How do you spell that? A journey through word representations
Greg Kondrak · 2015
Languages are made up of words, which in turn consist of smaller units such as letters, phonemes, morphemes and syllables. Words exist independently of writing, as abstract entities shared among the speakers of a language. Those abstract entities have various representations, which in turn may have different realizations. Orthographic forms, phonetic transcriptions, alternative transliterations, and even sound-wave spectrograms are all related by referring to the same abstract word and they all convey information about its pronunciation. In this talk, I will discuss the lessons learned and insights gained from a number of research projects related to the transliteration task in which I participated.