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Publications and Tutorials

Books

  1. Brian Roark, Richard Sproat and Suyoun Yoon. Tools of the Scribe: How writing systems, technology, and human factors interact to affect the act of writing. SpringerNature, 2026.
  2. Richard Sproat. Symbols: An Evolutionary History from the Stone Age to the Future. SpringerNature, 2023.
  3. Kyle Gorman and Richard Sproat. Finite-State Text Processing. Morgan Claypool, 2021.
  4. Fabian Brackhane, Richard Sproat and Jürgen Trouvain (editors). Wolfgang von Kempelens Mechanismus der menschlichen Sprache. Technische Universität Dresden Press, 2017.
  5. Richard Sproat. Language, Technology and Society. Oxford University Press, 2010.
  6. Brian Roark, Richard Sproat. Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax. Oxford University Press, 2007.
  7. Martin Neef, Anneke Neijt and Richard Sproat (editors). The Relation of Writing to Spoken Language. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2002.
  8. Richard Sproat. A Computational Theory of Writing Systems. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Errata Pre-pub PDF
  9. Richard Sproat (editor). Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis: The Bell Labs Approach. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
  10. Jan van Santen, Richard Sproat, Joseph Olive and Julia Hirschberg (editors). Progress in Speech Synthesis. New York, Springer, 1997.
  11. Richard Sproat. Morphology and Computation. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1992.

