Richard Sproat

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Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	J	`jnl`	Building Tailored Speech Recognizers for Japanese Speaking Assessment. CoRR Yotaro Kubo, Richard Sproat, Chihiro Taguchi, Llion Jones
2025	J	`jnl`	IASC: Interactive Agentic System for ConLangs. CoRR Chihiro Taguchi, Richard Sproat
2025	J	`jnl`	RePo: Language Models with Context Re-Positioning. CoRR Huayang Li, Tianyu Zhao, Richard Sproat
2025	J	`jnl`	TransEvalnia: Reasoning-based Evaluation and Ranking of Translations. CoRR Richard Sproat, Tianyu Zhao, Llion Jones
2023	J	`jnl`	Beyond Arabic: Software for Perso-Arabic Script Manipulation. CoRR Alexander Gutkin, Cibu Johny, Raiomond Doctor, Brian Roark, Richard Sproat
2023	—	`conf`	Bi-Phone: Modeling Inter Language Phonetic Influences in Text. ACL (1) Abhirut Gupta, Ananya B. Sai, Richard Sproat, Yuri Vasilevski, James S. Ren, Ambarish Jash, Sukhdeep S. Sodhi, Aravindan Raghuveer
2023	J	`jnl`	BiPhone: Modeling Inter Language Phonetic Influences in Text. CoRR Abhirut Gupta, Ananya B. Sai, Richard Sproat, Yuri Vasilevski, James S. Ren, Ambarish Jash, Sukhdeep S. Sodhi, Aravindan Raghuveer
2023	J	`jnl`	Helpful Neighbors: Leveraging Neighbors in Geographic Feature Pronunciation. Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics Llion Jones, Richard Sproat, Haruko Ishikawa, Alexander Gutkin
2023	J	`jnl`	Lenient Evaluation of Japanese Speech Recognition: Modeling Naturally Occurring Spelling Inconsistency. CoRR Shigeki Karita, Richard Sproat, Haruko Ishikawa
2023	—	`book`	Symbols - An Evolutionary History from the Stone Age to the Future Richard Sproat
2022	—	`conf`	Beyond Arabic: Software for Perso-Arabic Script Manipulation. WANLP@EMNLP Alexander Gutkin, Cibu Johny, Raiomond Doctor, Brian Roark, Richard Sproat
2022	J	`jnl`	Boring Problems Are Sometimes the Most Interesting. Comput. Linguistics Richard Sproat
2022	J	`jnl`	Graphemic Normalization of the Perso-Arabic Script. CoRR Raiomond Doctor, Alexander Gutkin, Cibu Johny, Brian Roark, Richard Sproat
2022	J	`jnl`	Helpful Neighbors: Leveraging Neighbors in Geographic Feature Pronunciation. CoRR Llion Jones, Richard Sproat, Haruko Ishikawa, Alexander Gutkin
2021	—	`book`	Finite-State Text Processing Kyle Gorman, Richard Sproat
2021	—	`conf`	Structured abbreviation expansion in context. EMNLP (Findings) Kyle Gorman, Christo Kirov, Brian Roark, Richard Sproat
2021	J	`jnl`	Structured abbreviation expansion in context. CoRR Kyle Gorman, Christo Kirov, Brian Roark, Richard Sproat
2021	J	`jnl`	The Taxonomy of Writing Systems: How to Measure How Logographic a System Is. Comput. Linguistics Richard Sproat, Alexander Gutkin
2020	J	`jnl`	Google Crowdsourced Speech Corpora and Related Open-Source Resources for Low-Resource Languages and Dialects: An Overview. CoRR Alena Butryna, Shan-Hui Cathy Chu, Isin Demirsahin, Alexander Gutkin, Linne Ha, Fei He, Martin Jansche, Cibu Johny, Anna Katanova, Oddur Kjartansson, Chenfang Li, Tatiana Merkulova, Yin May Oo, Knot Pipatsrisawat, Clara Rivera, Supheakmungkol Sarin, Pasindu De Silva, Keshan Sodimana, Richard Sproat, Theeraphol Wattanavekin, Jaka Aris Eko Wibawa
2020	J	`jnl`	NEMO: Frequentist Inference Approach to Constrained Linguistic Typology Feature Prediction in SIGTYP 2020 Shared Task. CoRR Alexander Gutkin, Richard Sproat
