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CORR
2000
Springer
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Prosody-Based Automatic Segmentation of Speech into Sentences and Topics
A crucial step in processing speech audio data for information extraction, topic detection, or browsing/playback is to segment the input into sentence and topic units. Speech segm...
Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Dilek Z. Hakk...
NAACL
2003
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Detection Of Agreement vs. Disagreement In Meetings: Training With Unlabeled Data
To support summarization of automatically transcribed meetings, we introduce a classifier to recognize agreement or disagreement utterances, utilizing both word-based and prosodi...
Dustin Hillard, Mari Ostendorf, Elizabeth Shriberg
NAACL
2004
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Sentence-Internal Prosody Does not Help Parsing the Way Punctuation Does
This paper investigates the usefulness of sentence-internal prosodic cues in syntactic parsing of transcribed speech. Intuitively, prosodic cues would seem to provide much the sam...
Michelle L. Gregory, Mark Johnson, Eugene Charniak
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Modeling the intonation of discourse segments for improved online dialog ACT tagging
Prosody is an important cue for identifying dialog acts. In this paper, we show that modeling the sequence of acousticprosodic values as n-gram features with a maximum entropy mod...
Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Shrikanth Narayana...
ICMI
2009
Springer
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Multimodal floor control shift detection
Floor control is a scheme used by people to organize speaking turns in multi-party conversations. Identifying the floor control shifts is important for understanding a conversati...
Lei Chen 0004, Mary P. Harper