The (non)utility of linguistic features for predicting prominence in spontaneous speech

2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2006, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 54-57

  Brenier, Jason M ^a   Nenkova, Ani ^a   Kothari, Anubha ^a   Whitton, Laura ^a   Beaver, David ^a   Jurafsky, Dan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animacy; Contrast; Givenness; Prominence; Prosody

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT; ANIMACY; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; PART OF SPEECH (POS); PITCH ACCENTING; PREDICTION ACCURACY; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; CONTRAST; GIVENNESS; PITCH ACCENTS; PROMINENCE; PROSODICS; PROSODY;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; FORECASTING; KETONES; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION; LINGUISTICS;

LINGUISTICS; FORECASTING;

EID: 48749125590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2006.326815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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