... vs. be-at-i-fy).3 Automatic Stress Prediction Our stress assignment system maps a word, w, to astressed-form of the word, ¯w. We formulate stress assignment as a sequence prediction problem. ... ofcontext-sensitive rules for producing English stress from underlying word forms. Due to itsimportance in text -to- speech, there is also a longhistory of computational stress prediction sys-tems ... pages 118–126,Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009.c2009 ACL and AFNLPA Ranking Approach to Stress Prediction for Letter -to- Phoneme ConversionQing Dou, Shane Bergsma, Sittichai Jiampojamarn and...