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MekongPhon: A Large-Scale Parallel IPA Corpus for Lao and Khmer

2026 · International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation · pp. 1650-1658 · 0 citations · 15 references
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MekongPhon is presented, a large-scale, high-quality parallel IPA corpus for Lao and Khmer, and linguistically informed Lao and Khmer transliteration tools that offer high-speed IPA conversion, outperforming Epitran by 6-71 CER points.

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