HyprLex: VM Phonetic Similarity Database
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HyprLex: an experimental interactive lexicon tool

U Bielefeld Lexicon Group, August 1995

Application 4.1: Query Engine for VERBMOBIL Phonological Similarity LexDB
VERBMOBIL Phonological similarity DB. Dafydd Gibbon (for Uptake Loop triggering). 17 Aug 1995

LEXICAL ENTRY (orthography):   

ATTRIBUTES:
Orthography: Phonological similarity:
SEARCH: SELECT:         

The similarity classes are based in the Levenshtein string comparison algorithm. Tests have shown that this method is inferior to string comparison based on explicit phonological and prosodic classifications (see Application 4.2).
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Caveat:
This is an experimental service which uses HTML Level 3 and Netscape features which may not be appreciated by some browser software. Documents are designed in "hypr", a default inheritance approach to modelling hypertext as a semantic network. The "hypr" compiler is written in DATR .
Dafydd Gibbon - 26.08.95