Auditorium A302, 3rd Floor, Iscte – Building 4
September 4, 2025
- 08:00 – 09:00Registration
- 09:00 – 09:30Welcome Session
- 09:30 – 10:30Keynote 1: The dual nature of lengthening – Petra Wagner and Simon Betz
- 10:30 – 11:00Coffee Break
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11:00 – 13:00Oral Session 1 – Phonetics
- 11:00 The role of speech tempo in turn taking in children’s conversations
- 11:20 The relationships between speech rate, disfluencies and reduction phenomena
- 11:40 Prosodic Prototypes of Filler Particles across Three Languages
- 12:00 The Impact of Speaking Task on Disfluency Distribution in French: Reading Aloud, Picture Description, and Spontaneous Speech
- 12:20 Exploratory Study of Filled Pauses in Ukrainian Broadcast News Speech
- 12:40 Segment Lengthening across Inter-pausal Units: Insights from Romanian Monologue Speech
- 13:00 – 14:30Lunch (included in the registration fee)
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14:30 – 16:30Oral Session 2 – L2 + Psycholinguistics
- 14:30 Multimodal Self- and Other-Initiated Repairs in L2 Peer Interactions
- 14:50 Measuring L2 Speech Fluency Based on Syntactic Distribution of Pauses
- 15:10 Disfluencies and Informational Structure in Spontaneous Speech: Classification and a Case Study of Filled Pauses
- 15:30 Distinguishing Intentional from Unintentional Disfluencies in Psychotherapy
- 15:50 The Effect of Cognitive Demand on L1 and L2 Speech Fluency
- 16:10 On Variability in the Identification and Labelling of Disfluencies — Preliminary Results from 23 Annotations of the Same Data
- 16:30 – 17:00Coffee Break
- 17:00 – 18:00 Round Table on “Diversity of Annotation of Speech Disfluencies”. Organized by Malte Belz, Simon Betz, Ludivine Crible & Jürgen Trouvain
- 19:30Social Event (not included in the registration fee)
September 5, 2025
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09:30 – 10:30Oral Session 3 – Health Applications
- 09:30 Pauses, Reformulations and Inhibitory Control in Speakers with Non-specific Alzheimer’s Disease
- 09:50 Prolongations at the Intersection of Autism and Bilingualism: Evidence from Child Narratives
- 10:10 The Effects of Spontaneous Speech on Disfluencies Assessment of Spanish Speakers with Down Syndrome
- 10:30 – 11:00Coffee Break
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11:00 – 13:00Oral Session 4 – Speech and Language Technologies
- 11:00 Investigating Inclusivity of Whisper for Dysfluent Speech
- 11:20 Adapting Foundation Speech Recognition Models to Impaired Speech: A Semantic Re-chaining Approach for Personalization of German Speech
- 11:40 Multimodal Disfluency Detection via Acoustic-Text Fusion: Comparing Intended and Verbatim ASR Transcripts
- 12:00 Euh… Where do Interpreters Hesitate? An Information-Theoretic Perspective on Sentence-Initial Filler Particles in Simultaneous Interpreting
- 12:20 Evaluating Data-Efficient LLMs on a Benchmark of Disfluency Minimal Pairs
- 12:40 Smooth Operators: LLMs Translating Imperfect Hints into Disfluency-Rich Transcripts
- 13:00 – 14:30Lunch (included in the registration fee)
- 14:30 – 15:30Keynote 2: SSDM: Scalable Speech Disfluency Modeling – Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli
- 15:30 – 16:30Panel 2 – Disfluencies in the Age of AI: A Multidisciplinary View
- 16:30 – 18:00Closing Session
- 17:00Port Wine