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TASLP
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Automatic Prosodic Event Detection Using Acoustic, Lexical, and Syntactic Evidence
With the advent of prosody annotation standards such as tones and break indices (ToBI), speech technologists and linguists alike have been interested in automatically detecting pro...
Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Shrikanth S. Nar...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic classification of question turns in spontaneous speech using lexical and prosodic evidence
The ability to identify speech acts reliably is desirable in any spoken language system that interacts with humans. Minimally, such a system should be capable of distinguishing be...
Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Prasanta Ghosh, ...
KONVENS
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Automatic Labeling of Prosodic Events
An approach for a program is presented that automatically detects the position of pitch accents and intonation phrase (IP) boundaries from waveforms. The technique maps acoustic c...
Norbert Braunschweiler
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Summarizing multiple spoken documents: finding evidence from untranscribed audio
This paper presents a model for summarizing multiple untranscribed spoken documents. Without assuming the availability of transcripts, the model modifies a recently proposed unsup...
Xiaodan Zhu, Gerald Penn, Frank Rudzicz
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Detecting Structural Metadata with Decision Trees and Transformation-Based Learning
The regular occurrence of disfluencies is a distinguishing characteristic of spontaneous speech. Detecting and removing such disfluencies can substantially improve the usefulness ...
Joungbum Kim, Sarah E. Schwarm, Mari Ostendorf