Samantha Wray


2018

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Classification of Closely Related Sub-dialects of Arabic Using Support-Vector Machines
Samantha Wray
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)

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Development of Natural Language Processing Tools for Cook Islands Māori
Rolando Coto Solano | Sally Akevai Nicholas | Samantha Wray
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2018

This paper presents three ongoing projects for NLP in Cook Islands Maori: Untrained Forced Alignment (approx. 9% error when detecting the center of words), speech-to-text (37% WER in the best trained models) and POS tagging (92% accuracy for the best performing model). Included as part of these projects are new resources filling in a gap in Australasian languages, including gold standard POS-tagged written corpora, transcribed speech corpora, time-aligned corpora down to the level of phonemes. These are part of efforts to accelerate the documentation of Cook Islands Maori and to increase its vitality amongst its users.

2015

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Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Dialectal Arabic Speech Transcription
Samantha Wray | Hamdy Mubarak | Ahmed Ali
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing