Richard Sproat

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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 Sakana AI as a research scientist. [1] Prior to joining Sakana AI, Sproat worked for Google between 2012 and 2024 [2] on text normalization [3] and speech recognition. [1]

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Linguistics

Sproat graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, under the supervision of Kenneth L. Hale. [4] 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. [5]

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, [6] was considered a seminal work in formalizing this component of speech synthesis systems. He has also worked on computational morphology [7] and the computational analysis of writing systems. [8]

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  1. 1 2 3 Richard Sproat
  2. ↑ Curriculum vitae
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Sproat, Richard. "On Deriving the Lexicon". MITWPL. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  5. ↑ Wiltschko, Martina (24 July 2014). The Universal Structure of Categories: Towards a Formal Typology. Cambridge. p. 83. ISBN   9781107038516.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Sproat, Richard (1992). Morphology and Computation. MIT Press. ISBN   9780262527026.
  8. ↑ Sproat, Richard (2000). A Computational theory of Writing Systems. Cambridge. ISBN   9780521663403.


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