Publications

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Paraphrases do not explain word analogies
A reply to Allen and Hospedales (2019, ICML), in which we show that their explanation of why distributional word vectors encode linguistic regularities is empirically incorrect.

[2021] Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Louis Fournier, Ewan Dunbar

Independent and Automatic Evaluation of Speaker-Independent Acoustic-to-Articulatory Reconstruction
A new method for evaluating how well articulatory reconstruction does at capturing speaker-independent information, using a phone discrimination task.

[2020] INTERSPEECH 2020: Twenty-First Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association.
Maud Parrot, Juliette Millet, Ewan Dunbar

The Zero Resource Speech Benchmark 2021: Metrics and baselines for unsupervised spoken language modeling

[2020] NeurIPS Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning for Speech and Audio Processing.
Tu Anh Nguyen, Maureen Seyssel, Patricia Rozé, Morgane Rivière, Evgeny Kharitonov, Alexei Baevski, Ewan Dunbar, Emmanuel Dupoux
[zero-resource]

The Perceptimatic English benchmark for speech perception models
[code] [data]

[2020] Proceedings for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Juliette Millet, Ewan Dunbar
[perception]

Perceptimatic: A human speech perception benchmark for unsupervised subword modelling
[code] [data]
An open experimental English and French phone discrimination data set which we test on the models submitted to the Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2017, showing that typical automatic speech recognition models show very poor correlation with human speech perception, while many unsupervised models perform much better.

[2020] INTERSPEECH 2020: Twenty-First Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association.
Juliette Millet, Ewan Dunbar
[perception]

Analogies minus analogy test: measuring regularities in word embeddings
[doi] [code]

[2020] Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL).
Louis Fournier, Emmanuel Dupoux, Ewan Dunbar
[representations]

Modelling perceptual effects of phonology with ASR systems

[2020] Proceedings for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Bing Er Jiang, Ewan Dunbar, Morgan Sonderegger, Meghan Clayards, Emmanuel Dupoux

The Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2020: Discovering discrete subword and word units
[doi]

[2020] INTERSPEECH 2020: Twenty-First Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association.
Ewan Dunbar, Julien Karadayi, Mathieu Bernard, Xuan-Nga Cao, Robin Algayres, Lucas Ondel, Laurent Besacier, Sakriani Sakti, Emmanuel Dupoux
[zero-resource]

Mouse tracking as a window into decision making
[doi]

[2019] Behavior Research Methods.
Mora Maldonado, Ewan Dunbar, Emmanuel Chemla

RNNs implicitly implement tensor product representations

[2019] International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
R Thomas McCoy, Tal Linzen, Ewan Dunbar, Paul Smolensky
[representations]

Generative grammar, neural networks, and the implementational mapping problem: Response to Pater
[doi]

[2019] Language.
Ewan Dunbar
[representations]

The Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019: TTS without T
[doi]

[2019] INTERSPEECH 2019: Twentieth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association.
Ewan Dunbar, Robin Algayres, Julien Karadayi, Mathieu Bernard, Juan Benjumea, Xuan-Nga Cao, Lucie Miskic, Charlotte Dugrain, Lucas Ondel, Alan W Black, others
[zero-resource]

Comparing unsupervised speech learning directly to human performance in speech perception
[code] [data]

[2019] Proceedings for the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Juliette Millet, Nika Jurov, Ewan Dunbar
[perception]

Learning weakly supervised multimodal phoneme embeddings
[doi]

[2017] INTERSPEECH 2017: Eighteenth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association.
Rahma Chaabouni, Ewan Dunbar, Neil Zeghidour, Emmanuel Dupoux

The Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2017

[2017] 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU).
Ewan Dunbar, Xuan Nga Cao, Juan Benjumea, Julien Karadayi, Mathieu Bernard, Laurent Besacier, Xavier Anguera, Emmanuel Dupoux
[zero-resource]

Classification and automatic transcription of primate calls
[doi]

[2016] The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Maarten Versteegh, Jeremy Kuhn, Gabriel Synnaeve, Lucie Ravaux, Emmanuel Chemla, Cristiane Cäsar, James Fuller, Derek Murphy, Anne Schel, Ewan Dunbar

Addressing the ”two interface ”problem: Comparatives and superlatives

[2016] Glossa: a journal of general linguistics.
Ewan Dunbar, Alexis Wellwood

Geometric constraints on human speech sound inventories
[doi]

[2016] Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences.
Ewan Dunbar, Emmanuel Dupoux

Finite-state phonology predicts a typological gap in cyclic stress assignment
[doi]

[2016] Linguistic Inquiry.
Bronwyn Bjorkman, Ewan Dunbar

A hybrid dynamic time warping-deep neural network architecture for unsupervised acoustic modeling

[2015] INTERSPEECH 2015: Sixteenth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association.
Roland Thiolliere, Ewan Dunbar, Gabriel Synnaeve, Maarten Versteegh, Emmanuel Dupoux

Quantitative methods for comparing featural representations

[2015] ICPhS 2015: 18th Annual Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
Ewan Dunbar, Gabriel Synnaeve, Emmanuel Dupoux

Self-consistency as an inductive bias in early language acquisition

[2014] Proceedings for the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Abdellah Fourtassi, Ewan Dunbar, Emmanuel Dupoux

A Bayesian evaluation of the cost of abstractness

[2013] Language Down the Garden Path: The Cognitive and Biological Basis for Linguistic Structures.
Ewan Dunbar, Brian Dillon, William J Idsardi

A summary of the 2012 JHU CLSP workshop on zero resource speech technologies and models of early language acquisition

[2013] 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.
Aren Jansen, Emmanuel Dupoux, Sharon Goldwater, Mark Johnson, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Kenneth Church, Naomi Feldman, Hynek Hermansky, Florian Metze, Richard Rose, others

A single-stage approach to learning phonological categories: Insights from Inuktitut
[doi]

[2013] Cognitive Science.
Brian Dillon, Ewan Dunbar, William Idsardi

The acquisition of phonological inventories

[2012] The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics.
Ewan Dunbar, William Idsardi

Review of “A critical introduction to phonology: of sound, mind, and body”
[doi]

[2010] Phonology.
Ewan Dunbar, William J Idsardi

Developing intermediate language learning materials: A Labrador Inuttitut story database

[2009] Indigenous Language Revitalization: Encouragement, Guidance & Lessons Learned.
Joan Dicker, Ewan Dunbar, Alana Johns

The Acquisition of Morphophonology Under a Derivational Theory: A Basic Framework and Simulation Results

[2008] Master’s thesis, University of Toronto.
Ewan Dunbar