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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
The regular occurrence of disfluencies is a distinguishing characteristic of spontaneous speech. Detecting and removing such disfluencies can substantially improve the usefulness ...