Badr M. Abdullah
I am a post-doctoral researcher in the Language Science and Technology Department at Saarland University. I am a member of the collaborative research center SFB 1102: Information Density and Linguistic Encoding. I work with Dietrich Klakow and Bernd Möbius.
My research primarily focuses on representation learning for speech and language processing. Concretely, I am interested in (1) analyzing and understanding the encoding of linguistic structure in speech and language models, (2) developing linguistically-informed approaches for cross-lingual transfer learning, and (3) bridging between human language processing and computational language modeling.
In addition, I am always excited to chat and learn more about …
- Non-native speech processing
- Multilinguality, linguistic typology, and language variation
- Information theory and language structure
- Interpretability of neural networks
news
Aug 23, 2023 | I presented our paper in Interspeech 2023 in Dublin! |
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Jul 19, 2023 | PhD thesis submitted |
May 6, 2023 | I presented our extended abstract in SIGTYP workshop during EACL 2023 conference in Dubrovnik! |
Dec 10, 2021 | I gave an invited talk in the SIGTYP lecture series on Capturing Cross-linguistic Similarity with Speech Representation Learning |
Feb 1, 2021 | With Elizabeth Salesky and Sabrina J. Mielke, I co-organized a shared task in SIGTYP 2021 on robust language identification in speech |