Myths about Writing Systems in Speech & Language Technology
Kyle Gorman, Richard Sproat
The Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL) Paper
TLDR:
Natural language processing is largely focused on written text processing. However, many computational linguists tacitly endorse myths about the nature of writing. We highlight two of these myths---the conflation of language and writing, and the notion that Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing is i
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Abstract:
Natural language processing is largely focused on written text processing. However, many computational linguists tacitly endorse myths about the nature of writing. We highlight two of these myths---the conflation of language and writing, and the notion that Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing is ideographic---and suggest how the community can dispel them.