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| Title | English to Indonesian Transliteration to Support English Pronunciation Practice |
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| Authors | Amalia Zahra and Julie Carson-Berndsen |
| Abstract | The work presented in this paper explores the use of Indonesian transliteration to support English pronunciation practice. It is mainly aimed for Indonesian speakers who have no or minimum English language skills. The approach implemented combines a rule-based and a statistical method. The rules of English-Phone-to-Indonesian-Grapheme mapping are implemented with a Finite State Transducer (FST), followed by a statistical method which is a grapheme-based trigram language model. The Indonesian transliteration generated was used as a means to support the learners where their speech were then recorded. The speech recordings have been evaluated by 19 participants: 8 English native and 11 non-native speakers. The results show that the transliteration positively contributes to the improvement of their English pronunciation. |
| Topics | Usability, user satisfaction, Phonetic Databases, Phonology, Controlled languages |
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English to Indonesian Transliteration to Support English Pronunciation Practice |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{ZAHRA12.838, author = {Amalia Zahra and Julie Carson-Berndsen}, title = {English to Indonesian Transliteration to Support English Pronunciation Practice}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |