Invited Speakers

Orality and Low Resource Language Technologies

Alan Black
Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Alan W. Black is a Professor in the Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon University, where he joined the faculty in 1999. He received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1993. He is a world leader in speech synthesis and, at Interspeech 2013, he was identified in the top ten citation author index for ISCA related conferences, covering speech science and speech technology. His work includes supporting low resource languages in speech and speech translation. He recently released the CMU Wilderness dataset, consisting of aligned speech data for 700 different languages, and has also led efforts in code-switching.

Progress and Obstacles in Irish Language Technology

Teresa Lynn
ADAPT Centre
Dublin City University
Dublin, Ireland

Doctor Teresa Lynn is a Research Fellow at the ADAPT Research Centre of the Dublin City University. Her PhD was awarded under a cotutelle agreement between the Dublin City University and the Macquarie University in Sydney in 2016. Her main interests lie in developing tools and resources for Irish language technology. She is the principal investigator on the GaelTech project, funded by the Irish government, which covers various research topics such as Irish treebank and parser development, exploring techniques for parsing Irish multiword expressions and the processing of Irish language text on social media. Other project activities include the ELRC (European Language Resource Coordination), ELRI (European Language Resource Infrastructure), PRINCIPLE and the Universal Dependencies Project. She also worked in industry for several years, namely in the areas of localisation, NLP and machine translation.