Time Map Phonology: Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition
Time Map Phonology: Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition
Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis
ACL '01 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Probabilistic context-free grammars for phonology
MPL '02 Proceedings of the ACL-02 workshop on Morphological and phonological learning - Volume 6
Automatic acquisition of feature-based phonotactic resources
SIGMorPhon '04 Proceedings of the 7th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology: Current Themes in Computational Phonology and Morphology
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
On the syllabification of phonemes
NAACL '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Applying collocation segmentation to the ACL anthology reference corpus
ACL '12 Proceedings of the ACL-2012 Special Workshop on Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries
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We report on a series of experiments with probabilistic context-free grammars predicting English and German syllable structure. The treebank-trained grammars are evaluated on a syllabification task. The grammar used by Müller (2002) serves as point of comparison. As she evaluates the grammar only for German, we reimplement the grammar and experiment with additional phonotactic features. Using bi-grams within the syllable, we can model the dependency from the previous consonant in the onset and coda. A 10-fold cross validation procedure shows that syllabification can be improved by incorporating this type of phonotactic knowledge. Compared to the grammar of Müller (2002), syllable boundary accuracy increases from 95.8% to 97.2% for English, and from 95.9% to 97.2% for German. Moreover, our experiments with different syllable structures point out that there are dependencies between the onset on the nucleus for German but not for English. The analysis of one of our phonotactic grammars shows that interesting phonotactic constraints are learned. For instance, unvoiced consonants are the most likely first consonants and liquids and glides are preferred as second consonants in two-consonantal onsets.