Dialect Conflict and Identity Issues in Tlemcen Speech Community

Authorship Issues and Conflict in the U.S. Academic Chemical Community

A survey on credit issues and related "responsible conduct of research" (RCR) behaviors was conducted with academic chemists in Ph.D. granting institutions in the U.S. Six hundred faculty members responded. Fifty percent of the respondents reported not receiving appropriate credit for contributions they had made to projects the results of which had been published, including when they themselves...

A text-to-speech system for British English, and issues of dialect and style

A text-to-speech system for british English, and issues of dialect and style

Although the concept of a multi-lingual text-to-speech system is a familiar one, rather li ttle attention has been given to the question of the variety of each language that is synthesized. This question can be asked not only of national or dialectal varieties but of style differences within those varieties. \Je present a demonstration and discussion of a British English text-to-speech system. ...

Automatic estimation of dialect mixing ratio for dialect speech recognition

This paper proposes methods for determining an appropriate mixing ratio of dialects in automatic speech recognition (ASR) for dialects. To handle ASR for various dialects, it has been reported to be effective to train a language model using a dialectmixed corpus. One reason behind this is geographical continuity of spoken dialect; we regard spoken dialect as a mixture of various dialects. This ...

Arabic Dialect Identification in Speech Transcripts

In this paper we describe a system developed to identify a set of four regional Arabic dialects (Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine, North African) and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) in a transcribed speech corpus. We competed under the team name MAZA in the Arabic Dialect Identification sub-task of the 2016 Discriminating between Similar Languages (DSL) shared task. Our system achieved an F1-score of 0.5...