2020	B	`conf`	Semi-supervised URL Segmentation with Recurrent Neural Networks Pre-trained on Knowledge Graph Entities. COLING Hao Zhang, Jae Ro, Richard Sproat
2020	J	`jnl`	Semi-supervised URL Segmentation with Recurrent Neural NetworksPre-trained on Knowledge Graph Entities. CoRR Hao Zhang, Jae Ro, Richard Sproat
2019	J	`jnl`	Automatic Ambiguity Detection. CoRR Richard Sproat, Jan P. H. van Santen
2019	A	`conf`	Dual Encoder Classifier Models as Constraints in Neural Text Normalization. INTERSPEECH Ajda Gokcen, Hao Zhang, Richard Sproat
2019	J	`jnl`	Neural Models of Text Normalization for Speech Applications. Comput. Linguistics Hao Zhang, Richard Sproat, Axel H. Ng, Felix Stahlberg, Xiaochang Peng, Kyle Gorman, Brian Roark
2019	A	`conf`	Unified Verbalization for Speech Recognition & Synthesis Across Languages. INTERSPEECH Sandy Ritchie, Richard Sproat, Kyle Gorman, Daan van Esch, Christian Schallhart, Nikos Bampounis, Benoît Brard, Jonas Fromseier Mortensen, Millie Holt, Eoin Mahon
2018	B	`conf`	Fast and Accurate Reordering with ITG Transition RNN. COLING Hao Zhang, Axel H. Ng, Richard Sproat
2018	—	`conf`	Text Normalization for Bangla, Khmer, Nepali, Javanese, Sinhala and Sundanese Text-to-Speech Systems. SLTU Keshan Sodimana, Pasindu De Silva, Richard Sproat, Theeraphol Wattanavekin, Alexander Gutkin, Knot Pipatsrisawat
2017	A	`conf`	An Expanded Taxonomy of Semiotic Classes for Text Normalization. INTERSPEECH Daan van Esch, Richard Sproat
2017	A	`conf`	An RNN Model of Text Normalization. INTERSPEECH Richard Sproat, Navdeep Jaitly
2017	A	`conf`	Areal and Phylogenetic Features for Multilingual Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH Alexander Gutkin, Richard Sproat
2017	—	`conf`	Editing Kempelen's "Mechanismus der menschlichen Sprache": Experiences and findings. HSCR Fabian Brackhane, Richard Sproat, Jürgen Trouvain
2017	C	`conf`	Minimally supervised written-to-spoken text normalization. ASRU Axel H. Ng, Kyle Gorman, Richard Sproat
2016	—	`conf`	Building Statistical Parametric Multi-speaker Synthesis for Bangladeshi Bangla. SLTU Alexander Gutkin, Linne Ha, Martin Jansche, Oddur Kjartansson, Knot Pipatsrisawat, Richard Sproat
2016	—	`conf`	Keynote Lecture 2: Neural (and other Machine Learning) Approaches to Text Normalization. ICON Richard Sproat
2016	J	`jnl`	Minimally Supervised Number Normalization. Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics Kyle Gorman, Richard Sproat
2016	J	`jnl`	Minimally Supervised Written-to-Spoken Text Normalization. CoRR Ke Wu, Kyle Gorman, Richard Sproat
2016	J	`jnl`	RNN Approaches to Text Normalization: A Challenge. CoRR Richard Sproat, Navdeep Jaitly
2016	B	`conf`	TTS for Low Resource Languages: A Bangla Synthesizer. LREC Alexander Gutkin, Linne Ha, Martin Jansche, Knot Pipatsrisawat, Richard Sproat
2015	—	`conf`	Measuring idiosyncratic interests in children with autism. ACL (2) Masoud Rouhizadeh, Emily Prud'hommeaux, Jan P. H. van Santen, Richard Sproat
2015	—	`conf`	Similarity Measures for Quantifying Restrictive and Repetitive Behavior in Conversations of Autistic Children. CLPsych@HLT-NAACL Masoud Rouhizadeh, Richard Sproat, Jan P. H. van Santen
