Assigning phrase breaks from part-of-speech sequences

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 99-117

  Taylor, Paul ^a   Black, Alan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH SMOOTHING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032047079     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/csla.1998.0041     Document Type: Article

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