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18 papers
BiPhone: Modeling Inter Language Phonetic Influences in Text
Abhirut Gupta, Ananya B. Sai, Richard Sproat +5
A large number of people are forced to use the Web in a language they have low literacy in due to technology asymmetries. Written text in the second language (L2) from such users o…
Lenient Evaluation of Japanese Speech Recognition: Modeling Naturally Occurring Spelling Inconsistency
Shigeki Karita, Richard Sproat, Haruko Ishikawa
Word error rate (WER) and character error rate (CER) are standard metrics in Speech Recognition (ASR), but one problem has always been alternative spellings: If one's system transc…
Beyond Arabic: Software for Perso-Arabic Script Manipulation
Alexander Gutkin, Cibu Johny, Raiomond Doctor +2
This paper presents an open-source software library that provides a set of finite-state transducer (FST) components and corresponding utilities for manipulating the writing systems…
Helpful Neighbors: Leveraging Neighbors in Geographic Feature Pronunciation
Llion Jones, Richard Sproat, Haruko Ishikawa +1
If one sees the place name Houston Mercer Dog Run in New York, how does one know how to pronounce it? Assuming one knows that Houston in New York is pronounced "how-ston" and not l…
Graphemic Normalization of the Perso-Arabic Script
Raiomond Doctor, Alexander Gutkin, Cibu Johny +2
Since its original appearance in 1991, the Perso-Arabic script representation in Unicode has grown from 169 to over 440 atomic isolated characters spread over several code pages re…
Structured abbreviation expansion in context
Kyle Gorman, Christo Kirov, Brian Roark +1
Ad hoc abbreviations are commonly found in informal communication channels that favor shorter messages. We consider the task of reversing these abbreviations in context to recover…
Semi-supervised URL Segmentation with Recurrent Neural Networks Pre-trained on Knowledge Graph Entities
Hao Zhang, Jae Ro, Richard Sproat
Breaking domain names such as openresearch into component words open and research is important for applications like Text-to-Speech synthesis and web search. We link this problem t…
Google Crowdsourced Speech Corpora and Related Open-Source Resources for Low-Resource Languages and Dialects: An Overview
Alena Butryna, Shan-Hui Cathy Chu, Isin Demirsahin +18
This paper presents an overview of a program designed to address the growing need for developing freely available speech resources for under-represented languages. At present we ha…
NEMO: Frequentist Inference Approach to Constrained Linguistic Typology Feature Prediction in SIGTYP 2020 Shared Task
Alexander Gutkin, Richard Sproat
This paper describes the NEMO submission to SIGTYP 2020 shared task which deals with prediction of linguistic typological features for multiple languages using the data derived fro…
Automatic Ambiguity Detection
Richard Sproat, Jan van Santen
Most work on sense disambiguation presumes that one knows beforehand -- e.g. from a thesaurus -- a set of polysemous terms. But published lists invariably give only partial coverag…
RNN Approaches to Text Normalization: A Challenge
Richard Sproat, Navdeep Jaitly
This paper presents a challenge to the community: given a large corpus of written text aligned to its normalized spoken form, train an RNN to learn the correct normalization functi…
Minimally Supervised Written-to-Spoken Text Normalization
Ke Wu, Kyle Gorman, Richard Sproat
In speech-applications such as text-to-speech (TTS) or automatic speech recognition (ASR), \emph{text normalization} refers to the task of converting from a \emph{written} represen…
Multilingual Text Analysis for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Richard Sproat
We present a model of text analysis for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis based on (weighted) finite-state transducers, which serves as the text-analysis module of the multilingual Be…
An Efficient Compiler for Weighted Rewrite Rules
Mehryar Mohri, Richard Sproat
Context-dependent rewrite rules are used in many areas of natural language and speech processing. Work in computational phonology has demonstrated that, given certain conditions, s…
Compilation of Weighted Finite-State Transducers from Decision Trees
Richard Sproat, Michael Riley
We report on a method for compiling decision trees into weighted finite-state transducers. The key assumptions are that the tree predictions specify how to rewrite symbols from an…
Estimating Lexical Priors for Low-Frequency Syncretic Forms
Harald Baayen, Richard Sproat
Given a previously unseen form that is morphologically n-ways ambiguous, what is the best estimator for the lexical prior probabilities for the various functions of the form? We ar…
Text Analysis Tools in Spoken Language Processing
Michael Riley, Richard Sproat
This submission contains the postscript of the final version of the slides used in our ACL-94 tutorial.
A Stochastic Finite-State Word-Segmentation Algorithm for Chinese
Richard Sproat, Chilin Shih, William Gale +1
We present a stochastic finite-state model for segmenting Chinese text into dictionary entries and productively derived words, and providing pronunciations for these words; the met…