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SUMMARY:Human Diversity seminar\, Törö\, Suni & Simko
DTSTART:20260427T084500Z
DTEND:20260427T100000Z
DTSTAMP:20260428T215200Z
UID:indico-event-224@eve.utu.fi
CONTACT:humandiversity@utu.fi
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Antti Suni (University of Helsinki)\, Tuukka Törö 
 (University of Helsinki)\, Juraj Simko (University of Helsinki)\n\nSchedul
 e\n11.45-12.15 Coffee and tea served12.15-13.00 Presentation\nZoom webinar
  link\nPlease register by 22 April to ensure your coffee and savory pastry
 \nDoctoral Researcher Tuukka Törö\,  IT Designer Antti Suni\, and Senio
 r University Lecturer Juraj SimkoDepartment of Digital Humanities\, Univer
 sity of Helsinki\nNovel Approaches to Investigating Linguistic Diversity U
 sing Speech Embeddings \nTraditional research on linguistic diversity requ
 ires substantial effort from collecting and processing data to annotating 
 and describing linguistic features. The analytical choices researchers mak
 e can influence outcomes and potentially introduce theoretical or observer
  bias. Moreover\, many of the world’s languages and varieties remain und
 er documented\, limiting the applicability of conventional linguistic meth
 ods.Recent advances in deep learning have opened new avenues for exploring
  language variation. State-of-the-art self-supervised speech models can re
 liably classify languages from short audio samples of varying quality. Thi
 s enables us to study language relationships in their latent spaces in a r
 elatively theory independent way\, based on how languages sound. These mod
 els also allow us to examine relationships involving low resource language
 s and varieties\, including those with minimal available data\, no writing
  system\, or prior linguistic description.In our talk\, we will highlight 
 both the strengths and limitations of these methods for conducting scienti
 fically sound research on linguistic diversity across multiple levels of v
 ariation\, from dialects to global language relationships.\nMore informati
 on here\n \n\nhttps://eve.utu.fi/event/224/
LOCATION:LS XIV\, 3rd floor (Natura)
URL:https://eve.utu.fi/event/224/
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