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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29061| Publication type: | Working paper – expertise – study |
| Title: | Dialect transfer for Swiss German speech translation |
| Authors: | Paonessa, Claudio Schraner, Yanick Deriu, Jan Milan Hürlimann, Manuela Vogel, Manfred Cieliebak, Mark |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arXiv.2310.09088 10.21256/zhaw-29061 |
| Extent: | 15 |
| Issue Date: | 13-Oct-2023 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | arXiv |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Computation and language; Artificial intelligence |
| Subject (DDC): | 410.285: Computational linguistics 430: German |
| Abstract: | This paper investigates the challenges in building Swiss German speech translation systems, specifically focusing on the impact of dialect diversity and differences between Swiss German and Standard German. Swiss German is a spoken language with no formal writing system, it comprises many diverse dialects and is a low-resource language with only around 5 million speakers. The study is guided by two key research questions: how does the inclusion and exclusion of dialects during the training of speech translation models for Swiss German impact the performance on specific dialects, and how do the differences between Swiss German and Standard German impact the performance of the systems? We show that dialect diversity and linguistic differences pose significant challenges to Swiss German speech translation, which is in line with linguistic hypotheses derived from empirical investigations. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/29061 |
| License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: Attribution - Non commercial - Share alike 4.0 International |
| Departement: | School of Engineering |
| Organisational Unit: | Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) |
| Published as part of the ZHAW project: | End-to-End Low-Resource Speech Translation for Swiss German Dialects |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Engineering |
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Paonessa, C., Schraner, Y., Deriu, J. M., Hürlimann, M., Vogel, M., & Cieliebak, M. (2023). Dialect transfer for Swiss German speech translation. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.09088
Paonessa, C. et al. (2023) Dialect transfer for Swiss German speech translation. arXiv. Available at: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.09088.
C. Paonessa, Y. Schraner, J. M. Deriu, M. Hürlimann, M. Vogel, and M. Cieliebak, “Dialect transfer for Swiss German speech translation,” arXiv, Oct. 2023. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.09088.
PAONESSA, Claudio, Yanick SCHRANER, Jan Milan DERIU, Manuela HÜRLIMANN, Manfred VOGEL und Mark CIELIEBAK, 2023. Dialect transfer for Swiss German speech translation. arXiv
Paonessa, Claudio, Yanick Schraner, Jan Milan Deriu, Manuela Hürlimann, Manfred Vogel, and Mark Cieliebak. 2023. “Dialect Transfer for Swiss German Speech Translation.” arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.09088.
Paonessa, Claudio, et al. Dialect Transfer for Swiss German Speech Translation. arXiv, 13 Oct. 2023, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.09088.
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