2015	J	`jnl`	TALLIP Perspectives: Editorial Commentary: The Broadened Focus of the Journal. ACM Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process. Richard Sproat
2015	J	`jnl`	The Kestrel TTS text normalization system. Nat. Lang. Eng. Peter Ebden, Richard Sproat
2014	B	`conf`	A Database for Measuring Linguistic Information Content. LREC Richard Sproat, Bruno Cartoni, HyunJeong Choe, David Huynh, Linne Ha, Ravindran Rajakumar, Evelyn Wenzel-Grondie
2014	J	`jnl`	Applications of Lexicographic Semirings to Problems in Speech and Language Processing. Comput. Linguistics Richard Sproat, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Izhak Shafran, Brian Roark
2014	A	`conf`	Applications of maximum entropy rankers to problems in spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH Richard Sproat, Keith B. Hall
2014	—	`conf`	Computational analysis of trajectories of linguistic development in autism. SLT Emily Prud'hommeaux, Eric Morley, Masoud Rouhizadeh, Laura Silverman, Jan P. H. van Santen, Brian Roark, Richard Sproat, Sarah Kauper, Rachel DeLaHunta
2014	—	`conf`	Detecting linguistic idiosyncratic interests in autism using distributional semantic models. CLPsych@ACL Masoud Rouhizadeh, Emily Prud'hommeaux, Jan P. H. van Santen, Richard Sproat
2014	—	`conf`	Hippocratic Abbreviation Expansion. ACL (2) Brian Roark, Richard Sproat
2014	J	`jnl`	The state of the journal. ACM Trans. Asian Lang. Inf. Process. Richard Sproat
2013	J	`jnl`	Greetings from the new Editor-in-Chief. ACM Trans. Asian Lang. Inf. Process. Richard Sproat
2013	A*	`conf`	Russian Stress Prediction using Maximum Entropy Ranking. EMNLP Keith B. Hall, Richard Sproat
2013	J	`jnl`	TALIP Perspectives. ACM Trans. Asian Lang. Inf. Process. Richard Sproat
2012	B	`conf`	Annotation Tools and Knowledge Representation for a Text-To-Scene System. COLING Bob Coyne, Alex Klapheke, Masoud Rouhizadeh, Richard Sproat, Daniel Bauer
2012	—	`conf`	Discourse-Based Modeling for AAC. SLPAT@HLT-NAACL Margaret Mitchell, Richard Sproat
2012	—	`conf`	The OpenGrm open-source finite-state grammar software libraries. ACL (System Demonstrations) Brian Roark, Richard Sproat, Cyril Allauzen, Michael Riley, Jeffrey Sorensen, Terry Tai
2011	—	`conf`	Collecting Semantic Data from Mechanical Turk for a Lexical Knowledge Resource in a Text to Picture Generating System. IWCS Masoud Rouhizadeh, Margit Bowler, Richard Sproat, Bob Coyne
2011	—	`conf`	Collecting Semantic Information for Locations in the Scenario-Based Lexical Knowledge Resource of a Text-to-Scene Conversion System. KES (4) Masoud Rouhizadeh, Bob Coyne, Richard Sproat
2011	C	`conf`	Efficient determinization of tagged word lattices using categorial and lexicographic semirings. ASRU Izhak Shafran, Richard Sproat, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Brian Roark
2011	—	`conf`	Lexicographic Semirings for Exact Automata Encoding of Sequence Models. ACL (2) Brian Roark, Richard Sproat, Izhak Shafran
2011	A	`conf`	Mining named entities with temporally correlated bursts from multilingual web news streams. WSDM Alexander Kotov, ChengXiang Zhai, Richard Sproat
2011	—	`conf`	Towards technology-assisted co-construction with communication partners. SLPAT Brian Roark, Andrew Fowler, Richard Sproat, Christopher Gibbons, Melanie Fried-Oken
