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Toward treating English nominals correctly

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Richard W. Sproat,

Mark Y. LibermanAuthors Info & Claims

ACL '87: Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics

Pages 140 - 146

https://doi.org/10.3115/981175.981195

Published: 06 July 1987 Publication History

Abstract

We describe a program for assigning correct stress contours to nominals in English. It makes use of idiosyncratic knowledge about the stress behavior of various nominal types and general knowledge about English stress rules. We have also investigated the related issue of parsing complex nominals in English. The importance of this work and related research to the problem of text-to-speech is discussed.

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Yoon JChoi KSong M(2018)A corpus-based approach for Korean nominal compound analysis based on linguistic and statistical informationNatural Language Engineering10.1017/S13513249010026867:3(251-270)Online publication date: 21-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1017/S1351324901002686
Zacharski RZampolli A(1992)Generation of accent in nominally premodified noun phrasesProceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 110.3115/992066.992108(253-259)Online publication date: 23-Aug-1992
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/992066.992108

Toward treating English nominals correctly
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ACL '87: Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics

July 1987

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Yoon JChoi KSong M(2018)A corpus-based approach for Korean nominal compound analysis based on linguistic and statistical informationNatural Language Engineering10.1017/S13513249010026867:3(251-270)Online publication date: 21-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1017/S1351324901002686
Zacharski RZampolli A(1992)Generation of accent in nominally premodified noun phrasesProceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 110.3115/992066.992108(253-259)Online publication date: 23-Aug-1992
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/992066.992108

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