Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili

no code implementations • 29 Oct 2022 • Ebbie Awino, Lilian Wanzare, Lawrence Muchemi, Barack Wanjawa, Edward Ombui, Florence Indede, Owen McOnyango, Benard Okal

Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for under-resourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Kencorpus: A Kenyan Language Corpus of Swahili, Dholuo and Luhya for Natural Language Processing Tasks

no code implementations • 25 Aug 2022 • Barack Wanjawa, Lilian Wanzare, Florence Indede, Owen McOnyango, Edward Ombui, Lawrence Muchemi

The Kencorpus dataset is a text and speech corpus for three languages predominantly spoken in Kenya: Swahili, Dholuo and Luhya.

Machine Translation Part-Of-Speech Tagging +3

Inducing Script Structure from Crowdsourced Event Descriptions via Semi-Supervised Clustering

no code implementations • WS 2017 • Lilian Wanzare, Aless Zarcone, ra, Stefan Thater, Manfred Pinkal

We present a semi-supervised clustering approach to induce script structure from crowdsourced descriptions of event sequences by grouping event descriptions into paraphrase sets (representing event types) and inducing their temporal order.

Clustering Question Answering +1