A ranking approach to stress prediction for letter-to-phoneme conversion

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Joint Conf. of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 4th Int. Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, Proceedings of the Conf.

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 118-126

  Dou, Qing ^a   Bergsma, Shane ^a   Jiampojamarn, Sittichai ^a   Kondrak, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORECASTING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

OVERALL ACCURACIES; RANKING APPROACH; SECONDARY STRESS; SEQUENCE PREDICTION; STATE OF THE ART; STRESS ASSIGNMENT; STRESS PREDICTION; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79959856660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1687878.1687897     Document Type: Conference Paper

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