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Streaming Punctuation for Long-form Dictation with Transformers [PDF]
While speech recognition Word Error Rate (WER) has reached human parity for English, long-form dictation scenarios still suffer from segmentation and punctuation problems resulting from irregular pausing patterns or slow speakers. Transformer sequence tagging models are effective at capturing long bi-directional context, which is crucial for automatic ...
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Punctuation effects in English and Esperanto texts
A statistical physics study of punctuation effects on sentence lengths is presented for written texts: {\it Alice in wonderland} and {\it Through a looking glass}. The translation of the first text into esperanto is also considered as a test for the role
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LibriSpeech-PC: Benchmark for Evaluation of Punctuation and Capitalization Capabilities of end-to-end ASR Models [PDF]
Traditional automatic speech recognition (ASR) models output lower-cased words without punctuation marks, which reduces readability and necessitates a subsequent text processing model to convert ASR transcripts into a proper format. Simultaneously, the development of end-to-end ASR models capable of predicting punctuation and capitalization presents ...
arxiv
Specificity of Chinese Punctuation and its Place in Teaching Russian Punctuation to Foreign Students [PDF]
The article deals with the specifics and national-cultural identity of the functioning of punctuation marks in texts in Russian and Chinese languages. An overview and comparative analysis of the functioning of punctuation marks at the end of a sentence ...
Wang Lijun, Yaritsa, Ludmila Ivanovna
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A Constitutional Conundrum of Second Amendment Commas: A Short Epistolary Report [PDF]
Prompted by the court’s decision in Parker v. District of Columbia, this series of correspondence discusses the effect possible forms of punctuation may have on the Second Amendment.
Van Alstyne, William W.
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This paper analyzes the non-standard use of the apostrophe in modern German texts. Traditionally, it is assumed that the apostrophe has a purely phonographic function in German, even though the first examples of non-phonographic apostrophes date back to ...
Scherer Carmen
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This article offers a sketch of the development of German theory of punctuation. It is shown that within this process of codification of orthographic rules there is an interaction of descriptive and prescriptive approaches which can be regarded as an ...
Karsten Rinas
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On the Use of the Oxford Comma in Early Modern English Scientific Writing [PDF]
Punctuation has traditionally been disregarded in the literature due to its suggested arbitrariness and inconsistency in pre-modern English. Some of the factors that have contributed to this neglect are the lack of systematisation and correspondence to ...
Calle Martín, Javier+1 more
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Directions and Results of Punctuation Management
The article discussed the development of the basics and principles of punctuation in the descriptions of the management of punctuation. The mentioned bases for punctuation—grammar (syntax), meaning, and intonation and pauses—are proposed to be ...
Albinas Drukteinis
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Among the different topics studied by palaeography, punctuation has traditionally been disregarded by scholars for being considered arbitrary and unsystematic (Salmon 1988: 285).
Barranco Jesús Romero
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