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INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Extending the punctuation module for european portuguese
This paper describes our recent work on extending the punctuation module of automatic subtitles for Portuguese Broadcast News. The main improvement was achieved by the use of pros...
Fernando Batista, Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso, H...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
A comparison of approaches for modeling prosodic features in speaker recognition
Prosodic information has been successfully used for speaker recognition for more than a decade. The best-performing prosodic system to date has been one based on features extracte...
Luciana Ferrer, Nicolas Scheffer, Elizabeth Shribe...
ACL
1990
13 years 5 months ago
Prosody, Syntax and Parsing
We describe the modification of a grammar to take advantage of prosodic information provided by a speech recognition system. This initial study is limited to the use of relative d...
John Bear, Patti Price
ACL
1992
13 years 5 months ago
Prosodic Aids to Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Spoken English
Prosody can be useful in resolving certain lexical and structural ambiguities in spoken English. In this paper we present some results of employing two types of prosodic informati...
Chris D. Rowles, Xiuming Huang
COLING
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Integrating Syntactic and Prosodic Information for the Efficient Detection of Empty Categories
We describe a number of experiments that demonstrate the usefulness of prosodic information for a processing module which parses spoken utterances with a feature-based grammar emp...
Anton Batliner, Anke Feldhaus, Stefan Geißle...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Sentence-Internal Prosody Does not Help Parsing the Way Punctuation Does
This paper investigates the usefulness of sentence-internal prosodic cues in syntactic parsing of transcribed speech. Intuitively, prosodic cues would seem to provide much the sam...
Michelle L. Gregory, Mark Johnson, Eugene Charniak
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Exploiting dialogue act tagging and prosodic information for action item identification
An important task for multiparty meeting understanding is extracting action items. Action items are a set of tasks that are agreed on by the participants for execution after the m...
Fan Yang, Gökhan Tür, Elizabeth Shriberg