Stefan Rapp

is a research staff member of the SFB 340 "Linguistic Foundations for Computational Linguistics" and is working in subproject C4: Entwicklung eines prosodischen Moduls für die Diskursrepräsentationstheorie. Research interests are interactions between prosody and semantics, automatic prosody labelling, speech recognition and synthesis, machine learning. Have a look on what's done in C4

Postal address:

University of Stuttgart
Institute of Natural Language Processing
Experimental Phonetics
Azenbergstr. 12
70174 Stuttgart

phone: +49-711-121.1376
fax: +49-711-121.1366
e-mail: Stefan.Rapp@ims.uni-stuttgart.de

Publications:

Rapp, S. (1996). Goethe for Prosody to appear in Proceedings of ICSLP96, Philadelphia PA.
Rapp, S. (1995). Automatic phonemic transcription and linguistic annotation from known text with Hidden Markov Models / An Aligner for German In: Proceedings of ELSNET goes east and IMACS Workshop ``Integration of Language and Speech in Academia and Industry'', Moscow.
Rapp, S., Jessen, M. and Dogil, G. (1994). Using Rough Sets Theory to Predict German Word Stress. in: Nebel, B. and Dreschler-Fischer, L. (Eds.) KI-94: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 861, Springer-Verlag.
Just a one page abstract, better read the (unpublished) full version of it (18 pages, in English, 242kB PostScript). If this is not enough and you can decipher german texts, read chapter 4 of...
Rapp, S. (1994). Maschinelles Lernen von Aspekten des deutschen Wortakzents. Diplomarbeit Universität Stuttgart, Fakultät Informatik.
3.4MB PostScript (143 pages in German including corpora and code), you might also want to have the title page (another 29kB of PostScript), a front cover (50kB JPEG picture), or perhaps only the abstract & table of contents of it (53kB PostScript). If you are not interested in all those columns of data but still want to have all the text, you might want to look instead at:
Rapp, S. (1995). Maschinelles Lernen von Aspekten des deutschen Wortakzents. in: AIMS (Arbeitspapiere des Instituts für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Lehrstuhl für experimentelle Phonetik), Universität Stuttgart VOL. 2, NO. 2, 4/1995, pp 149-240.
2.9MB PostScript (89 pages in German, roughly the same as above, but without corpora and code). If you are interested in obtaining a bound copy of our reports (they cost DM 15 per issue) or want to initiate an exchange with reports from your site, on a regular or issuewise basis, please contact Michael Jessen, jessen@ims.uni-stuttgart.de. You can have an overview on the series by looking at the home page of the experimental phonetics group.

IMS Stuttgart / rapp@ims.uni-stuttgart.de