Prosodic stress and topic detection in spoken sentences

Proceedings - 7th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 243-252

  Silipo, R ^a   Crestani, F ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION CONTENTS; SCATTER PLOTS; TOPIC DETECTION; WORD FREQUENCIES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0002953960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPIRE.2000.878202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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