Ann Clifton


2020

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100,000 Podcasts: A Spoken English Document Corpus
Ann Clifton | Sravana Reddy | Yongze Yu | Aasish Pappu | Rezvaneh Rezapour | Hamed Bonab | Maria Eskevich | Gareth Jones | Jussi Karlgren | Ben Carterette | Rosie Jones
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Podcasts are a large and growing repository of spoken audio. As an audio format, podcasts are more varied in style and production type than broadcast news, contain more genres than typically studied in video data, and are more varied in style and format than previous corpora of conversations. When transcribed with automatic speech recognition they represent a noisy but fascinating collection of documents which can be studied through the lens of natural language processing, information retrieval, and linguistics. Paired with the audio files, they are also a resource for speech processing and the study of paralinguistic, sociolinguistic, and acoustic aspects of the domain. We introduce the Spotify Podcast Dataset, a new corpus of 100,000 podcasts. We demonstrate the complexity of the domain with a case study of two tasks: (1) passage search and (2) summarization. This is orders of magnitude larger than previous speech corpora used for search and summarization. Our results show that the size and variability of this corpus opens up new avenues for research.

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Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Industry Track
Ann Clifton | Courtney Napoles
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Industry Track

2018

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The Sockeye Neural Machine Translation Toolkit at AMTA 2018
Felix Hieber | Tobias Domhan | Michael Denkowski | David Vilar | Artem Sokolov | Ann Clifton | Matt Post
Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (Volume 1: Research Track)

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Leveraging Data Resources for Cross-Linguistic Information Retrieval Using Statistical Machine Translation
Steve Sloto | Ann Clifton | Greg Hanneman | Patrick Porter | Donna Gates | Almut Hildebrand | Anish Kumar
Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (Volume 2: User Track)

2013

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An Online Algorithm for Learning over Constrained Latent Representations using Multiple Views
Ann Clifton | Max Whitney | Anoop Sarkar
Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

2012

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Kriya - The SFU System for Translation Task at WMT-12
Majid Razmara | Baskaran Sankaran | Ann Clifton | Anoop Sarkar
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation

2011

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Combining Morpheme-based Machine Translation with Post-processing Morpheme Prediction
Ann Clifton | Anoop Sarkar
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies