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Mr Robert Alan Fromont

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Department: New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain & Behaviour

Email: robert.fromont@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3690615

Office:

Languages: English, Spanish

Technology should eliminate drudgery, lowering barriers between researchers and their goals.
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Methods & Equipment

Fields of Research

  • Linguistic Annotation
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Mobile Apps for Research Participants

Researcher Summary

Development of software for management, automated annotation, and analysis of multimedia speech and language corpora.
Development of mobile apps for study participants to facilitate elicitation of data.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Languages & Linguistics: Linguistics

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

  • Gnevsheva K., Gonzalez S. and Fromont R. (2020) Australian English Bilingual Corpus: Automatic forced-alignment accuracy in Russian and English. Australian Journal of Linguistics 40(2): 182-193. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2020.1737507. (Journal Articles)
  • Hay JB., Hawkins S., Fromont R., Smith R. and Stuart-Smith J. (2018) Dialectal Variation in Morphophonetics. Portugal: Laboratory Phonology 16, 19-22 Jun 2018. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Fromont R. (2017) Toward a format-neutral annotation store. Computer Speech & Language 45 C: 348-374. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2017.01.004. (Journal Articles)
  • Fromont RA. (Ed.) (2017) LaBB-CAT. . (Software / Code)
  • Kuiper K., Fromont R. and Gerhard D. (2017) Polysemy and word frequency: A replication. Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communicaton Science 4(2): 144-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jrds.33751. (Journal Articles)
  • Fromont R. and Watson K. (2016) Factors influencing automatic segmental alignment of sociophonetic corpora. Corpora 11(3): 401-431. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2016.0101. (Journal Articles)
  • Lacross A., Liss J., Barragan B., Adams A., Berisha V., McAuliffe M. and Fromont R. (2016) The role of stress and word size in Spanish speech segmentation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140(6) http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4971227. (Journal Articles)
  • LaCross A., McAuliffe M., Liss J., Barrigan B., Adams A., Fromont R. and Berisha V. (2016) The roles of stress and syllable number as a cue for Spanish speech segmentation. Nova Scotia, Canada: 16th International Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics Association Conference, 15-18 Jun 2016. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Fromont RA. (2015) LaBB-Cat: Browser-based corpus annotation and analysis. Ithaca, NY, USA: LabPhon 15, 13 Jul 2016. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Fromont RA. and Hay J. (2012) LaBB-CAT: an Annotation Store. In Proceedings of ALTA 2012: 113-117. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • O'Beirne GA., King SM., Murray CJ., Fromont R. and King J. (2012) Development and evaluation of the New Zealand hearing screening test. Adelaide, Australia: Audiological Society of Australia Conference, 01 Jul 2012. (Oral Presentations)
  • King S., O'Beirne GA., Fromont R., Rickard NA. and McAuliffe MJ. (2011) Development and evaluation of a New Zealand Digit Triplet Test for auditory screening. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: 8th Asia Pacific Conference on Speech, Language and Hearing, 11 Jan 2011. (Oral Presentations)
  • Fromont R. and Hay J. (2008) ONZE Miner: the development of a browser-based research tool. Corpora 3(2): 173-193. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/E1749503208000142. (Journal Articles)

Research Groups

  • Origins of New Zealand English Project (ONZE)

Key Methodologies

  • LaBB-CAT
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