Richard Sproat

Richard Sproat received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. He has worked at AT&T Bell Labs, at Lucent's Bell Labs and at AT&T Labs Research, before joining the faculty of the University of Illinois. From there he moved to the Center for Spoken Language Understanding at the Oregon Health & Science University. In the Fall of 2012 he moved to Google, New York as a Research Scientist. Sproat has worked in numerous areas relating to language and computational linguistics.

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How to get superior text processing in Python with Pynini

November 16, 2016

Regular expressions are the standard for string processing, but did you know you can often get better text untangling with Pynini's finite-state transducers?