Phoneme discrimination using $KS$-algebra II

TL;DR

This paper explores the use of $KS$-algebra-based classifiers for phoneme discrimination, demonstrating their ability to capture vowel formant features with low complexity.

Contribution

It introduces five $Z$-classifiers based on $KS$-algebra for phoneme classification, highlighting their effectiveness and simplicity.

Findings

Classifiers reflect known vowel formant characteristics

Achieve low Kolmogoroff complexity

Effective in binary phoneme discrimination

Abstract

$KS$-algebra consists of expressions constructed with four kinds operations, the minimum, maximum, difference and additively homogeneous generalized means. Five families of $Z$-classifiers are investigated on binary classification tasks between English phonemes. It is shown that the classifiers are able to reflect well known formant characteristics of vowels, while having very small Kolmogoroff's complexity.