This paper describes a method for selecting one single pronunciation from a set of alternatives. Two types of reductions are described - base form reductions and inflected form reductions. The strategies are different because the inflected forms have to take care of two properties of Norwegian: The language allows for many spelling alternatives, both in base forms and inflected forms, and many morphological inflection types license pronunciation alternatives. A comprehensive pronunciation lexicon with more than 65000 base forms is used, and it is demonstrated that it is possible for users of the lexicon to derive their own stylistic preferences.
Cite as: Nordgård, T., Foldvik, A.K. (2001) Reduction of alternative pronunciations in the norwegian computational lexicon norkompleks. Proc. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001), 111-114, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.2001-40
@inproceedings{nordgard01_eurospeech,
author={Torbjørn Nordgård and Arne Kjell Foldvik},
title={{Reduction of alternative pronunciations in the norwegian computational lexicon norkompleks}},
year=2001,
booktitle={Proc. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001)},
pages={111--114},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.2001-40}
}