Natural Langauge Processing - Text Normalization

As the bulk of the world's information is #online, the task of making that data accessible becomes increasingly important. The challenge of making the world's information accessible to everyone, across language barriers, has simply outgrown the capacity for #human translation.

#Natural language processing, or NLP is a branch of artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between #computers and human (natural) languages, and, in particular, concerned with #programming computers to fruitfully process #large natural language data.

Natural language processing is an important technology in bridging the gap between human communication and #digital data.

Many #NLP applications, including text-to-speech synthesis #(TTS) and automatic speech recognition #(ASR), require text to be converted from written expressions into appropriate "spoken" forms. This is a process known as text normalization, and helps convert 12:47 to "twelve forty-seven" and $3.16 into "three dollars, sixteen cents."

The goal of this project is to automate the process of developing text #normalization grammars via #machine learning.

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