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...
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
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
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...
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...