Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang @tang_kevin

Univ.-Prof. @HHU_de Courtesy Asst. Prof. @UFLinguistics: Director @SLaMLab_HHU PostDoc @YaleLinguistics PhD @LinguisticsUCL MEng @Cambridge_Eng #CompLing #NLP kevintang.org Düsseldorf, Germany Joined April 2010

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Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) @SLaMLab_HHU

12 months ago

🚨New article alert for phonologists and phoneticians! Check out "A unified model of lenition as modulation reduction: gauging consonant strength in Ibibio" by John Harris, Eno-AbasiUrua & @tang_kevin , published in Phonology (2024). doi.org/10.1017/S09526… 🧵[1/4] #Lenition

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Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) @SLaMLab_HHU

12 months ago

📍Schadowplatz und im Haus der Universität 🛜 ndw-duesseldorf.de @HHU_de Organization Team: Dalia Rodrigues, Vittorio Ciccarelli, @tang_kevin und @SLaMLab_HHU

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Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) @SLaMLab_HHU

12 months ago

Habt ihr euch schon einmal gefragt, wie Sprache Einblicke in Gesundheit, Gesellschaft oder politische Einstellungen geben kann? Und wie Studierende durch ihre eigene Forschung wertvolle Erfahrungen sammeln und neue Fähigkeiten entwickeln? Virtualstand: slam.phil.hhu.de/ndw24/

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Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) @SLaMLab_HHU

12 months ago

Das Speech, Lexicon and Modeling Lab (@SLaMLab_HHU,@tang_kevin) lädt euch ein, spannende Einblicke in die Welt der Sprachwissenschaft zu gewinnen! Besucht uns auf der #NachtderWissenschaft am 13.09.24 (Standnummber 9) und entdeckt die faszinierenden Projekte unserer Studierenden

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JASA @ASA_JASA

a year ago

Could computational methods like Phonet be used as an additional or alternative method of lenition measurement? doi.org/10.1121/10.002… #acoustics #speech @tang_kevin,@SLaMLab_HHU @UFLinguistics,@UFCISE @HHU_de

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Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) @SLaMLab_HHU

a year ago

At @ISCAInterspeech? Do check out our work tomorrow at 11:20 on modeling probabilistic reduction across linguistic domains with Naive Discriminative Learning. Work by @_ansost_ based on her BA thesis and @tang_kevin. Paper: doi.org/10.21437/Inter… @UFLinguistics, @HHU_de @IL_hhu

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Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) @SLaMLab_HHU

a year ago

Authors: Kevin Tang @tang_kevin @HHU_de, Ratree Wayland @UFLinguistics, Fenqi Wang @FenqiW @SFULinguistics and Sophia Vellozzi @LinkedIn and Rahul Sengupta @UFCISE Paper: t1p.de/hdami Funded by @NSF (2037266). #NeuralNetworks #Spanish #Weakening #Phonetics 🧵6/6

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Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) @SLaMLab_HHU

a year ago

Lastly 🛠️ we’ve made Phonet more accessible by releasing the trained Spanish Phonet model and a step-by-step pipeline for training and inferring new models. Ready to explore? Link to the tool: doi.org/10.17605/OSF.I… 🌐🔧 #OpenScience #LinguisticsTools 🧵5/6

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Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) @SLaMLab_HHU

a year ago

🎯 This study highlights the effectiveness of using neural network that is phonologically informed as an alternative or supplementary method for measuring lenition. The consistency is promising for future research in speech science and phonological theories! ✨ 🧵4/6

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Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) @SLaMLab_HHU

a year ago

🔄 While traditional acoustic metrics gave mixed and inconsistent results, Phonet's measures shined! 🥇🌟 Sonorant and continuant probabilities aligned with expected lenition patterns, influenced by voicing, articulation, and context. 🔍 #InterpretableAI 🧵3/6

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Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) @SLaMLab_HHU

a year ago

🔍 We compared three acoustic measures: 1⃣ Min & Max Intensity Velocity 📈 (Kingston 2008) 2⃣ Duration ⏳ 3⃣ Neural network (Phonet) measures based on the posterior probabilities of Sonorant & Continuant features 🤖 #MachineLearning 🧵2/6

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Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) @SLaMLab_HHU

a year ago

🚀 Our new publication in @ASA_JASA evaluated the consistency of lenition (consonant weakening) measures, focusing on voiceless and voiced stops in Spanish & pre-released a linguistic toolkit for lenition research 🎙️🧠 #Phonetics #Lenition. pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/artic… 🧵1/6

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POMA @ASA_POMA

a year ago

This study investigated the effects of Parkinson's disease and various linguistic factors on the degree of lenition in Spanish stops: doi.org/10.1121/2.0001… #acoustics #speech @UFLinguistics @tang_kevin @SLaMLab_HHU @SFULinguistics @UFCISE

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Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) @SLaMLab_HHU

a year ago

Linguists at @HHU_de (@IL_hhu @SLaMLab_HHU) are well-represented at #LabPhon19 in Seoul, Korea: @BraveMoneyLute, @tang_kevin, @_ansost_, @Akhilesh_k_r, @dmncschmtz and @dinahwonders. Together they will present three papers. See links for abstracts! 🧵unroll [1/4]

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Service-Center für gutes Lehren und Lernen (SeLL) @SeLL_hhu

a year ago

Diese Gesichter feiern wir heute beim #hhuTagderLehre! 44 Lehrende der @HHU_de, die sich ganz besonders engagieren und für den #hhuLehrpreis2024 nominiert sind. Wer sind die Gewinner*innen der vier Kategorien? Bleibt gespannt! Wir halten euch auf dem Laufenden. 🏆