... into 85% for training, 5% for development, and 10% for test-ing. To make results on German and Dutch com-parable with English, we reduce the training, de-velopment, and testing set by 80% for ... vowels (e.g., beat-ing vs. be-at-i-fy).3 Automatic Stress PredictionOur stress assignment system maps a word, w, to astressed-form of the word, ¯w. We formulate stressassignment as a sequence ... ourconsideration to only the small set of output pat-terns of the same length.Thus, unlike typical sequence predictors, we donot have to search for the highest-scoring outputaccording to our model....