Richard Sproat
- Research Area(s)
- Machine Intelligence
- Natural Language Processing
- Speech Processing
Co-Authors
Prior to going to OHSU, I was a professor in the departments of Linguistics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I was also a full-time faculty member at the Beckman Institute. I still hold adjunct positions in Linguistics and ECE at UIUC.
Before joining the faculty at UIUC I worked in the Information Systems and Analysis Research Department headed by Ken Church at AT&T Labs --- Research where I worked on Speech and Text Data Mining: extracting potentially useful information from large speech or text databases using a combination of speech/NLP technology and data mining techniques.
Before joining Ken's department I worked in the Human/Computer Interaction Research Department headed by Candy Kamm. My most recent project in that department was WordsEye, an automatic text-to-scene conversion system. The WordsEye technology is now being developed at Semantic Light, LLC. WordsEye is particularly good for creating surrealistic images that I can easily conceive of but are well beyond my artistic ability to execute.
More info --- and many more publications --- on my external website here.
Google Publications
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Building Statistical Parametric Multi-speaker Synthesis for Bangladeshi Bangla
Alexander Gutkin, Linne Ha, Martin Jansche, Oddur Kjartansson, Knot Pipatsrisawat, Richard Sproat
SLTU-2016 5th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages, 09-12 May 2016, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier B.V., pp. 194-200
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TTS for Low Resource Languages: A Bangla Synthesizer
Alexander Gutkin, Linne Ha, Martin Jansche, Knot Pipatsrisawat, Richard Sproat
10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 23-28 May 2016, Portorož (Slovenia), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Paris, France, pp. 2005-2010
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A Database for Measuring Linguistic Information Content.
Richard Sproat, Bruno Cartoni, HyunJeong Choe, David Huynh, Linne Ha, Ravindran Rajakumar, Evelyn Wenzel-Grondie
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, ELDA, 330 W 58th St (2014)
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Applications of Maximum Entropy Rankers to Problems in Spoken Language Processing
Interspeech 2014, International Speech Communications Association
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Hippocratic Abbreviation Expansion
ACL, ACL (2014) (to appear)
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Russian Stress Prediction using Maximum Entropy Ranking
EMNLP, ACL (2013)
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The OpenGrm Open-Source Finite-State Grammar Software Libraries
Brian Roark, Richard Sproat, Cyril Allauzen, Michael Riley, Jeffrey Sorensen, Terry Tai
ACL (System Demonstrations) (2012), pp. 61-66
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Lightly Supervised Learning of Text Normalization: Russian Number Names
IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Berkeley, CA (2010) (to appear)
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Named Entity Transcription with Pair n-Gram Models
Martin Jansche, Richard Sproat
2009 Named Entities Workshop: Shared Task on Transliteration (NEWS 2009), ACL-IJCNLP 2009, pp. 32-35
Previous Publications
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A STATISTICAL COMPARISON OF WRITTEN LANGUAGE AND NONLINGUISTIC SYMBOL SYSTEMS
Language, vol. 90 (2014), pp. 457-481
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Applications of Lexicographic Semirings to Problems in Speech and Language Processing
Richard Sproat, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Izhak Shafran, Brian Roark
Computational Linguistics, vol. 40 (2014)
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Thrax: An Open Source Grammar Compiler Built on OpenFst
Terry Tai, Richard Sproat, Wojciech Skut
Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ (2011)
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MAP adaptation of stochastic grammars
M. Bacchiani, M. Riley, B. Roark, R. Sproat
Computer Speech and Language, vol. 20 (2006), pp. 41-68
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On a Common Fallacy in Computational Linguistics
A Man of Measure: Festschrift in Honour of Fred Karlsson on this 60th Birthday, SKY Journal of Linguistics, Volume 19 (2006), pp. 432-439
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Improved name recognition with meta-data dependent name networks
S. Maskey, M. Bacchiani, B. Roark, R. Sproat
Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics,Speech and Signal Processing (2004)
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Algorithms for Speech Recognition and Language Processing
Mehryar Mohri, Michael Riley, Richard Sproat
CoRR, vol. cmp-lg/9608018 (1996)
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An Efficient Compiler for Weighted Rewrite Rules
CoRR, vol. cmp-lg/9606026 (1996)
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An Efficient Compiler for Weighted Rewrite Rules
ACL (1996), pp. 231-238
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Compilation of Weighted Finite-State Transducers from Decision Trees
CoRR, vol. cmp-lg/9606018 (1996)
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Compilation of Weighted Finite-State Transducers from Decision Trees
ACL (1996), pp. 215-222
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An Efficient Compiler for Weighted Rewrite Rules
$34$th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '96), Proceedings of the Conference, Santa Cruz, California, Santa Cruz, California (1996)
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Finite-State Transducers in Language and Speech Processing
Mehryar Mohri, Michael Riley, Richard Sproat
Tutorial at the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-96), COLING, Copenhagen, Denmark (1996)
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Weighted Rational Transductions and their Application to Human Language Processing
Fernando Pereira, Michael Riley, Richard W. Sproat
Human Language Technology Workshop, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, California (1994), pp. 262-267
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A spoken language translator for restricted-domain context-free languages
David B. Roe, Pedro J. Moreno, Richard W. Sproat, Fernando Pereira, Michael Riley, Alejandro Macarr{\'o}n
Speech Communication, vol. 11 (1992), pp. 311-319
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Efficient Grammar Processing for a Spoken Language Translation System
David B. Roe, Pedro J. Moreno, Richard W. Sproat, Fernando Pereira, Michael Riley, Alejandro Macarr{\'o}n
Proceedings of ICASSP, IEEE, San Francisco, California (1992), pp. 213-216
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Toward a Spoken Language Translator for Restricted-Domain Context-Free Languages
David B. Roe, Fernando Pereira, Richard W. Sproat, Michael Riley, Pedro J. Moreno, Alejandro Macarr{\'o}n
EUROSPEECH 91 - 2nd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Genova, Italy (1991), pp. 1063-1066














