Doctor Dominique Estival

Doctor Dominique Estival

Adjunct Fellow,
MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development

Biography

Qualifications

  • PhD University of Pennsylvania

Professional Memberships

  • ALTA (2000 - 2018)
  • TAL (1990)
  • ACL (1990)

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development

Contact

Email: D.Estival@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone: (02) 9772 6596
Mobile: 0401618947
Location: 3.G.06
Bankstown

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Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Cassidy, S., Estival, D. and Cox, F. (2017), 'Case study : the AusTalk corpus', Handbook of Linguistic Annotation, Springer 9789402408799.
  • Estival, D., Farris, C. and Molesworth, B. (2016), 'Conclusions and future research', Aviation English: A Lingua Franca for Pilots and Air Traffic Controllers, Routledge 9781138022386.
  • Estival, D. (2016), 'Aviation English : a linguistic description', Aviation English: A Lingua Franca for Pilots and Air Traffic Controllers, Routledge 9781138022386.
  • Estival, D. and Molesworth, B. (2016), 'Native English speakers and EL2 pilots : an experimental study', Aviation English: A Lingua Franca for Pilots and Air Traffic Controllers, Routledge 9781138022386.
  • Estival, D. and Farris, C. (2016), 'Aviation English as a lingua franca', Aviation English: A Lingua Franca for Pilots and Air Traffic Controllers, Routledge 9781138022386.
  • Estival, D. (2015), 'AusTalk and Alveo : an Australian corpus and human communication science collaboration down under', Language Production, Cognition, and the Lexicon, Springer 9783319080420.

Journal Articles

  • Dissanayaka, Y., Molesworth, B. and Estival, D. (2023), 'Miscommunication in commercial aviation : the role of accent, speech rate, information density, and politeness markers', International Journal of Aerospace Psychology, vol 33, no 1 , pp 79 - 97.
  • Dwyer, A., De Almeida Neto, A., Estival, D., Li, W., Lam-Cassettari, C. and Antoniou, M. (2021), 'Suitability of text-based communications for the delivery of psychological therapeutic services to rural and remote communities : scoping review', JMIR Mental Health, vol 8, no 2 .
  • Wu, Q., Molesworth, B. and Estival, D. (2019), 'An investigation into the factors that affect miscommunication between pilots and air traffic controllers in commercial aviation', The International Journal of Aerospace Psychology, vol 29, no 1-2 , pp 53 - 63.
  • Weiss, B., Estival, D. and Stiefelhagen, U. (2018), 'Non-experts' perceptual dimensions of voice assessed by using direct comparisons', Acta Acustica United with Acustica, vol 104 , pp 174 - 184.
  • Cassidy, S. and Estival, D. (2017), 'Supporting accessibility and reproducibility in language research in the Alveo virtual laboratory', Computer Speech and Language, vol 45 , pp 375 - 391.
  • Molesworth, B. and Estival, D. (2015), 'Miscommunication in general aviation : the influence of external factors on communication errors', Safety Science, vol 73 , pp 73 - 79.
  • Suominen, H., Johnson, M., Zhou, L., Sanchez, P., Sirel, R., Basilakis, J., Hanlen, L., Estival, D., Dawson, L. and Kelly, B. (2015), 'Capturing patient information at nursing shift changes : methodological evaluation of speech recognition and information extraction', Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, vol 22, no e1 , pp 48 - 66.
  • Raymond, J., Molesworth, B., Burgess, M. and Estival, D. (2014), 'Improving communication in general aviation through the use of noise cancelling headphones', Safety Science, vol 62 , pp 499 - 504.
  • Dawson, L., Johnson, M., Suominen, H., Basilakis, J., Sanchez, P., Estival, D., Kelly, B. and Hanlen, L. (2014), 'A usability framework for speech recognition technologies in clinical handover : a pre-implementation study', Journal of Medical Systems, vol 38, no 6 .
  • Estival, D., Bow, C., Henderson, J., Kelly, B., Laughren, M., Mayer, E., Molla, D., Mrowa-Hopkins, C., Nordlinger, R., Rieschild, V., Schalley, A., Stanley, A. and Vaughan, J. (2014), 'Australia loves language puzzles : the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO)', Language and Linguistics Compass, vol 8, no 12 , pp 659 - 670.
  • Estival, D. and Pennycook, A. (2011), 'L'Academie francaise and Anglophone language ideologies', Language Policy, vol 10, no 4 , pp 325 - 341.
  • Estival, D. and Molesworth, B. (2009), 'Radio miscommunication : EL2 pilots in the Australian general aviation environment', Linguistics and the Human Sciences, vol 5, no 3 , pp 351 - 378.
  • Estival, D. and Molesworth, B. (2009), 'A study of EL2 pilots' radio communication in the general aviation environment', Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, vol 32, no 3 , pp 241 - 2416.

