Sinhala Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Rules for Schwa Epenthesis
| 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 | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-11-13T08:52:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
| 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.identifier.department | Linguistics | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/2880 | |
| 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 |
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