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WhisBERT: Multimodal Text-Audio Language Modeling on 100M Words
Lukas Wolf, Greta Tuckute, Klemen Kotar +4
Training on multiple modalities of input can augment the capabilities of a language model. Here, we ask whether such a training regime can improve the quality and efficiency of the…
Revisiting the Optimality of Word Lengths
Tiago Pimentel, Clara Meister, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox +2
Zipf (1935) posited that wordforms are optimized to minimize utterances' communicative costs. Under the assumption that cost is given by an utterance's length, he supported this cl…
Quantifying the redundancy between prosody and text
Lukas Wolf, Tiago Pimentel, Evelina Fedorenko +4
Prosody -- the suprasegmental component of speech, including pitch, loudness, and tempo -- carries critical aspects of meaning. However, the relationship between the information co…