Conference Papers

  • Ahmed, B., Ballard, K., Burnham, D., Sirojan, T., Mehmood, H., Estival, D., Baker, E., Cox, F., Arciuli, J., Benders, T., Demuth, K., Kelly, B., Diskin-Holdaway, C., Shahin, M., Sethu, V., Epps, J., Lee, C. and Ambikairajah, E. (2021), 'AusKidTalk : an auditory-visual corpus of 3- to 12-year-old Australian children's speech', INTERSPEECH (Conference), Brno, Czech Republic.
  • Estival, D. (2019), 'Aviation English training for native English speakers : challenges and suggestions', International Civil Aviation English Association. Conference, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Cassidy, S. and Estival, D. (2018), 'Annotation contributions : sharing derived research data', Workshop on Replicability and Reproducibility of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language, Miyazaki, Japan.
  • Estival, D. and Peretokina, V. (2018), 'Dialogue acts in the AusTalk Map Tasks', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Duong, L., Afshar, H., Estival, D., Pink, G., Cohen, P. and Johnson, M. (2018), 'Active learning for deep semantic parsing', Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Duong, L., Afshar, H., Estival, D., Pink, G., Cohen, P. and Johnson, M. (2017), 'Multilingual semantic parsing and code-switching', Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Estival, D., Cassidy, S., Cox, F. and Burnham, D. (2014), 'AusTalk : an audio-visual corpus of Australian English', International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  • Estival, D., Cassidy, S., Verspoor, K., MacKinlay, A. and Burnham, D. (2014), 'Integrating UIMA with Alveo, a human communication science virtual laboratory', Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for HLT, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Cassidy, S., Estival, D., Jones, T., Sefton, P., Burnham, D. and Burghold, J. (2014), 'The Alveo Virtual Laboratory : a web based repository API', Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  • Sefton, P., Estival, D., Cassidy, S., Burnham, D. and Berghold, J. (2014), 'The Human Communication Science Virtual Lab : a repository microclimate in a rapidly evolving research-ecosystem', Open Repositories, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Burnham, D., Estival, D., Cassidy, S., Sefton, P. and Verspoor, K. (2014), 'Two platforms for research in human communication science : the AusTalk Corpus and the Alveo Virtual Laboratory', International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques. Oriental Chapter Conference, Phuket, Thailand.
  • Estival, D., Henderson, J., Laughren, M., Molla, D., Bow, C., Nordlinger, R., Rieschild, V., Schalley, A., Stanley, A. and Mrowa-Hopkins, C. (2013), 'Learning from OzCLO, the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad', Workshop on Teaching Natural Language processing, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • Burnham, D., Estival, D., Fazio, S., Viethen, J., Cox, F., Dale, R., Cassidy, S., Epps, J., Togneri, R., Wagner, M., Kinoshita, Y., Gocke, R., Arciuli, J., Onslow, M., Lewis, T., Butcher, A. and Hajek, J. (2011), 'Building an audio-visual corpus of Australian English: Large corpus collection with an economical portable and replicable Black Box', Interspeech 2011, Florence, Italy.
  • Wagner, M., Tran, D., Togneri, R., Rose, P., Powers, D., Onslow, M., Loakes, D., Lewis, T., Kuratate, T., Kinoshita, Y., Kemp, N., Ishihara, S., Ingram, J., Hajek, J., Grayden, D., Gocke, R., Fletcher, J., Estival, D., Epps, J., Dale, R., Cutler, A., Cox, F., Chetty, G., Cassidy, S., Butcher, A., Burnham, D., Bird, S., Best, C., Bennamoun, M., Arciuli, J. and Ambikairajah, E. (2010), 'The Big Australian Speech Corpus (The Big ASC)', 13th International Australasian Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2010, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Estival, D. and Molesworth, B. (2010), 'Improving radio communication in General Aviation : a preliminary investigation', Australian Aviation Psychology Association. International Symposium, Sydney, N.S.W..

Previous Projects

Title: Virtual Laboratory - Above and Beyond Speech, Language and Music: A Virtual Lab for Human Communication Science (HCS vLab) [via Uni Melb]
Funder:
  • Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (non ACRG)
  • University of Western Sydney
  • FLINDERS UNSW UMELB UC UWA USYD ANU RMIT UNE MQ LTU UTAS
  • Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association
  • Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation Limited
Western Researchers: Denis Burnham and Dominique Estival
Years: 2012-12-11 - 2017-12-31
ID: P00021140
Title: 12th Australasian Language Technology Association Meeting (ALTA), including Australasian Document Computing Symposium and Confluence 2015 for Computing, Language and Music Sciences
Funder:
  • Department of Trade and Investment Regional Infrastructure and Services
Western Researchers: Dominique Estival, Laurence Park and Kate Stevens
Years: 2015-05-08 - 2015-12-09
ID: P00022741
Title: Conversational Australian English: Analysing Speech Acts in AusTalk Map Tasks [via ANU CoE]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Dominique Estival
Years: 2016-05-01 - 2017-11-30
ID: P00023476
Title: NeCTAR NCRIS Virtual Laboratory Operations - Alveo Improved Uptake & Alveo Data Handling and Annotations [via Uni Melb]
Funder:
  • Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (non ACRG)
Western Researchers: Denis Burnham and Dominique Estival
Years: 2016-05-25 - 2017-12-31
ID: P00023205
Title: Speech to Text
Funder:
  • University of Western Sydney
Western Researchers: Maree Johnson and Dominique Estival
Years: 2014-05-10 - 2015-04-30
ID: P00022241
Title: A study into the delivery of e-mental health services to remote and rural farming communities
Funder:
  • SafeWork NSW
Western Researchers: Mark Antoniou, Dominique Estival, Weicong Li and Anne Dwyer
Years: 2019-04-01 - 2020-09-30
ID: P00025827
Title: Training packages and arrangements for English Language Proficiency assessors. [via University of Melbourne]
Funder:
  • Civil Aviation Safety Authority
Western Researchers: Dominique Estival
Years: 2020-12-15 - 2023-09-30
ID: P00026934

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