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An tIonad taighde do Theicneolaíocht Urlabhra agus Teangeolaíochta na Gaeilge (ITUT): Irish Speech and Language Technology Research Centre

Aidhm [English]

Seo lárionad taighde atá dírithe ar fhorbairt na teicneolaíochta urlabhra agus teangeolaíochta don Ghaeilge. Tá an fhorbairt teicneolaíochta seo bunaithe ar dhúshraith taighde teangeolaíochta atá ar siúl sa Scoil ar struchtúr na Gaeilge, ar theagasc na Gaeilge, ar bhailiúchán agus ar phróiseáil corpais. Mar chroílár na hoibre, tá bunú acmhainní teangeolaíochta agus urlabhra don Ghaeilge. Mar aschur breise as an obair, táimid ag díriú ar fheidhmchláir a thacóidh le pobal na Gaeilge - le foghlaimeoirí agus le lucht teagaisc na Gaeilge, agus leo siúd atá faoi mhíchumas radhairc nó urlabhra.

Tugann an tIonad seo taighdeoirí as réimsí ilghnéitheacha le chéile agus ina measc ríomhtheangeolaíocht agus foireann a dhíríonn ar ghnéithe teicneolaíochta urlabhra agus ar fhoghraíocht na Gaeilge sa Saotharlann Foghraíochta agus Urlabhra.

Aim

This research centre focuses on developing Speech and Language Technology for Irish. This technology development is underpinned by the fundamental linguistic research which is carried out in the School; on the structure of Irish, on the teaching of Irish, and on collecting and processing of corpora. Central to the work is the establishment of basic phonetic and linguistic and resources for Irish. As additional outputs of this work, we are focussing on applications which will support the Irish-speaking community, as well as learners and teachers of Irish and those Irish speakers with sight or speech disabilities

This Centre brings together researchers from many disciplines, including computational linguistics and a team which focuses on technical aspects of speech and phonetics in the Phonetics and Speech Laboratory

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

• Text processing tools for Irish - Uirlisí Próiseála Téacs don Ghaeilge
  Automatic text processing tools for Irish
  
  • Morphological Analyser, POS Tagger, Chunker:
    https://www.scss.tcd.ie/~uidhonne/irish.utf8.htm
  • Github: POS Tagger

• Dictionary Lookup: Cuardaigh An Foclóir Póca agus Deilbhíocht na bhFocal
  Use any form of the word to look up the dictionary entry, and find other grammatical forms of that word ...
  • Deilbhíocht na bhFocal (Ó Dónaill) agus Cuardaigh míniú &rl. (An Foclóir Póca)
    https://www.scss.tcd.ie/SLP/lookup.utf8.htm

• Comhrá Corpus of Spoken Irish - Corpas na Gaeilge Labhartha
  Listen to native speakers and read the transcript at the same time ...
  
  • Cómhrá Corpus: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/~uidhonne/comhra/
  • Transcription Guidelines etc. Dearadh Corpais agus Treoirlínte Tras-scríobh na Gaeilge
    https://www.tcd.ie/slscs/research/projects/current/gala.php

• Cipher - Faoi Gheasa (ICALL): Ríomhchluiche le haghaigh foghlaim na Gaeilge, ag baint úsáid as NLP, AI agus áiseanna léitheoireachta Ghaeilge
  Poster ComputEl ACL 2022
  Xu, L., Thomson, J., Uí Dhonnchadha, E. and Ward, M. (2024). Learner-Oriented Game Design: The Evolution of Cipher. IEEE GEM 2024, Turin, Italy, 5-7 June.

