language documentation

A Summary of the First Workshop on Language Technology for Language Documentation and Revitalization

Despite recent advances in natural language processing and other language technology, the application of such technology to language documentation and conservation has been limited. In August 2019, a workshop was held at Carnegie Mellon University in …

Universal Phone Recognition with a Multilingual Allophone System

Practical Comparable Data Collection for Low-Resource Languages via Images

Part-of-Speech Tagging on an Endangered Language: a Parallel Griko-Italian Resource

Most work on part-of-speech (POS) tagging is focused on high resource languages, or examines low-resource and active learning settings through simulated studies. We evaluate POS tagging techniques on an actual endangered language, Griko. We present a …

Tied Multitask Learning for Neural Speech Translation

We explore multitask models for neural translation of speech, augmenting them in order to reflect two intuitive notions. First, we introduce a model where the second task decoder receives information from the decoder of the first task, since …

An Unsupervised Probability Model for Speech-to-Translation Alignment of Low-Resource Languages

For many low-resource languages, spoken language resources are more likely to be annotated with translations than with transcriptions. Translated speech data is potentially valuable for documenting endangered languages or for training speech …

An Attentional Model for Speech Translation Without Transcription