PermA and Balloon: Tools for string alignment and text processing

Reichel, Uwe D. (2012): PermA and Balloon: Tools for string alignment and text processing. Interspeech, 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Portland, USA, 9. - 13. September 2012. Proc. Interspeech. paper no. 346

Abstract

Two online research tools are presented in this paper: PermA, a general-purpose string aligner which can for example be used for grapheme-to-phoneme and phoneme-to-phoneme alignment, and Balloon, a text processing toolkit for German and English providing components for part-of-speech tagging, morphological analyses, and grapheme-to-phoneme conversion including syllabifica- tion and word-stress assignment. The general architectures of these tools are introduced with a focus on recent improvements concerning the alignment cost function derivation and word stress assignment.

• Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Keywords: alignment, grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, part-of-speech tagging, morphology, word-stress assignment, tools
• Faculties: Languages and Literatures > Department 2 > Speech Science
• Subjects: 400 Language > 410 Linguistics
• Language: English