Linguistic Unit Discovery from Multi-Modal Inputs in Unwritten Languages: Summary of the "Speaking Rosetta" JSALT 2017 Workshop

Odette Scharenborg, Laurent Besacier, Alan W. Black, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Florian Metze, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Stüker, Pierre Godard, Markus Müller, Lucas Ondel, Shruti Palaskar, Philip Arthur, Francesco Ciannella, Mingxing Du, Elin Larsen, Danny Merkx, Rachid Riad, Liming Wang, Emmanuel Dupoux

Abstract: We summarize the accomplishments of a multi-disciplinary workshop exploring the computational and scientific issues surrounding the discovery of linguistic units (subwords and words) in a language without orthography. We study the replacement of orthographic transcriptions by images and/or translated text in a well-resourced language to help unsupervised discovery from raw speech.