Videos

  1. Richard Sproat. Introduction to Writing Systems: How Writing Encodes Language, SpringerNature, 2024.

Refereed Journals

  1. Llion Jones, Richard Sproat, Haruko Ishikawa and Alexander Gutkin. "Helpful Neighbors: Leveraging Neighbors in Geographic Feature Pronunciation." Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, To appear.
  2. Richard Sproat. "Last Words: Boring Problems are Sometimes the Most Interesting." Computational Linguistics, 48(2): 483–490.
  3. Richard Sproat and Alexander Gutkin. "The Taxonomy of Writing Systems: How to Measure how Logographic a System is." Computational Linguistics, 47(3), 477–528, 2021.
  4. Richard Sproat. "Review of Zev Handel. 2019. Sinography." Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques, 74(4): 1103–1115, 2021.
  5. Juliette Blevins, Richard Sproat. "Statistical Evidence for the Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian Hypothesis." Diachronica, 2021.
  6. Hao Zhang et al. "Neural models of text normalization for speech applications." Computational Linguistics, 45(2), 2019: 293-337.
  7. Richard Sproat. "Review of Daniels An Exploration of Writing", Written Language and Literacy, 21(2), 2018: 269–278.
  8. Richard Sproat. "A Computational Model of the Discovery of Writing", Written Language and Literacy, 20(2), 2017: 194-226.
  9. Richard Sproat. "Language typology in speech and language technology", Linguistic Typology, 20(3), 2016.
  10. Kyle Gorman and Richard Sproat. "Minimally supervised models for number normalization." TACL. 2016.
  11. Richard Sproat. "On misunderstandings and misrepresentations: A reply to Rao et al." Language, 91(4), 2015.
  12. Peter Ebden and Richard Sproat. "The Kestrel TTS Text Normalization System." Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 2014.
  13. Richard Sproat et al. "Applications of Lexicographic Semirings," Computational Linguistics, 2014.
  14. Richard Sproat. "A statistical comparison of written language and non-linguistic symbol systems," Language, 2014.
  15. Richard Sproat. "A note on Unger’s 'What linguistic units do Chinese characters represent?'", Written Language & Literacy, 16(1), 107–111, 2013.
  16. Jan van Santen, Richard Sproat and Alison Presmanes Hill. "Quantifying Repetitive Speech in Autism Spectrum Disorders." Autism Research, 2013.
  17. Padmapriya Kandhadai and Richard Sproat. "Impact of spatial ordering of graphemes in alphasyllabic scripts." Writing Systems Research, 2(2), 2010.
  18. Richard Sproat. "Reply to Rao et al. and Lee et al." Computational Linguistics, 36:4, 2010.
  19. Richard Sproat. "Last Words: Ancient symbols and reviewing practices." Computational Linguistics, 36:3, 2010.
  20. Aamir Wali, Richard Sproat et al. "Model for phonemic awareness in readers of Indian script". Written Language and Literacy, 12:2, 2009.
  21. Su-Youn Yoon et al. "Construction of a rated speech corpus of L2 learners' speech," CALICO Journal, 2009.
  22. Richard Sproat. "Brahmi-Derived Scripts, Script Layout, and Phonological Awareness." Written Language and Literacy, 9(1), 45--66, 2006.
  23. Michiel Bacchiani, Brian Roark, Michael Riley and Richard Sproat. "MAP Adaptation of Stochastic Grammars". Computer Speech and Language, 20(1):41-68, 2006.
  24. Steve Farmer, Richard Sproat and Michael Witzel. "The Collapse of the Indus-Script Thesis." EJVS, 11(2), 2004.
  25. Narasimhan, B., Sproat, R., and Kiraz, G. "Schwa-deletion in Hindi TTS Synthesis," IJST, 7(4), 2004.
  26. Richard Sproat et al. "Normalization of non-standard words." Computer Speech and Language, 15(3), 2001.
  27. Richard Sproat. "Multilingual Text Analysis for TTS," Natural Language Engineering, 2(4), 1996.
  28. Chilin Shih and Richard Sproat, "Issues in Text-to-Speech Conversion for Mandarin," CLCLP, 1996.
  29. Richard Sproat et al. "A Stochastic Finite-State Word-Segmentation Algorithm for Chinese," Computational Linguistics, 22(3), 1996.
  30. Harald Baayen and Richard Sproat. "Estimating Lexical Priors for Low-Frequency Morphological Forms," Computational Linguistics, 22(2), 1996.
  31. Richard Sproat and Chilin Shih. "Mandarin Nominal Root Compounds." Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 5, 49-71, 1996.
  32. Richard Sproat and Joseph Olive, "Text to Speech Synthesis," AT&T Technical Journal, 74(2), 1995.
  33. Richard Sproat. "English Noun-Phrase Accent Prediction." Computer Speech and Language, 8, 79-94, 1994. Word List
  34. Richard Sproat and Chilin Shih. "Why Mandarin Morphology is not Stratum-Ordered." Yearbook of Morphology, 1993.
  35. Richard Sproat and Osamu Fujimura. "Allophonic variation in English /l/." Journal of Phonetics, 21, 1993.
  36. Gail McKoon et al. "Morphosyntactic factors affecting discourse entities," Journal of Memory and Language, 32, 1993.
  37. David Roe et al. "A Spoken Language Translator for Restricted-Domain Context-Free Languages," Speech Communication, 11, 1992.
  38. Richard Sproat. "Unhappier is not a Bracketing Paradox," Linguistic Inquiry, 23, 1992.
  39. Gregory Ward, Richard Sproat and Gail McKoon. "A Pragmatic Analysis of So-Called Anaphoric Islands," Language, 67, 1991.
  40. Richard Sproat and Chilin Shih. "A Statistical Method for Finding Word Boundaries in Chinese Text," CPCOL, 4, 1990.
  41. Richard Sproat. "Welsh Syntax and VSO Structure," NLLT, 3, 173-216, 1985.
  42. Richard Sproat. "Southern California Reflexives: Translation Borrowing?" JCGBA: Papers in Linguistics, 3, 1981.

