Corpora: rewrite rules for speech

From: Jim Magnuson (magnuson@ling.ling.rochester.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 19:21:17 MET DST

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    Hi. I am trying to compute estimates of, e.g., diphone transitional
    probabilities in conversational speech. So far I have worked with the
    CallHome database from the LDC. What I'm working with are orthographic
    transcripts of telephone conversations. I've replaced all of the
    orthographic forms with phonemic citation forms. This gives me very
    different estimates of diphone probabilities than, e.g., written corpora
    or frequency-weighted dictionaries.

    However, citation forms are obviously not ideal. For my purposes, it is
    not worth investing in retranscribing the corpus phonetically. But I would
    like to improve my estimates by applying phonological rules to my corpus
    of phonemic citation forms. Could anyone point me towards a source of such
    rules for American English? I've started working on my own, but would
    rather not reinvent anything.

    Thanks very much,

    jim

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