Title

Morphossyntactic Disambiguation for TTS Systems

Authors

Ricardo Ribeiro (INESC-ID Lisboa/ISCTE, Spoken Language Systems Lab R. Alves Redol, 9 1000-029 LISBON, Portugal)

Luís Oliveira (INESC-ID Lisboa/IST Spoken Language Systems Lab R. Alves Redol, 9 1000-029 LISBON, Portugal)

Isabel Trancoso (INESC-ID Lisboa/IST Spoken Language Systems Lab R. Alves Redol, 9 1000-029 LISBON, Portugal)

Session

SO7: Tools For Spoken LRs

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present the development of a morphossyntactic disambiguation system (or part-of-speech tagging system) which is intended to be used as  a component of a Text-to-Speech (TTS) system for European Portuguese. In the development of the tagger, we compared two approaches: a probabilistic-based approach and a hybrid approach. Besides comparing these two approaches, this paper considers the  effects of the different classes of errors on the performance of the complete TTS  system.

Keywords

Morphossyntactic disambiguation

Full Paper

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