Refereed Collections

  1. Christo Kirov and Richard Sproat. "Computational Morphology". Probabilistic Linguistics, CSLI, to appear.
  2. Richard Sproat. "Writing Systems". Oxford Handbook of the History of Phonology, to appear.
  3. Gregory Ward and Richard Sproat. "Anaphoric Islands: A History of a Misleading Geographical Metaphor". The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Morphology, to appear.
  4. Richard Sproat. "English among the writing systems of the world", Handbook of the English Writing System, Routledge.
  5. Sproat, Richard and Prakash Padakannaya. "Script Indices". Advances in Cognitive Science, Vol 1, Sage: 2008.
  6. Sproat, Richard. "The Consistency of the Orthographically Relevant Level in Dutch." Linguistische Arbeiten 460, Niemeyer, 2002.
  7. Jianying Hu, Richard Sproat and Hao Chen. "Electronic Mail", McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 2001.
  8. R. Harald Baayen et al. "Morphology in the Mental Lexicon," Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing, Kluwer, 2000.
  9. Richard Sproat et al. "Computational Linguistics", The Blackwell Handbook of Linguistics, Blackwell, 2000.
  10. Richard Sproat. "Lexical Analysis", Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Dekker, 2000.
  11. Richard Sproat and Joseph Olive. "Text-to-Speech Synthesis," IEEE/CRC Press Handbook of Signal Processing, 1997.
  12. Richard Sproat. "Text Interpretation for TtS Synthesis", Survey of Human Language Technology, 1996.
  13. Richard Sproat and Joseph Olive. "A Modular Architecture for Multilingual TTS," Progress in Speech Synthesis, Springer, 1997.
  14. Richard Sproat and Joseph Olive. "An Approach to TTS Synthesis," Speech Coding and Synthesis, Elsevier, 1995.
  15. Julia Hirschberg and Richard Sproat. "Pitch Accent Prediction from Text Analysis," Linguistics and Computation, CSLI, 1995.
  16. Richard Sproat. "Looking into Words," Studies in Lexical Phonology, Academic Press, 1993.
  17. Mark Liberman and Richard Sproat. "The Stress and Structure of Modified Noun Phrases," Lexical Matters, CSLI, 1992.
  18. Richard Sproat and Chilin Shih. "The Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Adjective Ordering Restrictions," Essays in Honor of S.-Y. Kuroda, Kluwer, 1990.
  19. Richard Sproat. "Bracketing Paradoxes, Cliticization and Other Topics," In Honour of Henk Schultink, Foris, 1988.
  20. Richard Sproat. "On Anaphoric Islandhood," Theoretical Morphology, Academic Press, 1988.

