proceedings of the HumEval Workshop ( LREC-COLING ), Turin, Italy (May 21st, 2024).
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C Tang, T Loakman , C Lin (2024). A cross-attention augmented model for event-triggered context-aware story generation . Computer Speech & Language vol. 88, November 2024.
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S Hollands , H Schmueck (2024). Towards a pipeline approach to corpus compilation: Challenges and solutions. Proceedings of the 45th Annual C onference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, Vigo, Spain, 18 - 22 June 2024.
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G Huang , RK Moore (2024). Freedom Comes at a Cost?: An Exploratory Study on Affordances' Impact on Users' Perception of a Social Robot . Frontiers in Robotics and AI : Human-Robot Interaction Volume 11 . doi: 10.3389/frobt.2024.1288818
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A Hughes , X Song (2024). Identifying and Aligning Medical Claims Made on Social Media with Medical Evidence. Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation ( LREC-COLING 2024 ). May 20-25, 2024.
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D Sánchez Villegas , D Preoţiuc-Pietro , N Aletras (2023). Improving Multimodal Classification of Social Media Posts by Leveraging Image-Text Auxiliary tasks . Findings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( EACL 2024 ), March 17-22, 2024 .
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A Meghanani , T Hain (2024). Improving Acoustic Word Embeddings through Correspondence Training of Self-supervised Speech Representations . Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( EACL 2024 ), March 17-22, 2024 .
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A Meghanani , T Hain (2024). SCORE: Self-Supervised Correspondence Fine-Tuning For Improved Content Representations. Proceedings of the 202 4 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ( ICASSP 202 4 ) .
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W Ravenscroft , S Goetze, T Hain (2024). Combining Conformer and Dual-Path-Transformer Networks for Single Channel Noisy Reverberant Speech Separation. Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ( ICASSP 2024 ) .
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G Close , W Ravenscroft , T Hain, S Goetze (2024). MULTI-CMGAN+/+: Leveraging Multi-Objective Speech Quality Metric Prediction For Speech Enhancement. Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ( ICASSP 2024 ) .
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R Mogridge , G Close , R Sutherland , T Hain, J Barker, S Goetze, A Ragni (2024). Non-Intrusive Speech Intelligibility Prediction For Hearing-Impaired Users Using Intermediate ASR Features And Human Memory Models. Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ( ICASSP 2024 ) .
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H Yusufali , RK Moore, S Goetze (2024). Refining Text Input For Augmentative And Alternative Communication (AAC) Devices: Analysing Language Model Layers For Optimisation. Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ( ICASSP 2024 ) .
2023
2023
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G Huang , RK Moore (2023). One Size Does Not Fit All: Personalised Affordance Design for Social Robots . Proceedings of the CONCATENATE workshop at HRI23 , Stockholm, Sweden .
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Förster et al. incl. G Huang (2023). Working with troubles and failures in conversation between humans and robots: workshop report . Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Volume 10, December 2023. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2023.1202306
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M Mi (2023). Mmi01 at The BabyLM Challenge: Linguistically Motivated Curriculum Learning for Pretraining in Low-Resource Settings. Proceedings of the BabyLM Challenge , co-located at co-located at the SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning ( CoNLL 2023 ), Singapore, December 6-7 .
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G Close, W Ravenscroft , T Hain, S Goetze (2023). The University of Sheffield CHiME-7 UDASE Challenge Speech Enhancement System . Procee dings of the CHiME-2023 Workshop (25 August 2023), a satellite workshop of INTERSPEECH 2023 , Dublin, Ireland, 20-24 August 2023.
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A Alajrami , K Margatina, N Aletras (2023). Understanding the Role of Input Token Characters in Language Models: How Does Information Loss Affect Performance? Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ( EMNLP 2023 ), Singapore, December 6-10 2023.
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T Loakman , A Maladry, C Lin (2023). The Iron(ic) Melting Pot: Reviewing Human Evaluation in Humour, Irony and Sarcasm Generation . Findings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ( EMNLP 2023 ), Singapore, December 6-10 2023.
