Automatic detection of contrastive elements in spontaneous speech

2007 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2007, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 201-206

  Nenkova, Ani ^a,b   Jurafsky, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrastive elements; Discourse understanding; Focus detection

Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTIC; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; DISCOURSE UNDERSTANDING; FOCUS DETECTION; NATURAL SPEECH; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; TEXTUAL FEATURES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44849118541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/asru.2007.4430109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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