Papers by Eric Meinhardt
Constraint-based Learning of Phonological Processes (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Phonological processes govern the way speech sounds in natural languages change depending on context . a novel approach to learning phonological processes from related utterances is proposed . |
| Approach: | They propose an unsupervised approach to learning phonological processes from related utterances . they encode the problem into Boolean constraints that enable data efficiency and fast inference . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves high accuracy at interactive speeds on phonology problems and datasets. |
Speakers enhance contextually confusable words (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent work has found that natural languages are shaped by pressures for efficient communication. |
| Approach: | They develop a measure of contextual confusability during word recognition based on psychoacoustic data and apply it to naturalistic speech corpora. |
| Outcome: | The proposed measure of confusability suggests that speakers alter productions to make contextually more confused words easier to understand. |