Word Generator info & updates
Info
Word Generator is an application that serves to model candidate words that might belong to a given language based on phonotactic rules learnt from an existing sample dictionary.
Explanatory note (pdf document) »
The underlying algorithm and evaluation results were presented in this paper:
Shcherbakov, A., Vylomova, E. and Thieberger, N., 2016. Phonotactic Modeling of Extremely Low Resource Languages. In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2016 (pp. 84-93).
The code is available in a
github repository here.
Support contacts
Andreas Scherbakov and
Nick Thieberger
Most recent updates
- v0.3 10 Nov 2017
- Auto detection of vowels is added (using Sukhotin's algorithm)
- Precision evalation feature is added
- Links to WG page with particular parameter settings are enabled.
- Gradual control for on-the-fly pruning feature is added.
- Web page layout is made a bit more mobile device friendly.
- v0.3 1 Jun 2015
- v1.1 2 Oct 2015
- Vowel confidence level calculation
- An Explanatory Note added