Object-oriented dialects of existing programming languages are often implemented using a preprocessor that translates from the dialect to an equivalent program in the original programming language. Unfortunately, the nature of the preprocessing done by these implementations is hidden in the ad-hoc algorithms of the preprocessors themselves except as demonstrated by examples. This paper describe...

This paper is an attempt to shed light on the effects of modernization, urbanization, monolingual educational system, and mass media as well as the process of globalization on dialect leveling among Persian dialects. In so doing, the first part of the paper elaborates on the relationship between globalization and sociolinguistics, and on the concept of standardization. Also, it discusses some ...

We observed that human listeners distinguish one dialect from another by paying special attention to some particular phonetic and/or phonotactic patterns. Motivated by this observation, we propose a technique that emulates this process. We explore a target-aware lattice rescoring (TALR) process that revises the n-gram statistics in a lattice with target dialect information. We then derive n-gra...

This research suggests a method for machine translation among two Kurdish dialects. We chose the two widely spoken dialects, Kurmanji and Sorani, which are considered to be mutually unintelligible. Also, despite being spoken by about 30 million people in different countries, Kurdish is among less-resourced languages. The research used bi-dialectal dictionaries and showed that the lack of parall...

Several adaptation approaches have been proposed in an e ort to improve the speech recognition performance in mismatched conditions. However, the application of these approaches had been mostly constrained to the speaker or channel adaptation tasks. In this paper, we rst investigate the e ect of mismatched dialects between training and testing speakers in an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) s...

This study examined cross-dialectal differences on the perception of Greek vowels. Speakers of Standard Modern Greek (SMG) and two dialectal areas (Crete, Kozani), all with five vowels in their systems, chose best exemplar locations (prototypes) for Greek vowels embedded in a carrier sentence spoken by a speaker of their dialect. The results showed that SMG, Cretan and Kozani vowels were well s...

At Eurospeech 97 we presented a perception experiment on identifying regional variants of High German from digit strings in telephone speech (Draxler, Burger 1997). This experiment has been modified as follows: i) use of high quality speech recordings from the RVG1 (Burger, Schiel, 1998) corpus instead of SpeechDat telephone speech, ii) a geographically precise dialect determination of the spea...

We built a system for the automatic creation of a text-based topic hierarchy, meant to be used in a geographically defined community. This poses two main problems. First, the appearance of both standard language and a community-related dialect, demanding that dialect words should be as much as possible corrected to standard words, and second, the automatic hierarchic clustering of texts by thei...