Publications

Selected Publications

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Speech

CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar; DURRANI, Nadir; ALI, Ahmed. What do End-to-End Speech Models Learn about Speaker, Language and Channel Information? A Layer-wise and Neuron-level Analysis. Computer Speech & Language 2023.

CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, HUSSEIN, Amir, ABDELALI, Ahmed and ALI, Ahmed. Towards One Model to Rule All: Multilingual Strategy for Dialectal Code-Switching Arabic ASR. Interspeech 2021.

MUBARAK, Hamdy, HUSSEIN, Amir, CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar and ALI, Ahmed. QASR: QCRI Aljazeera Speech Resource. A Large Scale Annotated Arabic Speech Corpus. ACL. 2021.

CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, SAMIH, Younes, ELDESOUKI, Mohamed and ALI, Ahmed. Effects of Dialectal Code-Switching on Speech Modules: A Study using Egyptian Arabic Broadcast Speech. Interspeech 2020.

CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, ALI, Ahmed, SHON, Suwon and GLASS, James. What does an End-to-End Dialect Identification Model Learn about Non-dialectal Information? Interspeech 2020.

CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, STEPANOV, Evgeny A and RICCARDI, Giuseppe. Predicting User Satisfaction from Turn-Taking in Spoken Conversations. Interspeech 2016. P. 2910–2914.

CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, STEPANOV, Evgeny A, DANIELI, Morena and RICCARDI, Giuseppe. Automatic classification of speech overlaps: Feature representation and algorithms. Computer Speech & Language. 2019. Vol. 55, p. 145–167.

NLP

CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar and ZAMPARELLI, Roberto. An LSTM adaptation study of (un)grammaticality. ACL-BlackBoxNLP. 2019.

CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar and ZAMPARELLI, Roberto. RNN simulations of grammaticality judgments on long-distance dependencies. Proceedings of the 27th international conference on computational linguistics. 2018. p. 133–144.

CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, MUBARAK, Hamdy, ABDELALI, Ahmed, JUNG, Soon-gyo, JANSEN, Bernard J and SALMINEN, Joni. A Multi-Platform Arabic News Comment Dataset for Offensive Language Detection. Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. 2020. p. 6203–6212.

SALMINEN, Joni, HOPF, Maximilian, CHOWDHURY, Shammur A, JUNG, Soon-gyo, ALMEREKHI, Hind and JANSEN, Bernard J. Developing an online hate classifier for multiple social media platforms. Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences. 2020. Vol. 10, no. 1, p. 1.

Complete List

2023

  • KHEIR, Yassine El; CHWODHURY, Shammur Absar; ALI, Ahmed. L1-aware Multilingual Mispronunciation Detection Framework. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.07719, 2023.
  • KHEIR, Yassine El; CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar; ALI, Ahmed. The complementary roles of non-verbal cues for Robust Pronunciation Assessment. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.07739, 2023.
  • HUSSEIN, Amir, et al. Speech collage: code-switched audio generation by collaging monolingual corpora. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.15674, 2023.
  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar; DURRANI, Nadir; ALI, Ahmed. What do End-to-End Speech Models Learn about Speaker, Language and Channel Information? A Layer-wise and Neuron-level Analysis. Computer Speech & Language 2023.
  • DALVI, Fahim, et al. LLMeBench: A Flexible Framework for Accelerating LLMs Benchmarking. arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.04945, 2023.
  • KHEIR, Yassine El; CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar; ALI, Ahmed. Multi-View Multi-Task Representation Learning for Mispronunciation Detection. SLaTE, Speech and Language Processing Tools in Education 2023.
  • KHEIR, Yassine El, et al. SpeechBlender: Speech Augmentation Framework for Mispronunciation Data Generation. SLaTE, Speech and Language Processing Tools in Education 2023.
  • ABDELALI, Ahmed, et al. Benchmarking Arabic AI with Large Language Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.14982, 2023.
  • ELSHAHAWY, Yousseif, et al. MyVoice: Arabic Speech Resource Collaboration Platform. INTERSPEECH 2023.
  • KHEIR, Yassine El, et al. QVoice: Arabic Speech Pronunciation Learning Application. INTERSPEECH 2023.
  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar; ALI, Ahmed. Multilingual Word Error Rate Estimation: E-Wer3. In: ICASSP 2023-2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE, 2023. p. 1-5.

