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Spoken Term Detection Methods for Sparse Transcription in Very Low-resource Settings
Éric Le Ferrand, Steven Bird, Laurent Besacier
We investigate the efficiency of two very different spoken term detection approaches for transcription when the available data is insufficient to train a robust ASR system. This wo…
Enabling Interactive Transcription in an Indigenous Community
Éric Le Ferrand, Steven Bird, Laurent Besacier
We propose a novel transcription workflow which combines spoken term detection and human-in-the-loop, together with a pilot experiment. This work is grounded in an almost zero-reso…
Bootstrapping Techniques for Polysynthetic Morphological Analysis
William Lane, Steven Bird
Polysynthetic languages have exceptionally large and sparse vocabularies, thanks to the number of morpheme slots and combinations in a word. This complexity, together with a genera…
NLTK: The Natural Language Toolkit
Edward Loper, Steven Bird
NLTK, the Natural Language Toolkit, is a suite of open source program modules, tutorials and problem sets, providing ready-to-use computational linguistics courseware. NLTK covers…