Overview
Availability
- Dr Ben Foley is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Visual Communication Design, Queensland University of Technology
- Doctor of Philosophy of Computers, Technology and Language Learning, The University of Queensland
Works
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2024
Other Outputs
Developing useful and usable language technologies
Foley, Benedict (2024). Developing useful and usable language technologies. PhD Thesis, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/a44d89b
2024
Conference Publication
Access control framework for language collections
Foley, Ben, Sefton, Peter, Musgrave, Simon and Sacal Bonequi, Moises (2024). Access control framework for language collections. 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Turin, Italy, 20-25 May 2024. Paris, France: European Language Resources Association.
2024
Journal Article
WordSpinner: Developing a tool to convert plain-text lexicon files into dictionary webpages
Jones, Caroline, Tran, Jesse, Jorgensen, Eleanor, Hill, Romi, Ellis, Patricia, Simpson, Jane, Meakins, Felicity, Foley, Ben, Reverter-Rambaldi, Marcel, Tudor-Smith, Gari, Williams, Paul, Hill, Clair and Richards, Mark (2024). WordSpinner: Developing a tool to convert plain-text lexicon files into dictionary webpages. Language Documentation and Conservation, 18, 109-131.
2023
Conference Publication
Leveraging supplementary text data to kick-start automatic speech recognition system development with limited transcriptions
San, Nay, Bartelds, Martijn, Billings, Blaine, de Falco, Ella, Feriza, Hendi, Safri, Johan, Sahrozi, Wawan, Foley, Ben, McDonnell, Bradley and Jurafsky, Dan (2023). Leveraging supplementary text data to kick-start automatic speech recognition system development with limited transcriptions. COMPUTEL 2023 - 6th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, Online, 5 - 6 March 2023. Stroudsburg, PA United States: Association for Computational Linguistics.
2023
Conference Publication
Natural language processing for language documentation: a progress report for Japhug and Na
Wisniewski, Guillaume, Macaire, Cécile, Galliot, Benjamin, Adams, Oliver, Lambourne, Nicholas, Foley, Ben, Wiles, Janet, Michaud, Alexis, Guillaume, Séverine and Jacques, Guillaume (2023). Natural language processing for language documentation: a progress report for Japhug and Na. Sixth Workshop on Sino-Tibetan Languages of Southwest China 2021, Kobe, Japan, 7 - 11 September 2021.
2023
Other Outputs
Elpis speech recognition tool: assistance for language material transcription
Wiles, Janet, Foley, Ben, Lambourne, Nicholas, San, Nay, Keightley, Harry and De Nagy Koves Hrabar (2023). Elpis speech recognition tool: assistance for language material transcription. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
2023
Conference Publication
Automated speech recognition of Indonesian-English language lessons on YouTube using transfer learning
Maxwell-Smith, Zara and Foley, Ben (2023). Automated speech recognition of Indonesian-English language lessons on YouTube using transfer learning. Second Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2 - 6 May 2023. Stroudsburg, PA, United States: Association for Computational Linguistics. doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.fieldmatters-1.1
2022
Book Chapter
Managing transcription data for automatic speech recognition with Elpis
Foley, Ben, van Esch, Daan and San, Nay (2022). Managing transcription data for automatic speech recognition with Elpis. The open handbook of linguistic data management. (pp. 437-446) edited by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller and Lauren B. Collister. Cambridge, MA, United States: The MIT Press. doi: 10.7551/mitpress/12200.003.0041
2021
Conference Publication
User-friendly automatic transcription of low-resource languages: plugging ESPnet into Elpis
Adams, Oliver, Galliot, Benjamin, Wisniewski, Guillaume, Lambourne, Nicholas, Foley, Ben, Sanders-Dwyer, Rahasya, Wiles, Janet, Michaud, Alexis, Guillaume, Séverine, Besacier, Laurent, Cox, Christopher, Aplonova, Katya, Jacques, Guillaume and Hill, Nathan (2021). User-friendly automatic transcription of low-resource languages: plugging ESPnet into Elpis. 4th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, Online, 2-3 March 2021. Stroudsburg, PA USA: Association for Computational Linguistics.
2021
Conference Publication
Developing ASR for Indonesian-English Bilingual Language Teaching
Maxwelll-Smith, Zara and Foley, Ben (2021). Developing ASR for Indonesian-English Bilingual Language Teaching. Fifth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching, Virtual, 11 June 2021. Stroudsburg, PA USA: Association for Computational Linguistics. doi: 10.18653/v1/2021.calcs-1.17
2020
Conference Publication
Applications of natural language processing in bilingual language teaching: an Indonesian-English case study
Maxwell-Smith, Zara, Foley, Ben, Ochoa, Simon Gonzalez and Suominen, Hanna (2020). Applications of natural language processing in bilingual language teaching: an Indonesian-English case study. 15th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, Online, 10 July 2020. Stroudsburg, PA, United States: Association for Computational Linguistics . doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.bea-1.12
2020
Conference Publication
Scaling language data import/export with a data transformer interface
Buckeridge, Nicholas and Foley, Ben (2020). Scaling language data import/export with a data transformer interface. 1st Joint Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages (SLTU) and Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages (CCURL), Marseille, France, 11-16 May 2020. Paris, France: European Language Resources association.
2019
Conference Publication
Transcription acceleration for language documentation with ELPIS
Foley, Ben, van Esch, Daan and San, Nay (2019). Transcription acceleration for language documentation with ELPIS. 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), Honolulu, HA USA, 28February-3 March 2019.
2019
Conference Publication
Future directions in technological support for language documentation
Esch, Daan van, Foley, Ben and San, Nay (2019). Future directions in technological support for language documentation. 3rd Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages, Honolulu, HA USA, 26-27 February 2019.
2019
Conference Publication
Elpis, an accessible speech-to-text tool
Foley, Ben, Rakhi, Alina, Lambourne, Nicholas, Buckeridge, Nicholas and Wiles, Janet (2019). Elpis, an accessible speech-to-text tool. INTERSPEECH 2019: Show & Tell, Graz, Austria, 15-19 September 2019. Baxias, France: International Speech Communication Association. doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-8006
2018
Conference Publication
Building speech recognition systems for language documentation: the CoEDL Endangered Language Pipeline and Inference System (ELPIS)
Foley, Ben, Arnold, Josh, Coto-Solano, Rolando, Durantin, Gautier, Ellison, T. Mark, van Esch, Daan, Heath, Scott, Kratochvíl, František, Maxwell-Smith, Zara, Nash, David, Olsson, Ola, Richards, Mark, San, Nay, Stoakes, Hywel, Thieberger, Nick and Wiles, Janet (2018). Building speech recognition systems for language documentation: the CoEDL Endangered Language Pipeline and Inference System (ELPIS). SLTU 2018: 6th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages, Gurugram, India, 29-31 August 2018. Baxias, France: International Speech Communication Association. doi: 10.21437/sltu.2018-43
2011
Conference Publication
Looking at language: appropriate design for sign language resources in remote Australian Indigenous communities
Green, Jennifer, Woods, Gail and Foley, Ben (2011). Looking at language: appropriate design for sign language resources in remote Australian Indigenous communities. Sustainable data from digital research: Humanities perspectives on digital scholarship, The University of Melbourne, VIC Australia, 12-14th December 2011.
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