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T Goldsack , Z Zhang, C Tang, C Scarton, C Lin (2023). Enhancing Biomedical Lay Summarisation with External Knowledge Graphs . Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ( EMNLP 2023 ), Singapore, December 6-10 2023.
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C Tang, S Wang, T Goldsack , C Lin (2023). Improving Biomedical Abstractive Summarisation with Knowledge Aggregation from Citation Papers . Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ( EMNLP 2023 ), Singapore, December 6-10 2023.
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J Clarke , Y Gotoh, S Goetze (2023). Improving Audiovisual Active Speaker Detection in Egocentric Recordings with the Data-efficient Image Transformer . Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding ( ASRU 2023 ), Taipei, Taiwan, December 16-20 2023 .
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A Meghanani , T Hain (2023). Deriving Translational Acoustic Sub-word Embeddings. Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding ( ASRU 2023 ), Taipei, Taiwan, December 16-20 2023 .
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W Ravenscroft , S Goetze, T Hain (2023). On Time Domain Conformer Models for Monaural Speech Separation in Noisy Reverberant Acoustic Environments. Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding ( ASRU 2023 ), Taipei, Taiwan, December 16-20 2023 .
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D Sánchez Villegas , C Goanta, N Aletras (2023). A Multimodal Analysis of Influencer Content on Twitter . Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( IJCNLP-AACL 2023 ), Bali, Indonesia (November 1–4 2023).
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P Vickers , L Barrault, E Monti, N Aletras (2023). We Need to Talk About Classification Evaluation Metrics in NLP. Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( IJCNLP-AACL 2023 ) , Bali, Indonesia (November 1–4 2023).
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R Flynn , A Ragni (2023). Leveraging Cross-Utterance Context For ASR Decoding . Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2023 , Dublin , Ireland, 20-24 August 2023.
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S Vincent , R Flynn , C Scarton (2023). MTCUE: Learning Zero-Shot Control of Extra-Textual Attributes by Leveraging Unstructured Context in Neural Machine Translation . Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( ACL 2023 ) , Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023.
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G Huang , RK Moore (2023). Using social robots for language learning: are we there yet? Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning .
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T Goldsack , Z Lou, Q Xie, C Scarton, M Shardlow, S Ananiadou, C Lin (2023). Overview of the BioLaySumm 2023 Shared Task on Lay Summarization of Biomedical Research Articles . Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing co-located at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( ACL 2023 ), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023.
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E Gow-Smith , D Sánchez Villegas (2023). Sheffield's Submission to the AmericasNLP Shared Task on Machine Translation into Indigenous Languages . Proceedings of Third Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas , co-located at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( ACL 2023 ) , Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023. Best-performing submission overall to the AmericasNLP 2023 Shared Task. Code and models available .
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JA Sivakumar , NS Moosavi (2023). FERMAT: An Alternative to Accuracy for Numerical Reasoning . Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( ACL 2023 ) , Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023.
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S Cao , S Goetze, J Barker (2023). A Study on Microphone Array Position Calibration for Hearing Aids . Proceedings of UK Speech 2023 , Sheffield, UK, June 14-15 2023.
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W Ravenscroft , S Goetze, T Hain (2023). On Data Sampling Strategies for Training Neural Network Speech Separation Models . Proceedings of the 31st European Signal Processing Conference ( EUSIPCO 2023 ) , Helsinki, Finland.
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H Yusufali , S Goetze, RK Moore (2023). Bridging the Communication Rate Gap: Enhancing Text Input for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII) 2023 , Copenhagen Denmark.
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G Close , T Hain, S Goetze (2023) PAMGAN+/-: Improving Phase-Aware Speech Enhancement Performance via Expanded Discriminator Training . Proceedings of the 154th Audio Engineering Society ( AES) Convention , Espoo, Helsinki, Finland, May 13–15, 2023. Winner of the Student Technical Paper Award.
