Projects

• The Post-Stroke Speech Transcription (PSST) Challenge — a shared task & dataset for automatic phoneme recognition of disordered speech
• Phonologic Viewer — a tool for detailed errors analysis of phonemic transcripts
• BORT — a pre-trained LLM for clinical language assessment designed for use on mixed phonemes & orthography

Publications

1. Alexandra C. Salem, Robert C. Gale, Mikala Fleegle, Gerasimos Fergadiotis, and Steven Bedrick. 2023. Automating Intended Target Identification for Paraphasias in Discourse Using a Large Language Model. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research:1–18.
2. Robert Gale, Alexandra Salem, Gerasimos Fergadiotis, and Steven Bedrick. 2023. Mixed Orthographic/Phonemic Language Modeling: Beyond Orthographically Restricted Transformers (BORT). In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP 2023), pages 212–225, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
3. Marianne Casilio, Gerasimos Fergadiotis, Alexandra C. Salem, Robert C. Gale, Katy McKinney-Bock, and Steven Bedrick. 2023. ParAlg: A Paraphasia Algorithm for Multinomial Classification of Picture Naming Errors. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research:1–21.
4. Alexandra C. Salem, Robert Gale, Marianne Casilio, Mikala Fleegle, Gerasimos Fergadiotis, and Steven Bedrick. 2023. Refining Semantic Similarity of Paraphasias Using a Contextual Language Model. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(1):206–220.
5. Robert C. Gale, Mikala Fleegle, Gerasimos Fergadiotis, and Steven Bedrick. 2022. The Post-Stroke Speech Transcription (PSST) Challenge. In Proceedings of the RaPID Workshop - within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 41–55, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
6. Robert Gale, Julie Bird, Yiyi Wang, Jan van Santen, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Jill Dolata, and Meysam Asgari. 2021. Automated Scoring of Tablet-Administered Expressive Language Tests. Frontiers in Psychology, 12.
7. Meysam Asgari, Robert Gale, Katherine Wild, Hiroko Dodge, and Jeffrey Kaye. 2020. Automatic Assessment of Cognitive Tests for Differentiating Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Proof of Concept Study of the Digit Span Task. Current Alzheimer Research, 17(7):658–666.
8. Robert Gale, Jill Dolata, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Jan van Santen, and Meysam Asgari. 2020. Automatic Assessment of Language Ability in Children with and without Typical Development. In 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine Biology Society (EMBC), pages 6111–6114.
9. Alexander Kain, Amie Roten, and Robert Gale. 2020. Diacritic-Level Pronunciation Analysis Using Phonological Features. In ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pages 8084–8088.
10. Liu Chen, Meysam Asgari, Robert Gale, Katherine Wild, Hiroko Dodge, and Jeffrey Kaye. 2020. Improving the Assessment of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Advanced Age With a Novel Multi-Feature Automated Speech and Language Analysis of Verbal Fluency. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:535.
11. Robert Gale, Liu Chen, Jill Dolata, Jan van Santen, and Meysam Asgari. 2019. Improving ASR Systems for Children with Autism and Language Impairment Using Domain-Focused DNN Transfer Techniques. In Interspeech 2019, pages 11–15. ISCA.
12. Meysam Asgari, Robert Gale, Jeffrey A. Kaye, and Hiroko H. Dodge. 2019. Automatic Assessment of Conventional Cognitive Tests for Differentiating Mild Cognitive Impairment: a Proof of Concept Study of the Digit Span Task. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 15:437–437.