Faculty of Humanities
L.C.W. Pols
prof.dr.ir. L.C.W. (Louis) Pols
Capaciteitsgroep Taalwetenschap University of Amsterdam


Spuistraat 210
1012 VT Amsterdam

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0205252194

http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/l.c.w.pols/
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Phonetic Sciences (Fonetiek)

In this beautiful 17th century canal house the Institute of Phonetic Sciences (IFA) was located until September 2006, now the Bungehuis (Spuistraat 210) is our home. The institute is part of the Department of Linguistics within the Faculty of Humanities. Louis Pols was a full professor in Phonetic Sciences at the University of Amsterdam since October 1982 and retired in April 2006. Under his supervision, so far 26 Ph.D. theses have been completed. His research concentrates on various fields of Phonetic Sciences. For many more details, see his personal website. He gave his farewell lecture on June 3rd, 2005 (see below), his successor since June 1st, 2005 is Paul Boersma.

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Personal website of Louis Pols

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Farewell Lecture June 3rd 2005

On June 3rd, 2005 Louis Pols gave his Farewell Lecture in the Aula of the University of Amsterdam. On that occasion he received the honorary medal of the University of Amsterdam out of the hands of the chairman of the Board of the University, dr. Sijbolt Noorda. The text of his lecture (in Dutch with summary sheets in English) is available as a pdf-file, just as the English translation.

Text of farewell lecture (in Dutch)

English translation of farewell lecture

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ISCA medal, Sept. 2001

At the biennial international speech conference Eurospeech 2001 in Aalborg, Denmark, Louis Pols received the ISCA medal for scientific achievement from ISCA's President Roger Moore. ISCA is the International Speech Communication Association, which originated from ESCA (E for European), of which Louis Pols was one of the founders in 1988 and its second president (1993-1997). At Interspeech 2008 in Brisbane, Australia he was nominated ISCA Fellow.

International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

Research Institute ACLC

This is the administrative research environment in which Louis Pols performs his research.

Research Institute ACLC


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Research activities of Louis Pols

Research topics 

  1. General Phonetics
  2. As an emeritus professor I will spend most of my research time to co-supervise projects (see below) and to complete various publications and conference contributions. I will continue to serve on various committees. I was strongly involved in the conference organization of Interspeech 2007 in Antwerp ( http://www.interspeech2007.org/ ).

Currently involved in the following NWO-funded research projects  

  • Member Working Group 'Flanking Activities' of STEVIN since Nov. 2006
  • Member Scientific Advisory Council of DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) since May 2007

Currently (co)supervisor of the following PhD projects  

  • Automatic evaluation of voice and speech rehabilitation following treatment of head and neck cancer.

Editorships

  • Member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Speech Communication, published by Elsevier Science B.V.

Awards

  • ISCA medal for scientificachievement awarded by the International Speech Communication Association at Eurospeech 2001 in September 2001 in Aalborg, Denmark
  • UvA honorary medal presented by chairman of the Board of the University dr. Sijbolt Noorda on the occasion of farewell lecture on June 3rd, 2005.
  • Electesd as ISCA Fellow at Interspeech 2008 in Brisbane, Australia.

Selected publications in English

  • Pols, L.C.W. (2009), “Phonetics: Consistency and variability”, In: Frontiers in Phonetics and Speech Science, G. Fant, H. Fujisaki and J. Shen (Eds.), pp. 349-357, Beijing: The Commercial Press.
  • Stelt, J.M. van der, Wempe, T.G. & Pols, L.C.W. (2008), “Comparing deaf and hearing Dutch infants: Changes in the vowel space in the first 2 years”, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 22(10-11), 835-844.
  • Jacobi, I. , Pols, L. & Stroop, J. (2007), “Dutch diphthong and long vowel realizations as changing socioeconomic markers”, Proc. ICPhS XVI, Saarbrücken, pp. 1481-1484.
  • Jongmans, P., Wempe, T., Hilgers, F., Pols, L. & As-Brooks, C. van (2007), “Acoustic correlates of the voiced-voiceless distinction in Dutch normal and tracheoesophageal speakers”, Proc. ICPhS XVI, Saarbrücken, pp.1997-2000.
  • Wesseling, W., Son, R.J.J.H. van & Pols, L.C.W. (2007), “The influence of masking words on the prediction of TRPs in a shadowed dialog”, Proc. Interspeech 2007, Antwerp , pp. 1254-1257.
  • Pols, L.C.W. & Son, R.J.J.H. van (2006), “Speech dynamics: Acoustic manifestations and perceptual consequences”, In: P. Divenyi, S. Greenberg & G. Meyer (Eds.), Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception, NATO Science Series 1, Life and Behavioural Sciences – Vol. 374, IOS Press, 71-80.
  • Wieringen, A. van & Pols, L.C.W. (2006), “Perception of highly dynamic properties in speech”, In: S. Greenberg & W.A. Ainsworth (Eds.), Listening to speech. An Auditory Perspective, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah , NJ , 21-38.
  • Pols, L.C.W. (2005), "Samenspraak. Acquiring and implementing phonetic knowledge", IFA Proceedings 26, 7-23, see website http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/Proceedings/IFA-Proceedings.html (farewell lecture).
  • Pols, L.C.W. & Weenink, D.J.M. (2005), "Vowel recognition and (adaptive) speaker normalization", Proc. SPECOM 2005, 10th International Conference Speech andComputer, Patras, Greece, Vol. 1, pp. 17-24.
  • Pols, L.C.W. (2004), "Current developments in phonetics", In: J. Slifka, S. Manual and M. Matthies (Eds.), Conference Proceedings 'From Sound to Sense: 50+ Years of Discoveries in Speech Communication', MIT Cambridge, pp. B52-61, see website http://www.rle.mit.edu/soundtosense .
  • Pols, L.C.W. (2001), “Acquiring and implementing phonetic knowledge”, Proc. Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 1, K3-K6 (keynote ISCA-medal paper).
  • Pols, L.C.W. (1999), “Flexible, robust, and efficient human speech processing versus present-day speech technology”, Proc. XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS’00, San Fransisco, CA, Vol. 1, 9-16 (keynote paper).
  • Son, R.J.J.H. van & Pols, L.C.W. (1999), “An acoustic description of consonant reduction”, Speech Communication 28(2), 125-140.
  • Son, R.J.J.H. van & Pols, L.C.W. (1999), “Perisegmental speech improves consonant and vowel identification”, Speech Communication 29(1), 1-22.
  • Pols, L.C.W. (1998), “Psycho-acoustics and speech perception”, In: K. Ponting (Ed.), Computational models of speech pattern processing, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 10-17.
  Selected publications in other languages

  • Pols, L.C.W. (2002), “Spreken en verstaan - spraakklanken”, In: R. Appel, A. Baker, K. Hengeveld, F. Kuiken & P. Muysken (Eds.), Taal en taalwetenschap, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 245-258.
  • Pols, L.C.W. (1996), “Spraaktechnologie: Een inleiding”, NAG-journaal 134, 3-9.
  • Pols, L.C.W. & Wieringen, A. van (1996), “Meten aan spraak”, Verslag Woudschoten Conferentie 1993, Natuurkunde uit de kunst, 92-93.