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Conference Papers

Does Context Matter? A Prosodic Comparison of English and Spanish in Monolingual and Multilingual Discourse Settings

Published in EMNLP, 2025

This paper investigates the impact of multilingual discourse contexts on variation in monolingual prosody.

Recommended citation: Debasmita Bhattacharya, David Sasu, Michela Marchini, Natalie Schluter, and Julia Hirschberg. 2025. Does Context Matter? A Prosodic Comparison of English and Spanish in Monolingual and Multilingual Discourse Settings. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 23319–23333, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Discourse-Driven Code-Switching: Analyzing the Role of Content and Communicative Function in Spanish-English Bilingual Speech

Published in EMNLP, 2025

This paper explores how discourse content and function interact with linguistic patterns of Spanish-English code-switching.

Recommended citation: Debasmita Bhattacharya, Juan Junco, Divya Tadimeti, and Julia Hirschberg. 2025. Discourse-Driven Code-Switching: Analyzing the Role of Content and Communicative Function in Spanish-English Bilingual Speech. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 23415–23430, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Code-switching in Context: Investigating the Role of Discourse Topic in Bilingual Speech Production

Published in CODI-CRAC Workshop @ EMNLP, 2025

This paper shows how discourse topics shape unique code-switching profiles in Mandarin-English.

Recommended citation: Debasmita Bhattacharya, Anxin Yi, Siying Ding, and Julia Hirschberg. 2025. Code-switching in Context: Investigating the Role of Discourse Topic in Bilingual Speech Production. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, Context and Document-Level Inferences (CODI 2025), pages 64–80, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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From Context to Code-switching: Examining the Interplay of Language Proficiency and Multilingualism in Speech

Published in Interspeech, 2025

This paper quantifies the relationship between speaker language proficiency and fine-grained code-switching patterns in Spanish-English.

Recommended citation: Bhattacharya, D., Tolat, A., Hirschberg, J. (2025) From Context to Code-switching: Examining the Interplay of Language Proficiency and Multilingualism in Speech. Proc. Interspeech 2025, 4528-4532, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-165
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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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