Publications

For recent publications, see my Edinburgh Research Explorer page (though google scholar usually picks them up first!)

Shilin Gao, Matthew Aylett, David Braude and Catherine Lai. 2023. Synthesising personality with neural speech synthesis. In Proceedings of SIGDial 2023

Johannah O’Mahony, Catherine Lai and Simon King. 2023. Synthesising turn-taking cues using natural conversational data. In Proceedings of the 12th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW2023), 75-80.

Sarenne Wallbridge, Peter Bell and Catherine Lai. 2023. Quantifying the perceptual value of lexical and non-lexical channels in speech. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2023, 2708-2712.

Nina Markl and Catherine Lai. 2023. Everyone has an accent. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2023, 4424-4427.

Yuanchao Li, Peter Bell and Catherine Lai. 2023. Transfer Learning for Personality Perception via Speech Emotion Recognition. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2023, 5197-5201.

Yuanchao Li, Zeyu Zhao, Ondrej Klejch, Peter Bell and Catherine Lai. 2023. ASR and Emotional Speech: A Word-Level Investigation of the Mutual Impact of Speech and Emotion Recognition. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2023, 1449-1453.

Cong Zhang, Catherine Lai, Ricardo Napoleao Souza, Alice Turk and Tina Bögel. 2023. Language redundancy effects on F0: A preliminary controlled study. In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023), 1593-1597.

Yuanchao Li, Peter Bell and Catherine Lai. 2023. Multimodal Dyadic Impression Recognition via Listener Adaptive Cross-Domain Fusion. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Sarenne Wallbridge, Peter Bell and Catherine Lai. 2023. Do dialogue representations align with perception? An empirical study. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)

Yuanchao Li, Koji Inoue, Leimin Tian, Changzeng Fu, Carlos Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Tatsuya Kawahara and Catherine Lai. 2023. I Know Your Feelings Before You Do: Predicting Future Affective Reactions in Human-Computer Dialogue. In The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Extended Abstracts), 1-7.

Yuanchao Li, Yumnah Mohamied, Peter Bell and Catherine Lai. 2023. Exploration of A Self-Supervised Speech Model: A Study on Emotional Corpora. In Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 868-875.

Emelie Van de Vreken, Korin Richmond and Catherine Lai. 2022. Voice Puppetry with FastPitch. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2022, 5219-5220.

Johannah O’Mahony, Catherine Lai and Simon King. 2022. Combining conversational speech with read speech to improve prosody in Text-to-Speech synthesis. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2022, 3388-3392.

Sarenne Wallbridge, Peter Bell and Catherine Lai. 2022. Investigating perception of spoken dialogue acceptability through surprisal. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2022, 4506-4510.

Yuanchao Li, Peter Bell and Catherine Lai. 2022. Fusing ASR Outputs in Joint Training for Speech Emotion Recognition. In Proceedings of 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 7362-7366.

Yuanchao Li, Catherine Lai, Divesh Lala, Koji Inoue and Tatsuya Kawahara. 2022. Alzheimer’s Dementia Detection through Spontaneous Dialogue with Proactive Robotic Listeners. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 875-879.

Yuanchao Li and Catherine Lai. 2022. Robotic Speech Synthesis: Perspectives on Interactions, Scenarios, and Ethics. In Proceedings of Robo-Identity 2:Exploring Artificial Identity and Emotion via Speech Interactions

Lauren Hall-Lew, Claire Cowie, Catherine Lai, Nina Markl, Stephen McNulty, Shan-Jan Sarah Liu, Clare Llewellyn, Beatrice Alex, Zuzana Elliott Slosarova and Anita Klingler. 2022. The Lothian Diary Project: Sociolinguistic methods during the COVID-19 lockdown. Linguistics Vanguard,8(S3):321-330.

Sarenne Wallbridge, Peter Bell and Catherine Lai. 2021. It’s not what you said, it’s how you said it: discriminative perception of speech as a multichannel communication system. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2021, 2386-2390.

