publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.

2024

  1. Children’s Speech Recognition through Discrete Token Enhancement
    Vrunda N. Sukhadia, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury
    In Proc. of the 25th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) , 2024
  2. Beyond Orthography: Automatic Recovery of Short Vowels and Dialectal Sounds in Arabic
    Yassine El Kheir, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Ali , and 1 more author
    In Proc. of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2024
  3. L1-aware multilingual mispronunciation detection framework
    Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Ahmed Ali
    In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2024
  4. Speech collage: code-switched audio generation by collaging monolingual corpora
    Amir Hussein, Dorsa Zeinali, Ondřej Klejch , and 6 more authors
    In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2024
  5. Speech Representation Analysis Based on Inter- and Intra-Model Similarities
    Yassine El Kheir, Ahmed Ali, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury
    In Proc. of the Explainable Machine Learning for Speech and Audio Workshop, ICASSP , 2024
  6. LAraBench: Benchmarking Arabic AI with Large Language Models
    Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Absar Chowdhury , and 14 more authors
    In Proc. of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) , Mar 2024
  7. LLMeBench: A Flexible Framework for Accelerating LLMs Benchmarking
    Fahim Dalvi, Maram Hasanain, Sabri Boughorbel , and 10 more authors
    In Proc. of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations (EACL) , Mar 2024

2023

  1. Pseudo-Labeling for Domain-Agnostic Bangla Automatic Speech Recognition
    Rabindra Nath Nandi, Mehadi Menon, Tareq Muntasir , and 5 more authors
    In Proc. of the First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2023) , Mar 2023
  2. Automatic Pronunciation Assessment-A Review
    Yassine Kheir, Ahmed Ali, and Shammur Chowdhury
    In Proc. of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) , Mar 2023
  3. Speechblender: Speech augmentation framework for mispronunciation data generation
    Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Ahmed Ali
    In Proc. of the Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) , Mar 2023
  4. Multi-View Multi-Task Representation Learning for Mispronunciation Detection
    Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Ahmed Ali
    In Proc. of the Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) , Mar 2023
  5. What do end-to-end speech models learn about speaker, language and channel information? a layer-wise and neuron-level analysis
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Nadir Durrani, and Ahmed Ali
    Computer Speech & Language, Mar 2023

2022

  1. Benchmarking Evaluation Metrics for Code-Switching Automatic Speech Recognition
    Injy Hamed, Amir Hussein, Oumnia Chellah , and 5 more authors
    In Proc. of the 2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) , Mar 2022
  2. Textual Data Augmentation for Arabic-English Code-Switching Speech Recognition
    Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Abdelali , and 3 more authors
    In Proc. of the 2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) , Mar 2022
  3. SemEval-2022 Task 3: PreTENS-Evaluating Neural Networks on Presuppositional Semantic Knowledge
    Roberto Zamparelli, Shammur Chowdhury, Dominique Brunato , and 4 more authors
    In Proc. of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022) , Mar 2022
  4. What can Speech and Language Tell us About the Working Alliance in Psychotherapy
    Sebastian P Bayerl, Gabriel Roccabruna, Shammur Absar Chowdhury , and 4 more authors
    In Proc. of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) , Mar 2022
  5. Emojis as anchors to detect arabic offensive language and hate speech
    Hamdy Mubarak, Sabit Hassan, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury
    Natural Language Engineering (NLE) Journal, Mar 2022

2021

  1. A Review of Bangla Natural Language Processing Tasks and the Utility of Transformer Models
    Firoj Alam, Arid Hasan, Tanvir Alam , and 4 more authors
    arXiv e-prints, Mar 2021
  2. Connecting Arabs: bridging the gap in dialectal speech recognition
    Ahmed Ali, Shammur Chowdhury, Mohamed Afify , and 7 more authors
    Communications of the ACM, Mar 2021
    Publisher: ACM New York, NY, USA
  3. The ability of personas: An empirical evaluation of altering incorrect preconceptions about users
    Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Shammur Chowdhury , and 2 more authors
    International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Mar 2021
    Publisher: Academic Press
  4. Towards One Model to Rule All: Multilingual Strategy for Dialectal Code-Switching Arabic ASR
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Amir Hussein, Ahmed Abdelali , and 1 more author
    In Proc. of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) , Mar 2021
  5. Arabic Code-Switching Speech Recognition using Monolingual Data
    Ahmed Ali, Shammur Chowdhury, Amir Hussein , and 1 more author
    In Proc. of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) , Mar 2021
  6. QASR: QCRI Aljazeera Speech Resource. A Large Scale Annotated Arabic Speech Corpus
    Hamdy Mubarak, Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury , and 1 more author
    In Proc. of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , Mar 2021
  7. Persona analytics: Analyzing the stability of online segments and content interests over time using non-negative matrix factorization
    Bernard J Jansen, Soon-gyo Jung, Shammur A Chowdhury , and 1 more author
    Expert Systems With Applications, Mar 2021
  8. KARI: KAnari/QCRI’s End-to-End systems for the INTERSPEECH 2021 Indian Languages Code-Switching Challenge
    Amir Hussein, Shammur Chowdhury, and Ahmed Ali
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.05885, Mar 2021

