Prosodic Stress and Topic Detection in Spoken Sentences

The relationship between acoustic stress and information content of words is investigated. On one side, the average acoustic stress is measured for each word throughout each utterance. On the other side an Information Retrieval (IR) index, based on word frequency throughout the particular spoken sentence and throughout the collection of analysed spoken sentences, is calculated. The scatter plots of the two measures (average acoustic stress on the

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: SPIRE
• Authors: Rosaria Silipo, Fabio Crestani
• Keywords: Average Acoustic Stress, Information Management, IR Index, SPIRE 2000, Spoken Sentences