Context-sensitive evaluation of automatic speech recognition: considering user experience & language variation

Nina Markl, Catherine Lai


Abstract
Commercial Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems tend to show systemic predictive bias for marginalised speaker/user groups. We highlight the need for an interdisciplinary and context-sensitive approach to documenting this bias incorporating perspectives and methods from sociolinguistics, speech & language technology and human-computer interaction in the context of a case study. We argue evaluation of ASR systems should be disaggregated by speaker group, include qualitative error analysis, and consider user experience in a broader sociolinguistic and social context.
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2021.hcinlp-1.6
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bridging Human–Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing
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April
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2021
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Online
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HCINLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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34–40
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Nina Markl and Catherine Lai. 2021. Context-sensitive evaluation of automatic speech recognition: considering user experience & language variation. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bridging Human–Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing, pages 34–40, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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