The Uneme data was collected and curated as part of Lateef's ongoing fieldwork with the Uneme community in Nigeria. He's working under an ELDP grant and the larger collection is indexed here: www.elararchive.org/uncategorize...
It features 1) The first ASR baseline for Uneme (endangered Edoid lg) 2) A Tone Error Rate (TER) extension to Feature Error Rate (FER), calculated by carefully scoring phonetic feature vectors 3) Evidence that WER misrepresents ASR performance by collapsing feature-level errors into lexical failure
Congratulations to @feiyuehchen.bsky.social and Lateef Adeleke who successfully converted their term paper on feature-level ASR evaluation into a publication to appear at the AfricaNLP workshop at EACL next month!
pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04716
The Uneme data was collected and curated as part of Lateef's ongoing fieldwork with the Uneme community in Nigeria. He's working under an ELDP grant and the larger collection is indexed here: www.elararchive.org/uncategorize...
It features 1) The first ASR baseline for Uneme (endangered Edoid lg) 2) A Tone Error Rate (TER) extension to Feature Error Rate (FER), calculated by carefully scoring phonetic feature vectors 3) Evidence that WER misrepresents ASR performance by collapsing feature-level errors into lexical failure
I did weekly pen-and-paper quizzes in my deep learning class to assess comprehension and thought it went reasonably well
Potential applicants should visit the link here and apply by December 1! If you think this is a good fit for you or someone you know, feel free to reach out by DM or email.
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- ASR for extremely low-resource langs: making it useful and practical for language documentation
- The role of Linguistic relatedness in transfer learning
- "Roll-your-own" modeling frameworks (i.e. community-trained and -maintained solutions)
- LMs for ancient/archaic language understanding
I'm recruiting Linguistics PhD students this cycle! You should apply to work with me if you're interested in anything low-resource NLP. Some topics I'm particularly excited about currently:
- Cornell is just down the road
- Department is deeply engaged in fieldwork
If this sounds up your alley, feel free to reach out! And if you know someone who would be interested, please have them look me up. The deadline for applications is December 1
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One week left to apply: I'm recruiting (Ling) PhD students! Come work with me on getting NLP to work for as wide a range of languages as possible! Some perks of UR:
- Only have to TA 2 semesters total
- At least $3k discretionary funds for e.g. conferences
- Easy access to upstate NY nature
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Do you want to understand how language models work, and how they can change language science? I'm recruiting PhD students at UBC Linguistics! The research will be fun, and Vancouver is lovely. So much cool NLP happening at UBC across both Ling and CS! linguistics.ubc.ca/graduate/adm...
If you still have space I'd appreciate being added 🙂
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