Papers with phonemic transcription
CantoMap: a Hong Kong Cantonese MapTask Corpus (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | a corpus of connected spoken Hong Kong Cantonese is constructed to study the phonology and semantics of the language. |
| Approach: | They propose to build a corpus of connected spoken Hong Kong Cantonese with phonemic transcription and controlled elicitation tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus contains 768 minutes of recordings and transcripts of forty speakers. |
Happiness is Sharing a Vocabulary: A Study of Transliteration Methods (2026.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | a key problem in multilingual NLP is script barrier, which makes it difficult to share knowledge between languages . a new study shows that transliteration can be useful for languages using non-Latin scripts . |
| Approach: | They propose to use romanization, phonemic transcription, and substitution ciphers to evaluate models . romanization outperforms other input types in 7 out of 8 evaluation settings . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms other input types on three tasks and is the most effective . romanization outperformed other input type in 7 out of 8 evaluation settings . |
Enhancing Cross-lingual Transfer via Phonemic Transcription Integration (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Previous cross-lingual transfer methods are limited to orthographic representation learning via textual scripts. |
| Approach: | They propose a phonemic transcription framework that incorporates phonemic translations as an additional linguistic modality beyond the orthographic transcriptions for cross-lingual transfer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework captures local one-to-one alignment between two different modalities and integrates bilingual dictionaries into multilingual contexts. |