Journal:Informatica
Volume 12, Issue 2 (2001), pp. 315–336
Abstract
The paper deals with automatic stressing of the Lithuanian text. In the previous work the author presented an algorithm for automatic stressing of the Lithuanian text on the basis of a dictionary. The aim of the present work is to improve the above mentioned algorithm by including formal stressing rules for nouns and adjectives. By means of these rules such words as diminutives, names and degrees of adjectives that are not present in the dictionary may be stressed. The work analyses when it is more convenient to formulate rules manually and when to generate them automatically. A method for formulating rules manually has been described and a set of such rules has been presented. Besides the algorithm for generating stressing rules with the help of a dictionary of stems of nouns and adjectives has been given.
Journal:Informatica
Volume 11, Issue 1 (2000), pp. 19–40
Abstract
The paper deals with one of the components of text-to-speech synthesis of the Lithuanian language, namely – automatic text stressing. The present work substantiates the necessity to divide words into fixed and variable parts used to build different grammatical forms, as well as to store only those parts rather than the whole worlds in the dictionary. According to the inflexion method, all words of the Lithuanian language are divided into three groups (noun-adjectives, verbs and non-inflectional words) and each group is analysed separately. The type of information, as well as the form in which it is to be stored, has been established for each group and the algorithm by means of which the grammatical form of a word can be recognised and stressed, has been presented.