A grammatical method of combining two kinds of speech repair cues is presented. One cue, prosodic disjuncture, is detected by a decision tree-based ensemble classifier that uses a...
John Hale, Izhak Shafran, Lisa Yung, Bonnie J. Dor...
This paper describes a syntactic representation for modeling speech repairs. This representation makes use of a right corner transform of syntax trees to produce a tree representa...
With the advent of prosody annotation standards such as tones and break indices (ToBI), speech technologists and linguists alike have been interested in automatically detecting pro...
Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Shrikanth S. Nar...
The ability to identify speech acts reliably is desirable in any spoken language system that interacts with humans. Minimally, such a system should be capable of distinguishing be...
This paper presents a spoken document summarization scheme using acoustic, prosodic and semantic information. First, speech recognition confidence is estimated to choose reliable ...