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Phonetic and Lexical Discovery of a Canine Language using HuBERT
Xingyuan Li, Sinong Wang, Zeyu Xie, Mengyue Wu, Kenny Q. Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15985

Phonetic and Lexical Discovery of a Canine Language using HuBERT
This paper delves into the pioneering exploration of potential communication patterns within dog vocalizations and transcends traditional linguistic analysis barriers, which heavily relies on human priori knowledge on limited datasets to find sound units in dog vocalization. We present a self-supervised approach with HuBERT, enabling the accurate classification of phoneme labels and the identification of vocal patterns that suggest a rudimentary vocabulary within dog vocalizations. Our findings…

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A Pure Demand Operational Semantics with Applications to Program Analysis
This paper develops a novel minimal-state operational semantics for higher-order functional languages that uses only the call stack and a source program point or a lexical level as the complete state information: there is no environment, no substitution, no continuation, etc. We prove this form of operational semantics equivalent to standard presentations. We then show how this approach can open the door to potential new applications: we define a program analysis as a direct finitization of t…