A hierarchical approach to automatic stress detection in English sentences

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lai, Min ^b   Chen, Yining ^a   Chu, Min ^a   Zhao, Yong ^a   Hu, Fangyu ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

ANNOTATORS; AUTOMATIC STRESS DETECTION; ENGLISH SENTENCES; LINGUISTIC CLASSIFIERS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 33947697235     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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