Improving Accent Conversion with Reference Encoder and End-To-End Text-To-Speech

no code implementations • 19 May 2020 • Wenjie Li, Benlai Tang, Xiang Yin, Yushi Zhao, Wei Li, Kang Wang, Hao Huang, Yuxuan Wang, Zejun Ma

Accent conversion (AC) transforms a non-native speaker's accent into a native accent while maintaining the speaker's voice timbre.

A Corpus of Adpositional Supersenses for Mandarin Chinese

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Siyao Peng, Yang Liu, YIlun Zhu, Austin Blodgett, Yushi Zhao, Nathan Schneider

Adpositions are frequent markers of semantic relations, but they are highly ambiguous and vary significantly from language to language.

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Adpositional Supersenses for Mandarin Chinese

no code implementations • 6 Dec 2018 • YIlun Zhu, Yang Liu, Siyao Peng, Austin Blodgett, Yushi Zhao, Nathan Schneider

This study adapts Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses (SNACS) annotation to Mandarin Chinese and demonstrates that the same supersense categories are appropriate for Chinese adposition semantics.

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