 

2022

  • HAMED, Injy, et al. Benchmarking evaluation metrics for code-switching automatic speech recognition. In: 2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT). IEEE, 2022. p. 999-1005.
  • HUSSEIN, Amir, et al. Textual data augmentation for Arabic-English code-switching speech recognition. In: 2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT). IEEE, 2023. p. 777-784.
  • BAYERL, Sebastian P., et al. What can Speech and Language Tell us About the Working Alliance in Psychotherapy. INTERSPEECH 2022.
  • MUBARAK, Hamdy; HASSAN, Sabit; CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar. Emojis as anchors to detect arabic offensive language and hate speech. Natural Language Engineering (NLE) Journal, 2022.
  • ZAMPARELLI, Roberto, et al. SemEval-2022 Task 3: PreTENS-Evaluating Neural Networks on Presuppositional Semantic Knowledge. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022). 2022. p. 228-238.
  • HUSSEIN, Amir, et al. Code-switching text augmentation for multilingual speech processing. arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.02550, 2022.

2021

  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, HUSSEIN, Amir, ABDELALI, Ahmed and ALI, Ahmed. Towards One Model to Rule All: Multilingual Strategy for Dialectal Code-Switching Arabic ASR. INTERSPEECH 2021.
  • ALI, Ahmed, CHOWDHURY, Shammur, HUSSEIN, Amir and YASSER, Hifny. Arabic Code-Switching Speech Recognition using Monolingual Data. INTERSPEECH. 2021.
  • ALI, Ahmed, CHOWDHURY, Shammur, AFIFY, Mohamed, EL-HAJJ, Wassim, HAJJ, Hazem, ABBAS, Mourad, HUSSEIN, Amir, GHNEIM, Nada, ABUSHARIAH, Mohammad and ALQUDAH, Assal. Connecting Arabs: bridging the gap in dialectal speech recognition. Communications of the ACM. 2021. Vol. 64, no. 4, p. 124–129.
  • HUSSEIN, Amir, CHOWDHURY, Shammur and ALI, Ahmed. KARI: KAnari/QCRI’s End-to-End systems for the INTERSPEECH 2021 Indian Languages Code-Switching Challenge. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.05885. 2021.
  • MUBARAK, Hamdy, HUSSEIN, Amir, CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar and ALI, Ahmed. QASR: QCRI Aljazeera Speech Resource. A Large Scale Annotated Arabic Speech Corpus. ACL. 2021.
  • SALMINEN, Joni, JUNG, Soon-Gyo, CHOWDHURY, Shammur, ROBILLOS, Dianne Ramirez and JANSEN, Bernard. The ability of personas: An empirical evaluation of altering incorrect preconceptions about users. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 2021. Vol. 153, p. 102645.

