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Transfer learning from speech to music: towards language-sensitive emotion recognition models

Gómez Cañón, Juan Sebastián; Cano, Estefanía; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964-; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975- (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)

In this study, we address emotion recognition using unsupervised feature learning from speech data, and test its transferability to music. Our approach is to pre-train models using speech in English and Mandarin, and then ...
The Developing world’s "new middle classes": implications for political research

Wietzke, Frank Borge; Sumner, Andy (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

Rapid middle-income growth over the past decades has led to increasing public interest in the developing world’s “new middle classes”. However, these transformations have received less attention in the comparative ...
The Contingent character of interest groups-political parties’ interaction

Chaqués Bonafont, Laura; Cristancho, Camilo; Muñoz Márquez, Luz; Rincón García, Leire (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

This article examines the conditions under which interest groups interact with political parties. Existing research finds that interest group–political party interactions in most western democracies have become more open ...
Weapons prohibitions through immanent critique: NGOs as emancipatory and (de)securitising actors in security governance

Petrova, Margarita (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

The article examines the roles of NGOs in banning cluster munitions that resulted in the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions and the campaign against landmines in the 1990s. It argues that NGOs have managed to move questions ...
Naming and praising in humanitarian norm development

Petrova, Margarita (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

To examine the early development of humanitarian norm cascades, the author focuses on the processes that led to the adoption of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty and the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. Even though major ...