Martijn Wieling

Neural Representations for Modeling Variation in English Speech.

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Variation in speech is often represented and investigated using phonetic transcriptions, but transcribing speech is time-consuming and error prone. To create reliable representations of speech independent from phonetic transcriptions, we investigate the extraction of acoustic …

Post-editing Effort of a Novel With Statistical and Neural Machine Translation

2018 · Frontiers in Digital Humanities

We conduct the first experiment in the literature in which a novel is translated automatically and then post-edited by professional literary translators. Our case study is Warbreaker, a popular fantasy novel originally written in English, …