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Fall 2011
Speaker identification is the task of attributing utterances to characters in literary narratives. Although only some of the utterances are explicitly attributed in novels, humans readers are able to determine the speakers of the remaining utterances because of their understanding of the plot....
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Spring 2011
Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion (G2P) is the task of converting a word, represented by a sequence of graphemes, to its pronunciation, represented by a sequence of phonemes. The G2P task plays a crucial role in speech synthesis systems, and is an important part of other applications, including...
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Fall 2014
Machine transliteration is important to machine translation and cross-lingual information retrieval. Previous works show that machine transliteration can benefit from supplemental phonetic transcriptions and transliterations from other languages through a re-ranking framework. In this thesis, I...