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WikiHan: A New Comparative Dataset for Chinese Languages

Abstract

AbstractMost comparative datasets of Chinese varieties are not digital; however, Wiktionary includes a wealth of transcriptions of words from these varieties. The usefulness of these data is limited by the fact that they use a wide range of variety-specific romanizations, making data difficult to compare. The current work collects this data into a single constituent (IPA, or International Phonetic Alphabet) and structured form (TSV) for use in comparative linguistics and Chinese NLP. At the time of writing, the dataset contains 67,943 entries across 8 varieties and Middle Chinese. The dataset is validated on a protoform reconstruction task using an encoder-decoder cross-attention architecture (Meloni et al 2021), achieving an accuracy of 54.11%, a PER (phoneme error rate) of 17.69%, and a FER (feature error rate) of 6.60%.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning and Interdisciplinary and Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — chinese language varieties
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio

Authors

Kalvin Chang , Chenxuan Cui , Youngmin Kim , David R. Mortensen

Topics

Deep Learning > Architectures > Transformers Natural Language Processing > Resources & Methods > Multilingual NLP Natural Language Processing > Resources & Methods > Text Representation Interdisciplinary > Linguistics > Computational Linguistics Machine Learning > Learning Types > Representation Learning Natural Language Processing > Resources & Methods > Language Modeling Artificial Intelligence > Core AI > Knowledge Graphs

Keywords

language modeling chinese language international phonetic alphabet comparative linguistics phonetic transcription phoneme error rate chinese language varieties encoder-decoder cross-attention protoform reconstruction chinese varieties
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