PanPhon: A Resource for Mapping IPA Segments to Articulatory Feature Vectors

David R. Mortensen, Patrick Littell, Akash Bharadwaj, Kartik Goyal, Chris Dyer, Lori Levin


Abstract
This paper contributes to a growing body of evidence that—when coupled with appropriate machine-learning techniques–linguistically motivated, information-rich representations can outperform one-hot encodings of linguistic data. In particular, we show that phonological features outperform character-based models. PanPhon is a database relating over 5,000 IPA segments to 21 subsegmental articulatory features. We show that this database boosts performance in various NER-related tasks. Phonologically aware, neural CRF models built on PanPhon features are able to perform better on monolingual Spanish and Turkish NER tasks that character-based models. They have also been shown to work well in transfer models (as between Uzbek and Turkish). PanPhon features also contribute measurably to Orthography-to-IPA conversion tasks.
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C16-1328
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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3475–3484
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David R. Mortensen, Patrick Littell, Akash Bharadwaj, Kartik Goyal, Chris Dyer, and Lori Levin. 2016. PanPhon: A Resource for Mapping IPA Segments to Articulatory Feature Vectors. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 3475–3484, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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PanPhon: A Resource for Mapping IPA Segments to Articulatory Feature Vectors (Mortensen et al., COLING 2016)
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