Prerequisite Readings for Animal Language Processing Research

Human vs Non-human Animal Language

1. Hockett: The origin of speech
2. Harley: The pscychology of language (chapter)
3. Berthet: Animal linguistics primer
4. Erica: Overcoming bias in the comparison of human language and animal communication

Selected Papers by ACL2

1. Transcribing Vocal Communications of Domestic Shiba lnu Dogs
2. Phonetic and Lexical Discovery of Canine Vocalization
3. Toward Automatic Discovery of a Canine Phonetic Alphabet
4. Dog2vec: Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Canine Vocal Representation
5. DogSpeak: A Canine Vocalization Classification Dataset
6. EmotionalCanines: A Dataset for Analysis of Arousal and Valence in Dog Vocalization
7. A Data-driven Approach to the Longitudinal Study of Canine Vocal Pattern Development
8. Towards Distance-aware Synthetic Audio Mixtures for Universal Sound Separation
9. Unsupervised discovery and analysis of the vocal repertoires and patterns of select corvid species

Signal/Audio Processing

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Scientific Writing and Presentation

• How to write a good research paper
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