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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.CL2024
Targeted Multilingual Adaptation for Low-resource Language Families
C. M. Downey, Terra Blevins, Dhwani Serai +2
The "massively-multilingual" training of multilingual models is known to limit their utility in any one language, and they perform particularly poorly on low-resource languages. Ho…
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…