Formal Prosodic Structures and Their Application in NLP

Abstract. A formal prosody description framework is introduced together with its relation to language semantics and NLP. The framework incorporates deep prosodic structures based on a generative grammar act prosodic functionally involved units. This grammar creates for each sentence a structure of immediate prosodic constituents in the form of a tree. A speech corpus manually annotated by such prosodic structures is presented and its quantitative characteristics are discussed.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: TSD
• Authors: Jan Romportl, Jindrich Matousek
• Keywords: Deep Prosodic Structures, Prosodic, Prosodic Structures, Signal Processing, TSD 2005