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PolyIPA -- Multilingual Phoneme-to-Grapheme Conversion Model

Computation and Language 2024-12-13 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

This paper presents PolyIPA, a novel multilingual phoneme-to-grapheme conversion model designed for multilingual name transliteration, onomastic research, and information retrieval. The model leverages two helper models developed for data augmentation: IPA2vec for finding soundalikes across languages, and similarIPA for handling phonetic notation variations. Evaluated on a test set that spans multiple languages and writing systems, the model achieves a mean Character Error Rate of 0.055 and a character-level BLEU score of 0.914, with particularly strong performance on languages with shallow orthographies. The implementation of beam search further improves practical utility, with top-3 candidates reducing the effective error rate by 52.7\% (to CER: 0.026), demonstrating the model's effectiveness for cross-linguistic applications.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2412.09102,
  title  = {PolyIPA -- Multilingual Phoneme-to-Grapheme Conversion Model},
  author = {Davor Lauc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.09102},
  year   = {2024}
}
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