Representational issues in annotation: Using the Australian map task corpus to relate prosody and discourse structure

Speech Communication

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 113-134

  Stirling, Lesley ^a   Fletcher, Janet ^a   Mushin, Ilana ^a   Wales, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH CODING;

DIGITAL SPEECH CORPUS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0035152007     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(00)00072-8     Document Type: Article

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