Join Northeastern University – Vancouver professor Aanchan Mohan as he moderates a discussion with his Simon Fraser University colleague, Dr. Alderate about SFU’s Speech Error Database (SFUSED), a multi-purpose database created to support both psycholinguistic and linguistic research.

The discussion will give an overview of speech error research in psycholinguistics, the methods used in constructing the database, the database design, the rich linguistic structure of the database, and how this design and structure can be used in new research.

Professor Mohan will also discuss a new Northeastern University project comparing error analysis by humans (SFUSED) with automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology, and how improving ASR can potentially automate the collection of speech error data.

This event is free to attend, register here.

About the Speakers:

Dr. Aanchan Mohan is an assistant teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences in Vancouver. Dr. Mohan’s areas of teaching are machine learning, natural language processing, and speech recognition. Along with his role at Northeastern, Dr. Mohan is a lead data scientist at Global Relay–a provider of compliant electronic communications archiving, messaging, supervision, information governance, and eDiscovery.

Dr. John Alderete is a professor of Linguistics and the director of the Cognitive Science program at Simon Fraser University. His work investigates the cognitive science of language. It combines computational modelling, insights from linguistics and psychology, and Big Data from the world’s languages to probe the nature of linguistic systems and language processing in the human mind.