Field Matters 2024 workshop program

ICT, UTC +7

August 16

09:00 - 09:30 Opening word

09:30 - 10:30 Invited talk: What role can ASR play in real-world language documentation? - Emily Prud’hommeaux

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 11:10 Introduction to special track

11:10 - 12:10 Special track

• Leveraging Deep Learning to Shed Light on Tones of an Endangered Language: A Case Study of Moklen - Sireemas Maspong, Francesco Burroni, Teerawee Sukanchanon, Warunsiri Pornpottanamas and Pittayawat Pittayaporn
• Documenting Endangered Languages with LangDoc: A Wordlist-Based System and A Case Study on Moklen - Piyapath T Spencer
• Zero-shot Cross-lingual POS Tagging for Filipino - Jimson Paulo Layacan, Isaiah Edri W. Flores, Katrina Bernice M. Tan, Ma. Regina E. Estuar, Jann Railey Montalan and Marlene M. De Leon

12:10 - 12:20 Break

12:20 - 13:20 Invited talk: Insights from Language Resource Collection in Linguistically Diverse Southeast Asian Languages - Genta Winata and Alham Fikri Aji

13:20 - 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 - 16:30 Main Session

• The Parallel Corpus of Russian and Ruska Romani Languages - Kirill Koncha, Abina Abina, Kazakova Tatiana and Gloria Rozovskaya
• ManWav: The First Manchu ASR Model - Jean Seo, Minha Kang, SungJoo Byun and Sangah Lee
• User-Centered Design of Digital Tools for Sociolinguistic Studies in UnderResourced Languages - Jonas Adler, Carsten Scholle, Daniel Buschek, Nicolo’ Brandizzi and Muhadj Adnan
• A Comparative Analysis of Speaker Diarization Models: Creating a Dataset for German Dialectal Speech - Lea Fischbach
• Noise Be Gone: Does Speech Enhancement Distort Linguistic Nuances? - Inigo Parra
• Comparing Kaldi-Based Pipeline Elpis and Whisper for Cakavian Transcription - Austin Jones, Shulin Zhang, John T. Hale, Margaret Renwick, Zvjezdana Vrzic and Keith Langston

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 18:30 Plenary discussion