par Van Den Bosch, Antal ;Content, Alain ;Daelemans, Walter;De Gelder, Béatrice
Référence Journal of quantitative linguistics, 1, 3, page (178-188)
Publication Publié, 1994-01
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : We propose a quantitative operationalisation of the complexity of a writing system. This complexity, also referred to as orthographic depth, plays a crucial role in psycholinguistic modelling of reading aloud (and learning to read aloud) in several languages. The complexity of a writing system is expressed by two measures, viz. that of the complexity of letter-phoneme alignment and that of the complexity of grapheme-phoneme correspondences. We present the alignment problem and the correspondence problem as tasks to three different data-oriented learning algorithms, and submit them to English, French and Dutch learning and testing material. Generalisation performance metrics are used to propose for each corpus a two-dimensional writing system complexity value. © 1994, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.