@inproceedings{marjou-2021-oteann,
    title = "{OTEANN}: Estimating the Transparency of Orthographies with an Artificial Neural Network",
    author = "Marjou, Xavier",
    editor = {Vylomova, Ekaterina  and
      Salesky, Elizabeth  and
      Mielke, Sabrina  and
      Lapesa, Gabriella  and
      Kumar, Ritesh  and
      Hammarstr{\"o}m, Harald  and
      Vuli{\'c}, Ivan  and
      Korhonen, Anna  and
      Reichart, Roi  and
      Ponti, Edoardo Maria  and
      Cotterell, Ryan},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP",
    month = jun,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigtyp-1.1",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.sigtyp-1.1",
    pages = "1--9",
    abstract = "To transcribe spoken language to written medium, most alphabets enable an unambiguous sound-to-letter rule. However, some writing systems have distanced themselves from this simple concept and little work exists in Natural Language Processing (NLP) on measuring such distance. In this study, we use an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model to evaluate the transparency between written words and their pronunciation, hence its name Orthographic Transparency Estimation with an ANN (OTEANN). Based on datasets derived from Wikimedia dictionaries, we trained and tested this model to score the percentage of false predictions in phoneme-to-grapheme and grapheme-to-phoneme translation tasks. The scores obtained on 17 orthographies were in line with the estimations of other studies. Interestingly, the model also provided insight into typical mistakes made by learners who only consider the phonemic rule in reading and writing.",
}