Papers by Debasmita Bhattacharya
Measuring Entrainment in Spontaneous Code-switched Speech (2024.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies of entrainment in code-switched domains have been limited to human-machine textual interactions. |
| Approach: | They propose to use acoustic-prosodic features to identify multiple dimensions and feature sets of entrainment in code-switched speech. |
| Outcome: | The findings give rise to important implications for the potentially “universal” nature of entrainment as a communication phenomenon and potential applications in inclusive and interactive speech technology. |
Discourse-Driven Code-Switching: Analyzing the Role of Content and Communicative Function in Spanish-English Bilingual Speech (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Prior work has shown that a range of speaker and listener attributes affect or correlate with the prevalence of code-switching during conversation. |
| Approach: | They analyze the names of entities and dialogue acts present in a Spanish-English spontaneous speech corpus and build a predictive model of CSW. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is the first to take a discourse-sensitive approach to understanding pragmatic and referential cues of bilingual speech. |
Does Context Matter? A Prosodic Comparison of English and Spanish in Monolingual and Multilingual Discourse Settings (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a large number of studies on prosody in languages have focused on monolingual discourse contexts . a recent study focused on the prosodic features of monolingual speech in multilingual contexts. |
| Approach: | They compare prosody of monolingual English and Spanish in monolingual and multilingual settings . they find that monolingual speech produced in a monolingual context is prosodically different from that produced in multilingual context . |
| Outcome: | The proposed study is the first to incorporate multilingual discourse contexts into the study of native-level monolingual prosody. |