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T Loakman , C Tang, C Lin (2023). TwistList: Resources and Baselines for Tongue Twister Generation. Proceedings of the 61st Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( ACL 2023 , Toronto, Short Papers)
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C Tang, H Zhang, T Loakman , C Lin and F Guerin (2023). Enhancing Dialogue Generation via Dynamic Graph Knowledge Aggregation. Proceedings of the 61st Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( ACL 2023 , Toronto, Long Papers)
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T Pickard , T Loakman , and M Pandya (2023). shefnlp at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Compute-Efficient Category Adapters. Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023) , Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Savary, C Ben Khelil, C Ramisch et al. (including T Pickard ) (2023). PARSEME corpus release 1.3 . Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2023) , Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2023.
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M Thomas , S Hollands , D Blackburn, H Christensen (2023). Towards disfluency features for speech technology based automatic dementia classification . Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023) , Prague Congress Centre, Czech Republic, 7-11 August 2023.
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M Thomas , N Pevy, T Walker (2023). Disfluencies and Cognitive Decline: An Investigative Study. Proceedings of the biennial symposium of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA) , University of Salzburg, 4-7 July 2023.
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M Hewitt , T Rodríguez Muñoz , G Huang (2023). Melodica: An Affordable Music Companion . In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '23) . Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 806–809.
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C Tang, H Zhang, T Loakman , C Lin, F Guerin (2023). Terminology-aware Medical Dialogue Generation . Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023) .
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S Ellis , S Goetze, H Christensen (2023). Moving Towards Non-Binary Gender Identification Via Analysis of System Errors in Binary Gender Classification. Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023) .
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W Ravenscroft , S Goetze, T Hain (2023). Deformable Temporal Convolutional Networks for Monaural Noisy Reverberant Speech Separation . Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023) .
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G Close , W Ravenscroft , T Hain, S Goetze (2023). Perceive and predict: self-supervised speech representation based loss functions for speech enhancement . Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023) .
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T Goldsack , Z Zhang, C Lin, C Scarton (202 3 ). Domain-driven and Discourse-guided Scientific Summarisation. Proceedings of the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023) .
2022
2022
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E Gow-Smith , H Tayyar Madabushi, C Scarton, A Villavicencio (2022). Improving Tokenisation by Alternative Treatment of Spaces . Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022) .
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T Goldsack , Z Zhang, C Lin, C Scarton (2022). Making Science Simple: Corpora for the Lay Summarisation of Scientific Literature . Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022) .
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H Huang, C Tang, T Loakman , F Guerin, C Lin (2022). Improving Chinese Story Generation via Awareness of Syntactic Dependencies and Semantics . In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers) , pages 178–185. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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C Tang, Z Zhang, T Loakman , C Lin, F Guerin (2022). NGEP: A Graph-based Event Planning Framework for Story Generation . In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers) , pages 186–193. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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G Huang , Roger K. Moore (2022). Is honesty the best policy for mismatched partners? Aligning multi-modal affordances of a social robot: An opinion paper . Frontiers in Virtual Reality , 16 September 2022.
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T Rodríguez Muñoz , E Ip, G Huang , R K Moore (2022). Interactivism in Spoken Dialogue Systems . Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2022), August, 22-24, 2022, Dublin, pp 263-265 .
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W Ravenscroft , S Goetze, T Hain (2022). Utterance Weighted Multi-Dilation Temporal Convolution Networks for Monaural Speech Dereverberation. Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC 2022) , Bamberg, Germany .
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S Hollands , D Blackburn, H Christensen (2022). Evaluating the Performance of State-of-the-Art ASR Systems on Non-Native English using Corpora with Extensive Language Background Variation . Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2022 (Incheon, Korea) .
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G Close , S Hollands , S Goetze, T Hain (2022). Non-intrusive Speech Intelligibility Metric Prediction for Hearing Impaired Individuals. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2022 (Incheon, Korea) .
