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  NL Seminar-Grapheme-to-Phoneme Models for (Almost) Any Language

  Fri, Jul 08, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

  Information Sciences Institute

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  Speaker: Aliya Deri, USC/ISI
  
  Talk Title: Grapheme-to-Phoneme Models for (Almost) Any Language
  
  Series: Natural Language Seminar
  
  Abstract: Grapheme-to-phoneme (g2p) models are rarely available in low-resource languages, as the creation of training and evaluation data is expensive and time-consuming. We use Wiktionary to obtain more than 650k word-pronunciation pairs in more than 500 languages. We then develop phoneme and language distance metrics based on phonological and linguistic knowledge; applying those, we adapt g2p models for high-resource languages to create models for related low-resource languages. We provide results for models for 229 adapted languages.
  
  
  Biography: Aliya Deri is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at USC, advised by Professor Kevin Knight.
  
  Host: Xing Shi and Kevin Knight
  
  More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
  
  

  Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Peter Zamar

  Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/