3 papers
cs.CL2026
Letters hide the truth from our eyes: English homophones have meaningfully different phonetic realizations
Yu-Hsiang Tseng, Mirjam T. C. Ernestus, Louis F. M. ten Bosch +1
The distribution of spoken word duration of English homophones is known to co-vary with frequency of use. This study investigates whether other aspects of the phonetic realization…
cs.CL2024
Word-specific tonal realizations in Mandarin
Yu-Ying Chuang, Melanie J. Bell, Yu-Hsiang Tseng +1
The pitch contours of Mandarin two-character words are generally understood as being shaped by the underlying tones of the constituent single-character words, in interaction with a…
cs.CL2024
Resolving Regular Polysemy in Named Entities
Shu-Kai Hsieh, Yu-Hsiang Tseng, Hsin-Yu Chou +2
Word sense disambiguation primarily addresses the lexical ambiguity of common words based on a predefined sense inventory. Conversely, proper names are usually considered to denote…