DISS 2025

Program

Workshop Schedule

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
  • 11:00 – 13:00Oral Session 1 – Phonetics
    • 11:00 The role of speech tempo in turn taking in children’s conversations Agnes Hamori*; Judit Bóna
    • 11:20 The relationships between speech rate, disfluencies and reduction phenomena Emanuela Gallo*; Loredana Schettino; Giuseppe Magistro
    • 11:40 Prosodic Prototypes of Filler Particles across Three Languages Marlene Böttcher*; Constantijn Kaland
    • 12:00 The Impact of Speaking Task on Disfluency Distribution in French: Reading Aloud, Picture Description, and Spontaneous Speech Laudy Arida; Ivana Didirková*
    • 12:20 Exploratory Study of Filled Pauses in Ukrainian Broadcast News Speech Anna Havras*; Carlos Mendes; Helena Moniz; Gueorgui Hristovsky; João Miranda
    • 12:40 Segment Lengthening across Inter-pausal Units: Insights from Romanian Monologue Speech Oana Niculescu*; Monica Vasileanu
  • 13:00 – 14:30Lunch (included in the registration fee)
  • 14:30 – 16:30Oral Session 2 – L2 + Psycholinguistics
    • 14:30 Multimodal Self- and Other-Initiated Repairs in L2 Peer Interactions Loulou Kosmala*
    • 14:50 Measuring L2 Speech Fluency Based on Syntactic Distribution of Pauses Sylvain Coulange*; Nivja H. de Jong
    • 15:10 Studies on Prosody and Informational Structure in the Categorization of Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech Átila Vital*; Bruno Rocha; Tommaso Raso
    • 15:30 Distinguishing Intentional from Unintentional Disfluencies in Psychotherapy Maayan Babkoff*; Simon Betz; Eshkol Rafaeli; Gideon Anholt
    • 15:50 The Effect of Cognitive Demand on L1 and L2 Speech Fluency Lucia Mareková*; Štefan Beňuš
    • 16:10 On Variability in the Identification and Labelling of Disfluencies — Preliminary Results from 23 Annotations of the Same Data Jürgen Trouvain*; Ludivine Crible; Malte Belz; Simon Betz; Štefan Beňuš; Lorraine Baqué; Marina Cantarutti; Jessica Di Napoli; Ivana Didirková; María Jésus Machuca; Lucia Mareková; Oana Niculescu; Pauliina Peltonen; Aurélie Pistono; Loredana Schettino; Vered Silber-Varod; Simon Williams
  • 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

  • 09:30 – 10:30Oral Session 3 – Health Applications
    • 09:30 Pauses, Reformulations and Inhibitory Control in Speakers with Non-specific Alzheimer’s Disease Simon Williams*
    • 09:50 Prolongations at the Intersection of Autism and Bilingualism: Evidence from Child Narratives Marianna Beradze*; Natalia Meir
    • 10:10 The Effects of Spontaneous Speech on Disfluencies Assessment of Spanish Speakers with Down Syndrome David Fernández; Cesar Gonzalez*; Valentin Cardeñoso; David Escudero; Mario Corrales
  • 10:30 – 11:00Coffee Break
  • 11:00 – 13:00Oral Session 4 – Speech and Language Technologies
    • 11:00 Investigating Inclusivity of Whisper for Dysfluent Speech Evelyn Starzew*; Suhita Ghosh; Valerie Krug
    • 11:20 Adapting Foundation Speech Recognition Models to Impaired Speech: A Semantic Re-chaining Approach for Personalization of German Speech Niclas Pokel*; Roman Böhringer; Pehuén Moure; Yingqiang Gao
    • 11:40 Multimodal Disfluency Detection via Acoustic-Text Fusion: Comparing Intended and Verbatim ASR Transcripts Marcelo Lopes Ferreira*; Alef Iury; Lucas Gris; Rodrigo Tanaka; Israel Filho; Fred Oliveira; Arlindo Galvão
    • 12:00 Euh… Why Do Interpreters Hesitate? An Information-Theoretic Perspective on Sentence-Initial Filler Particles in Simultaneous Interpreting Christina Pollkläsener*; Maria Kunilovskaya
    • 12:20 Evaluating Data-Efficient LLMs on a Benchmark of Disfluency Minimal Pairs Sheng-Fu Wang*; Laurent Prévot
    • 12:40 Smooth Operators: LLMs Translating Imperfect Hints into Disfluency-Rich Transcripts Duygu ALTINOK*
  • 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