2 papers
cs.CL2026
Linguistically Informed Evaluation of Multilingual ASR for African Languages
Fei-Yueh Chen, Lateef Adeleke, C. M. Downey
Word Error Rate (WER) mischaracterizes ASR models' performance for African languages by combining phonological, tone, and other linguistic errors into a single lexical error. By co…
cs.CL2021
A Masked Segmental Language Model for Unsupervised Natural Language Segmentation
C. M. Downey, Fei Xia, Gina-Anne Levow +1
Segmentation remains an important preprocessing step both in languages where "words" or other important syntactic/semantic units (like morphemes) are not clearly delineated by whit…