Conference Proceedings & Presentations

  1. Shigeki Karita, Richard Sproat and Haruko Ishikawa. "Lenient Evaluation of Japanese Speech Recognition." First ACL Workshop on Computation and Written Language, 2023.
  2. Abhirut Gupta et al. "Bi-Phone: Modeling Inter Language Phonetic Influences in Text." ACL, Toronto, 2023.
  3. Richard Sproat. "A Computational Model of the Invention of Writing." Anchoring the Invention of Writing, Leiden, 2022.
  4. Alexander Gutkin et al. "Beyond Arabic: Software for Perso-Arabic Script Manipulation," WANLP, 2022.
  5. Christo Kirov, Richard Sproat and Alexander Gutkin. "Mockingbird at the SIGTYP 2022 Shared Task," ACL SIGTYP, 2022.
  6. Raiomond Doctor et al. "Graphemic Normalization of the Perso-Arabic Script," Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2022.
  7. Kyle Gorman and Richard Sproat. "On the Persistent Conflation of Writing and Language," Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2022.
  8. Richard Sproat. "Computational Methods in Graphical Symbol Systems," Keynote, Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2022.
  9. Kyle Gorman et al. "Structured abbreviation expansion in context", Findings of EMNLP, 2021.
  10. Jae Ro, Hao Zhang and Richard Sproat. "Semi-supervised URL Segmentation with RNNs". COLING, 2020.
  11. Alexander Gutkin and Richard Sproat, "SIGTYP 2020 Shared Task". SIGTYP Workshop, 2020.
  12. Alena Butryna et al. "Google Crowdsourced Speech Corpora Overview". LT4All Conference, UNESCO, Paris, 2019. arXiv
  13. Ajda Gokcen, Hao Zhang and Richard Sproat. "Dual Encoder Classifier Models in Neural Text Normalization." Interspeech, 2019.
  14. Sandy Ritchie et al. "Unified Verbalization for Speech Recognition Across Languages." Interspeech, 2019.
  15. Keshan Sodimana et al. "Text Normalization for Bangla, Khmer, Nepali, Javanese, Sinhala and Sundanese TTS." SLTU, 2018.
  16. Hao Zhang, Ke Wu and Richard Sproat. "Fast and Accurate Reordering with ITG Transition RNN." COLING, 2018.
  17. Ke Wu, Kyle Gorman and Richard Sproat. "Minimally supervised written-to-spoken text normalization." ASRU, 2017.
  18. Fabian Brackhane, Richard Sproat and Jürgen Trouvain. "Editing Kempelen’s Mechanismus," HSCR, 2017.
  19. Richard Sproat and Navdeep Jaitly. "An RNN Model of Text Normalization," Interspeech, 2017.
  20. Alexander Gutkin and Richard Sproat. "Areal and Phylogenetic Features for Multilingual Speech Synthesis," Interspeech, 2017.
  21. Daan van Esch and Richard Sproat. "An Expanded Taxonomy of Semiotic Classes for Text Normalization," Interspeech, 2017.
  22. Alexander Gutkin et al. "Building synthesis for Bangladeshi Bangla", IEEE SLT, 2016.
  23. Alexander Gutkin et al. "TTS for Low Resource Languages: A Bangla Synthesizer." LREC 2016.
  24. Masoud Rouhizadeh et al. "Measuring idiosyncratic interests in children with ASD". ACL, Beijing, 2015.
  25. Masoud Rouhizadeh et al. "Restrictive and Repetitive Behavior in Conversations of Autistic Children". CLPsych, Denver, 2015.
  26. Emily Prud'hommeaux et al. "Linguistic development in autism". IEEE SLT, 2014.
  27. Richard Sproat and Keith Hall. "Applications of Maximum Entropy Rankers." Interspeech 2014.
  28. Brian Roark and Richard Sproat. "Hippocratic abbreviation expansion." ACL 2014.
  29. Masoud Rouhizadeh et al. "Detecting linguistic restricted interests in autism," CLPsych, Baltimore, 2014.
  30. Richard Sproat et al. "A Database for Measuring Linguistic Information Content." LREC 2014.
  31. Keith Hall and Richard Sproat. "Russian Stress Prediction using Maximum Entropy Ranking", EMNLP 2013.
  32. Bob Coyne et al. "Knowledge Representation for a Text-To-Scene System." COLING, Mumbai, 2012.
  33. Steven Bedrick et al. "Robust kaomoji detection in Twitter". Language and Social Media, Montreal, 2012.
  34. Margaret Mitchell and Richard Sproat. "Discourse-Based Modeling for AAC". SLPAT Workshop, Montreal, 2012.
  35. Brian Roark et al. "The OpenGrm open-source finite-state grammar software libraries". ACL 2012, Jeju, Korea.
