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Computational measures of linguistic variation: a study of Arabic varieties
… discusses a new methodology for measuring the variation between linguistic varieties. I compare five Arabic varieties – Modern Standard Arabic MSA, Gulf Arabic GA, Levantine Arabic LA, Egyptian Arabic EA, and Moroccan Arabic MA – considering both lexical and pronunciation variation. I introduce …
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Feature-based pronunciation modeling for automatic speech recognition
… is characterized by great variability in word pronunciation, including many variants that differ grossly from dictionary prototypes. This is one factor in the poor performance of automatic speech recognizers on conversational speech. One approach to handling this variation consists of expanding …