2010	B	`conf`	A Python Toolkit for Universal Transliteration. LREC Ting Qian, Kristy Hollingshead, Su-Youn Yoon, Kyoung-Young Kim, Richard Sproat
2010	J	`jnl`	Ancient Symbols, Computational Linguistics, and the Reviewing Practices of the General Science Journals. Comput. Linguistics Richard Sproat
2010	—	`conf`	Data collection and normalization for building the Scenario-Based Lexical Knowledge Resource of a text-to-scene conversion system. SMAP Masoud Rouhizadeh, Margit Bowler, Richard Sproat, Bob Coyne
2010	—	`conf`	Frame Semantics in Text-to-Scene Generation. KES (4) Bob Coyne, Owen Rambow, Julia Hirschberg, Richard Sproat
2010	A	`conf`	Landmark-based automated pronunciation error detection. INTERSPEECH Su-Youn Yoon, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Richard Sproat
2010	—	`conf`	Lightly supervised learning of text normalization: Russian number names. SLT Richard Sproat
2010	J	`jnl`	Reply to Rao et al. and Lee et al. Comput. Linguistics Richard Sproat
2009	A	`conf`	Automated pronunciation scoring using confidence scoring and landmark-based SVM. INTERSPEECH Su-Youn Yoon, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Richard Sproat
2009	—	`conf`	Knowing the Unseen: Estimating Vocabulary Size over Unseen Samples. ACL/IJCNLP Suma Bhat, Richard Sproat
2009	—	`conf`	Named Entity Transcription with Pair n-Gram Models. NEWS@IJCNLP Martin Jansche, Richard Sproat
2009	—	`conf`	Writing Systems, Transliteration and Decipherment. HLT-NAACL (Tutorial Abstracts) Kevin Knight, Richard Sproat
2007	A*	`conf`	Mining correlated bursty topic patterns from coordinated text streams. KDD Xuanhui Wang, ChengXiang Zhai, Xiao Hu, Richard Sproat
2007	A*	`conf`	Multilingual Transliteration Using Feature based Phonetic Method. ACL Su-Youn Yoon, Kyoung-Young Kim, Richard Sproat
2006	—	`ed.`	Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Beyond the Orient: The Research Challenges Ahead, 21st International Conference, ICCPOL 2006, Singapore, December 17-19, 2006, Proceedings ICCPOL Yuji Matsumoto, Richard Sproat, Kam-Fai Wong, Min Zhang
2006	J	`jnl`	MAP adaptation of stochastic grammars. Comput. Speech Lang. Michiel Bacchiani, Michael Riley, Brian Roark, Richard Sproat
2006	A*	`conf`	Named Entity Transliteration with Comparable Corpora. ACL Richard Sproat, Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai
2006	A*	`conf`	Unsupervised Named Entity Transliteration Using Temporal and Phonetic Correlation. EMNLP Tao Tao, Su-Youn Yoon, Andrew Fister, Richard Sproat, ChengXiang Zhai
2006	—	`conf`	Using Latent Semantics for NE Translation. ICCPOL Boon Pang Lim, Richard Sproat
2005	A	`conf`	Accent detection and speech recognition for Shanghai-accented Mandarin. INTERSPEECH Yanli Zheng, Richard Sproat, Liang Gu, Izhak Shafran, Haolang Zhou, Yi Su, Daniel Jurafsky, Rebecca Starr, Su-Youn Yoon
2005	B	`conf`	Emotional Sequencing and Development in Fairy Tales. ACII Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Richard Sproat
2005	—	`conf`	Emotions from Text: Machine Learning for Text-based Emotion Prediction. HLT/EMNLP Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Dan Roth, Richard Sproat
2005	A	`conf`	Perceptions of emotions in expressive storytelling. INTERSPEECH Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Richard Sproat
