no code implementations • VarDial (COLING) 2022 • Iuliia Zaitova, Badr Abdullah, Dietrich Klakow
Closely related languages are often mutually intelligible to various degrees.
1 code implementation • EMNLP (BlackboxNLP) 2021 • Badr M. Abdullah, Iuliia Zaitova, Tania Avgustinova, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow
We further discuss the implications of our work on modeling speech processing and language similarity with neural networks.
1 code implementation • 16 Jun 2021 • Badr M. Abdullah, Marius Mosbach, Iuliia Zaitova, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow
Our experiments show that (1) the distance in the embedding space in the best cases only moderately correlates with phonological distance, and (2) improving the performance on the word discrimination task does not necessarily yield models that better reflect word phonological similarity.