  36. Katherine Wu et al. "Corpora of Non-Linguistic Symbol Systems." LSA, Portland, 2012. PDF
  37. Terry Tai et al. "Thrax: An Open Source Grammar Compiler". ASRU 2011, Hawaii.
  38. Masoud Rouhizadeh et al. "Scenario-Based Lexical Knowledge Resource of a Text-to-Scene System", KES 2011, Germany.
  39. Izhak Shafran et al. "Efficient Determinization of Tagged Word Lattices". ASRU 2011, Hawaii.
  40. Brian Roark et al. "Technology-assisted co-construction with communication partners." SLPAT 2011, Edinburgh.
  41. Masoud Rouhizadeh et al. "Collecting Spatial Information for Locations." CoSLI 2011 Workshop, Boston.
  42. Brian Roark, Richard Sproat and Izhak Shafran. "Lexicographic Semirings for Exact Automata Encoding". ACL-HLT 2011. Best short paper award
  43. Alexander Kotov et al. "Mining Named Entities from Multilingual Web News Streams", WSDM 2011.
  44. Masoud Rouhizadeh et al. "Collecting Semantic Data from Mechanical Turk." IWCS 2011, Oxford.
  45. Aaron M. Cohen et al. "OHSU/Portland VAMC Participation in 2010 i2b2 Challenge," Fourth i2b2 Workshop, 2010.
  46. Masoud Rouhizadeh et al. "5th International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation." Limassol, Cyprus, 2010.
  47. Richard Sproat. "Lightly Supervised Learning of Text Normalization: Russian Number Names," IEEE SLT, Berkeley, 2010.
  48. Su-Youn Yoon et al. "Landmark-based Automated Pronunciation Error Detection," Interspeech 2010, Japan.
  49. Suma Bhat et al. "Automatic Fluency Assessment by Signal-Level Measurement." Interspeech L2 Workshop, Japan, 2010.
  50. Bob Coyne, Richard Sproat, Julia Hirschberg. "Spatial Relations in Text-to-Scene Conversion". Spatial Cognition Workshop, Mt. Hood, 2010.
  51. Bob Coyne et al. "Frame Semantics in Text-to-Scene Generation". KES 2010, Cardiff.
  52. Ting Qian et al. "A Python Toolkit for Universal Transliteration". LREC, Malta, 2010.
  53. Suma Bhat et al. "Automatic fluency assessment using thin-slices," LTRC, 2010.
  54. Su-youn Yoon et al. "Automated Pronunciation Scoring using Confidence Scoring", InterSpeech, 2009.
  55. Martin Jansche, Richard Sproat, "Named Entity Transcription with Pair n-Gram Models", NEWS 2009, ACL--IJCNLP 2009.
  56. Suma Bhat and Richard Sproat. "Knowing the Unseen: Estimating Vocabulary Size", ACL, 2009.
  57. Xuanhui Wang et al. "Mining Correlated Bursty Topic Patterns", ACM SIGKDD, 2007.
  58. Su-Youn Yoon et al. "Multilingual Transliteration Using Feature based Phonetic Method". ACL, Prague, 2007.
  59. Alla Rozovskaya, Richard Sproat, "Multilingual Word Sense Discrimination", Balto-Slavonic NLP, Prague, 2007.
  60. Boon Pang Lim, Richard Sproat: Using Latent Semantics for NE Translation. ICCPOL 2006.
  61. Tao Tao et al. "Unsupervised Named Entity Transliteration Using Temporal and Phonetic Correlation." EMNLP, Sydney, 2006.
  62. Richard Sproat, Tao Tao and ChengXiang Zhai. "Named Entity Transliteration with Comparable Corpora". ACL 2006, Sydney.
  63. Alla Rozovskaya et al. "Language Modeling of Arabic Dialects". Colloquium on Arabic LP, Rabat, 2006.
  64. Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm et al. "Emotions from text: machine learning for emotion prediction." HLT/EMNLP 2005.
  65. Cecilia Alm and Richard Sproat. "Emotional sequencing and development in fairy tales." ACII, Beijing, 2005.
  66. Cecilia Alm and Richard Sproat. "Perceptions of emotions in expressive storytelling." InterSpeech 2005, Lisbon.
  67. Yanli Zheng et al. "Accent Detection for Shanghai-Accented Mandarin." InterSpeech 2005, Lisbon.
  68. Richard Sproat, Prakash Padakannaya. "Script Indices". Cognitive Science Conference, India, 2004.
  69. Sameer Maskey et al. "Improved Name Recognition with Meta-Data Dependent Name Networks". ICASSP 2004, Montréal.
  70. Murat Saraclar, Richard Sproat. "Lattice-Based Search for Spoken Utterance Retrieval." HLT-NAACL 04, Boston, 2004.
  71. Michael Riley et al. "Good-Turing Estimation from Word Lattices." IEEE ASRU, Virgin Islands, 2003.