2020

  1. Improving Arabic Text Categorization Using Transformer Training Diversification
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Abdelali, Kareem Darwish , and 3 more authors
    In Proc. of the WANLP (COLING) , Mar 2020
  2. Developing an online hate classifier for multiple social media platforms
    Joni Salminen, Maximilian Hopf, Shammur A Chowdhury , and 3 more authors
    Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, Mar 2020
  3. The Ethics of Data-Driven Personas
    Joni Salminen, Willemien Froneman, Soon-gyo Jung , and 2 more authors
    In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Mar 2020
  4. Designing Prototype Player Personas from a Game Preference Survey
    Joni Salminen, Jukka Vahlo, Aki Koponen , and 3 more authors
    In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Mar 2020
  5. Analyzing Demographic Bias in Artificially Generated Facial Pictures
    Joni Salminen, Soon-gyo Jung, Shammur Chowdhury , and 1 more author
    In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Mar 2020
  6. Things Change: Comparing Results Using Historical Data and User Testing for Evaluating a Recommendation Task
    Soon-Gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Shammur A Chowdhury , and 2 more authors
    In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Mar 2020
  7. The Effect of Experience on Persona Perceptions
    Joni Salminen, Soon-gyo Jung, João M Santos , and 2 more authors
    In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Mar 2020
  8. Personas and Analytics: A Comparative User Study of Efficiency and Effectiveness for a User Identification Task
    Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Shammur Chowdhury , and 2 more authors
    In Proc. of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Mar 2020
  9. A Literature Review of Quantitative Persona Creation
    Joni Salminen, Kathleen Guan, Soon-Gyo Jung , and 2 more authors
    In Proc. of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Mar 2020
  10. A Multi-Platform Arabic News Comment Dataset for Offensive Language Detection
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Abdelali , and 3 more authors
    In Proc. of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference , Mar 2020
  11. ALT submission for OSACT shared task on offensive language detection
    Sabit Hassan, Younes Samih, Hamdy Mubarak , and 3 more authors
    In Proc. of the 4th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools, with a Shared Task on Offensive Language Detection , Mar 2020
  12. Rethinking Personas for Fairness: Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability in Data-Driven Personas
    Joni Salminen, Soon-gyo Jung, Shammur A Chowdhury , and 1 more author
    In Proc. of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , Mar 2020
  13. Enriching Social Media Personas with Personality Traits: A Deep Learning Approach Using the Big Five Classes
    Joni Salminen, Rohan Gurunandan Rao, Soon-gyo Jung , and 2 more authors
    In Proc. of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , Mar 2020
  14. What does an End-to-End Dialect Identification Model Learn about Non-dialectal Information?
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali, Suwon Shon , and 1 more author
    In Proc. of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) , Mar 2020
  15. Effects of Dialectal Code-Switching on Speech Modules: A Study using Egyptian Arabic Broadcast Speech
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Younes Samih, Mohamed Eldesouki , and 1 more author
    In Proc. of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) , Mar 2020
  16. Sentiment classification in bangla textual content: A comparative study
    Md Arid Hasan, Jannatul Tajrin, Shammur Absar Chowdhury , and 1 more author
    In 2020 23rd international conference on computer and information technology (ICCIT) , Mar 2020
  17. A multi-platform Arabic news comment dataset for offensive language detection
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Abdelali , and 3 more authors
    In Proc. of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference , Mar 2020
  18. Developing and Implementing a Binary Classifier for Online Hate Detection in Multiple Social Media Platforms
    Joni Salminen, Maximilian Hopf, Shammur Absar Chowdhury , and 3 more authors
    Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences , Mar 2020
  19. Accessing the Ability of Personas to Alter Preconceptions of Audience Attributes
    Shammur Chowdhury, J Salminen, SG Jung , and 2 more authors
    In , Mar 2020
  20. The Role of Dynamic Features from Language Models in Grammaticality Prediction
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Roberto Zamparelli
    In (in progress) , Mar 2020
  21. The Effect of Position in Complex Arguments and its Implications for RNN-based Models of Sentence Acceptability
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Roberto Zamparelli
    In (in progress) , Mar 2020

