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, 2021/22
- Speech Processing (Hons) (LASC10061) - Course Organizer
Sem 2, 2021/22
- LEL1B (LASC08023)
- Discourse Analysis (LASC10114)
Postgraduate teaching
Sem 1, 2021/22:
- Speech Processing (LASC11158) - Course Organizer
- Group Project in Advanced Natural Language Processing (INFR11193) - Course Organizer
Sem 2, 2021/22
- 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)
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 Lothian Diary Project: Sociolinguistic methods during the COVID-19 lockdown
(10 pages)
In:
Linguistics Vanguard, pp. 1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Fusing ASR Outputs in Joint Training for Speech Emotion Recognition
(5 pages)
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press) -
It's not what you said, it's how you said it: discriminative perception of speech as a multichannel communication system
(5 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1658
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Factors Affecting the Evaluation of Synthetic Speech in Context
(6 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/SSW.2021-26
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Location, Location: Enhancing the Evaluation of Text-to-Speech Synthesis Using the Rapid Prosody Transcription Paradigm
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper (Published) -
The Lothian Diary Project: Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Edinburgh and Lothian residents
(5 pages)
In:
Journal of Open Humanities Data, vol. 7, pp. 1-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.25
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Special issue (Published) -
Context-sensitive evaluation of automatic speech recognition: considering user experience & language variation
Research output: Contribution to Workshop › Paper (Published) -
Factivity, prosody, and at-issueness: Investigating the projection behavior of (non-)factives
Research output: Contribution to Workshop › Abstract (Published) -
The prosody of presupposition projection in naturally-occurring utterances
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2020.v24i2.884
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 (Published)