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, 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

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

It's not what you said, it's how you said it: discriminative perception of speech as a multichannel communication system (5 pages) 30 Aug 2021
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) 28 Aug 2021
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 26 Aug 2021
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) 16 Apr 2021 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 Apr 2021
Research output: Contribution to Workshop › Paper (Published)
Factivity, prosody, and at-issueness: Investigating the projection behavior of (non-)factives 2021
Research output: Contribution to Workshop › Abstract (Published)
The prosody of presupposition projection in naturally-occurring utterances 17 Sep 2020
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 Aug 2020 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)
Perception of prosodic variation for speech synthesis using an unsupervised discrete representation of F0 24 May 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-197
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published)
Detecting Topic-Oriented Speaker Stance in Conversational Speech (5 pages) 19 Sep 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2632
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published)

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This article was published on 19 Jan, 2022