Lou Boves
Biographic Data
| ID | 195048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lou Boves |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lou |
| FAMILY NAME | Boves |
| SIGNATURE | BOVES L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1942-9355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What's in a word: Sounding sarcastic in British English
Using a simulated telephone conversation task, we elicited sarcastic production in different utterance types (i.e. declaratives, tag questions andwh-exclamatives from native speakers of the southern variety of British English. Unlike previous studies which focus on static prosodic measurements at the utterance level (e.g. mean pitch, pitch span, intensity), we examined both static prosodic measurements and continuous changes in contour shape in t…
Using Functional Data Analysis for investigating multidimensional dynamic phonetic contrasts
Text Representations for Patent Classification
With the increasing rate of patent application filings, automated patent classification is of rising economic importance. This article investigates how patent classification can be improved by using different representations of the patent documents. Using the Linguistic Classification System (LCS), we compare the impact of adding statistical phrases (in the form of bigrams) and linguistic phrases (in two different dependency formats) to the stand…
Acoustic reduction in conversational Dutch: A quantitative analysis based on automatically generated segmental transcriptions
Computational modelling of spoken-word recognition processes: Design choices and evaluation
Computational modelling has proven to be a valuable approach in developing theories of spoken-word processing. In this paper, we focus on a particular class of theories in which it is assumed that the spoken-word recognition process consists of two consecutive stages, with an ‘abstract’ discrete symbolic representation at the interface between the stages. In evaluating computational models, it is important to bring in independent arguments for th…
What Is Not in the Bag of Words for Why -QA
While developing an approach to why-QA, we extended a passage retrieval system that uses off-the-shelf retrieval technology with a re-ranking step incorporating structural information. We get significantly higher scores in terms of MRR@150 (from 0.25 to 0.34) and success@10. The 23% improvement that we reach in terms of MRR is comparable to the improvement reached on different QA tasks by other researchers in the field, although our re-ranking ap…
On decision making in forensic casework
In forensic applications of speaker recognition it is necessary to be able to specify a confidence level for a decision that two sets of recordings have been produced by the same speaker (or by different speakers). Forensic phoneticians are sometimes criticized because they find it impossible to provide ‘hard’ estimates of the confidence level of their expert opinions. This paper investigates to what extent the problem can be solved by deploying …
The effects of low-pass filtering and random splicing on the perception of speech
Using Functional Data Analysis for investigating multidimensional dynamic phonetic contrasts
Acoustic reduction in conversational Dutch: A quantitative analysis based on automatically generated segmental transcriptions
What's in a word: Sounding sarcastic in British English
Using a simulated telephone conversation task, we elicited sarcastic production in different utterance types (i.e. declaratives, tag questions andwh-exclamatives from native speakers of the southern variety of British English. Unlike previous studies which focus on static prosodic measurements at the utterance level (e.g. mean pitch, pitch span, intensity), we examined both static prosodic measurements and continuous changes in contour shape in t…
The effects of low-pass filtering and random splicing on the perception of speech
Text Representations for Patent Classification
With the increasing rate of patent application filings, automated patent classification is of rising economic importance. This article investigates how patent classification can be improved by using different representations of the patent documents. Using the Linguistic Classification System (LCS), we compare the impact of adding statistical phrases (in the form of bigrams) and linguistic phrases (in two different dependency formats) to the stand…
The effects of low-pass filtering and random splicing on the perception of speech
On decision making in forensic casework
In forensic applications of speaker recognition it is necessary to be able to specify a confidence level for a decision that two sets of recordings have been produced by the same speaker (or by different speakers). Forensic phoneticians are sometimes criticized because they find it impossible to provide ‘hard’ estimates of the confidence level of their expert opinions. This paper investigates to what extent the problem can be solved by deploying …
Computational modelling of spoken-word recognition processes: Design choices and evaluation
Computational modelling has proven to be a valuable approach in developing theories of spoken-word processing. In this paper, we focus on a particular class of theories in which it is assumed that the spoken-word recognition process consists of two consecutive stages, with an ‘abstract’ discrete symbolic representation at the interface between the stages. In evaluating computational models, it is important to bring in independent arguments for th…
What Is Not in the Bag of Words for Why -QA
While developing an approach to why-QA, we extended a passage retrieval system that uses off-the-shelf retrieval technology with a re-ranking step incorporating structural information. We get significantly higher scores in terms of MRR@150 (from 0.25 to 0.34) and success@10. The 23% improvement that we reach in terms of MRR is comparable to the improvement reached on different QA tasks by other researchers in the field, although our re-ranking ap…
Acoustic reduction in conversational Dutch: A quantitative analysis based on automatically generated segmental transcriptions
Text Representations for Patent Classification
With the increasing rate of patent application filings, automated patent classification is of rising economic importance. This article investigates how patent classification can be improved by using different representations of the patent documents. Using the Linguistic Classification System (LCS), we compare the impact of adding statistical phrases (in the form of bigrams) and linguistic phrases (in two different dependency formats) to the stand…
Using Functional Data Analysis for investigating multidimensional dynamic phonetic contrasts
What's in a word: Sounding sarcastic in British English
Using a simulated telephone conversation task, we elicited sarcastic production in different utterance types (i.e. declaratives, tag questions andwh-exclamatives from native speakers of the southern variety of British English. Unlike previous studies which focus on static prosodic measurements at the utterance level (e.g. mean pitch, pitch span, intensity), we examined both static prosodic measurements and continuous changes in contour shape in t…
Computer Science (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Natural language processing (6 works) · Speech recognition (5 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Speech and Audio Processing (3 works)