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Evaluating Speech-to-Text Systems with PennSound
Jonathan Wright, Mark Liberman, Neville Ryant +1
A random sample of nearly 10 hours of speech from PennSound, the world's largest online collection of poetry readings and discussions, was used as a benchmark to evaluate several c…
Improved POS tagging for spontaneous, clinical speech using data augmentation
Seth Kulick, Neville Ryant, David J. Irwin +2
This paper addresses the problem of improving POS tagging of transcripts of speech from clinical populations. In contrast to prior work on parsing and POS tagging of transcribed sp…
A Part-of-Speech Tagger for Yiddish
Seth Kulick, Neville Ryant, Beatrice Santorini +2
We describe the construction and evaluation of a part-of-speech tagger for Yiddish. This is the first step in a larger project of automatically assigning part-of-speech tags and sy…
Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English: First Parsing Results and Analysis
Seth Kulick, Neville Ryant, Beatrice Santorini
We present the first parsing results on the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English (PPCEME), a 1.9 million word treebank that is an important resource for research in…
Automatic recognition of suprasegmentals in speech
Jiahong Yuan, Neville Ryant, Xingyu Cai +2
This study reports our efforts to improve automatic recognition of suprasegmentals by fine-tuning wav2vec 2.0 with CTC, a method that has been successful in automatic speech recogn…
Parsing Early Modern English for Linguistic Search
Seth Kulick, Neville Ryant
We investigate the question of whether advances in NLP over the last few years make it possible to vastly increase the size of data usable for research in historical syntax. This b…