Papers by Lucy Linder
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. |
Automatic Creation of Text Corpora for Low-Resource Languages from the Internet: The Case of Swiss German (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Despite the small pool of speakers, there are still few natural language processing corpora, studies or tools for Swiss German. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a web scraper to generate the largest Swiss German text corpus . they show that the tool can be applied to other low-resource languages as well . |
| Outcome: | The proposed tool significantly improves language modeling in Swiss German, the authors show . |