Loots, LDe Wet, FebeNiesler, T2012-07-032012-07-032010-11Loots, L, De Wet, F and Niesler, T. Extending an Afrikaans pronunciation dictionary using Dutch resources and P2P/GP2P. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 22-23 November 2010978-0-7992-2470-2https://sites.google.com/site/gbvanhuyssteen/projectcloselyrelatedlanguages/fileshttp://www.prasa.org/proceedings/2010/prasa2010-26.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/5973Proceedings of the 21st Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 22-23 November 2010In this study we explore the extension of a small Afrikaans pronunciation dictionary by applying phoneme-tophoneme (P2P) and grapheme-and-phoneme-to-phoneme (GP2P) conversion to an existing and more extensive Dutch pronunciation dictionary. This is compared to the more common approach of extending the Afrikaans dictionary by means of graphemeto-phoneme (G2P) conversion. The results indicate that the Afrikaans pronunciations obtained by P2P and GP2P from the Dutch dictionary are more accurate than the corresponding pronunciations obtained by the application of G2P. This result indicates that under-resourced languages can take advantage of existing and more extensive resources available in a closely-related and better-resourced language in order to improve the extent and quality of a pronunciation dictionary.enDutchAfrikaansPronunciation modellingDecision treesG2PP2PGP2PConference PresentationLoots, L., De Wet, F., & Niesler, T. (2010). Extending an Afrikaans pronunciation dictionary using Dutch resources and P2P/GP2P. PRASA. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5973Loots, L, Febe De Wet, and T Niesler. "Extending an Afrikaans pronunciation dictionary using Dutch resources and P2P/GP2P." (2010): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5973Loots L, De Wet F, Niesler T, Extending an Afrikaans pronunciation dictionary using Dutch resources and P2P/GP2P; PRASA; 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5973 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Loots, L AU - De Wet, Febe AU - Niesler, T AB - In this study we explore the extension of a small Afrikaans pronunciation dictionary by applying phoneme-tophoneme (P2P) and grapheme-and-phoneme-to-phoneme (GP2P) conversion to an existing and more extensive Dutch pronunciation dictionary. This is compared to the more common approach of extending the Afrikaans dictionary by means of graphemeto-phoneme (G2P) conversion. The results indicate that the Afrikaans pronunciations obtained by P2P and GP2P from the Dutch dictionary are more accurate than the corresponding pronunciations obtained by the application of G2P. This result indicates that under-resourced languages can take advantage of existing and more extensive resources available in a closely-related and better-resourced language in order to improve the extent and quality of a pronunciation dictionary. DA - 2010-11 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Dutch KW - Afrikaans KW - Pronunciation modelling KW - Decision trees KW - G2P KW - P2P KW - GP2P LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2010 SM - 978-0-7992-2470-2 T1 - Extending an Afrikaans pronunciation dictionary using Dutch resources and P2P/GP2P TI - Extending an Afrikaans pronunciation dictionary using Dutch resources and P2P/GP2P UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5973 ER -