Catherine Lai

Lecturer

Linguistics and English Language
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Email: c.lai@ed.ac.uk
Web: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/clai/

Street: Room 2.11, Dugald Stewart Building
(Working at home some times)
City: 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
Post code: EH8 9AD

Teaching & PhD supervision

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

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 recognition

Past research interests

See my website!

Affiliated research centres

Publications

Multimodal Dyadic Impression Recognition via Listener Adaptive Cross-Domain Fusion (5 pages) 5 May 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095072
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published)
Do dialogue representations align with perception? An empirical study 2 May 2023
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published)
I Know Your Feelings Before You Do: Predicting Future Affective Reactions in Human-Computer Dialogue (8 pages) 19 Apr 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585869
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published)
Language redundancy effects on F0: A preliminary controlled study 31 Mar 2023
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press)
Exploration of A Self-Supervised Speech Model: A Study on Emotional Corpora (8 pages) 27 Jan 2023
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 22 Sep 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10167
Research output: › Conference contribution (Published)
Voice Puppetry with FastPitch (2 pages) 22 Sep 2022
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published)
Investigating perception of spoken dialogue acceptability through surprisal (5 pages) 18 Sep 2022
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) 27 Apr 2022
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) 7 Mar 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5555/3523760.3523896
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published)

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This article was published on 27 Nov, 2023