@inproceedings{thaine-penn-2017-vowel,
title = "Vowel and Consonant Classification through Spectral Decomposition",
author = "Thaine, Patricia and
Penn, Gerald",
editor = "Faruqui, Manaal and
Schuetze, Hinrich and
Trancoso, Isabel and
Yaghoobzadeh, Yadollah",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Subword and Character Level Models in {NLP}",
month = sep,
year = "2017",
address = "Copenhagen, Denmark",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W17-4112",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-4112",
pages = "82--91",
abstract = "We consider two related problems in this paper. Given an undeciphered alphabetic writing system or mono-alphabetic cipher, determine: (1) which of its letters are vowels and which are consonants; and (2) whether the writing system is a vocalic alphabet or an abjad. We are able to show that a very simple spectral decomposition based on character co-occurrences provides nearly perfect performance with respect to answering both question types.",
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%T Vowel and Consonant Classification through Spectral Decomposition
%A Thaine, Patricia
%A Penn, Gerald
%Y Faruqui, Manaal
%Y Schuetze, Hinrich
%Y Trancoso, Isabel
%Y Yaghoobzadeh, Yadollah
%S Proceedings of the First Workshop on Subword and Character Level Models in NLP
%D 2017
%8 September
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Copenhagen, Denmark
%F thaine-penn-2017-vowel
%X We consider two related problems in this paper. Given an undeciphered alphabetic writing system or mono-alphabetic cipher, determine: (1) which of its letters are vowels and which are consonants; and (2) whether the writing system is a vocalic alphabet or an abjad. We are able to show that a very simple spectral decomposition based on character co-occurrences provides nearly perfect performance with respect to answering both question types.
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%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-4112
%P 82-91
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[Vowel and Consonant Classification through Spectral Decomposition](https://aclanthology.org/W17-4112) (Thaine & Penn, SCLeM 2017)
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