Sciweavers

6 search results - page 1 / 2
» To Memorize or to Predict: Prominence labeling in Conversati...
Sort
View
NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
To Memorize or to Predict: Prominence labeling in Conversational Speech
The immense prosodic variation of natural conversational speech makes it challenging to predict which words are prosodically prominent in this genre. In this paper, we examine a n...
Ani Nenkova, Jason Brenier, Anubha Kothari, Sasha ...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
French prominence: A probabilistic framework
Identification of prosodic phenomena is of first importance in prosodic analysis and modeling. In this paper, we introduce a new method for automatic prosodic phenomena labellin...
Nicolas Obin, Xavier Rodet, Anne Lacheret-Dujour
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Using Conditional Random Fields to Predict Pitch Accents in Conversational Speech
The detection of prosodic characteristics is an important aspect of both speech synthesis and speech recognition. Correct placement of pitch accents aids in more natural sounding ...
Michelle L. Gregory, Yasemin Altun
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Predicting Subjectivity in Multimodal Conversations
In this research we aim to detect subjective sentences in multimodal conversations. We introduce a novel technique wherein subjective patterns are learned from both labeled and un...
Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini
INTETAIN
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Grounding Emotions in Human-Machine Conversational Systems
In this paper we investigate the role of user emotions in human-machine goal-oriented conversations. There has been a growing interest in predicting emotions from acted and non-act...
Giuseppe Riccardi, Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tür