NDLI: Efficient Development of Lexical Language Resources and their Representation

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Author	Rojc, Matej Kačič, Zdravko
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	Statistical approaches in speech technology, whether used for statistical language models, trees, hidden Markov models or neural networks, represent the driving forces for the creation of language resources (LR), e.g., text corpora, pronunciation and morphology lexicons, and speech databases. This paper presents a system architecture for the rapid construction of morphologic and phonetic lexicons, two of the most important written language resources for the development of ASR (automatic speech recognition) and TTS (text-to-speech) systems. The presented architecture is modular and is particularly suitable for the development of written language resources for inflectional languages. In this paper an implementation is presented for the Slovenian language. The integrated graphic user interface focuses on the morphological and phonetic aspects of language and allows experts to produce good performances during analysis. In multilingual TTS systems, many extensive external written language resources are used, especially in the text processing part. It is very important, therefore, that representation of these resources is time and space efficient. It is also very important that language resources for new languages can be easily incorporated into the system, without modifying the common algorithms developed for multiple languages. In this regard the use of large external language resources (e.g., morphology and phonetic lexicons) represent an important problem because of the required space and slow look-up time. This paper presents a method and its results for compiling large lexicons, using examples for compiling German phonetic and morphology lexicons (CISLEX), and Slovenian phonetic (SIflex) and morphology (SImlex) lexicons, into corresponding finite-state transducers (FSTs). The German lexicons consisted of about 300,000 words, SIflex consisted of about 60,000 and SImlex of about 600,000 words (where 40,000 words were used for representation using finite-state transducers). Representation of large lexicons using finite-state transducers is mainly motivated by considerations of space and time efficiency. A great reduction in size and optimal access time was achieved for all lexicons. The starting size for the German phonetic lexicon was 12.53 MB and 18.49 MB for the morphology lexicon. The starting size for the Slovenian phonetic lexicon was 1.8 MB and 1.4 MB for the morphology lexicon. The final size of the corresponding FSTs was 2.78 MB for the German phonetic lexicon, 6.33 MB for the German morphology lexicon, 253 KB for SIflex and 662 KB for the SImlex lexicon. The achieved look-up time is optimal, since it only depends on the length of the input word and not on the size of the lexicon. Integration of lexicons for new languages into the multilingual TTS system is easy when using such representations and does not require any changes in the algorithms used for such lexicons.
Starting Page	259
Ending Page	275
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13812416
Journal	International Journal of Speech Technology
Volume Number	6
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15728110
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2003-01-01
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Signal, Image and Speech Processing Communication
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Human-Computer Interaction Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Software Linguistics and Language

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