Finite-State Text Processing
Finite-State Text Processing (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies)
by Kyle Gorman
English | 2021 | ISBN: 163639115X | 160 pages | True PDF | 9.66 MB
by Kyle Gorman
English | 2021 | ISBN: 163639115X | 160 pages | True PDF | 9.66 MB
Weighted finite-state transducers (WFSTs) are commonly used by engineers and computational linguists for processing and generating speech and text. This book first provides a detailed introduction to this formalism. It then introduces Pynini, a Python library for compiling finite-state grammars and for combining, optimizing, applying, and searching finite-state transducers. This book illustrates this library's conventions and use with a series of case studies. These include the compilation and application of context-dependent rewrite rules, the construction of morphological analyzers and generators, and text generation and processing applications.