Catherine Lai

Lecturer in Speech and Language Processing, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Institute of Language, Cognition and Computation
Centre for Speech Technology Research

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2411-8954

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Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Pennsylvania

Award Date: 1 Jan 2012

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34 Conference contribution
3 Article
1 Poster
1 Special issue

The Lothian Diary Project: Investigating the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Edinburgh and Lothian residents
Hall-Lew, L., Cowie, C., McNulty, S., Markl, N., Liu, S., Lai, C., Llewellyn, C., Alex, B., Fang, N., Elliott Slosarova, Z., Klingler, A., Besharati, S. (ed.) & Wigdorowitz, M. (ed.), 30 Jan 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Open Humanities Data.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

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Integrating lexical and prosodic features for automatic paragraph segmentation
Lai, C., Farrús, M. & Moore, J., Aug 2020, In: Speech Communication. 121, p. 44-57
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Perception of prosodic variation for speech synthesis using an unsupervised discrete representation of F0
Hodari, Z., Lai, C. & King, S., 24 May 2020, Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020. p. 965-969
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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The prosody of presupposition projection in naturally-occurring utterances
Mahler, T., de Marneffe, M-C. & Lai, C., 17 Sep 2020, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24 . p. 20-37 ( Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung ; vol. 24, no. 2).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Open Access
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Detecting Topic-Oriented Speaker Stance in Conversational Speech
Lai, C., Alex, B., Moore, J. D., Tian, L., Hori, T. & Francesca, G., 19 Sep 2019, Proceedings of Interspeech 2019. International Speech Communication Association, p. 46-50 5 p. (Interspeech).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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1 Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
1 Invited talk

Spoken language processing: learning from more than just text
Catherine Lai (Invited speaker)
8 Mar 2021
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
ORGCon19 Scotland
Catherine Lai (Invited speaker)
26 Oct 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar

1 Active
3 Finished

Consolidated Studentships - Bell 2020
Bell, P., Lai, C. & Tang, H.
Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations
1/09/20 → 29/02/24
Project: Research
Recording Life during a Pandemic: The Lothian Video Diary Project
Hall-Lew, L., Cowie, C., Symington, B., Lai, C., Fang, N., Liu, S. & Llewellyn, C.
25/05/20 → 31/07/20
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
Spoken Dialogue Processing for Robot Companions 2019
Lai, C.
Other
1/11/18 → 31/10/19
Project: Research
Spoken Dialogue Processing for Robot Companions
Lai, C. & Symington, B.
Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations
1/09/17 → 31/08/18
Project: Research

Lothian Diaries Dataset 1 (May-September 2020)
Hall-Lew, L. (Creator), Cowie, C. (Data Collector), Lai, C. (Data Manager), Liu, S. (Data Collector), Markl, N. (Data Collector), McNulty, S. (Data Collector), Symington, B. (Data Collector), Llewellyn, C. (Data Collector), Fang, N. (Data Collector), Elliott Slosarova, Z. (Data Collector), Klingler, A. (Data Collector) & Hall-Lew, L. (Owner), Edinburgh DataVault, 30 Sep 2022
DOI: 10.7488/7a22cc4b-87ec-4df3-a549-3b347fd4bca5
Dataset