Chapter 1. ITAcotron 2: the Power of Transfer Learning in Expressive TTS Synthesis -- Chapter 2. Improving Automatic Speech Recognition for Non-Native English with Transfer Learning and Language Model Decoding -- Chapter 3. Kabyle ASR Phonological Error and Network Analysis -- Chapter 4. ALP: an Arabic Linguistic Pipeline -- Chapter 5. Arabic Anaphora Resolution System using New Features: Pronominal and Verbal cases -- Chapter 6. A Commonsense-enhanced Document-Grounded Conversational Agent: A Case Study on Task-based Dialogue -- Chapter 7. BloomQDE: Leveraging Bloom's Taxonomy for Question Difficulty Estimation -- Chapter 8. A Comparative Study on Language Models for Dravidian Languages -- Chapter 9. Arabic Named Entity Recognition with a CRF model based on Transformer Architecture -- Chapter 10. Static Fuzzy Bag-of-Words: Exploring Static Universe Matrices for Sentence Embeddings.