Digitising Swiss German: how to process and study a polycentric spoken language.
Swiss dialects of German are, unlike many dialects of other standardised languages, widely used in everyday communication. Despite this fact, automatic processing of Swiss German is still a considerable challenge due to the fact that it is mostly a spoken variety and that it is subject to considerab...
| Publicado en: | Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 735 - 770 |
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