3 papers
cs.CL2023
Information-Theoretic Characterization of Vowel Harmony: A Cross-Linguistic Study on Word Lists
Julius Steuer, Badr Abdullah, Johann-Mattis List +1
We present a cross-linguistic study that aims to quantify vowel harmony using data-driven computational modeling. Concretely, we define an information-theoretic measure of harmonic…
cs.CL2023
An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Self-supervised Discrete Representations of Speech
Badr M. Abdullah, Mohammed Maqsood Shaik, Bernd Möbius +1
Self-supervised representation learning for speech often involves a quantization step that transforms the acoustic input into discrete units. However, it remains unclear how to cha…
cs.CL2023
Analyzing the Representational Geometry of Acoustic Word Embeddings
Badr M. Abdullah, Dietrich Klakow
Acoustic word embeddings (AWEs) are vector representations such that different acoustic exemplars of the same word are projected nearby in the embedding space. In addition to their…