Elijah Gutierrez, Pilar Oplustil-Gallegos and Catherine Lai. 2021. Location, location: Enhancing the evaluation of text-to-speech synthesis using the rapid prosody transcription paradigm. In Proceedings of the 11th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW11)

Taylor Mahler, Marie-Catherine Marneffe and Catherine Lai. 2021. Factivity, prosody, and at-issueness: Investigating the projection behavior of (non-)factives. In MK40: Common Knowledge, Common Ground, and Context in Communication

Lauren Hall-Lew, Claire Cowie, Stephen Joseph McNulty, Nina Markl, Sarah Liu, Catherine Lai, Clare Llewellyn, Beatrice Alex, Nini Fang, Zuzana Elliott Slosarova and Anita Klingler. 2021. The Lothian Diary Project: Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Edinburgh and Lothian residents. Journal of Open Humanities Data,7:1-5.

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, 34-40.

Taylor Mahler, Marie-Catherine Marneffe and Catherine Lai. 2020. The prosody of presupposition projection in naturally-occurring utterances. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24, 20-37.

Catherine Lai, Mireia Farrús and Johanna Moore. 2020. Integrating lexical and prosodic features for automatic paragraph segmentation. Speech Communication,121:44-57.

Zack Hodari, Catherine Lai and Simon King. 2020. Perception of prosodic variation for speech synthesis using an unsupervised discrete representation of F0. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020, 965-969.

Catherine Lai, Beatrice Alex, Johanna D. Moore, Leimin Tian, Tatsuro Hori and Gianpiero Francesca. 2019. Detecting Topic-Oriented Speaker Stance in Conversational Speech. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2019, 46-50.

Aurora Constantin, Catherine Lai, Elaine Farrow, Beatrice Alex, Ruth Pel-Littel, Henk Herman Nap and Johan Jeuring. 2019. “Why is the Doctor a Man?” Reactions of Older Adults to a Virtual Training Doctor. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, LBW1719.

M. Muszynski, Leimin Tian, Catherine Lai, Johanna Moore, Theodoros Kostoulas, Patrizia Lombardo, Thierry Pun and Guillaume Chanel. 2019. Recognizing Induced Emotions of Movie Audiences From Multimodal Information. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing,NA

Catherine Lai and Gabriel Murray. 2018. Predicting Group Satisfaction in Meeting Discussions. In Workshop on Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data (MCPMD’18), 1.

Gabriel Murray and Catherine Lai. 2018. Multimodal Analysis of Group Attitudes Towards Meeting Management. In Proceedings of Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology (GIFT’18)

Gabriel Murray, Hayley Hung, Joann Keyton, Catherine Lai, Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock and Catherine Oertel. 2018. Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology. In Proceedings of Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology (GIFT’18), 660-662.

Leimin Tian, Catherine Lai and Johanna Moore. 2018. Polarity and Intensity: the Two Aspects of Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of ACL Grand Challenge and Workshop on Human Multimodal Language (Challenge-HML), 40-47.

Leimin Tian, MIchal Muszynski, Catherine Lai, Johanna Moore, Theodoros Kostoulas, Patrizia Lombardo, Thierry Pun and Guillame Chanel. 2018. Recognizing Induced Emotions of Movie Audiences: Are Induced and Perceived Emotions the Same?. In Seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2017), 28-35.

Leimin Tian, Johanna Moore and Catherine Lai. 2017. Recognizing Emotions in Spoken Dialogue with Acoustic and Lexical Cues. In ICMI 2017 Satellite Workshop: Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents, 45-46.

Peter Bell, Joachim Fainberg, Catherine Lai and Mark Sinclair. 2017. A system for real time collaborative transcription correction. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2017

Janine Kleinhans, Mireia Farrus, Agustin Gravano, Juan Manuel Perez, Catherine Lai and Leo Wanner. 2017. Using Prosody to Classify Discourse Relations. In Proceedings Interspeech 2017, 3201-3205.

Leimin Tian, Johanna Moore and Catherine Lai. 2016. Recognizing emotions in spoken dialogue with hierarchically fused acoustic and lexical features. In Proceedings of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) 2016, 565–572.

Catherine Lai, Mireia Farrús and Johanna Moore. 2016. Automatic Paragraph Segmentation with Lexical and Prosodic Features. In Interspeech 2016, 1034-1038.

Mireia Farrús, Catherine Lai and Johanna Moore. 2016. Paragraph-based Prosodic Cues for Speech Synthesis Applications. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016

Catherine Lai and Johanna Moore. 2015. Cue phrases in Spoken Language: Discourse Pragmatics at the Forefront. Proceedings of DiSpol 2015: Identification and Annotation of Discourse Relations in Spoken Language

Peter Bell, Catherine Lai, Clare Llewellyn, Alexandra Birch and Mark Sinclair. 2015. A system for automatic broadcast news summarisation, geolocation and translation.. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2015, 730–731.

