Papers by Eleanor Chodroff
ZIPA: A family of efficient models for multilingual phone recognition (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | IPA transcriptions capture major articulatory contrasts in speech sounds, including the voicing status, place of articulation, manner of voicing, and tongue positions. |
| Approach: | They present ZIPA, a family of efficient speech models that advances the state-of-the-art performance of crosslinguistic phone recognition. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing phone recognition systems on 17,000+ hours of normalized phone transcriptions and a novel evaluation set capturing unseen languages and sociophonetic variation. |
On the Role of Context in Reading Time Prediction (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a new perspective on how readers integrate context during reading time prediction is presented . a recent study shows that the proportion of variance in reading times explained by context is smaller when context is represented by the orthogonalized predictor. |
| Approach: | They propose a technique where they project surprisal onto the orthogonal complement of frequency. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method shows that the proportion of variance in reading times explained by context is smaller when context is represented by the orthogonalized predictor. |
The ManDi Corpus: A Spoken Corpus of Mandarin Regional Dialects (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods of remote speech data collection were limited by the telephone bandwidth and were therefore of low quality for phonetic research. |
| Approach: | They introduce a spoken corpus of regional Mandarin dialects and Standard Mandarin. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus contains 357 recordings (about 9.6 hours) of monosyllabic words, disyllable words, short sentences, a short passage and a poem, produced in standard Mandarin and in one of six regional Mandarin dialects. |
A Corpus for Large-Scale Phonetic Typology (2020.acl-main)
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Elizabeth Salesky, Eleanor Chodroff, Tiago Pimentel, Matthew Wiesner, Ryan Cotterell, Alan W Black, Jason Eisner
| Challenge: | Existing multilingual speech corpora have limited data in many languages . existing corpus is limited to a small number of languages with available data . |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale phonetic typology corpus with phoneme-level labels and phoneme alignments in 690 readings spanning 635 languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus covers 635 languages and includes acoustic-phonetic measures of vowels and sibilants. |
Predicting Declension Class from Form and Meaning (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | phonological form and meaning of nouns can provide imperfect clues, but they can also be indicative of grammatical gender. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to measure how much information can be gleamed from knowing the form and/or meaning of nouns. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method provides additional quantitative support for a classic linguistic finding that form and meaning are relevant for the classification of nouns into declensions. |
VoxCommunis: A Corpus for Cross-linguistic Phonetic Analysis (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Until recently, the movement towards large-scale cross-linguistic phonetic research has been limited. |
| Approach: | They propose to use the VoxCommunis Corpus to facilitate cross-linguistic phonetic research . corpus contains acoustic models, pronunciation lexicons, word- and phone-level alignments . |
| Outcome: | The VoxCommunis Corpus contains acoustic models, pronunciation lexicons, word- and phone-level alignments . the corpus is free to download and use under a CC0 license . |
UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology (2022.lrec-1)
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Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Omer Goldman, Salam Khalifa, Nizar Habash, Witold Kieraś, Gábor Bella, Brian Leonard, Garrett Nicolai, Kyle Gorman, Yustinus Ghanggo Ate, Maria Ryskina, Sabrina Mielke, Elena Budianskaya, Charbel El-Khaissi, Tiago Pimentel, Michael Gasser, William Abbott Lane, Mohit Raj, Matt Coler, Jaime Rafael Montoya Samame, Delio Siticonatzi Camaiteri, Esaú Zumaeta Rojas, Didier López Francis, Arturo Oncevay, Juan López Bautista, Gema Celeste Silva Villegas, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Adam Ek, David Guriel, Peter Dirix, Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Andrey Scherbakov, Aziyana Bayyr-ool, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Roberto Zariquiey, Karina Sheifer, Sofya Ganieva, Hilaria Cruz, Ritván Karahóǧa, Stella Markantonatou, George Pavlidis, Matvey Plugaryov, Elena Klyachko, Ali Salehi, Candy Angulo, Jatayu Baxi, Andrew Krizhanovsky, Natalia Krizhanovskaya, Elizabeth Salesky, Clara Vania, Sardana Ivanova, Jennifer White, Rowan Hall Maudslay, Josef Valvoda, Ran Zmigrod, Paula Czarnowska, Irene Nikkarinen, Aelita Salchak, Brijesh Bhatt, Christopher Straughn, Zoey Liu, Jonathan North Washington, Yuval Pinter, Duygu Ataman, Marcin Wolinski, Totok Suhardijanto, Anna Yablonskaya, Niklas Stoehr, Hossep Dolatian, Zahroh Nuriah, Shyam Ratan, Francis M. Tyers, Edoardo M. Ponti, Grant Aiton, Aryaman Arora, Richard J. Hatcher, Ritesh Kumar, Jeremiah Young, Daria Rodionova, Anastasia Yemelina, Taras Andrushko, Igor Marchenko, Polina Mashkovtseva, Alexandra Serova, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Maria Nepomniashchaya, Fausto Giunchiglia, Eleanor Chodroff, Mans Hulden, Miikka Silfverberg, Arya D. McCarthy, David Yarowsky, Ryan Cotterell, Reut Tsarfaty, Ekaterina Vylomova
| Challenge: | The Universal Morphology project provides broad-coverage instantiated morphological inflection tables for hundreds of diverse languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a language-independent feature schema for rich morphological annotation and a type-level resource of annotated data in diverse languages realizing that schema. |
| Outcome: | The proposed schema has added 66 new languages, including 24 endangered languages. |
Phonetic Segmentation of the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | ''big data'' does not exist for the majority of the world's languages . a corpus of audited phonetic transcriptions and phone-level alignments is available for free . |
| Approach: | They present a corpus of audited phonetic transcriptions and phone-level alignments from the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive . they discuss the utility of the corpus for general research and pedagogy in crosslinguistic phonetics . |
| Outcome: | The VoxAngeles corpus improves the original corpus for phonetic typology and word- and phone duration measurements. |