{ "paper_id": "O12-1009", "header": { "generated_with": "S2ORC 1.0.0", "date_generated": "2023-01-19T08:03:02.780978Z" }, "title": "A Prediction Module for Taiwanese Tone Sandhi Based on the Decision Tree Algorithm", "authors": [ { "first": "Neng-Huang", "middle": [], "last": "Pan", "suffix": "", "affiliation": { "laboratory": "", "institution": "Chienkuo Technology University", "location": {} }, "email": "nhpan@cc.ctu.edu.tw" }, { "first": "Ming-Shing", "middle": [], "last": "Yu", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "msyu@dragon.nchu.edu.tw" }, { "first": "Pei-Chun", "middle": [], "last": "Tsai", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" } ], "year": "", "venue": null, "identifiers": {}, "abstract": "Taiwanese tone sandhi problem is one of the important research issues for Taiwanese Text-to-Speech systems. In word level, we can use the general tone sandhi rules to deal with the Taiwanese tone sandhi problem. The tone sandhi becomes more difficult in sentence level because of that the general tone sandhi rules for words may not apply at each word in a sentence. In this paper we proposed a module to deal with the Taiwanese tone sandhi problem for Chinese to Taiwanese Text-to-Speech systems. We adopt Decision tree C5.0 algorithm accompanied with three Special Cases generated from training data to predict the tone sandhi of each syllable. In this module, the accuracy of the inside test and outside test are 93.42%", "pdf_parse": { "paper_id": "O12-1009", "_pdf_hash": "", "abstract": [ { "text": "Taiwanese tone sandhi problem is one of the important research issues for Taiwanese Text-to-Speech systems. In word level, we can use the general tone sandhi rules to deal with the Taiwanese tone sandhi problem. The tone sandhi becomes more difficult in sentence level because of that the general tone sandhi rules for words may not apply at each word in a sentence. In this paper we proposed a module to deal with the Taiwanese tone sandhi problem for Chinese to Taiwanese Text-to-Speech systems. We adopt Decision tree C5.0 algorithm accompanied with three Special Cases generated from training data to predict the tone sandhi of each syllable. In this module, the accuracy of the inside test and outside test are 93.42%", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Abstract", "sec_num": null } ], "body_text": [ { "text": "and 91.13%, respectively. 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C5.0() [7]()
/sim1/ Chinese Gigaword Third Edition 1./sim7/
/gu2//gu1/
/kiam3//kiam2/
/kut4//kut2/
( )Special Case/dai5//dai3/ ( /dai7/ () )
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( )C5.0
[1][4][8-10][1]
(Decision Tree)
/zong1 tong1 hu2/[9]
[2]
[8]
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584%[7]
583813885.84%
C5.0Special Case
C5.0 CART CHAIDQUEST
C5.0C5.0
C5.0
()(Information Gain Value)
[11]
( )
C5.0
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