Construction of a phonotactic dialect corpus using semiautomatic annotation

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2472-2475

  Schwartz, Reva ^a   Shen, Wade ^b   Campbell, Joseph ^b   Paget, Shelley ^c   Vonwiller, Julie ^c   Estival, Dominique ^c   Cieri, Christopher ^d  

^a US Secret Service   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Appen Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Annotation; Corpora; Dialect identification; Linguistic variation; Phonology

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SPEECH;

ANNOTATION; CORPORA; DIALECT IDENTIFICATION; LINGUISTIC VARIATION; PHONOLOGY;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149103985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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