Highly Granular Dialect Normalization and Phonological Dialect Translation for Limburgish
Andreas Simons, Stefano De Pascale, Karlien Franco · 2024
We study highly granular dialect normalization and phonological dialect translation on Limburgish, a non-standardized low-resource language with a wide variation in spelling conventions and phonology.We find improvements to the traditional transformer by embedding the geographic coordinates of dialects in dialect normalization tasks and use these geographicallyembedded transformers to translate words between the phonologies of different dialects.These results are found to be consistent with notions in traditional Limburgish dialectology.