Catherine Lai
Lecturer
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- 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
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Undergraduate teaching
Sem 1, 2023/24: Speech Processing (Hons) (LASC10061) - Course Organizer
Sem 2, 2023/24: On research leave
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)
- Yuanchao Li (with Peter Bell)
- Alice Ross (with Martin Corley)
As second supervisor:
- 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)
- Jack Tsangou
Past PhD students supervised
Leimin Tian (co-supervised with Johanna Moore)
Pilar Oplustil Gallegos (with Simon King)
Nina Markl ( with Lauren Hall-Lew)
Research summary
Speech prosody, spoken language understanding, affective computing, discourse and dialogue structure, semantics, pragmatics, information structure