This package provides a utility to compute phonetic features (i.e., rhyme, alliteration, plosive, homogeneity) of tokenized sentences.

Requirement

Java version >= 1.8

Usage

java -jar eu.fbk.hlt.phonetics.PhoneticScorer.jar [args]

where args can be:

i) -f <inputFile> <outputFile>

For each line in the input file, it calculates the phonetic scores and writes in the output file as tab-separated (Text\tRhyme Score\tAlliteration Score\tPlosive Score\tHomogeneity Score\n).

ii) -s <input string (with quotations)>

For the input string, it outputs the phonetic scores.

iii) -i

Interactive mode. It consumes standard input one line at a time and outputs the phonetic scores for each line. Please note that in all three cases, the program expects already tokenized text in which tokens are space separated. If your text is not tokenized, please consider tokenizing them before providing it to the phonetic scorer.

Please refer to the examples directory and the java doc for usage examples.

Terms of Use

The package includes two external resources (i.e. CMU pronunciation dictionary and Variant Conversion Info (VarCon) lexicon), both of which are free to use for non-commercial applications. The respective licences are available in the src/resources/lexical directory.

The phonetic scorers are described and used in the following paper:

@InProceedings{ozbal-pighin-strapparava:2013:ACL2013,

author = {\"{O}zbal, G\"{o}zde and Pighin, Daniele and Strapparava, Carlo},

title = {BRAINSUP: Brainstorming Support for Creative Sentence Generation},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},

month = {August},

year = {2013},

address = {Sofia, Bulgaria},

publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},

pages = {1446--1455},

url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P13-1142}

}

If you use this package in your research, please cite this paper.

The package is free to use for non-commercial uses.

A research licence is granted through the following online form to scholars working for academic and research institutions. Please give us clear evidence about your affiliation (for instance the e-mail account and home-page).

If you are an undergraduate or master student the licence should be submitted by a professor of your University.

Agreement terms:

LICENCE AGREEMENT

FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER (FBK)

HLT Phonetic Scorer (Tool)

1) Grant:

The Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) hereby grants to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, perpetual, royalty-free and worldwide license (the “License”) to use HLT Phonetic Scorer (the “Scorer”) solely for educational and research purposes, in accordance with Paragraph 2 below and subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement (the “Agreement”).

2) Limitations on Use:

The License is limited to non-commercial use. Non-commercial use relates only to educational and research purposes. Any other use is commercial use. You may not use the Scorer in connection with any business activities. You may distribute and/or allow others to use a) the Scorer or b) the applications you create with the Scorer only if each new user is bound by the provisions of this Agreement.

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You agree to acknowledge FBK (“FBK”, Fondazione Bruno Kessler) with appropriate citations in any publication or presentation containing research results obtained in whole or in part through the use of the Scorer. The following publication has to be cited:

Gözde Özbal, Daniele Pighin, and Carlo Strapparava. 2013. BRAINSUP: Brainstorming Support for Creative Sentence Generation. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013), pages 1446–1455, Sofia, Bulgaria, August. Association for Computational Linguistics.

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