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    <abstract>In this study we investigate the idea to automatically evaluate newly created pronunciation encodings for being correct or containing a potential error. Using a cascaded triphone detector and phonotactical n-gram modeling with an optimal Bayesian threshold we classify unknown pronunciation transcripts into the classes ’probably faulty’ or ’probably correct’. Transcripts tagged ’probably faulty’ are forwarded to a manual inspection performed by an expert, while encodings tagged ’probably correct’ are passed without further inspection. An evaluation of the new method on the German PHONOLEX lexical resource shows that with a tolerable error margin of approximately 3% faulty transcriptions a major reduction in work effort during the production of a new lexical resource can be achieved.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Statistical Evaluation of Pronunciation Encoding
%A Merkus, Iris
%A Schiel, Florian
%S Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12)
%D 2012
%8 may
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Istanbul, Turkey
%F merkus-schiel-2012-statistical
%X In this study we investigate the idea to automatically evaluate newly created pronunciation encodings for being correct or containing a potential error. Using a cascaded triphone detector and phonotactical n-gram modeling with an optimal Bayesian threshold we classify unknown pronunciation transcripts into the classes ’probably faulty’ or ’probably correct’. Transcripts tagged ’probably faulty’ are forwarded to a manual inspection performed by an expert, while encodings tagged ’probably correct’ are passed without further inspection. An evaluation of the new method on the German PHONOLEX lexical resource shows that with a tolerable error margin of approximately 3% faulty transcriptions a major reduction in work effort during the production of a new lexical resource can be achieved.
%U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/391_Paper.pdf
%P 981-985

Markdown (Informal)

[Statistical Evaluation of Pronunciation Encoding](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/391_Paper.pdf) (Merkus & Schiel, LREC 2012)

• Statistical Evaluation of Pronunciation Encoding (Merkus & Schiel, LREC 2012)

ACL

• Iris Merkus and Florian Schiel. 2012. Statistical Evaluation of Pronunciation Encoding. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 981–985, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).