2004	—	`conf`	Improved name recognition with meta-data dependent name networks. ICASSP (1) Sameer Maskey, Michiel Bacchiani, Brian Roark, Richard Sproat
2004	J	`jnl`	Issue of Chinese Word Segmentation. J. Chin. Lang. Comput. Richard Sproat
2004	—	`conf`	Lattice-Based Search for Spoken Utterance Retrieval. HLT-NAACL Murat Saraclar, Richard Sproat
2004	J	`jnl`	Schwa-Deletion in Hindi Text-to-Speech Synthesis. Int. J. Speech Technol. Bhuvana Narasimhan, Richard Sproat, George A. Kiraz
2003	A	`conf`	Identifying speakers in children's stories for speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Jason Y. Zhang, Alan W. Black, Richard Sproat
2003	—	`conf`	The First International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoff. SIGHAN Richard Sproat, Thomas Emerson
2002	B	`conf`	Creating a Finite-State Parser with Application Semantics. COLING Owen Rambow, Srinivas Bangalore, Tahir Butt, Alexis Nasr, Richard Sproat
2002	—	`conf`	WordsEye: A Text-to-Scene Conversion System. PorTAL Richard Sproat
2001	B	`conf`	Inferring the environment in a text-to-scene conversion system. K-CAP Richard Sproat
2001	J	`jnl`	Normalization of non-standard words. Comput. Speech Lang. Richard Sproat, Alan W. Black, Stanley F. Chen, Shankar Kumar, Mari Ostendorf, Christopher Richards
2001	A*	`conf`	WordsEye: an automatic text-to-scene conversion system. SIGGRAPH Robert Coyne, Richard Sproat
2000	A	`conf`	Corpus-based methods and hand-built methods. INTERSPEECH Richard Sproat
1999	—	`conf`	High-accuracy automatic segmentation. EUROSPEECH Jan P. H. van Santen, Richard Sproat
1999	J	`jnl`	Integrating geometrical and linguistic analysis for email signature block parsing. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. Hao Chen, Jianying Hu, Richard Sproat
1998	—	`conf`	Automatic ambiguity detection. ICSLP Richard Sproat, Jan P. H. van Santen
1998	B	`conf`	E-mail signature block analysis. ICPR Hao Chen, Jianying Hu, Richard Sproat
1998	C	`conf`	Emu: an e-mail preprocessor for text-to-speech. MMSP Richard Sproat, Jianying Hu, Hao Chen
1998	—	`conf`	SABLE: A standard for TTS markup. SSW Richard Sproat, Andrew J. Hunt, Mari Ostendorf, Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo, Mike Edgington
1998	—	`conf`	SABLE: a standard for TTS markup. ICSLP Richard Sproat, Andrew J. Hunt, Mari Ostendorf, Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo, Mike Edgington
1997	—	`conf`	Bell laboratories Russian text-to-speech system. EUROSPEECH Elena Pavlova, Yuri Pavlov, Richard Sproat, Chilin Shih, Jan P. H. van Santen
1997	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 10th Research on Computational Linguistics International Conference, ROCLING 1997, Taipei, Taiwan, August 1997 ROCLING Keh-Jiann Chen, Chu-Ren Huang, Richard Sproat
1997	—	`conf`	The bell labs German text-to-speech system: an overview. EUROSPEECH Bernd Möbius, Richard Sproat, Jan P. H. van Santen, Joseph P. Olive
1996	J	`jnl`	A Stochastic Finite-State Word-Segmentation Algorithm for Chinese. Comput. Linguistics Richard Sproat, Chilin Shih, William Gale, Nancy Chang
1996	J	`jnl`	Algorithms for Speech Recognition and Language Processing CoRR Mehryar Mohri, Michael Riley, Richard Sproat
1996	J	`jnl`	An Efficient Compiler for Weighted Rewrite Rules CoRR Mehryar Mohri, Richard Sproat
