Richard William Sproat
Alma materUniversity of California, San Diego (B.A., 1981)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1985)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsComputational linguistics
InstitutionsGoogle (2012–present)
ThesisOn Deriving the Lexicon (1985)
Doctoral advisorKen Hale

Richard Sproat is a computational linguist currently working for Google as a researcher on text normalization[2] and speech recognition.[1]

Linguistics

Sproat graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, under the supervision of Kenneth L. Hale.[3] His PhD thesis is one of the earliest work that derives morphosyntactically complex forms from the module which produces the phonological form that realizes these morpho-syntactic expressions, one of the core ideas in Distributed Morphology.[4]

One of Sproat's main contributions to computational linguistics is in the field of text normalization, where his work with colleagues in 2001, Normalization of non-standard words,[5] was considered a seminal work in formalizing this component of speech synthesis systems. He has also worked on computational morphology[6] and the computational analysis of writing systems.[7]

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References

  1. ^ a b Sproat, Richard. "Richard Sproat". Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  2. ^ Sodimana, Keshan; Silva, Pasindu De; Sproat, Richard; Theeraphol, A.; Li, Chen Fang; Gutkin, Alexander; Sarin, Supheakmungkol; Pipatsrisawat, Knot (2018). "Text Normalization for Bangla, Khmer, Nepali, Javanese, Sinhala and Sundanese Text-to-Speech Systems" (PDF). 6th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU 2018). pp. 147–151. doi:10.21437/SLTU.2018-31. S2CID 53333966.
  3. ^ Sproat, Richard. "On Deriving the Lexicon". MITWPL. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  4. ^ Wiltschko, Martina (24 July 2014). The Universal Structure of Categories: Towards a Formal Typology. Cambridge. p. 83. ISBN 9781107038516.
  5. ^ Sproat, Richard; Black, Alan W.; Chen, Stanley; Kumar, Shankar; Ostendorf, Mari; Richards, Christopher (1 July 2001). "Normalization of non-standard words". Computer Speech & Language. 15 (3): 287–333. doi:10.1006/csla.2001.0169.
  6. ^ Sproat, Richard (1992). Morphology and Computation. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262527026.
  7. ^ Sproat, Richard (2000). A Computational theory of Writing Systems. Cambridge. ISBN 9780521663403.


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