Nowadays teaching English as a foreign language is becoming more and more important in Tibetan education.Since Ti-betan education system is complicated,Tibetan college students are facing many problems which interfere...Nowadays teaching English as a foreign language is becoming more and more important in Tibetan education.Since Ti-betan education system is complicated,Tibetan college students are facing many problems which interfere with their EFL learning.By carrying on a mini qualitative study of interviewing two Tibetan college students,this paper mainly discusses the major prob-lems and causes of the Tibetan college students on EFL learning on linguistic and cultural perspectives,and attempts to suggestsome solutions.展开更多
Set as the primary and ultimate goal of language teaching process by MacIntyre et al.(1998),willingness to communicate in second language(L2 WTC) has been put much attention in L2 acquisition field.This study examined...Set as the primary and ultimate goal of language teaching process by MacIntyre et al.(1998),willingness to communicate in second language(L2 WTC) has been put much attention in L2 acquisition field.This study examined quantitatively the willingness to communicate in English as a foreign language(EFL WTC) in Tibetan context with a questionnaire.Tibetan college students' EFL WTC was found significantly lower than Han students.No significant difference was found between Tibetan male and female students in their EFL WTC.Causes were explored andsome pedagogical suggestions were made in this study.展开更多
We proposed a method using latent regression Bayesian network (LRBN) toextract the shared speech feature for the input of end-to-end speech recognition model.The structure of LRBN is compact and its parameter learning...We proposed a method using latent regression Bayesian network (LRBN) toextract the shared speech feature for the input of end-to-end speech recognition model.The structure of LRBN is compact and its parameter learning is fast. Compared withConvolutional Neural Network, it has a simpler and understood structure and lessparameters to learn. Experimental results show that the advantage of hybridLRBN/Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory-Connectionist Temporal Classificationarchitecture for Tibetan multi-dialect speech recognition, and demonstrate the LRBN ishelpful to differentiate among multiple language speech sets.展开更多
As one of Chinese minority languages,Tibetan speech recognition technology was not researched upon as extensively as Chinese and English were until recently.This,along with the relatively small Tibetan corpus,has resu...As one of Chinese minority languages,Tibetan speech recognition technology was not researched upon as extensively as Chinese and English were until recently.This,along with the relatively small Tibetan corpus,has resulted in an unsatisfying performance of Tibetan speech recognition based on an end-to-end model.This paper aims to achieve an accurate Tibetan speech recognition using a small amount of Tibetan training data.We demonstrate effective methods of Tibetan end-to-end speech recognition via cross-language transfer learning from three aspects:modeling unit selection,transfer learning method,and source language selection.Experimental results show that the Chinese-Tibetan multi-language learning method using multilanguage character set as the modeling unit yields the best performance on Tibetan Character Error Rate(CER)at 27.3%,which is reduced by 26.1%compared to the language-specific model.And our method also achieves the 2.2%higher accuracy using less amount of data compared with the method using Tibetan multi-dialect transfer learning under the same model structure and data set.展开更多
There are in Tibet Autonomous Region 190,000 disabled persons, including more than 30,000 who are deaf-mutes or are hearing impaired. In the Tibetan language, a word is often expressed with different signs. This poses...There are in Tibet Autonomous Region 190,000 disabled persons, including more than 30,000 who are deaf-mutes or are hearing impaired. In the Tibetan language, a word is often expressed with different signs. This poses a serious handicap for communication and exchanges among Tibetan deaf-mutes and their effort to participate in social activities. The ongoing research and development of a Tibetan sign language is expected to get rid of that handicap and allow Tibetan deaf-mutes to lead a normal life.展开更多
I am Li Xi, a council member of China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture.Language facilitates communication and embodies culture. According to the Chinese Constitution, every ethnic group ...I am Li Xi, a council member of China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture.Language facilitates communication and embodies culture. According to the Chinese Constitution, every ethnic group has the freedom to use and develop its own language.展开更多
Readability is a fundamental problem in textbooks assessment.For low resources languages(LRL),however,little investigation has been done on the readability of textbook.In this paper,we proposed a readability assessmen...Readability is a fundamental problem in textbooks assessment.For low resources languages(LRL),however,little investigation has been done on the readability of textbook.In this paper,we proposed a readability assessment method for Tibetan textbook(a low resource language).We extract features based on the information that are gotten by Tibetan segmentation and named entity recognition.Then,we calculate the correlation of different features using Pearson Correlation Coefficient and select some feature sets to design the readability formula.Fit detection,F test and T test are applied on these selected features to generate a new readability assessment formula.Experiment shows that this new formula is capable of assessing the readability of Tibetan textbooks.展开更多
文摘Nowadays teaching English as a foreign language is becoming more and more important in Tibetan education.Since Ti-betan education system is complicated,Tibetan college students are facing many problems which interfere with their EFL learning.By carrying on a mini qualitative study of interviewing two Tibetan college students,this paper mainly discusses the major prob-lems and causes of the Tibetan college students on EFL learning on linguistic and cultural perspectives,and attempts to suggestsome solutions.
