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ACL
2004
13 years 9 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
ACL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Automatically Extracting Nominal Mentions of Events with a Bootstrapped Probabilistic Classifier
Most approaches to event extraction focus on mentions anchored in verbs. However, many mentions of events surface as noun phrases. Detecting them can increase the recall of event ...
Cassandre Creswell, Matthew J. Beal, John Chen, Th...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Hierarchical language modeling for audio events detection in a sports game
We investigate the automatic labelling of “events” from an audio recording of a sports game. We describe a technique that utilises a hierarchy of language models, which are a ...
Qiang Huang, Stephen Cox
AAAI
1990
13 years 8 months ago
Accent and Discourse Context: Assigning Pitch Accent in Synthetic Speech
Identifying the regularities underlying speaker decisions to emphasize or de-emphasize an item intonationally has long been the subject of speculation and controversy. This paper ...
Julia Hirschberg
NAACL
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Detecting Structural Metadata with Decision Trees and Transformation-Based Learning
The regular occurrence of disfluencies is a distinguishing characteristic of spontaneous speech. Detecting and removing such disfluencies can substantially improve the usefulness ...
Joungbum Kim, Sarah E. Schwarm, Mari Ostendorf