Alessandra Cervone, Catherine Lai, Silvia Pareti and Peter Bell. 2015. Towards automatic detection of reported speech in dialogue using prosodic cues.. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2015, 3061–3065.

Leimin Tian, Johanna D. Moore and Catherine Lai. 2015. Emotion Recognition in Spontaneous and Acted Dialogues. In Proceedings of ACII 2015

Leimin Tian, Catherine Lai and Johanna Moore. 2015. Recognising emotions in dialogues with disfluencies and non-verbal vocalisations. Proceedings of The 7th Workshop on Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2015)

Leimin Tian, Catherine Lai and Johanna D. Moore. 2015. Recognizing emotions in dialogue with disfluences and non-verbal vocalisations. In Proceedings of the 4th Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and Other Non-verbal Vocalisations in Speech, 15.

Catherine Lai and Steve Renals. 2014. Incorporating Lexical and Prosodic Information at Different Levels for Meeting Summarization. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2014

Catherine Lai. 2014. Interpreting final rises: task and role factors. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2014

Johanna D. Moore, Leimin Tian and Catherine Lai. 2014. Word-Level Emotion Recognition Using High-Level Features. In Proceedings of Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing) 2014, 17-31.

Catherine Lai, Jean Carletta and Steve Renals. 2013. Modelling Participant Affect in Meetings with Turn-Taking Features. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Affective Social Speech Signals (WASSS) 2013

Catherine Lai, Keelan Evanini and Klaus Zechner. 2013. Applying rhythm metrics to non-native spontaneous speech. In Proceedings of SLaTE 2013

Catherine Lai, Jean Carletta and Steve Renals. 2013. Detecting Summarization Hot Spots in Meetings Using Group Level Involvement and Turn-Taking Features. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2013, 2723-2727.

Catherine Lai. 2012. Rises All the Way Up: The Interpretation of Prosody, Discourse Attitudes and Dialogue Structure. PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania

Catherine Lai. 2012. Response types and the prosody of declaratives. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2012

Catherine Lai, Keelan Evanini and Klaus Zechner. 2011. Comparative Analysis of Prosodic Features of Native and Non-native Spontaneous Speech. In New Tools and Methods for Very-Large-Scale Phonetics,

Evanini Keelan, Catherine Lai and Klaus Zechner. 2011. The importance of optimal parameter setting for pitch extraction. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (160th Meeting Acoustical Society of America)

Catherine Lai. 2010. What does ‘really’ really mean?: Evidence, standards and probability in dialogue. In NELS 41

Catherine Lai. 2010. What do you mean, you’re uncertain?: the interpretation of cue words and rising intonation in dialogue. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2010, 1413-1416.

Catherine Lai, Yanyan Sui and Jiahong Yuan. 2010. A corpus study of the prosody of polysyllabic words in Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010

Catherine Lai and Steven Bird. 2010. Querying Linguistic Trees. Journal of Logic, Language and Information,19(1):53-73.

Catherine Lai. 2009. Perceiving surprise on cue words: prosody and semantics interact on right and really. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, 1963-1966.

Aviad Eilam and Catherine Lai. 2009. Sorting Out the Implications of Questions. In CONSOLE XVIII

Catherine Lai. 2008. Bayesian Decision Theory, Iterated Learning and Portuguese Clitics. In Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition (Workshop at Cog Sci 2008)

Catherine Lai. 2008. Prosodic cues for backchannels and short questions: Really?. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2008, 413-416.

Catherine Lai, Kyle Gorman, Jiahong Yuan and Mark Liberman. 2007. Perception of disfluency: language differences and listener bias. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, 2345-2348.

Catherine Lai. 2006. A formal framework for linguistic tree query. MSc (Research) thesis, University of Melbourne

Catherine Lai and Steven Bird. 2005. LPath+: A First-Order Complete Language for Linguistic Tree Query. In Proceedings of PACLIC 19, the 19th Asia-Pacific Conference on Language, Information and Computation

Catherine Lai and Steven Bird. 2004. Querying and updating treebanks: A critical survey and requirements analysis. In In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA 2004), 139-146.