References
Printed Works
Author | Title | Publisher |
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Beverley Collins, Daniel Jones, Inger M. Mees | English Pronouncing Dictionary | 2002 |
Edward Carney | A Survey of English Spelling | Routledge, 1994 |
Carney contains a detailed set of text-to-speech rules, which form the basis of the rules used in Nominex. Carney's 225 rules include numerous exceptions, which have been further expanded to generate the detailed rule set used in Nominex.
On-line papers
Below are links to some on-line academic papers which describe methods for string comparison, syllable splitting etc. Some of the algorithms discussed are enshrined in Nominex. The papers are listed below in chronological order of publication.
Paper | Author/Date | Institution/Publication |
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An Algorithm to Align Words for Historical Comparison | Michael A. Covington (1996) | The University of Georgia |
Alignment of Phonetic Sequences | Grzegorz Kondrak (1999) | Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto |
A New Algorithm for the Alignment of Phonetic Sequences | Grzegorz Kondrak (2000) | Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto |
A Measure of Acoustic Confusability and Exploiting Uncertainty in Speech Recognition System Design | Anna Hamalainen (2002) | University of Edinburgh, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics |
Adaptive Name Matching in Information Integration | Mikhail Bilenko, Raymond Mooney, William Cohen, Pradeep Ravikumar, & Stephen Fienberg (2003) | University of Texas at Austin / Carnegie Mellon University. |
Phonetic Alignment and Similarity | Grzegorz Kondrak (2003) | Computers and the Humanities, Volume 37, Number 3, August 2003, pp. 273-291. |
Data-Driven Approaches for Automatic Detection of Syllable Boundaries | Jilei Tian (2004) | Audio-Visual Systems Laboratory Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland. |
Look Alike/ Sound Alike Algorithms for Assessing Drug Name Similarities | Erica Kolatch, Jessica Toye & Bonnie Dorr (2004) | Project Performance Corporation / University of Maryland. |
Phonetic Comparison Algorithms | Brett Kessler (2005) | Washington University in St Louis |
Evaluation of Several Phonetic Similarity Algorithms on the Task of Cognate Identification | Grzegorz Kondrak & Tarek Sherif (2006) | Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta |
Syllable Alignment: A Novel Model for Phonetic String Search | Ruibin Gong & Tony K.Y. Chan (2006) | School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
A Comparison of Personal Name Matching: Techniques and Practical Issues | Peter Christen (2006) | Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, and the Computer Sciences Laboratory, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University. |
A Comparison and Analysis of Name Matching Algorithms | Chakkrit Snae (2007) | Proceedings of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Volume 21 January 2007 ISSN 1307-6884. |
Phonetic Models for Generating Spelling Variants | Rahul Bhagat and Eduard Hovy (2007) | Information Sciences Institute University Of Southern California. In Proceedings International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Hyderabad, India |
Sam's String Metrics | Sam Chapman | Natural Language Processing Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield. |