Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies

Gorman, Kyle; Sproat, Richard

Weighted finite-state transducers (WFSTs) are commonly used by engineers and computational linguists for processing and generating speech and text. This book first provides a detailed introduction to this formalism. It then introduces Pynini, a Python library for compiling finite-state grammars and for combining, optimizing, applying, and searching finite-state transducers. This book illustrates this library's conventions and use with a series of case studies. These include the compilation and application of context-dependent rewrite rules, the construction of morphological analyzers and generators, and text generation and processing applications.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2021-05-26

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031010514

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-02179-4

Dimensions: 235cm x191cm

Pages: 140