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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…