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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Room 2.11, Dugald Stewart Building
(Working at home some times) - City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Undergraduate teaching
Sem 1, 2022/23Speech Processing (Hons) (LASC10061) - Course Organizer
Sem 2, 2022/23
- LEL1B (LASC08023)
- Discourse Analysis (LASC10114)
Postgraduate teaching
Sem 1, 2022/23:
- Speech Processing (LASC11158) - Course Organizer
Sem 2, 2022/23
- Discourse Analysis (LASC11159)
Office Hours by appointment.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
As first supervisor:
- Sarenne Wallbridge (with Peter Bell & Steve Renals)
- Nina Markl ( with Lauren Hall-Lew)
- Yuanchao Li (with Peter Bell)
As second supervisor:
- Pilar Oplustil Gallegos (with Simon King)
- Johannah O'Mahony (with Simon King)
- Emelie van de Vreken (with Korin Richmond)
- Jie Chi (with Peter Bell)
- Mai Dao (with Peter Bell)
- Bonnie Liu (with Sumin Zhao, Christian Ilbury)
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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I Know Your Feelings Before You Do: Predicting Future Affective Reactions in Human-Computer Dialogue
(8 pages)
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press) -
Multimodal Dyadic Impression Recognition via Listener Adaptive Cross-Domain Fusion
(6 pages)
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press) -
Exploration of A Self-Supervised Speech Model: A Study on Emotional Corpora
(8 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/SLT54892.2023.10023428
Research output: Contribution to Workshop › Conference contribution (Published) -
Combining conversational speech with read speech to improve prosody in Text-to-Speech synthesis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10167
Research output: › Conference contribution (Published) -
Voice Puppetry with FastPitch
(2 pages)
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Investigating perception of spoken dialogue acceptability through surprisal
(5 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10808
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Fusing ASR Outputs in Joint Training for Speech Emotion Recognition
(5 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP43922.2022.9746289
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Alzheimer's Dementia Detection through Spontaneous Dialogue with Proactive Robotic Listeners
(5 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5555/3523760.3523896
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Robotic Speech Synthesis: Perspectives on Interactions, Scenarios, and Ethics
(4 pages)
Research output: Contribution to Workshop › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press) -
The Lothian Diary Project: Sociolinguistic methods during the COVID-19 lockdown
(10 pages)
In:
Linguistics Vanguard, pp. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0053
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)