2026

Lea Fischbach, Alfred Lameli, Lucie Flek. 2026.  Beyond Accuracy: Analyzing Dialect Confusion in Automatic Speech-Based Dialect Classification. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective (DialRes), pages 93-103, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). doi: 10.63317/5f65nkr6qreo.

Caroline Kleen, Lea Fischbach, Akbar Karimi, Lucie Flek, Alfred Lameli. 2026.  Speaker Normalization via Voice Conversion Reveals a Human–Machine Dissociation in Dialect Classification. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective (DialRes), pages 177-187, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). doi: 10.63317/3sqk7nxsikhp.

Tobias Bystrich, Lukas Hamm, Maria Hassan, Lea Fischbach, Lucie Flek, Akbar Karimi. 2026.  Can LLM Agents Identify Spoken Dialects like a Linguist?. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective (DialRes), pages 83-92, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). doi: 10.63317/27m2tbgjcat8.

2025

Lea Fischbach, Akbar Karimi, Alfred Lameli, and Lucie Flek. 2025. EDAudio: Easy Data Augmentation for Dialectal Audio. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI era, pages 363-368, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.

Lea Fischbach, Akbar Karimi, Caroline Kleen, Alfred Lameli, and Lucie Flek. 2025. Improving Low-Resource Dialect Classification Using Retrieval-based Voice Conversion. In Proc. Interspeech 2025, pages 2780-2784, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-1017.

Lea Fischbach, Caroline Kleen, Lucie Flek, and Alfred Lameli. 2025. Does Preprocessing Matter? An Analysis of Acoustic Feature Importance in Deep Learning for Dialect Classification. In Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025), pages 159–169, Tallinn, Estonia. University of Tartu Library.

2024

Lea Fischbach. 2024. A Comparative Analysis of Speaker Diarization Models: Creating a Dataset for German Dialectal Speech. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics (Field Matters 2024), pages 43–51, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Fischbach, Lea, Ganswindt, Brigitte, Lang, Vanessa & Beitel, Dennis. 2024. Dialekte in Hessen. Das Informationsportal zur Sprachgeographie. In: Sprachspuren: Berichte aus dem Deutschen Sprachatlas 4(5). https://doi.org/10.57712/2024-05