<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Filled Pause Research Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[A virtual study hall for investigating filled pauses, hesitations, and related phenomena]]></description><link>https://www.filledpause.org</link><image><url>https://www.filledpause.org/FPRC_Logo_transparent.png</url><title>Filled Pause Research Center</title><link>https://www.filledpause.org</link></image><generator>metalsmith-rss</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2021 05:05:42 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.filledpause.org/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[All rights reserved (1998-2020) by Filled Pause Research Center]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><item><title><![CDATA[What does a disfluency profile look like?]]></title><description><![CDATA[People vary widely in the manner in which disfluency appears in their speech. When it comes to filled pauses alone, there are people who use exclusively uh, others who use only um, and still others who seem to mix it up in some way. Some will use them only between utterances, while others (like me) will use them pretty much anywhere. There are some for whom the filled pauses are only long, drawn out articulations, and then there are others (again, like me) who use some filled pauses so quickly that the only way one would notice them is by listening to a recording afterward.]]></description><link>https://www.filledpause.org/musings/2021/disfluency-profiles/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.filledpause.org/musings/2021/disfluency-profiles/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ralph Rose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2021 04:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the difference between real-time and latent fluency detection?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have been pushing the uniqueness of the Fluidity application as its capability to detect fluency features in real-time, maintain a constantly updating set of measurements, and adapt the operation of the application accordingly.  This is in contrast to most applications in which fluency measurement takes place on a completed speech sample; that is, after the speaker has finished. Besides the technical differences between these two, is there any practical difference either to speakers or to listeners/computers related to this?]]></description><link>https://www.filledpause.org/musings/2021/realtime-vs-latent-fluency-detection/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.filledpause.org/musings/2021/realtime-vs-latent-fluency-detection/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ralph Rose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 04:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disfluencies in face-to-face versus video-mediated communication]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is some research to show that the use of filled pauses is different in face-to-face versus telephone conversations (cf., high rate of FPs in Switchboard versus low rate in Santa Barbara Corpus).  In particular, speakers tend to use more filled pauses on the telephone. It has been hypothesized that the reason for this is that because the visual element is lost, speakers are more apt to try to manage conversational turns through additional vocal elements and thus, they might use filled pauses more often to "hold" their conversational turn. (Leaving aside the debatable question of whether speakers actually use filled pauses in that way or not.)
A good question to ask now that video conferencing is becoming a ubiquitous form of communication is whether the use of disfluencies in video-mediated communication differ from those in regular face-to-face communication.]]></description><link>https://www.filledpause.org/musings/2020/video-mediate-fps/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.filledpause.org/musings/2020/video-mediate-fps/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ralph Rose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 04:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtual trip 2 Sweden 4 NLP4CALL]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well, the Covid-19 situation continues, and conference organizers are gradually adapting and finding ways to hold productive events online. I participated in another even this past week which was quite well-run and an interesting conference, to boot. Though unfortunately, I didn't give any presentation of my own.
The event was the Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC) with a workshop on the side called Natural Language Processing for Computer-assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL). While the SLTC event was fairly interesting, my main focus was NLP4CALL. All the presentations were very interesting, but not directly about filled pauses or hesitation phenomena. Yet, they inspired some ideas of my own, which is what a good conference should do.]]></description><link>https://www.filledpause.org/news/2020/nlp4call-lang-tech-conf/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.filledpause.org/news/2020/nlp4call-lang-tech-conf/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ralph Rose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2020 10:55:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do actors simulate disfluency?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A dramatic actor's job is to present scripted material in a manner that appears to the audience as a convincing spontaneous scene.  That is, the audience should feel like they are watching the unfolding of unrehearsed speech in real time. (Note that this is leaving out certain types of formulaic acting such as might be seen in a Shakespeare play). In order to be successful, what cognitive process is the actor actually going through? The processes cannot be identical to the processes they themselves would be undertaking when engaged in actual spontaneous speech off the stage (no matter how similar in context to something they portray on stage).]]></description><link>https://www.filledpause.org/musings/2020/how-actors-simulate-disfluency/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.filledpause.org/musings/2020/how-actors-simulate-disfluency/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ralph Rose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2020 05:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>