Theron S. Wang — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Toward Automatic Discovery of a Canine Phonetic Alphabet

Theron S. Wang, Xingyuan Li, Hridayesh Lekhak, Tuan Minh Dang, Mengyue Wu, Kenny Q. Zhu

ACL 2025long

Dogs communicate intelligently but little is known about the phonetic properties of their vocalization communication. For the first time, this paper presents an iterative algorithm inspired by human phonetic discovery, which is based on minimal pairs that determine phonemes by distinguishing differe…

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2024

Phonetic and Lexical Discovery of Canine Vocalization

Theron S. Wang, Xingyuan Li, Chunhao Zhang, Mengyue Wu, Kenny Q. Zhu

EMNLP 2024finding

This paper attempts to discover communication patterns automatically within dog vocalizations in a data-driven approach, which breaks the barrier previous approaches that rely on human prior knowledge on limited data. We present a self-supervised approach with HuBERT, enabling the accurate classific…

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