Richard Sproat

Richard William Sproat
Richard William Sproat
Alma mater	University of California, San Diego (B.A., 1981) ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1985)[1]
	Scientific career
Fields	Computational linguistics
Institutions	Google (2012–present)
Thesis	On Deriving the Lexicon (1985)
Doctoral advisor	Ken Hale

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

Linguistics

Sproat graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, under the supervision of Kenneth L. Hale.[2] 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.[3]

Sproat's main contribution to computational linguistics is in the field of text normalization, where his work with colleagues in 2001, Normalization of non-standard words,[4] was considered a seminal work in formalizing this component of speech synthesis systems.[5]

External links

Personal Homepage
Richard Sproat publications indexed by Google Scholar

References

Sproat, Richard. "Richard Sproat". Retrieved 29 November 2020.
Sproat, Richard. "On Deriving the Lexicon". MITWPL. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
Wiltschko, Martina. The Universal Structure of Categories: Towards a Formal Typology. Cambridge. p. 83. ISBN 9781107038516.
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.
Panayotov, Vassil; Chen, Guoguo; Povey, Daniel; Khudanpur, Sanjeev (April 2015). "Librispeech: An ASR corpus based on public domain audio books". 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): 5206–5210. doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178964.

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[homepage-1] Sproat, Richard. "Richard Sproat". Retrieved 29 November 2020.

[thesis-2] Sproat, Richard. "On Deriving the Lexicon". MITWPL. Retrieved 29 November 2020.

[wiltschko-3] Wiltschko, Martina. The Universal Structure of Categories: Towards a Formal Typology. Cambridge. p. 83. ISBN 9781107038516.

[4] 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.

[5] Panayotov, Vassil; Chen, Guoguo; Povey, Daniel; Khudanpur, Sanjeev (April 2015). "Librispeech: An ASR corpus based on public domain audio books". 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): 5206–5210. doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178964.