Sentence-internal prosody does not help parsing the way punctuation does

HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 81-88

  Gregory, Michelle L ^a   Johnson, Mark ^a   Charniak, Eugene ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

F-SCORE; PROSODICS; SPEECH TRANSCRIPTS; STATISTICAL PARSER; SYNTACTIC PARSING; TREEBANKS;

SPEECH;

EID: 33646786923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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