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

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

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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/

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