1996	A*	`conf`	An Efficient Compiler for Weighted Rewrite Rules. ACL Mehryar Mohri, Richard Sproat
1996	J	`jnl`	Compilation of Weighted Finite-State Transducers from Decision Trees CoRR Richard Sproat, Michael Riley
1996	A*	`conf`	Compilation of Weighted Finite-State Transducers from Decision Trees. ACL Richard Sproat, Michael Riley
1996	J	`jnl`	Estimating Lexical Priors for Low-Frequency Morphologically Ambiguous Forms. Comput. Linguistics R. Harald Baayen, Richard Sproat
1996	J	`jnl`	Issues in Text-to-Speech Conversion for Mandarin. Int. J. Comput. Linguistics Chin. Lang. Process. Chilin Shih, Richard Sproat
1996	J	`jnl`	Multilingual Text Analysis for Text-to-Speech Synthesis CoRR Richard Sproat
1996	—	`conf`	Multilingual text analysis for text-to-speech synthesis. ICSLP Richard Sproat
1996	J	`jnl`	Multilingual text analysis for text-to-speech synthesis. Nat. Lang. Eng. Richard Sproat
1995	J	`jnl`	Estimating Lexical Priors for Low-Frequency Syncretic Forms CoRR R. Harald Baayen, Richard Sproat
1995	J	`jnl`	Text-to-speech synthesis. AT&T Tech. J. Richard Sproat, Joseph P. Olive
1994	A*	`conf`	A Stochastic Finite-State Word-Segmentation Algorithm for Chinese. ACL Richard Sproat, Chilin Shih, William Gale, Nancy Chang
1994	J	`jnl`	A Stochastic Finite-State Word-Segmentation Algorithm for Chinese. CoRR Richard Sproat, Chilin Shih, William Gale, Nancy Chang
1994	—	`conf`	A corpus-based Mandarin text-to-speech synthesizer. ICSLP Benjamin Ao, Chilin Shih, Richard Sproat
1994	—	`conf`	A modular architecture for multi-lingual text-to-speech. SSW Richard Sproat, Joseph P. Olive
1994	J	`jnl`	Commentary on Bird and Klein. Comput. Linguistics Richard Sproat
1994	J	`jnl`	English noun-phrase accent prediction for text-to-speech. Comput. Speech Lang. Richard Sproat
1994	J	`jnl`	Text Analysis Tools in Spoken Language Processing. CoRR Michael Riley, Richard Sproat
1994	—	`conf`	Weighted Rational Transductions and their Application to Human Language Processing. HLT Fernando Pereira, Michael Riley, Richard Sproat
1992	—	`conf`	A corpus-based synthesizer. ICSLP Richard Sproat, Julia Hirschberg, David Yarowsky
1992	J	`jnl`	A spoken language translator for restricted-domain context-free languages. Speech Commun. David B. Roe, Pedro J. Moreno, Richard Sproat, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Michael Riley, Alejandro Macarrón
1992	Misc	`conf`	Efficient grammar processing for a spoken language translation system. ICASSP David B. Roe, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Richard Sproat, Michael D. Riley, Pedro J. Moreno, Alejandro Macarrón
1991	—	`conf`	Toward a spoken language translator for restricted-domain context-free languages. EUROSPEECH David B. Roe, Fernando Pereira, Richard Sproat, Michael D. Riley, Pedro J. Moreno, Alejandro Macarrón
1990	—	`conf`	An application of statistical optimization with dynamic programming to phonemic-input-to-character conversion for Chinese. ROCLING Richard Sproat
1990	—	`conf`	Stress assignment in complex nominals for English text-to-speech. SSW Richard Sproat
1987	A*	`conf`	Constituent-Based Morphological Parsing: A New Approach to the Problem of Word-Recognition. ACL Richard Sproat, Barbara Brunson
1987	A*	`conf`	Toward Treating English Noniinals Correctly. ACL Richard Sproat, Mark Y. Liberman