Findings of the iwslt 2023 evaluation campaign

M Agarwal, S Agarwal, A Anastasopoulos, L Bentivogli… - 2023 - um.edu.mt
This paper reports on the shared tasks organized by the 20th IWSLT Conference. The
shared tasks address 9 scientific challenges in spoken language translation: simultaneous …

ASR Language Resources for Faroese

CH Mena, A Simonsen, J Guðnason - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
The aim of this work is to present a set of novel language resources in Faroese suitable for
the field of Automatic Speech Recognition including: an ASR corpus comprised of 109 hours …

Language Report Maltese

M Rosner, C Borg - European Language Equality: A Strategic Agenda for …, 2023 - Springer
This chapter is a highly abbreviated version of an update (Rosner and C. Borg 2022) to the
META-NET White Paper on Maltese (Rosner and Joachimsen 2012). Like its predecessor …

Malta national language technology platform: a vision for enhancing Malta's official languages using machine translation

K Cortis, J Attard, D Spiteri - Proceedings of the First Workshop on …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
In this paper we introduce a vision towards establishing the Malta National Language
Technology Platform; an ongoing effort that aims to provide a basis for enhancing Malta's …

What can a corpus tell us about phonetic and phonological variation?

A Vella, S Grech - The Routledge handbook of corpus linguistics, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter considers key facets of corpus linguistics (CL) design and development in
relation to the phonetic and phonological analysis of spoken interaction in all its variability …

Analysis of Data Augmentation Methods for Low-Resource Maltese ASR

A DeMarco, C Mena, A Gatt, C Borg, A Williams… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recent years have seen an increased interest in the computational speech processing of
Maltese, but resources remain sparse. In this paper, we consider data augmentation …

[PDF][PDF] The Applicability of Wav2Vec2 and Whisper for Low-Resource Maltese ASR

A Williams, A Demarco, C Borg - Proc. 2nd Annual Meeting of the …, 2023 - isca-archive.org
Maltese is a low-resource language with limited digital tools, including automatic speech
recognition. With very limited datasets of Maltese speech available, a recent project, MASRI …

European Language Equality (ELE)-report on the Maltese language

C Borg, M Rosner - 2022 - um.edu.mt
This report is an update to The Maltese Language in the Digital Age (Rosner and
Joachimsen, 2012b), a previous report that formed part of the META-NET White Paper …