Sinhala Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Rules for Schwa Epenthesis

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Title:	Sinhala Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Rules for Schwa Epenthesis
Authors:	Weerasinghe, A.R. Wasala, R.A. Gamage, K.N.
Keywords:	Sinhalese language, Sri Lanka Graphemics Transmutation (Linguistics)
Issue Date:	2006
Publisher:	Proceedings of the COLING/ACL Main Conference Poster Sessions, Association for Computational Linguistics
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.
URI:	http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/2880
Appears in Collections:	Linguistics

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