Computer Science – Computation and Language
Scientific paper
2001-02-22
Jason Eisner, Lauri Karttunen and Alain Theriault (eds.), Finite-State Phonology: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop of the ACL S
Computer Science
Computation and Language
11 pages, 4 tables, 9 figures, workshop
Scientific paper
This paper describes a novel approach to constructing phonotactic models. The underlying theoretical approach to phonological description is the multisyllable approach in which multiple syllable classes are defined that reflect phonotactically idiosyncratic syllable subcategories. A new finite-state formalism, OFS Modelling, is used as a tool for encoding, automatically constructing and generalising phonotactic descriptions. Language-independent prototype models are constructed which are instantiated on the basis of data sets of phonological strings, and generalised with a clustering algorithm. The resulting approach enables the automatic construction of phonotactic models that encode arbitrarily close approximations of a language's set of attested phonological forms. The approach is applied to the construction of multi-syllable word-level phonotactic models for German, English and Dutch.
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