October 30, 2020 – October 31, 2020

First Workshop on Speech Technologies for Code-switching in Multilingual Communities 2020

Location: Virtual/Online

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Please note: This is a tentative schedule and is subject to change. All times are in China Standard Time ‎(UTC+8)‎.

Day 1  Friday, 30 October 2020
Time (CST) Session Session Chairs Title Speaker
20:30-21:30 Opening remarks and Keynote Points of connection between linguistics and speech technology with regard to code-switching (opens in new tab) Barbara Bullock, Jacqueline Toribio
21:30-21:40 Break
21:40-21:55 PaperS1 Thamar Solorio and Manuel Mager A Study of Types and Characteristics of Code-Switching in Mandarin-English Speech (opens in new tab) Leijing Hou
21:55-22:10 PaperS1 Thamar Solorio and Manuel Mager Malayalam-English Code-Switched: Speech Corpus Development and Analysis (opens in new tab) Sreeram Manghat
22:10-22:25 PaperS1 Thamar Solorio and Manuel Mager Understanding forced alignment errors in Hindi-English code-mixed speech — a feature analysis (opens in new tab) Ayushi Pandey
22:25-22:40 PaperS1Q&A Thamar Solorio and Manuel Mager Q&A
22:40-22:50 Break
22:50-23:00 SponsorTalk Microsoft Basil Abraham
23:00-23:15 PaperS2 Kalika Bali and Khyathi Chandu Mere account mein kitna balance hai? – On building voice enabled Banking Services for Multilingual Communities (opens in new tab) Akshat Gupta
23:15-23:30 PaperS2 Kalika Bali and Khyathi Chandu Investigating Modelling Techniques for Natural Language Inference on Code-Switched Dialogues in Bollywood Movies (opens in new tab) Anjana Umapathy
23:30-23:40 PaperS2Q&A Kalika Bali and Khyathi Chandu Q&A
Day 2:  Saturday, 31 October 2020
Time (CST) Session Session Chairs Title
20:30-20:45 SharedTask Sunayana Sitaram and Gustavo Aguilar Opening Remarks and description of shared task (opens in new tab) Sunayana Sitaram
20:45-20:55 SharedTask Sunayana Sitaram and Gustavo Aguilar Vocapia-LIMSI System for 2020 Shared Task on Code-switched Spoken Language Identification (opens in new tab) Claude Barras
20:55-21:05 SharedTask Sunayana Sitaram and Gustavo Aguilar Exploiting Spectral Augmentation for Code-Switched Spoken Language Identification (opens in new tab) Pradeep R
21:05-21:15 SharedTask Sunayana Sitaram and Gustavo Aguilar On detecting code mixing in speech using Discrete latent representations (opens in new tab) Sai Krishna Rallabandi
21:15-21:25 SharedTask Sunayana Sitaram and Gustavo Aguilar Language Identification for Code-Mixed Indian Languages In The Wild (opens in new tab) Parav Nagarsheth
21:25-21:35 SharedTask Sunayana Sitaram and Gustavo Aguilar Utterance-level Code-Switching Identification using Transformer Network (opens in new tab) Krishna DN
21:35-21:45 SharedTaskQ&A Sunayana Sitaram and Gustavo Aguilar Q&A
21:45-22:00 Break
22:00-22:10 SponsorTalk SpeechOcean Yufeng Hao
22:10-22:25 PaperS3 Genta Indra Winata and Sai Krishna Rallabandi Learning not to Discriminate: Task Agnostic Learning for Improving Monolingual and Code-switched Speech Recognition (opens in new tab) Sanket Shah
22:25-22:40 PaperS3 Genta Indra Winata and Sai Krishna Rallabandi Multilingual Bottleneck Features for Improving ASR Performance of Code-Switched Speech in Under-Resourced Languages (opens in new tab) Trideba Padhi
22:40-22:55 PaperS3 Genta Indra Winata and Sai Krishna Rallabandi The ASRU 2019 Mandarin-English Code-Switching Speech Recognition Challenge: Open Datasets, Tracks, Methods and Results (opens in new tab) Xian Shi
22:55-23:10 PaperS3Q&A Genta Indra Winata and Sai Krishna Rallabandi Q&A
23:10-23:20 Closing remarks