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Conference Papers

Switching Tongues, Sharing Hearts: Identifying the Relationship between Empathy and Code-switching in Speech

Published in Interspeech, 2024

This paper examines the relationship between spoken empathy and code-switching across language pairs of varying typological distance.

Recommended citation: Bhattacharya, D., Lin, E., Chen, R., Hirschberg, J. (2024) Switching Tongues, Sharing Hearts: Identifying the Relationship between Empathy and Code-switching in Speech. Proc. Interspeech 2024, 492-496, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2024-1224
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Measuring Entrainment in Spontaneous Code-switched Speech

Published in NAACL, 2024

This paper investigates entrainment in a novel multilingual setting.

Recommended citation: Debasmita Bhattacharya, Siying Ding, Alayna Nguyen, and Julia Hirschberg. 2024. Measuring Entrainment in Spontaneous Code-switched Speech. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2865–2876, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Capturing Formality in Speech Across Domains and Languages

Published in Interspeech, 2023

This paper explores how to encode and measure formality in speech.

Recommended citation: Bhattacharya, D., Chi, J., Hirschberg, J., Bell, P. (2023) Capturing Formality in Speech Across Domains and Languages. Proc. Interspeech 2023, 1030-1034, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1852
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