Papers by Yuri Vasilevski
Bi-Phone: Modeling Inter Language Phonetic Influences in Text (2023.acl-long)
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Abhirut Gupta, Ananya B. Sai, Richard Sproat, Yuri Vasilevski, James Ren, Ambarish Jash, Sukhdeep Sodhi, Aravindan Raghuveer
| Challenge: | Increasingly, people are forced to use the Web in languages they have low literacy in due to technology asymmetries. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to mine phoneme confusions for pairs of L1 and L2 and plug them into a generative model for synthetically producing corrupted L2 text. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method corrupts the popular language understanding benchmark SuperGLUE and improves performance. |