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 employing empty categories. We show that by requiring certain prosodic properties from those positions in the input, where the presence of an empty category has to be hypothesized, a derivation can be accomplished more efficiently. The approach has been implemented in the machine translation project VEItBMOBII, and results in a significant reduction of the work-load for the parser t.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Anton Batliner, Anke Feldhaus, Stefan Geißler, Andreas Kießling, Tibor Kiss, Ralf Kompe, Elmar Nöth
• Keywords: Certain Prosodic Properties, COLING 1996, COLING 2008, Feature-based Grammar, Prosodic Information