  72. Richard Sproat, "A Formal Computational Analysis of Indic Scripts", Symposium on Indic Scripts, Tokyo, 2003.
  73. Jason Zhang et al. "Identifying Speakers in Children's Stories," EUROSPEECH 2003, Geneva.
  74. Richard Sproat and Thomas Emerson, "The First International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoff", SIGHAN Workshop, Japan, 2003.
  75. Srinivas Bangalore et al. "Creating a Finite-State Parser with Application Semantics", COLING, Taipei, 2002.
  76. Richard Sproat, "Inferring the Environment in a Text-to-Scene Conversion System", K-CAP '01, Victoria, BC, 2001.
  77. Richard Sproat, "Pmtools: A Pronunciation Modeling Toolkit", ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Scotland, 2001.
  78. Bob Coyne and Richard Sproat, "WordsEye: An Automatic Text-to-Scene Conversion system", SIGGRAPH 2001, LA.
  79. Richard Sproat. "Corpus-Based Methods and Hand-Built Methods", ICSLP, 2000.
  80. Bhuvana Narasimhan et al. "Schwa deletion in Hindi TTS Synthesis." 21st SALA, Konstanz, 2001.
  81. Jan van Santen and Richard Sproat. "High-accuracy automatic segmentation". EUROSPEECH 99, Budapest.
  82. Richard Sproat et al. "EMU: An E-mail Preprocessor for TTS," IEEE MMSP, LA, 1998.
  83. Hao Chen et al. "E-mail Signature Block Analysis", ICPR'98, Brisbane.
  84. Richard Sproat et al. "SABLE: A Standard for TTS Markup", ICSLP 1998.
  85. Richard Sproat, Jan van Santen, "Automatic Ambiguity Detection", ICSLP, 1998.
  86. Richard Sproat et al. "A Markup Language for Speech Synthesis," EUROSPEECH, 1997.
  87. Bernd Möbius et al. "A German Text-to-Speech System," EUROSPEECH, 1997.
  88. Elena Pavlova et al. "A TTS System for Russian," EUROSPEECH, 1997.
  89. Chilin Shih and Richard Sproat. "Mandarin Text-to-Speech Synthesis," NACCL-8, 1997.
  90. Richard Sproat. "Multilingual Text Analysis for TTS," ICSLP, 1996.
  91. Richard Sproat. "Multilingual Text Analysis", ECAI '96 Workshop, Budapest.
  92. Richard Sproat and Michael Riley. "Compilation of WFSTs from Decision Trees", ACL 1996.
  93. Mehryar Mohri and Richard Sproat. "Compiler for Weighted Rewrite Rules", ACL 1996.
  94. Richard Sproat. "Finite-State Architecture for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion," EACL SIGDAT Workshop, Dublin, 1995.
  95. Richard Sproat and Chilin Shih. "Mandarin Nominal Root Compounds," NACCL-6, 1995.
  96. Benjamin Ao et al. "A Corpus-Based Mandarin TTS Synthesizer," ICSLP, 1994.
  97. Richard Sproat and Joseph Olive. "A Modular Architecture for Multilingual TTS," ESCA/IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 1994.
  98. Richard Sproat et al. "A Stochastic Finite-State Word-Segmentation Algorithm for Chinese," ACL 1994.
  99. Fernando Pereira et al. "Weighted Rational Transductions," ARPA HLT Workshop, 1994.
  100. Richard Sproat et al. "A corpus-based synthesizer," ICSLP, 1992.
  101. Richard Sproat and Chilin Shih. "Constraints on Mandarin morphology," 3rd ISCL&L, 1992.
  102. David Roe et al. "Efficient Grammar Processing for Spoken Translation," ICASSP-92, 1992.
  103. David Roe et al. "Spoken Language Translator for Restricted-Domain languages," EUROSPEECH 91.
  104. Richard Sproat. "Statistical DP for Chinese Phonemic-to-Character Conversion," ROCLING III, 1990.
  105. Richard Sproat. "Stress Assignment in Complex Nominals for English TTS," ESCA Workshop, 1990.
  106. Richard Sproat and Chilin Shih. "Prenominal Adjectival Ordering in English and Mandarin," NELS 18, 1988.
  107. Richard Sproat and Barbara Brunson. "Constituent-Based Morphological Parsing," ACL 1987.
  108. Richard Sproat and Mark Liberman. "Toward Treating English Nominals Correctly," ACL 1987.
  109. Richard Sproat and Gregory Ward. "Pragmatic Considerations in Anaphoric Island Phenomena," CLS 23, 1987.
  110. Richard Sproat. "Malayalam Compounding," WCCFL 5, 1986.
  111. Richard Sproat. "The Projection Principle and Synthetic Compounds," NELS 16, 1986.
  112. Richard Sproat. "INFL and VSO Languages," NELS 14, 1984.

