Papers by Jennifer Biggs
Task and Sentiment Adaptation for Appraisal Tagging (2023.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Appraisal framework in linguistics defines the framework for fine-grained evaluations and opinions. |
| Approach: | They propose to use language models to automatically identify and annotate text segments for appraisal. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves superior performance than baseline adapter-based models and other neural classification models for cross-domain and cross-language settings. |
English-based acoustic models perform well in the forced alignment of two English-based Pacific Creoles (2025.acl-long)
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Sam Passmore, Lila San Roque, Kirsty Gillespie, Saurabh Nath, Kira Davey, Keira Mullan, Tim Cawley, Jennifer Biggs, Rosey Billington, Bethwyn Evans, Nick Thieberger, Danielle Barth
| Challenge: | Currently, European languages dominate phonetic research . forced alignment can accelerate the study of sociophonetic variation in minority languages . |
| Approach: | They propose to use English and custom-made acoustic models to study the alignment of vowels in two Pacific Creoles, Tok Pisin and Bislama. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models perform acceptablely well in English and humans in vowel environments described as ‘Highly Reliable’. |