The importance of sub-utterance prosody in predicting level of certainty

NAACL-HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 105-108

  Pon Barry, Heather ^a   Shieber, Stuart ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PREDICTION ACCURACY; PROSODIC FEATURES; PROSODICS; SINGLE WORDS; TRAIN MODEL;

FORECASTING;

EID: 79956279242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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