Papers by Jane Wottawa
Towards Interactive Annotation for Hesitation in Conversational Speech (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | recognizing affects in spontaneous, non acted speech is expensive in both human resources and time. |
| Approach: | They aim to automatize the labeling of hesitant speech as a marker of expressed uncertainty. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method shows that the number of filled pauses and vowel duration increases with the degree of hesitation, and that automatic prediction of the hesitation degree reaches encouraging RMSE results of 1.6. |
A Benchmark of French ASR Systems Based on Error Severity (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) transcription errors are often assessed using metrics that compare them with a reference transcription. |
| Approach: | They propose to categorize transcription errors into four levels of severity based on objective linguistic criteria, contextual patterns, and the use of content words as the unit of analysis. |
| Outcome: | The proposed evaluation categorizes errors into four levels of severity based on objective linguistic criteria, contextual patterns, and the use of content words as the unit of analysis. |
Annotation of Transition-Relevance Places and Interruptions for the Description of Turn-Taking in Conversations in French Media Content (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Few speech resources describe interruption phenomena, especially for TV and media content. |
| Approach: | They propose to annotation Transition-Relevance Places (TRPs) and Floor-Taking event types on an existing French TV and Radio broadcast corpus to facilitate studies of interruptions and turn-taking. |
| Outcome: | The proposed annotations on an existing French TV and Radio broadcast corpus show they are reliable and reliable . |