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Quantifying Cognitive Factors in Lexical Decline
David Francis, Ella Rabinovich, Farhan Samir +2
We adopt an evolutionary view on language change in which cognitive factors (in addition to social ones) affect the fitness of words and their success in the linguistic ecosystem.…
Differentiable Allophone Graphs for Language-Universal Speech Recognition
Brian Yan, Siddharth Dalmia, David R. Mortensen +2
Building language-universal speech recognition systems entails producing phonological units of spoken sound that can be shared across languages. While speech annotations at the lan…
Phoneme Recognition through Fine Tuning of Phonetic Representations: a Case Study on Luhya Language Varieties
Kathleen Siminyu, Xinjian Li, Antonios Anastasopoulos +3
Models pre-trained on multiple languages have shown significant promise for improving speech recognition, particularly for low-resource languages. In this work, we focus on phoneme…
Tusom2021: A Phonetically Transcribed Speech Dataset from an Endangered Language for Universal Phone Recognition Experiments
David R. Mortensen, Jordan Picone, Xinjian Li +1
There is growing interest in ASR systems that can recognize phones in a language-independent fashion. There is additionally interest in building language technologies for low-resou…
Evaluating the Morphosyntactic Well-formedness of Generated Texts
Adithya Pratapa, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Shruti Rijhwani +4
Text generation systems are ubiquitous in natural language processing applications. However, evaluation of these systems remains a challenge, especially in multilingual settings. I…