9 papers
The Geometry of Lee-Yang Tensors
Jake Hofgard
We provide a geometric description of Lee-Yang tensors, building upon several recent results of Bravyi, Gosset, Liu, and Wong. By applying tools from complex Perron-Frobenius theor…
Quantifying Consonant Contributions to Word Intelligibility via Acoustic Masking
Eunjung Yeo, Kwanghee Choi, Krupaben Kothadia +4
Consonants contribute unequally to whether a word is understood. Given the limited time available for therapy, ranking consonants by contribution to intelligibility helps prioritiz…
Phone Segmentation and Recognition through Phonological Activation Mapping
Shikhar Bharadwaj, Kwanghee Choi, Stephen McIntosh +8
Phone segmentation and recognition are inherently related tasks, yet modern approaches typically model them separately. We argue that phonetic structure is already latent in the re…
Harnessing Linguistic Dissimilarity for Language Generalization on Unseen Low-Resource Varieties
Jinju Kim, Haeji Jung, Youjeong Roh +2
Low-resource language varieties used by specific groups remain neglected in the development of Multilingual Language Models. A great deal of cross-lingual research focuses on inter…
An Empirical Recipe for Universal Phone Recognition
Shikhar Bharadwaj, Chin-Jou Li, Kwanghee Choi +4
Phone recognition (PR) is a key enabler of multilingual and low-resource speech processing tasks, yet robust performance remains elusive. Highly performant English-focused models d…
Adapting Self-Supervised Speech Representations for Cross-lingual Dysarthria Detection in Parkinson's Disease
Abner Hernandez, Eunjung Yeo, Kwanghee Choi +12
The limited availability of dysarthric speech data makes cross-lingual detection an important but challenging problem. A key difficulty is that speech representations often encode…
Happiness is Sharing a Vocabulary: A Study of Transliteration Methods
Haeji Jung, Jinju Kim, Kyungjin Kim +2
Transliteration has emerged as a promising means to bridge the gap between various languages in multilingual NLP, showing promising results especially for languages using non-Latin…
Carrot and Stick: Inducing Self-Motivation with Positive & Negative Feedback
Jimin Sohn, Jeihee Cho, Junyong Lee +3
Positive thinking is thought to be an important component of self-motivation in various practical fields such as education and the workplace. Previous work, including sentiment tra…
Mitigating the Linguistic Gap with Phonemic Representations for Robust Cross-lingual Transfer
Haeji Jung, Changdae Oh, Jooeon Kang +4
Approaches to improving multilingual language understanding often struggle with significant performance gaps between high-resource and low-resource languages. While there are effor…