ToneCL: Contrastive Learning for Few-Shot Syllable-Level Tone Classification

arXiv:2609.24903 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-21 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-21

Updated: 2026-09-21

Comments: AACL-IJCNLP 2026 Main

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Contrastive Learning — 15× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Accuracy — 14× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Cross-lingual Transfer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 4× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Representation Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Data Augmentation — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Foundation Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Loss Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Low-Resource Languages — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Self-Supervised Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transferability — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Unsupervised Learning and Representation of Mandarin Tonal Categories by a Generative CNN
• AISHELL-3: A Multi-speaker Mandarin TTS Corpus and the Baselines
• THCHS-30 : A Free Chinese Speech Corpus
• Automatic recognition of suprasegmentals in speech

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