An Expert System for Understanding Chinese Homonyms in Speech Processing

Abstract

Because there are only 1,229 kinds of pronounciation in 50,000 Chinese characters, Chinese homonyms must he solved in the Chinese speech processing. The paper elaborates an applied expert system to discriminate the Chinese homonyms. On the Chinese morphology, syntax and Chinese linguistican’s experence, the knowledge base here consists of three parts: lexical base, linguistic base expressed with a Chinese ATN grammar and a special base. The inference mechanism has been designed with a retrieval and forward chaining. The experimental result has shown that some 95% Chinese homonyms are able to be discriminated.