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Towards Detection and Remediation of Phonemic Confusion

1 Aug 2021ACL (SIGMORPHON) 2021 8archive 2025-07-28

Francois Roewer-Despres, Arnold Yeung, Ilan Kogan

Reducing communication breakdown is critical to success in interactive NLP applications, such as dialogue systems. To this end, we propose a confusion-mitigation framework for the detection and remediation of communication breakdown. In this work, as a first step towards implementing this framework, we focus on detecting phonemic sources of confusion. As a proof-of-concept, we evaluate two neural architectures in predicting the probability that a listener will misunderstand phonemes in an utterance. We show that both neural models outperform a weighted n-gram baseline, showing early promise for the broader framework.

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