Marcus Uneson

Also published as: Markus Uneson


2013

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Tone Restoration in Transcribed Kammu: Decision-List Word Sense Disambiguation for an Unwritten Language
Marcus Uneson
Proceedings of the 19th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2013)

2012

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SMALLWorlds – Multilingual Content-Controlled Monologues
Peter Juel Henrichsen | Marcus Uneson
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)

We present the speech corpus SMALLWorlds (Spoken Multi-lingual Accounts of Logically Limited Worlds), newly established and still growing. SMALLWorlds contains monologic descriptions of scenes or worlds which are simple enough to be formally describable. The descriptions are instances of content-controlled monologue: semantically """"pre-specified"""" but still bearing most hallmarks of spontaneous speech (hesitations and filled pauses, relaxed syntax, repetitions, self-corrections, incomplete constituents, irrelevant or redundant information, etc.) as well as idiosyncratic speaker traits. In the paper, we discuss the pros and cons of data so elicited. Following that, we present a typical SMALLWorlds task: the description of a simple drawing with differently coloured circles, squares, and triangles, with no hints given as to which description strategy or language style to use. We conclude with an example on how SMALLWorlds may be used: unsupervised lexical learning from phonetic transcription. At the time of writing, SMALLWorlds consists of more than 250 recordings in a wide range of typologically diverse languages from many parts of the world, some unwritten and endangered.

2004

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Cross-Disciplinary Integration of Metadata Descriptions
Peter Wittenburg | Greg Gulrajani | Daan Broeder | Marcus Uneson
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)

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A Large Metadata Domain of Language Resources
Daan Broeder | Thierry Declerck | Laurent Romary | Markus Uneson | Sven Strömqvist | Peter Wittenburg
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)