Sharon Goldwater
Professor
Studies the computational processes needed to learn linguistic structure in humans and machines, including unsupervised speech and language learning.
Sharon Goldwater's lab at Edinburgh works on multilingual, translation & linguistics, multimodal & grounded language and speech recognition & spoken language. 16 papers since 2023, 9 at top venues, mostly Interspeech and ACL. 19 alumni, most often to Google and Amazon.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 56%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 19
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 3
- 5 papers2024 · T1 2
- 6 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Interspeech, ACL, CoNLL, EMNLP, LREC
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Speech recognition & spoken language6 papers
- linguistic2 papers
- Multimodal & grounded language1 paper
- Multilingual, translation & linguistics0 papers
- language learning0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20255 papers
- Proceedings of the Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language TechnologiesA Grounded Typology of Word Classes
- LRECCross-linguistically Consistent Semantic and Syntactic Annotation of Child-directed Speech (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Effective Context in Neural Speech Models
- ACL (T1)Revisiting Common Assumptions about Arabic Dialects in NLP
- ACL (T1)The Cross-linguistic Role of Animacy in Grammar Structures
20245 papers
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science SocietyA predictive learning model can simulate temporal dynamics and context effects found in neural representations of continuous speech
- Journal of Language ModelingCorpus-based measures discriminate inflection and derivation cross-linguistically (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Estimating the Level of Dialectness Predicts Interannotator Agreement in Multi-dialect Arabic Datasets
- Interspeech (T1)Orthogonality and isotropy of speaker and phonetic information in self-supervised speech representations
- CoNLLSelf-supervised speech representations display some human-like cross-linguistic perceptual abilities
20236 papers
- Interspeech (T1)Acoustic Word Embeddings for Untranscribed Target Languages with Continued Pretraining and Learned Pooling
- EMNLP (T1)ALDi: Quantifying the Arabic Level of Dialectness of Text
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal ProcessingAnalyzing Acoustic Word Embeddings from Pre-trained Self-supervised Speech Models
- Cognitive ScienceInfant Phonetic Learning as Perceptual Space Learning: A Crosslinguistic Evaluation of Computational Models (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Prosodic features improve sentence segmentation and parsing in English
- Interspeech (T1)Self-supervised Predictive Coding Models Encode Speaker and Phonetic Information in Orthogonal Subspaces
Where alumni went19 listed, 56% to industry
Industry 10Academia 8
Most often to
- Amazon
- Data Scientist at Quorate Technology.
Also to
- : postdoc at National Institute of Informatics
- : postdoc at Saarland University.
- Toyota Technical Institute
Apply to EdinburghFall 2027
Not announced yet
Informatics PhD
- Round
- Rolling (funding consideration)
- Opens
- —
- GRE
- See program page
- English
- See program page
- Fee
- none
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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