2020

  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, ALI, Ahmed, SHON, Suwon and GLASS, James. What does an End-to-End Dialect Identification Model Learn about Non-dialectal Information? INTERSPEECH. 2020.
  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, SAMIH, Younes, ELDESOUKI, Mohamed and ALI, Ahmed. Effects of Dialectal Code-Switching on Speech Modules: A Study using Egyptian Arabic Broadcast Speech. INTERSPEECH. 2020.
  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, MUBARAK, Hamdy, ABDELALI, Ahmed, JUNG, Soon-gyo, JANSEN, Bernard J and SALMINEN, Joni. A Multi-Platform Arabic News Comment Dataset for Offensive Language Detection. Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. 2020. p. 6203–6212.
  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, ABDELALI, Ahmed, DARWISH, Kareem, SOON-GYO, Jung, SALMINEN, Joni and JANSEN, Bernard J. Improving Arabic text categorization using transformer training diversification. Proceedings of the Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop. 2020. p. 226–236.
  • HASAN, Md, TAJRIN, Jannatul, CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, ALAM, Firoj, and OTHERS. Sentiment Classification in Bangla Textual Content: A Comparative Study. arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.10106. 2020.
  • HASSAN, Sabit, SAMIH, Younes, MUBARAK, Hamdy, ABDELALI, Ahmed, RASHED, Ammar and CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar. ALT submission for OSACT shared task on offensive language detection. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools, with a Shared Task on Offensive Language Detection. 2020. p. 61–65.
  • JUNG, Soon-Gyo, SALMINEN, Joni, CHOWDHURY, Shammur A, RAMIREZ ROBILLOS, Dianne and JANSEN, Bernard J. Things change: Comparing results using historical data and user testing for evaluating a recommendation task. Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020. p. 1–7.
  • SALMINEN, Joni, GUAN, Kathleen, JUNG, Soon-Gyo, CHOWDHURY, Shammur A and JANSEN, Bernard J. A literature review of quantitative persona creation. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020. p. 1–14.
  • SALMINEN, Joni, JUNG, Soon-gyo, CHOWDHURY, Shammur and JANSEN, Bernard J. Analyzing demographic bias in artificially generated facial pictures. Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020. p. 1–8.
  • SALMINEN, Joni, VAHLO, Jukka, KOPONEN, Aki, JUNG, Soon-Gyo, CHOWDHURY, Shammur A and JANSEN, Bernard J. Designing Prototype Player Personas from a Game Preference Survey. Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020. p. 1–8.
  • SALMINEN, Joni, HOPF, Maximilian, CHOWDHURY, Shammur A, JUNG, Soon-gyo, ALMEREKHI, Hind and JANSEN, Bernard J. Developing an online hate classifier for multiple social media platforms. Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences. 2020. Vol. 10, no. 1, p. 1.
  • SALMINEN, Joni, RAO, Rohan Gurunandan, JUNG, Soon-gyo, CHOWDHURY, Shammur A and JANSEN, Bernard J. Enriching Social Media Personas with Personality Traits: A Deep Learning Approach Using the Big Five Classes. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Springer, Cham, 2020. p. 101–120.
  • SALMINEN, Joni, JUNG, Soon-Gyo, CHOWDHURY, Shammur, SENGÜN, Sercan and JANSEN, Bernard J. Personas and analytics: a comparative user study of efficiency and effectiveness for a user identification task. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020. p. 1–13.
  • SALMINEN, Joni, JUNG, Soon-gyo, CHOWDHURY, Shammur A and JANSEN, Bernard J. Rethinking Personas for Fairness: Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability in Data-Driven Personas. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Springer, Cham, 2020. p. 82–100.
  • SALMINEN, Joni, JUNG, Soon-gyo, SANTOS, João M, CHOWDHURY, Shammur and JANSEN, Bernard J. The effect of experience on persona perceptions. Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020. p. 1–9.
  • SALMINEN, Joni, FRONEMAN, Willemien, JUNG, Soon-gyo, CHOWDHURY, Shammur and JANSEN, Bernard J. The Ethics of Data-Driven Personas. Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020. p. 1–9.

2019

  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, STEPANOV, Evgeny A, DANIELI, Morena and RICCARDI, Giuseppe. Automatic classification of speech overlaps: Feature representation and algorithms. Computer Speech & Language. 2019. Vol. 55, p. 145–167.
  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar and ZAMPARELLI, Roberto. An LSTM adaptation study of (un)grammaticality. ACL-BlackBoxNLP. 2019.
  • HASAN, Arid, ALAM, Firoj, CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar and KHAN, Naira. Neural vs Statistical Machine Translation: Revisiting the Bangla-English Language Pair. ICBSLP 2019. 2019.
  • HASAN, Md Arid, ALAM, Firoj, CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar and KHAN, Naira. Neural Machine Translation for the Bangla-English Language Pair. 2019 22nd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT). IEEE, 2019. p. 1–6.

2018

  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, ALAM, Firoj and KHAN, Naira. Towards Bangla Named Entity Recognition. ICCIT. 2018.
  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar and ZAMPARELLI, Roberto. RNN simulations of grammaticality judgments on long-distance dependencies. Proceedings of the 27th international conference on computational linguistics. 2018. p. 133–144.
  • STEPANOV, Evgeny, LATHUILIERE, Stephane, CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, GHOSH, Arindam, VIERIU, Radu-Laurentiu, SEBE, Nicu and RICCARDI, Giuseppe. Depression Severity Estimation from Multiple Modalities. 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), IEEE 2018. 2018.
  • STEPANOV, Evgeny A, CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, BAYER, Ali Orkan, GHOSH, Arindam, KLASINAS, Ioannis, CALVO, Marcos, SANCHIS, Emilio and RICCARDI, Giuseppe. Cross-language transfer of semantic annotation via targeted crowdsourcing: task design and evaluation. Language Resources and Evaluation. 2018. Vol. 52, no. 1, p. 341–364.

