BICLCE 2024 (September 26-28, 2024)
29 Sep 2024I was delighted to attend the Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English for the first time this year! The meeting was expertly hosted by the University of Alicante in the Valencian region of Spain.
I presented our work on querying the embeddings of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for phonetic information in the workshop on Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future Directions which was organized by Philipp Meer and Ulrike Gut from the University of Münster in Germany.
Other topics of the workshop included down-sampling strategies in corpus phonology, the performance of the ASR model Whisper on sociolinguistic data sets, and work on different varieties of English (Australian, New Zealand, Nigerian, and Scottish Standard English).