Problems where stress distinguishes word classes

[peteruhrig]

Dear Michelle,

I like your tool, and I think it can be very useful! I just thought I'd warn you that it produces wrong stress patterns when there are multiple pronunciations in CMUDict that are not interchangeable. For instance, you use the verb pronunciations in update and conduct no matter what the word class is in the given context (which would of course require PoS tagging and then there is still no such information in CMUDict; I realize this is not easily doable). So the output in the following example is weird:

I will give you an update on her conduct.

It may be worth giving users a warning in such cases, i.e. when different stress patterns for the same word exist in the lexicon.

All the best, Peter