Learning diphone-based segmentation |
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Authors: | Daland Robert Pierrehumbert Janet B |
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Institution: | Department of Linguistics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543, USA. rdaland@humnet.ucla.edu |
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Abstract: | This paper reconsiders the diphone-based word segmentation model of Cairns, Shillcock, Chater, and Levy (1997) and Hockema (2006), previously thought to be unlearnable. A statistically principled learning model is developed using Bayes' theorem and reasonable assumptions about infants' implicit knowledge. The ability to recover phrase-medial word boundaries is tested using phonetic corpora derived from spontaneous interactions with children and adults. The (unsupervised and semi-supervised) learning models are shown to exhibit several crucial properties. First, only a small amount of language exposure is required to achieve the model's ceiling performance, equivalent to between 1 day and 1 month of caregiver input. Second, the models are robust to variation, both in the free parameter and the input representation. Finally, both the learning and baseline models exhibit undersegmentation, argued to have significant ramifications for speech processing as a whole. |
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Keywords: | Language acquisition Word segmentation Bayesian Unsupervised learning Computational model |
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