Re: VMs: Do 2-state PFSMs distinguish vowels/consonants in VMs?

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Ben Preece wrote:

> What would explain this? 

	How big are your text corpora in the known languages?

> 6) None of the transcription alphabets yet accurately reflect the actual letters in the text 
> (Is "daiin" supposed to be d-a-i-i-n, or d-a-ii-n, or d-aii-n, or d-a-iin, or d-ai-in, or what?)

	Yes.

	It does seem clear to me that in most cases, -iin is a 
single glypheme.  We have similar clarity on some of the 
others, but not many.

> If this were the problem, then we might be able to identify vowels once the correct transcription alphabet is identified.  
> And in fact, this might be one test for what would qualify as a good transcription alphabet.

	I agree.  This could help us to select the "right" 
transcription alphabet.

Dennis
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