Results of the Second SIGMORPHON Shared Task on Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion

Lucas F.E. Ashby, Travis M. Bartley, Simon Clematide, Luca Del Signore, Cameron Gibson, Kyle Gorman, Yeonju Lee-Sikka, Peter Makarov, Aidan Malanoski, Sean Miller, Omar Ortiz, Reuben Raff, Arundhati Sengupta, Bora Seo, Yulia Spektor, Winnie Yan


Abstract
Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion is an important component in many speech technologies, but until recently there were no multilingual benchmarks for this task. The second iteration of the SIGMORPHON shared task on multilingual grapheme-to-phoneme conversion features many improvements from the previous year’s task (Gorman et al. 2020), including additional languages, a stronger baseline, three subtasks varying the amount of available resources, extensive quality assurance procedures, and automated error analyses. Four teams submitted a total of thirteen systems, at best achieving relative reductions of word error rate of 11% in the high-resource subtask and 4% in the low-resource subtask.
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2021.sigmorphon-1.13
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Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
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August
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2021
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Online
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Garrett Nicolai, Kyle Gorman, Ryan Cotterell
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SIGMORPHON
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SIGMORPHON
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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115–125
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10.18653/v1/2021.sigmorphon-1.13
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Lucas F.E. Ashby, Travis M. Bartley, Simon Clematide, Luca Del Signore, Cameron Gibson, Kyle Gorman, Yeonju Lee-Sikka, Peter Makarov, Aidan Malanoski, Sean Miller, Omar Ortiz, Reuben Raff, Arundhati Sengupta, Bora Seo, Yulia Spektor, and Winnie Yan. 2021. Results of the Second SIGMORPHON Shared Task on Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion. In Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pages 115–125, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Results of the Second SIGMORPHON Shared Task on Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion (Ashby et al., SIGMORPHON 2021)
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