Richard Sproat
Computational linguist
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Richard Sproat is a computational linguist currently working for Sakana AI as a research scientist.[1] Prior to joining Sakana AI, Sproat worked for Google between 2012 and 2024[2] on text normalization[3] and speech recognition.[1]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1985)[1]
Richard William Sproat | |
|---|---|
| Education | University of California, San Diego (B.A., 1981) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1985)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational linguistics |
| Workplaces | Google (2012–present) |
| Thesis | On Deriving the Lexicon (1985) |
| Ken Hale | |
Linguistics
Sproat graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, under the supervision of Kenneth L. Hale.[4] His PhD thesis is one of the earliest works to derive morphosyntactically complex forms from the module which produces the phonological form that realizes these morpho-syntactic expressions, one of the core ideas in Distributed Morphology.[5]
One of Sproat's main contributions to computational linguistics is in the field of text normalization, where his work with colleagues in 2001, Normalization of non-standard words,[6] was considered a seminal work in formalizing this component of speech synthesis systems. He has also worked on computational morphology[7] and the computational analysis of writing systems.[8]
External links
- Personal Homepage
- Richard Sproat publications indexed by Google Scholar
