Estimating syntactic structure from prosody in Japanese speech

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 558-564

  Ohsuga, Tomoko ^a   Horiuchi, Yasuo ^a   Ichikawa, Akira ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Prosodicinformation; Syntactic structure; Tree structure

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS;

PROSODIC INFORMATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0038042797     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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