Linguistic unit discovery from multimodal inputs in unwritten languages: Summary of the "Speaking Rosetta" JSALT 2017 Workshop

Abstract

We summarize the accomplishments of a multi-disciplinary workshop exploring the computational and scientific issues surrounding the discovery of linguistic units (subwords and words) in a language without orthography. We study the replacement of orthographic transcriptions by images and/or translated text in a well-resourced language to help unsupervised discovery from raw speech.