Sara Ng
Assistant Professor
- Email: sara_ng@sfu.ca
- Office: RCB 8117
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- Interests: Prosody | Speech Perception | Machine Learning | Spoken Language Processing | Acoustic Modeling | Computational Linguistics | Discourse
Education
- Ph.D. in Linguistics; University of Washington, 2024
- M.S. in Computational Linguistics; University of Washington, 2023
Biography
My research focuses on issues in computational models of prosody and speech perception. My primary research concerns how computational methods can be used to better understand the role of prosody in spoken language. I am interested in how humans use tune, rhythm, and pronunciation to convey pragmatic meaning such as discourse structure and conceptual pacts, and how this exchange of information is affected by hearing impairment and speech disorders. My recent work also concerns how large commercial speech recognition systems such as OpenAI's Whisper leverage prosody. I use corpus-based, theory-agnostic, engineering approaches with grounding in attested generalities of language acoustics.
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Courses
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