Using a Knowledge Base to Automatically Annotate Speech Corpora and to Identify Sociolinguistic Variation (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Speech characteristics vary from speaker to speaker due to many factors, including communication context, provenance, age, and social background. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that uses a knowledge base to provide speaker-specific information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can be used to enrich existing corpora with speaker-specific information and to correlate with diastratic features. |
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