Catherine Lai
Lecturer

- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: c.lai@ed.ac.uk
- Web: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/clai/
Address
- Street
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Working from home like everyone else but otherwise:
Room 3.26, Informatics Forum - City
- 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AB
Undergraduate teaching
Spring 2021
- Discourse Analysis
Postgraduate teaching
Autumn 2020:
- Speech Processing
Spring 2021
- Speech Synthesis (Course Organizer)
These courses are also available to advanced undergraduates (with approval).
Office Hours by appointment.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
- Pilar Oplustil Gallegos ( with Simon King)
- Nina Markl ( with Lauren Hall-Lew)
- Emelie van de Vreken (with Korin Richmond)
- Jie Chi (with Peter Bell)
- Sarenne Wallbridge (with Steve Renals)
Past PhD students supervised
Leimin Tian (co-supervised with Johanna Moore)
Research summary
Speech prosody, spoken language understanding, affective computing, discourse and dialogue structure, semantics, pragmatics, information structure
Current research interests
Topic and stance detection from spoken dialogue Prosody, presuppositions and information structure Generation and perception of prosody in synthetic speech Multimodal emotion recognitionPast research interests
See my website!Affiliated research centres
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The prosody of presupposition projection in naturally-occurring utterances
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2020.v24i2.884
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper (Published) -
Perception of prosodic variation for speech synthesis using an unsupervised discrete representation of F0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-197
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Integrating lexical and prosodic features for automatic paragraph segmentation
In:
Speech Communication, vol. 121, pp. 44-57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2020.04.007
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Detecting Topic-Oriented Speaker Stance in Conversational Speech
(5 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2632
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
The prosody of presupposition projection in naturally-occurring utterances
(2 pages)
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Poster (E-pub ahead of print) -
"Why is the Doctor a Man?" Reactions of Older Adults to a Virtual Training Doctor
(6 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312811
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Recognizing Induced Emotions of Movie Audiences From Multimodal Information
(17 pages)
In:
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2019.2902091
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Predicting Group Satisfaction in Meeting Discussions
(8 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3279810.3279840
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Multimodal Analysis of Group Attitudes Towards Meeting Management
(6 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3279981.3279984
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology
(3 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3242969.3272960
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published)