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Toward treating English nominals correctly

Year: 1987

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We describe a program for assigning correct stress contours to nominals in English.It makes use of idiosyncratic knowledge about the stress behavior of various nominal types and general knowledge about English stress rules.We have also investigated the related issue of parsing complex nominals in English.The importance of this work and related research to the problem of text-to-speech is 'discussed.

Source: Proceedings of the conference - Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting

DOI: 10.3115/981175.981195

Authors: Richard W. Sproat, Mark Y. Liberman

Institution: AT&T (United States)

Language: English

Topic: Speech Recognition and Synthesis

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2146154850

FWCI: 0.637

Cites: 16

Cited by: 8

Related to: 10