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Rosie Jones

2 accepted papers

2021

Modeling Language Usage and Listener Engagement in Podcasts

ACL 2021long

While there is an abundance of advice to podcast creators on how to speak in ways that engage their listeners, there has been little data-driven analysis of podcasts that relates linguistic style with engagement. In this paper, we investigate how various factors – vocabulary diversity, distinctivene…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2020

100,000 Podcasts: A Spoken English Document Corpus

COLING 2020main

Podcasts are a large and growing repository of spoken audio. As an audio format, podcasts are more varied in style and production type than broadcast news, contain more genres than typically studied in video data, and are more varied in style and format than previous corpora of conversations. When t…