Empowering Communication: Prospects and Challenges in Prosody
Learn about the prospects and challenges of prosody in improving communication across cultures, empowering individuals, and strengthening relationships. Explore new knowledge, infrastructure needs, and research questions in the field.
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Prosody Lecture 29: Prospects and Challenges Nigel G. Ward, University of Texas at El Paso Gina-Anne Levow, University of Washington Tutorial presented at ACL 2021
Improving Humanity through Prosody Empowering individuals Strengthening relationships Improving communication across cultures b Wikimedia Commons
Growing our Knowledge Technology Teaching
Growing our Knowledge Technology Teaching Basic Knowledge
Infrastructure Needs Technology Teaching Infrastructure Basic Knowledge General-purpose models Discovery tools Models of variation
Prospect and Challenges Societal Improvements via uses of prosody underlain by new knowledge derived synergistically supported by new infrastructure
Prosody A 29-Lecture Tutorial Nigel G. Ward, Gina-Anne Levow THE END THE END Bibliography, etc. at: www.nigelward.com/prosody/
Research Questions How exactly does superposition work?
Infrastructure Needs Task-agnostic descriptions or models Tools to discover the prosodic patterns of any language
Challenges Prosody varies greatly, with genre, with the individual, etc. seems easy exceeds introspection is semi-independent of the lexical channel
Maintaining Synergy Prosody research across languages Descriptive and computational work Performance-oriented work and explainable models . . . There s lots to do! Nigel G. Ward Gina-Anne Levow
