Composing RNNs and FSTs for Small Data: Recovering Missing Characters in Old Hawaiian Text. (arXiv:2208.10248v1 [cs.CL])

In contrast to the older writing system of the 19th century, modern Hawaiian
orthography employs characters for long vowels and glottal stops. These extra
characters account for about one-third of the phonemes in Hawaiian, so
including them makes a big difference to reading comprehension and
pronunciation. However, transliterating between older and newer texts is a
laborious task when performed manually. We introduce two related methods to
help solve this transliteration problem automatically, given that there were
not enough data to …

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