Learning pronunciation dictionaries: language complexity and word selection strategies

Authors:
John Kominek;Alan W Black
Affiliations:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Venue:
HLT-NAACL '06 Proceedings of the main conference on Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics
Year:
2006

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Abstract

The speed with which pronunciation dictionaries can be bootstrapped depends on the efficiency of learning algorithms and on the ordering of words presented to the user. This paper presents an active-learning word selection strategy that is mindful of human limitations. Learning rates approach that of an oracle system that knows the final LTS rule set.