• Clibeálaí Séimeantaice - semantic tagger for Irish
Czerniak, T. and Uí Dhonnchadha, E., (2024). Towards Semantic Tagging for Irish. LREC-Coling 2024, Turin, Italy, 20-25 May, 2024
Conference Paper

• Anailíseoir Castacht Teanga - text complexity analyser for Irish
  Uí Dhonnchadha, E. Xu, L. Bruen, S. and Ward, M., (2024) Advancing Language Learning with Cipher: Integrating Adaptive Game Mechanics for Irish through Text Analysis. Games and NLP: LREC-COLING 2024, Turin, Italy, 21 May.
  Conference Paper
  Mc Cahill, L., Baltazar, T., Bruen, S., Uí Dhonnchadha, E., Ward, M., Liang Xu, L. and Foster, J., (2024). Text Classification Tools for Enhancing Digital Game-Based Language Learning for Irish. SIGUL2024 Special Interest Group for Under-resourced Languages, LREC-Coling, Turin, Italy, 20-21 May.
  Conference Paper

• Giniúint Leathanaigh Vicipéid as Gaeilge - Generating Irish Wikipedia pages
  Mille, S., Uí Dhonnchadha, E., Dasiopoulou, S., Cassidy, L., Davis, B., Belz, A., (2023) DCU/TCD-FORGe at WebNLG-23: Irish rules!, MM-NLG 2023: Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual Natural Language Generation, Prague, September 12, 2023
  Conference Paper

Mille, S., Uí Dhonnchadha, E., Dasiopoulou, S., Cassidy, L., Davis, B., Belz, A.,(2023). Generating Irish Text with a Flexible Plug-and-Play Architecture, PAN-DL@EMNLP: Pattern-based Approaches to NLP in the Age of Deep Learning Workshop, Singapore, 6-10 December, 2023
Conference Paper
Wikipedia Generator slides
Wikipedia Live Generator link

 

Phonetics Lab

• ABAIR Sintéis na Gaeilge www.abair.ie

• Prosóid Chanúintí na Gaeilge https://www.tcd.ie/slscs/research/projects/past/prosody.php

 

Lucht Taighde

• Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Research Fellow)
• Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha (Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics)
• Neasa Ní Chiaráin (Assistant Professor in Irish Speech and Language Technology)
• Christer Gobl (Associate Professor in Speech Science)
• John Harris (Research Fellow)
• Jeffrey Kallen (Research Fellow)
• Cóilín Ó Floinn (Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics)
• Maria O'Reilly (Lecturer)
• Harald Berthelsen (Researcher)
• Christoph Wendler(Researcher)
• Andrew Murphy

 

Foilseacháin

Tráchtais/Taighde (CLCS, Gaeilge)

• Isteach, dó, trí: the effects of a three-week immersion course in a Coláiste Gaeilge on Standards of and Attitudes to Irish among Secondary School Students / Maeve Killen / 2015
• A formula for fluency? : an investigation into the effect of instruction in formulaic sequences on oral fluency in Irish / Geraldine Dillon / 2015
• Relationships between identity and attitudes to the achievement of native speaker norms in adult L2 learners of Irish / Colin John Flynn / 2014
• Code-switching Among Native Irish Speakers / Ciarán Parkin / 2013
• Processing Pre-Standard Irish Orthography using Finite-State Transducers / Theodorus Fransen / 2013.
• Shallow transfer rule-based machine translation and the Irish-English language pair / Stephen Shaw / 2013
  
• Gender in Insular Celtic : a functionalist account of variation and change in Irish and Welsh / Alessio Frenda / 2011
• Multi-dialect phonetisation for Irish text-to-speech synthesis : a modular approach / Brian Ó Raghallaigh / 2010
• The spoken Irish of sixth-class pupils in Irish immersion schools / Pádraig Ó Duibhir / 2009
• The phonetics and phonology of the intonation of Irish dialects / Martha Dalton / 2008
• Annotation, error detection and error correction of a corpus of spoken Ulster Irish / Áine Ní Bhriain / 2008
• A study of valency in Modern Irish / Brian Nolan / 2002
• The acquisition of Irish as a first language / Máire Ní Neachtain / 1992
• An examination of inter language development in instructed L2 learners of Irish / Fergus Hamill / 1991

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