Invited Review Articles & Commentaries

  1. Amalia Gnanadesikan and Richard Sproat. "Writing Systems". Oxford Bibliographies, 2018.
  2. Richard Sproat. "Phonemic diversity and the out-of-Africa theory". Linguistic Typology, 15, 2011.
  3. Richard Sproat. "Linguistic Processing for Speech Synthesis", Springer Handbook of Speech Processing, 2006.
  4. Richard Sproat. "Morphology as Component or Module," Handbook of Morphology, Blackwell, 2000.
  5. Richard Sproat. "Text Interpretation for TTS," Survey of Human Language Technology, Kluwer, 1996.
  6. Richard Sproat. "Computational Interpretations of Neurolinguistic Observations," The Cognitive Neurosciences, MIT Press, 1994.
  7. Richard Sproat. "Commentary on Bird and Klein." Computational Linguistics, 493, 1994.
  8. Richard Sproat. "The Lexicon in Generative Grammar," Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 1991.
  9. Richard Sproat. "Competence, Performance and Agrammatism," Brain and Language, 27, 1986.

Book Reviews

  1. Richard Sproat, "Review of Shouhui Zhao & Richard B. Baldauf, Planning Chinese Characters," Written Language and Literacy, 11(2), 2008.
  2. Chilin Shih, Richard Sproat. "Review of Horne (ed.) Prosody," Computational Linguistics, 27(3), 2001.
  3. Richard Sproat. "Review of Packard (ed.) New Approaches to Chinese Word Formation." Yearbook of Morphology, 1999.
  4. Richard Sproat. "Review of Daniels and Bright, The World's Writing Systems," Written Language and Literacy, 1(1), 1998.
  5. Richard Sproat. "Review of Beard, Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology," Journal of Linguistics, 1997.
  6. Richard Sproat. "Review of Miller Complex Verb Formation," Language, 70, 1994.
  7. Richard Sproat. "Review of Ritchie et al. Computational Morphology," Language, 69, 1993.
  8. Richard Sproat. "Review of Carstairs: Current Morphology," Phonology Yearbook, 9, 1993.
  9. Richard Sproat. "Review of Lieber's Deconstructing Morphology." Yearbook of Morphology, 1992.
  10. Richard Sproat. "Review of Syntax of Modern Celtic Languages." Lingua, 1992.
  11. Richard Sproat. "Review of PC-KIMMO," Computational Linguistics, 17, 1991.
  12. Richard Sproat, "Review of Packard: Morphology of Chinese", LINGUIST List: Vol-12-11.
  13. Richard Sproat, "Review of Bright and Daniels: The World's Writing Systems", LINGUIST List: Vol-7-400.

Other Publications

  1. Richard Sproat, Tianyu Zhao and Llion Jones. "TransEvalnia: Reasoning-based Evaluation of Translations". 2025.
  2. Kyle Gorman and Richard Sproat. "Superior text processing with Pynini". O'Reilly, 2016.
  3. M. Rouhizadeh et al. "Semantic Analysis of Repetitive Behavior in Autism" IMFAR, 2015.
  4. M. Rouhizadeh et al. "Patterns of Discourse Marker Use in ASD" IMFAR, 2014.
  5. Richard Sproat et al. "Analysis of Natural Language Samples: Autism comparison." IMFAR, 2011.
  6. Richard Sproat et al. "Named Entity Recognition and Transliteration for 50 Languages." MCLC II, 2005.
  7. Bernd Möbius and Richard Sproat, "Linguistische Analyse," Spektrum der Wissenschaften, 1996.
  8. Richard Sproat, On Deriving the Lexicon. MIT Working Papers, 1985. (PhD Dissertation).
  9. Richard Sproat, "A Note on Rebracketing," MIT Working Papers, 6, 1999, 1985.
  10. Richard Sproat. "Scientific Curriculum in Linguistics for Secondary Schools." Harvard Educational Technology Center, 1985.
  11. Richard Sproat, "Creole Languages," Scientific American, Dec 1983.
  12. John Newman with Richard Sproat. Old High German Reader, 1981.

Tutorials and Courses

  1. "Corpus-Based Methods in Chinese Morphology", COLING 2002, Taipei. Exercises
  2. "Corpus-Based Methods in Chinese Morphology and Phonology", with Chilin Shih, 2001 LSA Institute. Lec 1 Lec 2 Lec 3 Notes
  3. "Finite-state Methods in Morphology and Writing Systems", ROCLING X, Taipei.
  4. "Algorithms for Speech Recognition", COLING 1996, Copenhagen.
  5. "Text Analysis Tools in Spoken Language Processing", ACL 1994.
  6. "Morphology and Computational Morphology", ACL 1989, Vancouver.