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20192022
most citedBuilding Machine Translation Systems for the Next Thousand Languages

43 citations · 58 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

eess.AS2022

UserLibri: A Dataset for ASR Personalization Using Only Text

Theresa Breiner, Swaroop Ramaswamy, Ehsan Variani +6

Personalization of speech models on mobile devices (on-device personalization) is an active area of research, but more often than not, mobile devices have more text-only data than…

cs.CL2022★ 43 cited

Building Machine Translation Systems for the Next Thousand Languages

Ankur Bapna, Isaac Caswell, Julia Kreutzer +21

In this paper we share findings from our effort to build practical machine translation (MT) systems capable of translating across over one thousand languages. We describe results i…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Scaling Language Model Size in Cross-Device Federated Learning

Jae Hun Ro, Theresa Breiner, Lara McConnaughey +4

Most studies in cross-device federated learning focus on small models, due to the server-client communication and on-device computation bottlenecks. In this work, we leverage vario…

cs.CL2021

Mining Large-Scale Low-Resource Pronunciation Data From Wikipedia

Tania Chakraborty, Manasa Prasad, Theresa Breiner +2

Pronunciation modeling is a key task for building speech technology in new languages, and while solid grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) mapping systems exist, language coverage can stand t…

cs.CL2020

Language ID in the Wild: Unexpected Challenges on the Path to a Thousand-Language Web Text Corpus

Isaac Caswell, Theresa Breiner, Daan van Esch +1

Large text corpora are increasingly important for a wide variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, and automatic language identification (LangID) is a core technology nee…

cs.HC2019★ 9 cited

Writing Across the World's Languages: Deep Internationalization for Gboard, the Google Keyboard

Daan van Esch, Elnaz Sarbar, Tamar Lucassen +6

This technical report describes our deep internationalization program for Gboard, the Google Keyboard. Today, Gboard supports 900+ language varieties across 70+ writing systems, an…

cs.CL2019★ 5 cited

Automatic Keyboard Layout Design for Low-Resource Latin-Script Languages

Theresa Breiner, Chieu Nguyen, Daan van Esch +1

We present our approach to automatically designing and implementing keyboard layouts on mobile devices for typing low-resource languages written in the Latin script. For many speak…