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Alan Black

3 accepted papers

2025

Sylber: Syllabic Embedding Representation of Speech from Raw Audio

ICLR 2025poster

Syllables are compositional units of spoken language that efficiently structure human speech perception and production. However, current neural speech representations lack such structure, resulting in dense token sequences that are costly to process. To bridge this gap, we propose a new model, Sylbe…

2022

Zero-shot Learning for Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion with Language Ensemble

ACL 2022findings

Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) has many applications in NLP and speech fields. Most existing work focuses heavily on languages with abundant training datasets, which limits the scope of target languages to less than 100 languages. This work attempts to apply zero-shot learning to approximate G2P models f…

2021

DialoGraph: Incorporating Interpretable Strategy-Graph Networks into Negotiation Dialogues

ICLR 2021poster

To successfully negotiate a deal, it is not enough to communicate fluently: pragmatic planning of persuasive negotiation strategies is essential. While modern dialogue agents excel at generating fluent sentences, they still lack pragmatic grounding and cannot reason strategically. We present DialoGr…