Omnia Ibrahim joined the URPP Language and Space in October 2018 and is employed at the Institute of Computational Linguistics since December 2019.
PhD project: linguistic accommodation in Human-Human and Human - Robot interactions
The main goal is to investigate the various social (age and gender) and situational factors, which effect the Linguistics accommodation at Human-Human and Human - Robot interactions.
Research questions:
- What is the role of linguistic accommodation in early language development?
- What are the stages of linguistic accommodation development?
- Do children accommodate at all, and do mothers accommodate to their children?
Supervisors: Sabine Stoll and Volker Dellwo
Funding source: URPP Language and Space / Institute of Computational Linguistics
Background
Omnia earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2011 from the Phonetics and Linguistics Department in Alexandria University. She went on to obtain a Master of Arts degree from the same department in 2017.
Her master thesis was entitled "Building audio- visual Arabic phonetically annotated corpus for speech processing purposes". The building of the corpus consisted of 6 main stages: speaker selection, sentences selection, recording, analysis, annotation and evaluation.
Since 2012, she was a teaching assistant in phonetics and linguistics department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University.
- Course 1: physiological phonetics (1, 2).
- Course 2: Acoustic phonetics (1, 2).
- Course 3: Auditory phonetics.
- Course 4: Experimental phonetics (1,2)
Conference Proceedings
Abdo, O., Abdou, S., Fashal, M. (2017) Building Audio-Visual Phonetically Annotated Arabic Corpus for Expressive Text to Speech. Proc. Interspeech 2017, 3767-3771, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1357.
https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2017/pdfs/1357.PDF
Ibrahim, O., Skantze, G., Stoll, S., Dellwo, V. (2019) Fundamental Frequency Accommodation in Multi-Party Human-Robot Game Interactions: The Effect of Winning or Losing. Proc. Interspeech 2019, 3980-3984, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2496.
https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2019/pdfs/2496.pdf