文摘Set as the primary and ultimate goal of language teaching process by MacIntyre et al.(1998),willingness to communicate in second language(L2 WTC) has been put much attention in L2 acquisition field.This study examined quantitatively the willingness to communicate in English as a foreign language(EFL WTC) in Tibetan context with a questionnaire.Tibetan college students' EFL WTC was found significantly lower than Han students.No significant difference was found between Tibetan male and female students in their EFL WTC.Causes were explored andsome pedagogical suggestions were made in this study.
文摘We proposed a method using latent regression Bayesian network (LRBN) toextract the shared speech feature for the input of end-to-end speech recognition model.The structure of LRBN is compact and its parameter learning is fast. Compared withConvolutional Neural Network, it has a simpler and understood structure and lessparameters to learn. Experimental results show that the advantage of hybridLRBN/Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory-Connectionist Temporal Classificationarchitecture for Tibetan multi-dialect speech recognition, and demonstrate the LRBN ishelpful to differentiate among multiple language speech sets.
基金This work was supported by three projects.Zhao Y received the Grant with Nos.61976236 and 2020MDJC06Bi X J received the Grant with No.20&ZD279.
文摘As one of Chinese minority languages,Tibetan speech recognition technology was not researched upon as extensively as Chinese and English were until recently.This,along with the relatively small Tibetan corpus,has resulted in an unsatisfying performance of Tibetan speech recognition based on an end-to-end model.This paper aims to achieve an accurate Tibetan speech recognition using a small amount of Tibetan training data.We demonstrate effective methods of Tibetan end-to-end speech recognition via cross-language transfer learning from three aspects:modeling unit selection,transfer learning method,and source language selection.Experimental results show that the Chinese-Tibetan multi-language learning method using multilanguage character set as the modeling unit yields the best performance on Tibetan Character Error Rate(CER)at 27.3%,which is reduced by 26.1%compared to the language-specific model.And our method also achieves the 2.2%higher accuracy using less amount of data compared with the method using Tibetan multi-dialect transfer learning under the same model structure and data set.
文摘There are in Tibet Autonomous Region 190,000 disabled persons, including more than 30,000 who are deaf-mutes or are hearing impaired. In the Tibetan language, a word is often expressed with different signs. This poses a serious handicap for communication and exchanges among Tibetan deaf-mutes and their effort to participate in social activities. The ongoing research and development of a Tibetan sign language is expected to get rid of that handicap and allow Tibetan deaf-mutes to lead a normal life.
文摘I am Li Xi, a council member of China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture.Language facilitates communication and embodies culture. According to the Chinese Constitution, every ethnic group has the freedom to use and develop its own language.
基金This work was supported by the China National Natural Science Foundation No.(61331013)the Young faculty scientific research ability promotion program of Minzu University of China.
文摘Readability is a fundamental problem in textbooks assessment.For low resources languages(LRL),however,little investigation has been done on the readability of textbook.In this paper,we proposed a readability assessment method for Tibetan textbook(a low resource language).We extract features based on the information that are gotten by Tibetan segmentation and named entity recognition.Then,we calculate the correlation of different features using Pearson Correlation Coefficient and select some feature sets to design the readability formula.Fit detection,F test and T test are applied on these selected features to generate a new readability assessment formula.Experiment shows that this new formula is capable of assessing the readability of Tibetan textbooks.