Papers by Claudiu Musat
A Swiss German Dictionary: Variation in Speech and Writing (2020.lrec-1)
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Larissa Schmidt, Lucy Linder, Sandra Djambazovska, Alexandros Lazaridis, Tanja Samardžić, Claudiu Musat
| Challenge: | Besides standard German, Swiss German is spoken in about two thirds of Switzerland. |
| Approach: | They propose a dictionary containing normalized forms of common Swiss German words paired with Swiss German phonetic transcriptions to alleviate the uncertainty associated with this diversity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dictionary is the first to combine spontaneous translation and phonetic transcriptions in large-scale, scalable phoneme to grapheme model that generates credible novel Swiss German writings. |
Machine Translation of Low-Resource Spoken Dialects: Strategies for Normalizing Swiss German (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Using character-based neural MT, we normalize Swiss German input to address regional diversity. |
| Approach: | They propose to use character-based neural MT to normalize Swiss German input and phrase-based statistical MT for a low-resource family of dialects. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system achieves 36% BLEU score when translating from the Bernese dialect. |