How do you pronounce your name? Improving G2P with transliterations
Aditya Bhargava, Grzegorz Kondrak · 2011
Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion (G2P) of names is an important and challenging prob-lem. The correct pronunciation of a name is often reflected in its transliterations, which are expressed within a different phonological in-ventory. We investigate the problem of us-ing transliterations to correct errors produced by state-of-the-art G2P systems. We present a novel re-ranking approach that incorporates a variety of score and n-gram features, in order to leverage transliterations from multiple lan-guages. Our experiments demonstrate signifi-cant accuracy improvements when re-ranking is applied to n-best lists generated by three different G2P programs. 1