A grammatical method of combining two kinds of speech repair cues is presented. One cue, prosodic disjuncture, is detected by a decision tree-based ensemble classifier that uses a...
John Hale, Izhak Shafran, Lisa Yung, Bonnie J. Dor...
This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two app...
In this paper we present a novel approach, called “Text to Pronunciation (TtP)”, for the proper normalization of Non-Standard Words (NSWs) in unrestricted texts. The methodolog...
The mapping between syntactic structure and prosodic structure is a widely discussed topic in linguistics. In this work we use insights gained from research on syntax-to-prosody m...
Spoken corpora provide a critical resource for research, development and evaluation of spoken dialog systems. This paper describes the telephone spoken dialog corpus for Polish cr...