Learning to predict the phonological structure of English loanwords in Japanese

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 101-108

  Blair, Alan D ^a   Ingram, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computational phonology; Decision trees; Loanwords; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION THEORY; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL PHONOLOGY; DECISION TREES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 0038265143     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023872824700     Document Type: Article

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