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Richard Sproat

4 accepted papers

2023

Bi-Phone: Modeling Inter Language Phonetic Influences in Text

ACL 2023long

A large number of people are forced to use the Web in a language they have low literacy in due to technology asymmetries. Written text in the second language (L2) from such users often contains a large number of errors that are influenced by their native language (L1).We propose a method to mine pho…

2020

Semi-supervised URL Segmentation with Recurrent Neural Networks Pre-trained on Knowledge Graph Entities

COLING 2020main

Breaking domain names such as openresearch into component words open and research is important for applications like Text-to-Speech synthesis and web search. We link this problem to the classic problem of Chinese word segmentation and show the effectiveness of a tagging model based on Recurrent Neur…