Papers by Gilles Adda
Establishing degrees of closeness between audio recordings along different dimensions using large-scale cross-lingual models (2024.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to analyze speech representations using pretraining data are difficult to achieve for endangered languages. |
| Approach: | They propose an unsupervised method to examine the level of abstraction in vector representations of speech from a pretrained model to determine their level of abstractness. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is fully unsupervised and could be used in comparative studies on under-documented languages. |
A Very Low Resource Language Speech Corpus for Computational Language Documentation Experiments (L18-1)
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Pierre Godard, Gilles Adda, Martine Adda-Decker, Juan Benjumea, Laurent Besacier, Jamison Cooper-Leavitt, Guy-Noel Kouarata, Lori Lamel, Hélène Maynard, Markus Mueller, Annie Rialland, Sebastian Stueker, François Yvon, Marcely Zanon-Boito
| Challenge: | a new study aims to document endangered languages using a speech corpus . linguistic documentation is limited to the phonetic, lexical and syntactic levels . |
| Approach: | They propose to use a speech corpus to document endangered languages in field . they propose to collect 5k speech utterances aligned to French text translations . |
| Outcome: | The proposed language corpus is used to document endangered languages in field linguists . it is multilingual and contains 5k speech utterances aligned to french text translations - the authors show it can be used in a zero-resource task . |
BULBasaa: A Bilingual Basaa-French Speech Corpus for the Evaluation of Language Documentation Tools (L18-1)
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Fatima Hamlaoui, Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso, Markus Müller, Jonas Engelmann, Gilles Adda, Alex Waibel, Sebastian Stüker
| Challenge: | Approximately 50 hours of Bàsàá speech were collected and then carefully re-spoken and orally translated into French . |
| Approach: | They propose to provide an automatic phonetic transcription using a set of derived phone-like units. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method provides an automatic phonetic transcription using a set of derived phone-like units. |
Parallel Corpora in Mboshi (Bantu C25, Congo-Brazzaville) (L18-1)
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Annie Rialland, Martine Adda-Decker, Guy-Noël Kouarata, Gilles Adda, Laurent Besacier, Lori Lamel, Elodie Gauthier, Pierre Godard, Jamison Cooper-Leavitt
| Challenge: | BULB project aims to provide tools to language documentation and description for unwritten languages . language-based technologies are needed to support the collection of data and to provide linguistic documentation for the languages. |
| Approach: | This paper presents multimodal and parallel data collections in Mboshi, as part of the French-German BULB project. |
| Outcome: | The proposed data collection includes pictures and videos documenting social practices, agriculture, wildlife and plants. |