Exploring features from natural language generation for prosody modeling

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 457-490

  Pan, Shimei ^a   McKeown, Kathleen ^b   Hirschberg, Julia ^c  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTACTICS;

CONCEPT-TO-SPEECH (CTS) SYSTEMS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036663713     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2308(02)00022-0     Document Type: Article

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