Pierre Godard

Breaking the Unwritten Language Barrier: The BULB Project

2016 · Procedia Computer Science

The project Breaking the Unwritten Language Barrier (BULB), which brings together linguists and computer scientists, aims at supporting linguists in documenting unwritten languages. In order to achieve this we develop tools tailored to the needs …

A Very Low Resource Language Speech Corpus for Computational Language Documentation Experiments

2018

Most speech and language technologies are trained with massive amounts of speech and text information.However, most of the world languages do not have such resources and some even lack a stable orthography.Building systems under these …

XNMT: The eXtensible Neural Machine Translation Toolkit

2018 · arXiv (Cornell University)

This paper describes XNMT, the eXtensible Neural Machine Translation toolkit. XNMT distin- guishes itself from other open-source NMT toolkits by its focus on modular code design, with the purpose of enabling fast iteration in research …