Robin Lickley

I have moved - not all the information on this page is up to date - note new email address.
 
Formerly at
Department of Linguistics

The University of Edinburgh
Adam Ferguson Building
40 George Square,
Edinburgh EH8 9LL
 

NEW Phone: +44 (0)131 317 3686

NEW E-mail: rlickley@qmuc.ac.uk

News!

DiSS-01
We are pleased to announce an ISCA workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech:
August 29-31 2001, University of Edinburgh.

Other News - disclaimer

Comments were attributed to me in various newspapers including online newspapers in August 2000. I didn't say those things! Some reporter who was clearly eager to make a silly story out of nothing spoke to me but did not listen.

Position

I am a research fellow, based in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, also affiliated to The Human Communication Research Centre

Research Interests

Spontaneous speech.
Human and automatic processing of disfluency in normal spontaneous speech.
Production of Disfluency in dialogues.

Current Projects.

ERF: Exploiting Recognition Failures in Automatic Recognition of Disfluent Speech

Disfluency in Dialogues: Analysis of disfluencies in the Map Task Corpus.

Disfluency and establishing referents: the labelless Map Task Corpus.

Linguistic Investigation and Annotation of Operator Calls.

Teaching 2000

MSc in Applied Linguistics: Phonetics and Phonology (Core Course). (syllabus)

 Lecture Notes Lecture notes (Class access only)

Previous work

  • The Recognition of Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech: The Transcriber Problem.
  • Missing Disfluencies in Dutch (Postdoctoral work at OTS, Utrecht)
  • Detecting Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech. (PhD Work) 

    • Publications

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    ERASMUS/SOCRATES

    I'm the ERASMUS/SOCRATES coordinator for the department. Contact me if you are interested in visiting our department on exchange, or going to one of our partner institutions.

     Useful links are the ERASMUS/SOCRATES page and The International Office , here in Edinburgh. 

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