Combining greedy algorithms with expert guided manipulation for the definition of a balanced prosodic Spanish-Catalan radio news corpus

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Escudero Mancebo, D ^a   Gonzalez Ferreras C ^a   Garrido, J M ^b   Rodero, E ^b   Aguilar, L ^c   Bonafonte, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALANS; GREEDY ALGORITHMS; NEWS CORPORA; PROSODIC FEATURES; TEXT CORPORA; TEXT MANIPULATION;

EID: 79959843366     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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