Effective use of prosody in parsing conversational speech

HLT/EMNLP 2005 - Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 233-240

  Kahn, Jeremy G ^a   Lease, Matthew ^b   Charniak, Eugene ^b   Johnson, Mark ^b   Ostendorf, Mari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYNTACTICS;

CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; STATISTICAL PARSING MODELS; SWITCHBOARD CORPUS; SYNTACTIC FEATURES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 44449178750     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220575.1220605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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