- 期刊
- OpenAccess
Development and Testing of Transcription Software for a Southern Min Spoken Corpus
並列摘要
The usual challenges of transcribing spoken language are compounded for Southern Min (Taiwanese) because it lacks a generally accepted orthography. This study reports the development and testing of software tools for assisting such transcription. Three tools are compared, each representing a different type of interface with our corpus-based Southern Min lexicon (Tsay, 2007): our original Chinese character-based tool (Segmentor), the first version of a romanization-based lexicon entry tool called Adult-Corpus Romanization Input Program (ACRIP 1.0), and a revised version of ACRIP that accepts both character and romanization inputs and integrates them with sound files (ACRIP 2.0). In two experiments, naive native speakers of Southern Min were asked to transcribe passages from our corpus of adult spoken Southern Min (Tsay and Myers, in progress), using one or more of these tools. Experiment 1 showed no disadvantage for romanization-based compared with character-based transcription even for untrained transcribers. Experiment 2 showed significant advantages of the new mixed-system tool (ACRIP 2.0) over both Segmentor and ACRIP 1.0, in both speed and accuracy of transcription. Experiment 2 also showed that only minimal additional training brought dramatic improvements in both speed and accuracy. These results suggest that the transcription of non-Mandarin Sinitic languages benefits from flexible, integrated software tools.
參考文獻
被引用紀錄
延伸閱讀
- Lin, M. S., Chen, C. P., & Chen, H. H. (2006). An Approach to Using the Web as a Live Corpus for Spoken Transliteration Name Access. 中文計算語言學期刊, 11(3), 183-200. https://doi.org/10.30019/IJCLCLP.200609.0001
- Shih, C. L., & Shen, C. A. (2005). A Corpus-Based Investigation into Student Technical Translation. 翻譯學研究集刊, (), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.29786/STI.200512.0001
- Hong, J. F. (2010). Corpus-driven Linguistic Approaches to Sense Prediction [doctoral dissertation, National Taiwan University]. Airiti Library. https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU.2010.02757
- Tsay, J. S. (2007). Construction and Automatization of a Minnan Child Speech Corpus with some Research Findings. 中文計算語言學期刊, 12(4), 411-441. https://doi.org/10.30019/IJCLCLP.200712.0004
- 蔣明撰 (2012). Translating Collocation using Monolingual and Parallel Corpus [master's thesis, National Tsing Hua University]. Airiti Library. https://doi.org/10.6843/NTHU.2012.00510