Tagging Speech Repairs

This paper describes a method of detecting speechrepairs that uses a part-of-speech tagger. The tagger is given knowledgeabout category transitions for speechrepairs, and sois ableto mark a transition either as a likely repair or as fluent speech. Other contextual clues, such as editing terms, word fragments, and word matchings, are alsofactored in by modifying the transition probabilities.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: NAACL
• Authors: Peter A. Heeman, James F. Allen
• Keywords: NAACL 1994, NAACL 2007, Other Contextual Clues, Part-of-speech Tagger, Sois Ableto Mark