Acoustic Modelling for Under-Resourced Languages

Automatic speech recognition systems have so far been developed only for very few languages out of the 4,000-7,000 existing ones. In this thesis we examine methods to rapidly create acoustic models in new, possibly under-resourced languages, in a time and cost effective manner. For this we examine the use of multilingual models, the application of articulatory features across languages, and the automatic discovery of word-like units in unwritten languages

English-to-Malay Speaking Dictionary (E2MSpeaktionary)

This report is to provide necessary information pertaining to the Final Year Project carried out. In Chapter 1, we discussed about background, problem statement as well as objective and scope of study/work. This tells basically what the project is all about, the target user, and the areas I attended to throughout the project. Chapter 2 is brief information about all information, literatures, theories, books, research results, and journals that I reviewed earlier. In Chapter 3, the methodology used is prototype method and all relevant project works are listed within the chapter. For Chapter 4, I disclosed my discussions and finding from my research in order to execute the project from time to time while in Chapter 5 is my conclusion and recommendation on the project and relevant matters

ミャンマー語テキストの形式手法による音節分割、正規化と辞書順排列

国立大学法人長岡技術科学大

English-to-Malay Speaking Dictionary (E2MSpeaktionary)

This report is to provide necessary information pertaining to the Final Year Project carried out. In Chapter 1, we discussed about background, problem statement as well as objective and scope of study/work. This tells basically what the project is all about, the target user, and the areas I attended to throughout the project. Chapter 2 is brief information about all information, literatures, theories, books, research results, and journals that I reviewed earlier. In Chapter 3, the methodology used is prototype method and all relevant project works are listed within the chapter. For Chapter 4, I disclosed my discussions and finding from my research in order to execute the project from time to time while in Chapter 5 is my conclusion and recommendation on the project and relevant matters

English-to-Malay Speaking Dictionary (E2MSpeaktionary)

This report is to provide necessary information pertaining to the Final Year Project carried out. In Chapter 1, we discussed about background, problem statement as well as objective and scope of study/work. This tells basically what the project is all about, the target user, and the areas I attended to throughout the project. Chapter 2 is brief information about all information, literatures, theories, books, research results, and journals that I reviewed earlier. In Chapter 3, the methodology used is prototype method and all relevant project works are listed within the chapter. For Chapter 4, I disclosed my discussions and finding from my research in order to execute the project from time to time while in Chapter 5 is my conclusion and recommendation on the project and relevant matters

A computer-assisted pproach to the comparison of mainland southeast Asian languages

This cumulative thesis is based on three separate projects based on a computer-assisted language comparison (CALC) framework to address common obstacles to studying the history of Mainland Southeast Asian (MSEA) languages, such as sparse and non-standardized lexical data, as well as an inadequate method of cognate judgments, and to provide caveats to scholars who will use Bayesian phylogenetic analysis. The first project provides a format that standardizes the sound inventories, regulates language labels, and clarifies lexical items. This standardized format allows us to merge various forms of raw data. The format also summarizes information to assist linguists in researching the relatedness among words and inferring relationships among languages. The second project focuses on increasing the transparency of lexical data and cognate judg- ments with regard to compound words. The method enables the annotation of each part of a word with semantic meanings and syntactic features. In addition, four different conversion methods were developed to convert morpheme cognates into word cognates for input into the Bayesian phylogenetic analysis. The third project applies the methods used in the first project to create a workflow by merging linguistic data sets and inferring a language tree using a Bayesian phylogenetic algorithm. Further- more, the project addresses the importance of integrating cross-disciplinary studies into historical linguistic research. Finally, the methods we proposed for managing lexical data for MSEA languages are discussed and summarized in six perspectives. The work can be seen as a milestone in reconstructing human prehistory in an area that has high linguistic and cultural diversity

North East Indian linguistics 7 (NEIL 7)

This volume includes papers presented at the seventh and eighth meetings of the North East Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS), held in Guwahati, India, in 2012 and 2014. As with previous conferences, these meetings were held at the Don Bosco Institute in Guwahati, Assam, and hosted in collaboration with Gauhati University. This volume continues the NEILS tradition of papers by both local and international scholars, with half of them by linguists from universities in the North East, several of whom are native speakers of the languages they are writing about. In addition we have papers written by scholars from France, Japan, Russia, Switzerland and USA. The selection of papers presented in this volume encompass languages from the Sino-Tibetan, Austroasiatic, Indo-European, and Tai-Kadai language families, and describe aspects of the languages� phonology, morphosyntax, and history