Time+Place: Tuesday 29/04/2003 14:30 Room 337-8 Taub Bld.
Title: TTS and Accurate Search Engine for Hebrew
Speaker: Uzzi Ornan http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/People/Faculty/ornan.html
Affiliation: Computer Scienec Dept., Technion

Abstract:



b-harca`a  zo  na`1e et arba`at  ha-xesronot  $ell  ha-ktab  ha-`1ibri
IN THIS LECTURE WE'LL MENTION 4 DEFICIENCIES OF THE HEBREW SCRIPT

w-nar`e eik ep$ar lhitgabber  `leihem  `al ydei  haknasat  ktab  fonemi.
AND WILL SHOW HOW WE COULD OVERCOME BY USING PHONEMIC SCRIPT.

toknot  ha-ysod  kol_lot :
THE BASIC PROGRAMS INCLUDE:

(1) msirat  koll  ep$aruyot  ha-qri`a  $ell  koll  maxrozet  millim,
REVEALING ALL POSSIBLE READINGS OF EACH STRING OF LETTERS,

(2) mxiqat  qri`ot  bilti  `ep$ariyot  `al  pi  bdiqa  taxbirit,  w-
DELETING IMPOSSIBLE READINGS BY SYNTACTIC CHECKING, AND -

(3) bxirat  ha-qri`ot  ha-ep$ariyot  `al  ysod  millon taxbiri-semanti
CHOOSING POSSIBLE READINGS BY USING SYNTACTIC-SEMANTIC DICTIONARY

rxab  heqqep.  nir`e  (w-ni$ma`)  et  p`ulat  mkonat  ha-dibbur 
$e-nibnta
OF QUITE BIG EXTENT. WE'LL SEE (AND LISTEN) TTS MACHINE BASED ON

`al  ysod  $nei  ha-$labbim  ha-ri`$onim,  w-naccig  et  he$$egei  mnoa`
THE FIRST TWO STAGES, AND PRESENT ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE SEMANTIC

ha-xippu$  ha-semanti,  ha-msammen  raq  et  ha-ma$ma`ut  ha-mbuqqe$et
SEARCH ENGINE, WHICH SELCTS THE INTENDED MEANING ONLY

$ell  milla  rabb=ma$ma`it .  ha-manoa`  hu`  pri
OF AMBIGUOUS WORDS. THE SEARCH ENGINE

ma`bar  `al  koll  $lo$et  ha-$labbim  $ell  tokniyot  ha-ysod.
ACTS ACCORDING TO THE 3 BASIC STAGES.