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From: dmg@lcs.mit.edu (David Goodine)
Subject: Re: MARBLE from MIT
In-Reply-To: wooters@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU's message of 21 Oct 1992 20:38:26 GMT
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 21:43:44 GMT
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In reply to Chuck Wooters question about the program for automatically
generating pronunciations, the program that was mentioned was probably
MARBLE (Mechanism for Automatic Rule Based Lexion Expansion).

MARBLE uses a simple text-based dictionary of baseform pronunciations
along with a set of context dependent rewrite rules that mutate the
baseform into a pronunciation network (DAG).

The bulk of the system is the rule application mechanism and a
graphical interface for inspecting the networks. It was specifically
designed to carry out pronunciation transforms accross word
boundaries, and can be used to model many types of transformations.

At the moment, we are finalizing the licensing paperwork with the MIT
Technology Licensing Office and they will subsequently be able to
release MARBLE to the general public.  When this happens, I will post
a message to this group with details for getting a copy.

If anyone has questions, or would like to be added to the MARBLE mailing
list, send mail to MARBLE-USERS-REQUEST@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu.  If you
think you would like to use MARBLE, please send a message to the above 
list so I can get an idea of just how much interest there is in the
community.

I will post a POSTSCRIPT version of the MARBLE Users Manual to this
Usenet group, which contains many more details of its capabilities.

David Goodine
Spoken Language System Group
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
(dmg@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu)
