Professional Staff

Romina is the Chief Operating Officer for the Centre.

Recent Publications

1. Kin Against Kin: Internal Co-selection and the Coherence of Kinship Typologies

   Bibliography

   Sam Passmore, Wolfgang Barth, Kyla Quinn, Simon Greenhill, Nicholas Evans, and Fiona Jordan. 2021. "Kin Against Kin: Internal Co-selection and the Coherence of Kinship Typologies." Biological Theory. 16 (3): 176–193. doi: 10.1007/s13752-021-00379-6.

2. Subgrouping the Sogeram languages

   Bibliography

   Danielle Barth, Wolfgang Barth, and Don Daniels. 2019. "Subgrouping the Sogeram languages." Journal of Historical Linguistics. 9 (1): 92-127. doi: 10.1075/jhl.17011.dan.

Julia Miller is responsible for facilitating the archiving of data collected by Centre researchers. She is currently developing access protocols and guidelines to streamline the archiving process, with a goal of creating rich, well-structured, accessible corpora. She offers training in data management, archiving workflows, and various linguistic tools. Visit her research profile here.

Recent Publications

1. Nen

   Bibliography

   Nicholas Evans, and Julia Colleen Miller. 2016. "Nen." Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 46 (3): 331-349. doi: 10.1017/S0025100315000365.

2. Illustrations of the IPA: Nen

   Bibliography

   Nicholas Evans, and Julia Colleen Miller. 2016. "Illustrations of the IPA: Nen." Journal of the International Phonetics Association. 46 (3): 331-349. doi: 10.1017/S0025100315000365.

Recent Publications

1. Managing Transcription Data for Automatic Speech Recognition with Elpis

   Bibliography

   Foley, Ben, van Esch, Daan, and San, Nay. 2022. "Managing Transcription Data for Automatic Speech Recognition with Elpis". In The Open Handbook in Linguistic Data Management, MIT Press.

2. User-Friendly Automatic Transcription of Low-Resource Languages: Plugging ESPnet into Elpis

   Bibliography

   Oliver Adams, Benjamin Galliot, Guillaume Wisniewski, Nicholas Lambourne, Ben Foley, Rahasya Sanders-Dwyer, Janet Wiles, Alexis Michaud, Guillaume Séverine, Laurent Besacier, Christopher Cox, Katya Aplonova, Guillaume Jacques, and Nathan Hill. 2021. "User-Friendly Automatic Transcription of Low-Resource Languages: Plugging ESPnet into Elpis". In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages, Online.

3. Applications of Natural Language Processing in Bilingual Language Teaching: An Indonesian-English Case Study

   Bibliography

   Zara Maxwell-Smith, Simon Gonzalez, Ben Foley, and Hanna Suominen. 2020. "Applications of Natural Language Processing in Bilingual Language Teaching: An Indonesian-English Case Study". In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 124–134. Seattle, USA.

4. Building Speech Recognition Systems for Language Documentation: The CoEDL Endangered Language Pipeline and Inference System (ELPIS)

   Bibliography

   Ben Foley, Josh Arnold, Rolando Coto-Solano, Gautier Durantin, T. Mark Ellison, Daan van Esch, Scott Heath, František Kratochvíl, Zara Maxwell-Smith, David Nash, Ola Olsson, Mark Richards, Nay San, Hywel Stoakes, Nick Thieberger, and Janet Wiles. 2018. "Building Speech Recognition Systems for Language Documentation: The CoEDL Endangered Language Pipeline and Inference System (ELPIS)". In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages, 205-209. Gurugram, India.

Recent Publications

1. Setting wicked problems using design methods: People’s hesitancy to engage with the Internet of Things

   Bibliography

   Peter Worthy. 2020. Setting wicked problems using design methods: People’s hesitancy to engage with the Internet of Things. Brisbane : University of Queensland PhD Thesis.

2. An Automated Approach to Examining Pausing in the Speech of People With Dementia

   Bibliography

   Rachel A. Sluis, Daniel Angus, Janet Wiles, Andrew Back, Ting Ting Gibson, Jacki Liddle, Peter Worthy, David Copland, and Anthony J. Angwin. 2020. "An Automated Approach to Examining Pausing in the Speech of People With Dementia." American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias. 35: 1-8. doi: 10.1177/1533317520939773.

3. Musical agency and an ecological perspective of DMIs: collective embodiment in third wave HCI

   Bibliography

   Peter Worthy, Trevor Hunter, Ben Matthews, and Stephen Viller. 2020. "Musical agency and an ecological perspective of DMIs: collective embodiment in third wave HCI." Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. doi: 10.1007/s00779-020-01429-9.

4. Social cardboard: Pretotyping a social ethnodroid in the wild.

   Bibliography

   Janet Wiles, Peter Worthy, Kristyn Sommer, Marie Boden, Scott Heath, Paul Pounds, Nikodem Rybak, Michael Smith, Jonathan Taufatofua, and Jason Weigel. 2016. "Social cardboard: Pretotyping a social ethnodroid in the wild.". In 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 531-532. Christchurch, NZ.

5. Hand in hand: Tools and techniques for understanding children’s touch with a social robot

   Bibliography

   Kristyn Sommer, Janet Wiles, Marie Boden, Joshua Riddell, Mark Nielsen, Paul Pounds, Nikodem Rybak, Virginia Slaughter, Michael Smith, Jonathan Taufatofua, Peter Worthy, and Jason Weigel. 2016. "Hand in hand: Tools and techniques for understanding children’s touch with a social robot". In 2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 437-438. Christchurch, New Zealand.

Siobhain is responsible for processing all the day-to-day financial, administration and travel requirements for Western Sydney University (WSU) Node of the Centre. She also tracks all WSU Centre related activity.