Expanding our Eurospeech paper (which we found last week was accepted!) on modeling language learner spoken disfluencies into a full journal paper. Been re-acquainting myself with the masses of related work this weekend.
A fun side effect is that I don’t feel so alone in my research any more. Here, where I sit, at the dovetail of Second Language Acquisition, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Automatic Speech Recognition, I don’t get to meet people who deal with the same questions I deal with day-to-day. It’s not exactly pure interdisciplinary work, but it’s definitely in the same order of merging of academic cultures and demands.
But, it’s always nice to realize there’s other people (even if only a handful) who’ve trodden this same road.