Learning to Pronounce Chinese Without a Pronunciation Dictionary (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | EM method achieves a test-set accuracy of 71%, vector-based method achieve 81%. |
| Approach: | They propose a program that learns to pronounce Chinese text in Mandarin without a pronunciation dictionary. |
| Outcome: | The proposed program deciphers Chinese text in Mandarin without a pronunciation dictionary. |
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