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 3.26, Informatics Forum
- City
- 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AB
Undergraduate teaching
Spring 2020: LEL1B (Pragmatics module)
Office Hours by appointment.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Pilar Oplustil Gallegos (co-supervised with Simon King)
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 speechPast research interests
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Affiliated research centres
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Detecting Topic-Oriented Speaker Stance in Conversational Speech
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The prosody of presupposition projection in naturally-occurring utterances
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"Why is the Doctor a Man?" Reactions of Older Adults to a Virtual Training Doctor
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Recognizing Induced Emotions of Movie Audiences From Multimodal Information
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Predicting Group Satisfaction in Meeting Discussions
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Multimodal Analysis of Group Attitudes Towards Meeting Management
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Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology
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Polarity and Intensity: the Two Aspects of Sentiment Analysis
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Recognizing Induced Emotions of Movie Audiences: Are Induced and Perceived Emotions the Same?
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Recognizing Emotions in Spoken Dialogue with Acoustic and Lexical Cues