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Sphinx and Pheonix

Amit Dubey
2000-05-13
2012-09-22
  • Amit Dubey

    Amit Dubey - 2000-05-13

    Hi,

    I've been doing a bit of reading, and I understand that Sphinx has been used very often with the Pheonix parser.  I have a couple of questions about this.  First, are there any plans to release the source for the Pheonix parser?  Second, was there any kind of interaction between the parser and the word recognizer?  In particular, was the parser used to correct mistakes, help select the most probable word or to supervise on-line learning in the recognizer?  Third, will some of the interface of Sphinx be opened up so that _any_ parser may help with error detection or on-line learning in the recognizer?

    Thanks,
    Amit Dubey

     
    • Kevin A. Lenzo

      Kevin A. Lenzo - 2000-05-17

      Phoenix has (and still is) used with Sphinx on certain projects here
      at CMU and elsewhere, but we have some issues still about releasing
      it.  We may have to create another parser if we don't manage to
      get everything together for Phoenix to release it.

      Phoenix is a parser that uses semantic fragment grammars.  With it,
      one can, for instance, take the top N possible word strings from
      sphinx2 and find parses that seem to work, and reject some.  But
      we don't have this tool to give out widely at the moment.  I'll make
      a point of asking the people who ultimately will make the decisions
      on this component again.

      kevin

       

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