2017

  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, ALAM, Firoj, NOORI, Naira Khan and HAIDER, Sheak Rashed. Bangla Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion Using Conditional Random Fields. ICCIT. 2017.
  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar. Computational modeling of turn-taking dynamics in spoken conversations. PhD Thesis. University of Trento, 2017.
  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, STEPANOV, Evgeny, DANIELI, Morena and RICCARDI, Giuseppe. Functions of silences towards information flow in spoken conversation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech-Centric Natural Language Processing. 2017. p. 1–9.
  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar and RICCARDI, Giuseppe. A Deep Learning Approach to Modeling Competitiveness in Spoken Conversation. ICASSP. IEEE, 2017.

2016

  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, STEPANOV, Evgeny A and RICCARDI, Giuseppe. Predicting User Satisfaction from Turn-Taking in Spoken Conversations. Interspeech 2016. 2016. P. 2910–2914.
  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, STEPANOV, Evgeny A. and RICCARDI, Giuseppe. Transfer of Corpus-Specific Dialogue Act Annotation to ISO Standard: Is it worth it? LREC. 2016.
  • RICCARDI, Giuseppe, STEPANOV, Evgeny A. and CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar. DISCOURSE CONNECTIVE DETECTION IN SPOKEN CONVERSATIONS. Proc. of ICASSP. IEEE, 2016.
  • ALAM, Firoj, CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar and NOORI, Sheak Rashed Haider. Bidirectional LSTMs -CRFs Networks for Bangla POS Tagging. ICCIT. 2016.
  • ALAM, Firoj, CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, DANIELI, Morena and RICCARDI, Giuseppe. How Interlocutors Coordinate with each other within Emotional Segments? COLING: International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2016.

2015

  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, DANIELI, Morena and RICCARDI, Giuseppe. Annotating and categorizing competition in overlap speech. ICASSP. IEEE, 2015.
  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, CALVO, Marcos, GHOSH, Arindam, STEPANOV, Evgeny A, BAYER, Ali Orkan, RICCARDI, Giuseppe, GARCÍA, Fernando and SANCHIS, Emilio. Selection and aggregation techniques for crowdsourced semantic annotation task. Sixteenth annual conference of the international speech communication association. 2015.
  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, DANIELI, Morena and RICCARDI, Giuseppe. The role of speakers and context in classifying competition in overlapping speech. Sixteenth annual conference of the international speech communication association. 2015.
  • STEPANOV, E, FAVRE, B, ALAM, F, CHOWDHURY, S, SINGLA, K, TRIONE, J, BÉCHET, F and RICCARDI, G. AUTOMATIC SUMMARIZATION OF CALL-CENTER CONVERSATIONS. IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU). 2015.

2014

  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, GHOSH, Arindam, STEPANOV, Evgeny A, BAYER, Ali Orkan, RICCARDI, Giuseppe and KLASINAS, Ioannis. Cross-language transfer of semantic annotation via targeted crowdsourcing. Fifteenth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. 2014.
  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur A, RICCARDI, Giuseppe and ALAM, Firoj. Unsupervised Recognition and Clustering of Speech Overlaps in Spoken Conversations. Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM 2014). 2014.

2013

  • RICCARDI, Giuseppe, GHOSH, Arindam, CHOWDHURY, SA and BAYER, Ali Orkan. Motivational feedback in crowdsourcing: a case study in speech transcription. INTERSPEECH. 2013. p. 1111–1115.

Rest:

  • ALAM, Firoj, RICCARDI, Giuseppe and CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar. Recognition of Personality Traits using Meta Classifiers. . 2012.
  • CHOWDHURY, Shammur Absar, NEELA, Dil Afroz, UMMI, Rabia Sultana and KHAN, Mumit KhanMumit. Voice Creation for Bangla Text to Speech. 2011. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3181.7845.
  • MURTOZA, SM, ALAM, Firoj, SULTANA, Rabia, ABSAR, Shammur and KHAN, Mumit. Phonetically balanced Bangla speech corpus. . 2011.