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S Vincent , L Barrault, C Scarton (2022). Controlling Extra-Textual Attributes about Dialogue Participants: A Case Study of English-to-Polish Neural Machine Translation . Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2022) .
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S Vincent , L Barrault, C Scarton (2022). Controlling Formality in Low-Resource NMT with Domain Adaptation and Re-Ranking: SLT-CDT-UoS at IWSLT2022 . Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2022) .
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D Phelps, X Fan, E Gow-Smith , H Tayyar Madabushi, C Scarton, A Villavicencio. Sample Efficient Approaches for Idiomaticity Detection . Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, colocated with LREC 2022 (Marseille, France) .
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E Gow-Smith , M McConville, W Gillies, J Scott, R Ó Maolalaigh. Use of Transformer-Based Models for Word-Level Transliteration of the Book of the Dean of Lismore . Proceedings of the 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop , colocated with LREC 2022 (Marseille, France) .
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G Close , T Hain, S Goetze (2022). MetricGAN+/-: Increasing Robustness of Noise Reduction on Unseen Data . Proceedings of 30th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2022) .
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W Ravenscroft , S Goetze, T Hain (2022). Receptive Field Analysis of Temporal Convolutional Networks for Monaural Speech Dereverberation. Proceedings of 30th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2022) .
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X Ao, D Sánchez Villegas , D Preoţiuc-Pietro, N Aletras (2022). Combining Humor and Sarcasm for Improving Political Parody Detection . Proceedings of NAACL 2022 .
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TAF Green , D Maynard, C Lin (2022). Development of a Benchmark Corpus to Support Entity Recognition in Job Descriptions. Proceedings of LREC 2022 .
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H Tayyar Madabushi, E Gow-Smith , M Garcia, C Scarton, M Idiart, A Villavicencio (2022). SemEval-2022 Task 2: Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection and Sentence Embedding . 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation ( SemEval-2022 ) co-located with NAACL.
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W Ravenscroft , S Goetze and T Hain (2022). Att-TasNet: Attending to Encodings in Time-Domain Audio Speech Separation of Noisy, Reverberant Speech Mixtures . Frontiers in Signal Processing: Signal Processing Theory .
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A Alajrami and N Aletras (2022). How does the pre-training objective affect what large language models learn about linguistic properties? Proceedings of ACL 2022
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M Thomas (2022). 'Speech and the Effects of the Comorbidity of Depression and MCI'. Proceedings of Sheffield Dementia Conference 2022 .
2021
2021
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H Tayyar Madabushi, E Gow-Smith , C Scarton and A Villavicencio (2021). AStitchInLanguageModels: Dataset and methods for the exploration of idiomaticity in pre-trained language models . Findings of EMNLP 2021 .
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D Sánchez Villegas and N Aletras (2021). Point-of-interest type prediction using text and images . Proceedings of EMNLP 2021 .
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D Sánchez Villegas , S Mokaram, and N Aletras (2021). Analysing online political advertisements . Proceedings of ACL Findings 2021 .
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S Vincent (2021). Towards personalised and document-level machine translation of dialogue . Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop .
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P Vickers , N Aletras, E Monti and L Barrault (2021). In factuality: Efficient integration of relevant facts for visual question answering . Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing ( ACL-IJCNLP 2021 ) .
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P Vickers , R Wainwright , H Tayyar Madabushi and A Villavicencio (2021). CogNLP-Sheffield at CMCL 2021 shared task: Blending cognitively inspired features with transformer-based language models for predicting eye tracking patterns . Proceedings of the Cognitive Modelling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) Workshop 2021 , 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( NAACL ) .
2020
2020
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A Maronikolakis, D Sanchez Villegas , D Preoţiuc-Pietro, N Aletras (2020). Analysing political parody in social media . Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 4373-4384 .
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D Sánchez Villegas , D Preoţiuc-Pietro and N Aletras (2020). Point-of-interest type inference from social media text . Proceedings of the First Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( AACL ) .