Several factors affect the efficiency of bootstrapping approaches to the generation of pronunciat... more Several factors affect the efficiency of bootstrapping approaches to the generation of pronunciation dictionaries. We focus on factors related to the underlying rule-extraction algorithms, and demonstrate variants of the Dynamically Expanding Context algorithm ...
Although the complexity of prosody is widely recognised, the lack of widely-accepted descriptive ... more Although the complexity of prosody is widely recognised, the lack of widely-accepted descriptive standards for prosodic phenomena has meant that prosodic systems for most of the languages of the world have, at best, been described in impressionistic rule-based terms. For the languages of Southern Africa, the deficiencies in our modelling capabilities are acute. Little work of a quantitative nature has been published for the languages of the Nguni family (such as isiZulu and isiXhosa), and there are significant contradictions and imprecisions in the literature on this topic, which partially stems from the lack of quantitative, measurement-driven analysis. This paper therefore embarks on a programme aimed at understanding the relationship between linguistic and physical variables of a prosodic nature in this family of languages.
Several factors affect the efficiency of bootstrapping approaches to the generation of pronunciat... more Several factors affect the efficiency of bootstrapping approaches to the generation of pronunciation dictionaries. We focus on factors related to the underlying rule-extraction algorithms, and demonstrate variants of the Dynamically Expanding Context algorithm ...
Several factors affect the efficiency of bootstrapping approaches to the generation of pronunciat... more Several factors affect the efficiency of bootstrapping approaches to the generation of pronunciation dictionaries. We focus on factors related to the underlying rule-extraction algorithms, and demonstrate variants of the Dynamically Expanding Context algorithm ...
Although the complexity of prosody is widely recognised, the lack of widely-accepted descriptive ... more Although the complexity of prosody is widely recognised, the lack of widely-accepted descriptive standards for prosodic phenomena has meant that prosodic systems for most of the languages of the world have, at best, been described in impressionistic rule-based terms. For the languages of Southern Africa, the deficiencies in our modelling capabilities are acute. Little work of a quantitative nature has been published for the languages of the Nguni family (such as isiZulu and isiXhosa), and there are significant contradictions and imprecisions in the literature on this topic, which partially stems from the lack of quantitative, measurement-driven analysis. This paper therefore embarks on a programme aimed at understanding the relationship between linguistic and physical variables of a prosodic nature in this family of languages.
Several factors affect the efficiency of bootstrapping approaches to the generation of pronunciat... more Several factors affect the efficiency of bootstrapping approaches to the generation of pronunciation dictionaries. We focus on factors related to the underlying rule-extraction algorithms, and demonstrate variants of the Dynamically Expanding Context algorithm ...
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