Improving Cross-Lingual Phonetic Representation of Low-Resource Languages Through Language Similarity Analysis
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| author | Kim, Minu Jang, Kangwook Kim, Hoirin |
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| contents | This paper examines how linguistic similarity affects cross-lingual phonetic representation in speech processing for low-resource languages, emphasizing effective source language selection. Previous cross-lingual research has used various source languages to enhance performance for the target low-resource language without thorough consideration of selection. Our study stands out by providing an in-depth analysis of language selection, supported by a practical approach to assess phonetic proximity among multiple language families. We investigate how within-family similarity impacts performance in multilingual training, which aids in understanding language dynamics. We also evaluate the effect of using phonologically similar languages, regardless of family. For the phoneme recognition task, utilizing phonologically similar languages consistently achieves a relative improvement of 55.6% over monolingual training, even surpassing the performance of a large-scale self-supervised learning model. Multilingual training within the same language family demonstrates that higher phonological similarity enhances performance, while lower similarity results in degraded performance compared to monolingual training. |
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| spellingShingle | Improving Cross-Lingual Phonetic Representation of Low-Resource Languages Through Language Similarity Analysis Kim, Minu Jang, Kangwook Kim, Hoirin Audio and Speech Processing Computation and Language Sound I.2.7; J.5; H.5.5; I.5.4 This paper examines how linguistic similarity affects cross-lingual phonetic representation in speech processing for low-resource languages, emphasizing effective source language selection. Previous cross-lingual research has used various source languages to enhance performance for the target low-resource language without thorough consideration of selection. Our study stands out by providing an in-depth analysis of language selection, supported by a practical approach to assess phonetic proximity among multiple language families. We investigate how within-family similarity impacts performance in multilingual training, which aids in understanding language dynamics. We also evaluate the effect of using phonologically similar languages, regardless of family. For the phoneme recognition task, utilizing phonologically similar languages consistently achieves a relative improvement of 55.6% over monolingual training, even surpassing the performance of a large-scale self-supervised learning model. Multilingual training within the same language family demonstrates that higher phonological similarity enhances performance, while lower similarity results in degraded performance compared to monolingual training. |
| title | Improving Cross-Lingual Phonetic Representation of Low-Resource Languages Through Language Similarity Analysis |
| topic | Audio and Speech Processing Computation and Language Sound I.2.7; J.5; H.5.5; I.5.4 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06810 |