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A Very Low Resource Language Speech Corpus for Computational Language Documentation Experiments
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Godard, P.; Adda, G; Adda-Decker, Martine; Benjumea, J; Besacier, Laurent; Cooper-Leavitt, J; Kouarata, G-N; Lamel, L; Maynard, H; Müller, M.; Rialland, A; Stüker, S.; Yvon, F.; Zanon-Boito, M
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In: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01807093 ; Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Pi, May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan (2018)
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International audience ; Most speech and language technologies are trained with massive amounts of speech and text information. However, most of the world languages do not have such resources and some even lack a stable orthography. Building systems under these almost zero resource conditions is not only promising for speech technology but also for computational language documentation. The goal of computational language documentation is to help field linguists to (semi-)automatically analyze and annotate audio recordings of endangered, unwritten languages. Example tasks are automatic phoneme discovery or lexicon discovery from the speech signal. This paper presents a speech corpus collected during a realistic language documentation process. It is made up of 5k speech utterances in Mboshi (Bantu C25) aligned to French text translations. Speech transcriptions are also made available: they correspond to a non-standard graphemic form close to the language phonology. We detail how the data was collected, cleaned and processed and we illustrate its use through a zero-resource task: spoken term discovery. The dataset is made available to the community for reproducible computational language documentation experiments and their evaluation.
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[INFO.INFO-CL]Computer Science [cs]/Computation and Language [cs.CL]; field linguistics; language documentation; spoken term discovery; unwritten languages; word segmentation; zero resource technologies
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URL: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01807093/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01807093/file/lrec2018_mboshi_final-3.pdf
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01807093
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Adaptor Grammars for the Linguist: Word Segmentation Experiments for Very Low-Resource Languages
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In: Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01910757 ; Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Oct 2018, Bruxelles, Belgium. pp.32 - 42, ⟨10.18653/v1/P17⟩ (2018)
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Parallel Corpora in Mboshi (Bantu C25, Congo-Brazzaville)
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In: 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01710043 ; 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018), ELRA, May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan (2018)
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LIG-AIKUMA: a Mobile App to Collect Parallel Speech for Under-Resourced Language Studies
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In: Interspeech 2016 proceedings ; Interspeech 2016 (short demo paper) ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01350062 ; Interspeech 2016 (short demo paper), Sep 2016, San-Francisco, France (2016)
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BULB: Breaking the Unwritten Language Barrier
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In: Procedia Computer Science ; Computational Methods for Endangered Language Documentation and Description ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01836496 ; Computational Methods for Endangered Language Documentation and Description, May 2016, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. pp.8-14, ⟨10.1016/j.procs.2016.04.023⟩ (2016)
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Breaking the unwritten language barrier: the BULB project
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In: SLTU-2016 5th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01428027 ; SLTU-2016 5th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages, May 2016, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. ⟨10.1016/j.procs.2016.04.023⟩ (2016)
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Preliminary Experiments on Unsupervised Word Discovery in Mboshi
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In: Interspeech 2016 proceedings ; Interspeech 2016 ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01350119 ; Interspeech 2016, Sep 2016, San-Francisco, United States (2016)
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Innovative technologies for under-resourced language documentation: The BULB Project
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In: CCURL proceedings ; Workshop CCURL 2016 - Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages - LREC ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01350124 ; Workshop CCURL 2016 - Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages - LREC, May 2016, Portoroz, Slovenia (2016)
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Breaking the unwritten language barrier: the BULB project
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In: SLTU-2016 5th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01428027 ; SLTU-2016 5th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages, May 2016, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. ⟨10.1016/j.procs.2016.04.023⟩ (2016)
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Innovative technologies for under-resourced language documentation: The BULB Project
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In: CCURL proceedings ; Workshop CCURL 2016 - Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages - LREC ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01350124 ; Workshop CCURL 2016 - Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages - LREC, May 2016, Portoroz, Slovenia (2016)
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BULB: Breaking the Unwritten Language Barrier
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In: Procedia Computer Science ; Computational Methods for Endangered Language Documentation and Description ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01836496 ; Computational Methods for Endangered Language Documentation and Description, May 2016, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. pp.8-14, ⟨10.1016/j.procs.2016.04.023⟩ (2016)
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