| dc.contributor.author |
Weerasinghe, A.R. |
en_US |
| dc.contributor.author |
Wasala, R.A. |
en_US |
| dc.contributor.author |
Gamage, K.N. |
en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned |
2014-11-13T08:52:50Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2014-11-13T08:52:50Z |
|
| dc.date.issued |
2006 |
|
| dc.identifier.uri |
http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/2880 |
|
| dc.description.abstract |
This paper describes an architecture to convert
Sinhala Unicode text into phonemic specification of
pronunciation. The study was mainly focused on
disambiguating schwa-/\/ and /a/ vowel epenthesis for
consonants, which is one of the significant problems
found in Sinhala. This problem has been addressed by
formulating a set of rules. The proposed set of rules
was tested using 30,000 distinct words obtained from
a corpus and com-pared with the same words
manually transcribed to phonemes by an expert. The
Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) con-version model
achieves 98 % accuracy. |
en_US |
| dc.publisher |
Proceedings of the COLING/ACL Main Conference Poster Sessions, Association for Computational Linguistics |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
Sinhalese language, Sri Lanka |
|
| dc.subject |
Graphemics |
|
| dc.subject |
Transmutation (Linguistics) |
|
| dc.title |
Sinhala Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Rules for Schwa Epenthesis |
|
| dc.type |
Article |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.department |
Linguistics |
en_US |