2019

  1. Neural vs Statistical Machine Translation: Revisiting the Bangla-English Language Pair
    Arid Hasan, Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury , and 1 more author
    In Proc. of the ICBSLP 2019 , Mar 2019
  2. Neural Machine Translation for the Bangla-English Language Pair
    Md Arid Hasan, Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury , and 1 more author
    In Proc. of the 22nd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) , Mar 2019
  3. Neural vs Statistical Machine Translation: Revisiting the Bangla-English Language Pair
    Arid Hasan, Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury , and 1 more author
    In Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing (ICBSLP) , Mar 2019
  4. Neural Machine Translation for the Bangla-English Language Pair
    Arid Hasan, Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury , and 1 more author
    In Proc. of the 22nd International Conference of Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) , Mar 2019
  5. An LSTM adaptation study of (un)grammaticality
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Roberto Zamparelli
    In Proc. of the ACL 2019 – BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, ACL , Mar 2019
  6. Automatic classification of speech overlaps: Feature representation and algorithms
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny A Stepanov, Morena Danieli , and 1 more author
    Computer Speech & Language, Mar 2019

2018

  1. RNN Simulations of Grammaticality Judgments on Long-distance Dependencies
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Roberto Zamparelli
    In Proc. of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) , Mar 2018
  2. Depression Severity Estimation from Multiple Modalities
    Evgeny Stepanov, Stephane Lathuiliere, Shammur Absar Chowdhury , and 4 more authors
    In 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), IEEE , Mar 2018
  3. Cross-Language Transfer of Semantic Annotation via Targeted Crowdsourcing: Task Design and Evaluation
    Evgeny A. Stepanov, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ali Orkan Bayer , and 5 more authors
    Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, Mar 2018
  4. Towards Bangla Named Entity Recognition
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam, and Naira Khan
    In 2018 21st International Conference of Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) , Mar 2018

2017

  1. Computational Modeling of Turn-Taking Dynamics in Spoken Conversations
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury
    University of Trento , Apr 2017
  2. Bangla grapheme to phoneme conversion using conditional random fields
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam, Naira Khan , and 1 more author
    In Proc. of 20th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) , Apr 2017
  3. Functions of Silences towards Information Flow in Spoken Conversation
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny Stepanov, Morena Danieli , and 1 more author
    In Proc. of the Workshop on Speech-Centric Natural Language Processing, EMNLP , Apr 2017
  4. A Deep Learning Approach to Modeling Competitiveness in Spoken Conversation
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Giuseppe Riccardi
    In Proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , Apr 2017

2016

  1. Predicting User Satisfaction from Turn-Taking in Spoken Conversations
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny Stepanov, and Giuseppe Riccardi
    In Proc. of 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) , Apr 2016
  2. Transfer of Corpus-Specific Dialogue Act Annotation to ISO Standard: Is it worth it ?
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny A. Stepanov, and Giuseppe Riccardi
    In Proc. of LREC , Apr 2016
  3. Discourse connective detection in spoken conversations
    Giuseppe Riccardi, Evgeny A Stepanov, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury
    In Proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , Apr 2016
  4. How Interlocutors Coordinate with each other within Emotional Segments?
    Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Morena Danieli , and 1 more author
    In Proc. of COLING: International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) , Apr 2016
  5. Bidirectional LSTMs—CRFs networks for bangla POS tagging
    Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Sheak Rashed Haider Noori
    In Proc. of 19th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) , Apr 2016

2015

  1. Automatic summarization of call-center conversations
    E Stepanov, Benoit Favre, Firoj Alam , and 5 more authors
    In Proc. of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2015) , Apr 2015
  2. Annotating and Categorizing Competition in Overlap Speech
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Morena Danieli, and Giuseppe Riccardi
    In Proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , Apr 2015
  3. The Role of Speakers and Context in Classifying Competition in Overlapping Speech
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Morena Danieli, and Giuseppe Riccardi
    In Proc. of 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) , Apr 2015
  4. Selection and Aggregation Techniques for Crowdsourced Semantic Annotation Task
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Marcos Calvo, Arindam Ghosh , and 5 more authors
    In Proc. of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) , Sep 2015

2014

  1. Cross-Language Transfer of Semantic Annotation via Targeted Crowdsourcing
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Arindam Ghosh, Evgeny A. Stepanov , and 3 more authors
    In Proc. of 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) , Sep 2014
  2. Unsupervised Recognition and Clustering of Speech Overlaps in Spoken Conversations
    Shammur A. Chowdhury, Giuseppe Riccardi, and Firoj Alam
    In Proc. of Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia , Sep 2014

2013

  1. Motivational Feedback in Crowdsourcing: A Case Study in Speech Transcription
    Giuseppe Riccardi, Arindam Ghosh, Shammur Absar Chowdhury , and 1 more author
    In Proc. of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) , Aug 2013

2011

  1. Phonetically balanced Bangla speech corpus
    S. M. Murtoza Habib, Firoj Alam, Rabia Sultana , and 2 more authors
    In Proc. of Conference on Human Language Technology for Development (HLTD) , Aug 2011

2010

  1. Implementation of speech recognition system for Bangla
    Shammur Absar Chowdhury
    Aug 2010