Translating sound adjectives by collectively teaching abstract representations
Mark Cartwright, Bryan Pardo · 2014
Correctly translating adjectives that describe sound (e.g. “heavy”, “tinny”, “dry”, “soothing”) can be a difficult task [Zannoni 1997]. Resources such as the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) [Oxford Univer-sity Press 1992], typically list the “audio sense ” for only a small subset of the words commonly used to describe sound. For example, “warm ” is a very commonly used sound adjective and the OED does