Communications of the ACM - Special issue on parallelism
From text to speech: the MITalk system
From text to speech: the MITalk system
Triphone analysis: a combined method for the correction of orthographical and typographical errors
ANLC '88 Proceedings of the second conference on Applied natural language processing
A tool for the automatic creation, extension and updating of lexical knowledge bases
EACL '87 Proceedings of the third conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Morphological analysis for a German text-to-speech system
COLING '86 Proceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics
Computational phonology: merged, not mixed
COLING '86 Proceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics
Data-oriented methods for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
EACL '93 Proceedings of the sixth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
A syntactic and morphological analyzer for a text-to-speech system
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 3
Modularity in inductively-learned word pronunciation systems
NeMLaP3/CoNLL '98 Proceedings of the Joint Conferences on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
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We describe a set of modules that together make up a grapheme-to-phoneme coversion system for Dutch. Modules include a syllabification program, a fast morphological parser, a lexical database, a phonological knowledge base, transliteration rules, and phonological rules. Knowledge and procedures were implemented object-orientedly. We contrast GRAFON to recent pattern recognition and rule-compiler approaches and try to show that the first fails for languages with concatenative compounding (like Dutch, German, and Scandinavian languages) while the second lacks the flexibility to model different phonological theories. It is claimed that syllables (and not graphemes/phonemes or morphemes) should be central units in a rule-based phonemisation algorithm. Furthermore, the architecture of GRAFON and its user interface make it ideally suited as a rule-testing tool for phonologists.