Modules

IPOX uses three types of grammars to analyze input text:

• syntactic component (syn)
• morphological component (mor)
• phonotactic and prosodic component (phon)

The run-time system uses these modules to parse:

• orthographic words (syn)
• substrings of a word (mor)
• characters in a word (phon)

Properties

• each module can be designed and tested separately
• the syntactic component can be interfaced to the morphological component

Limitations

• no interface has yet been defined between syntax/morphology and phonology
• speech can be generated only from a representation assigned by the phonotactic/prosodic component

Syntax-Morphology interface

• function words are defined in the lexicon of the syntactic component
• content words are analyzed by the morphological component

Example

In the example below, adaptable and system are analyzed by the morphological component.

a demo of syn + mor

In order to generate speech for this utterance, we need the structure shown below.

a Application.